Janus

Is there any difference between God being the "Real beyond the world" and God not being the "Real beyond the world"? Or perhaps I should have asked wh...

It might get back on course. I think the original poster has deserted, though. I asked for more precise clarification, but received no reply.

Is it really a matter of like or dislike, though? Like or dislike doesn't come into it for me, I mean, I just see a lot of your conversations where yo...

Well, you're under no obligation to address their responses in the first place.

Well, I never made any such overt promise. I have made promises to myself though generally not to bother responding to people who I do not believe are...

I agree with you that they are not the same. TS doesn't recognize identity across time, though. I have been over that with him many months ago. His po...

He seems to get that a lot for some reason. :s ;)

The question you are asking seems to boil down to 'Do we have good reason to believe that there is a real brain, independent of our representations, t...

But that is just what I said, and yet you sounded as if you wanted to disagree. :s The causal can be thought to express (in the sense of being an expr...

You are mindlessly contradicting yourself over and over. In effect you are saying without any supporting reason at all that what is acausal is causal ...

No problem ????????????? :)

I think this is very simplistic and all wrong. Nature is conceived by modern science as a law-governed causal nexus. The nature of causality is unders...

Is your dog interpreting anything when she recognizes you?

I understood you to be saying that it was an interpretive matter as to whether a Cad model of anything actually counts as a model. I'm saying it would...

Well, you'd be able to recognize a CAD model of a Cadillac as opposed to a Cad model of a Dodge pickup, wouldn't you? Surely something counts as a mod...

A scale model, a perspective drawing, a mathematic or geometric model, an audio or video recording, a photograph, a map, a computer simulation; these ...

But, it's simply a fact that physical things can be quantitatively modeled in various ways; so I don't understand your objection.

I think you are wondering, in terms of the physical, what a non-physical thing could be. See the problem?

The thing is that physical existents are, by virtue of being objects of the senses, able to be modeled in terms of quantity and described in terms of ...

Well, I think that's fine then, but it doesn't seem to leave much of an opening for discussion.

I haven't thought specifically about this for some time.On the old PF in a thread about the relationship between 'knowing how' and 'knowing that' I re...

You mean incoherent to you, right?

How do you know that? What's your argument to support such a belief?

If the states you refer to have no elements of non-discursive knowledge about them at all, then how can it be supportable to say they are related to k...

I don't understand your position at all. If you agree there is non-discursive knowledge, then I can't identify what the disagreement is.

You are wrong to claim there is no knowledge via intuition, feeling, experience. All you are entitled to claim is that you recognize no such knowledge...

I love the way you always try to kid yourself and others that what you have to say is something "more" or "deeper". You make the mistake of thinking t...

The concept of noumena is logically inherent in the twin facts that humans possess an intrinsic notion of the existence-in-itself of objects, and that...

The idea that all knowledge is in the form of maps or models is the paragon notion of objectification; in other words, it is the keystone of the scien...

A staggeringly stupid idea for a thread, even if it is a joke! And if it is not a joke, then it is also a vicious misrepresentation of the religions i...

But can't we be certain that things are, from the perspective of the rational intellect at least, uncertain? Doesn't this apply even, or especially, t...

I don't disagree with this, but I think the self is more than I take you to think it is. So prayer does not involve some objectified or externally tra...

I don't understand you objection. You can tell from your own feeling how thinking or believing one way or another makes you feel about life. Well at l...

I say that believing either way that life is meaningful or not involves equally a leap of faith. On the other hand where you place your faith may stre...

I don't think it is really a question of certainty. The demand for that comes form being dominated by a narrowly carping intellect. In a spiritual sen...

I just wouldn't count sexual desire, whether it is being enacted in conventional marital contexts or not, "conviction". Even marriage in its most conv...

Or they just failed to contracept successfully, or they just did what one does; both of which require no deep commitment.

My permanent state :-O

Yeah, reminds me of the less plausible sinister characterizations of Trump; sometimes being a dick is just being a dick. Thing is, do you want a dick ...

It seems to me to be open in the form of a promissory note: that science will continue to come up with new kind of things that exist, that ever new an...

Yes, that's fair enough. I guess I do have great difficulty believing that they would not have seen the ship. And why they would not react, if indeed ...

If the territory is utterly a-conceptual then how could our conceptual judgements bear any relation to it whatsoever? It was Wittgenstein who said "th...

From the SEP: What might a fact be? Three popular views about the nature of facts can be distinguished: A fact is just a true truth-bearer, A fact is ...

You seem to be failing to acknowledge that there are understood to be both ontological and epistemological facts. So it would have, from the moment of...

In my assessment or his? >:)

It seemed obvious to me that you were joking this time, so it wasn't a case of rejecting anything.

Yeah, right. :-d

So, you think I'm a mind-reader now.

What leads you to think that I believe in fire and brimstone? That assumption betrays the shallowness of your conception of Christianity in particular...

You're obviously not going to get it; but most likely that's what you want anyway, so that's OK. Better not to fret over it.