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You cannot arrive at the universal/ idea without a pre-conceptual gestalt that stands out for you. Inanimate objects like clouds, mountains, rivers, s...
June 28, 2024 at 22:32
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June 28, 2024 at 22:26
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Mere statements, however fear-inducing they might be designed to be, don't cut it for me. Is it the case that media outlets have never published leake...
June 28, 2024 at 20:42
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Hardly constitutes conclusive evidence.
June 28, 2024 at 06:27
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I haven't claimed that the leaker of such information would not be prosecuted, I believe they almost certainly would be, but I'm questioning the claim...
June 28, 2024 at 06:25
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Can you provide a link to reliable information backing that claim up? I haven't claimed that no action has ever been taken against those involved with...
June 28, 2024 at 04:59
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Who didn't do what? I haven't seen the movie you mentioned. so I'm not clear what "dangers" you are referring to. According to the information I have ...
June 28, 2024 at 04:11
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I doubt that would happen to a large media organization that published leaked documents. Do you have any evidence to support the claim that it would h...
June 27, 2024 at 23:43
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What makes you think those organizations would not have published them?
June 27, 2024 at 23:23
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They published and presented important information to the public, so they were obviously a media organization. Who decides what criteria counts as 'bo...
June 27, 2024 at 22:53
For the indifferent or one who finds the question incoherent it is not a matter of truth value, and that is the point. So, @"Joshs" "none of the above...
June 26, 2024 at 03:59
What you are missing is the possibility that an atheist, having no disposition towards theism at all, may not take up any of the positions you charact...
June 25, 2024 at 22:59
If your opinion is that there is no valid distinction between lack of belief and active disbelief, then your opinion is based on insufficient thought....
June 25, 2024 at 04:04
Totally agree :100: True, and that was basically the response tendered by @"Wayfarer". I think that there is definitely such a thing as "higher consci...
June 23, 2024 at 00:45
I have read some Terrence Deacon many years ago now (I have his book Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter} and I take him to be as the seco...
June 23, 2024 at 00:02
That doesn't specify what kind of physicalism they lean towards. Atheism is a separate issue, I had thought you were an atheist, in the sense of lacki...
June 22, 2024 at 23:32
I haven't been arguing for reductionism. Is there a third person in this conversation? I have been trying to persuade you to consider the possibility ...
June 22, 2024 at 22:34
You seem to be equivocating between 'explainable in terms of' and 'finds its origin in' (or as I should have added 'is constituted.by') That something...
June 22, 2024 at 05:15
I have a question or two about this. By "reducible to" do you mean 'explainable in terms of' or 'has its origin in'? Do you count global or environmen...
June 22, 2024 at 00:23
You're talking about "higher" organisms, and I've already agreed that some of those display purposive behavior. It seems to me you are stretching the ...
June 21, 2024 at 01:48
It's not clear because you won't proffer a clear definition of intentionality which is different than acting "with the conscious self-awareness that c...
June 20, 2024 at 23:31
Do you think he is referring specifically to practical wisdom (phronesis) rather than some kind of metaphysical or transcendent wisdom. I'm not trying...
June 20, 2024 at 22:15
First, what exactly do you mean by saying that intentionality is active at every level of organic life? Second, even if intentionality were "active at...
June 20, 2024 at 21:53
Until I have read more into these issues, I will have nothing worthwhile to contribute (and maybe not even then). In the meantime, I'll continue to fo...
June 19, 2024 at 21:22
Is it a different sense of truth? It could be said that finding wisdom is finding truth, even though nothing in the propositional mode of truth might ...
June 19, 2024 at 21:19
This is more of a psychological thesis than a philosophical treatment of the idea of purpose. Biologists may speak in terms of purpose in evolution, b...
June 19, 2024 at 21:11
The reality of human and animal purpose is not in question. The question as to whether nature itself exists to fulfill an overarching purpose ("overar...
June 19, 2024 at 08:06
I think the fact that thoughtful people all seek to live well, meaning that we all in that sense pursue the good and aim to be rationally self-governi...
June 19, 2024 at 04:13
I'd prefer if you would speak for yourself rather than asking me to read linked articles. Otherwise, I'll be left guessing as to what your own thought...
June 19, 2024 at 03:57
So, you think it would be better if everyone thought the same and all find the same meaning in, and purpose for, life? I don't see it that way—it's li...
June 19, 2024 at 03:39
I read that book many years ago but cannot recall much in the way of the impressions it left on me. I still have it on my shelves, so I may take a fre...
June 18, 2024 at 20:33
My understanding is that human beings and other animals demonstrate purposiveness, but that science cannot show there to be any general or overarching...
June 18, 2024 at 20:19
I agree, when it comes to considering the details. There would seem to be general principles as to what is most conducive to human flourishing and rat...
June 18, 2024 at 19:45
:up: I read it and agree with everything therein.
June 18, 2024 at 09:41
I don't believe I have ever said or even insinuated that science could replace everything else. If you think I have then you have somehow managed to m...
June 18, 2024 at 07:21
The claim that science could replace "everything else" is so patently absurd that I could never understand why anyone would believe it or bother to ex...
June 18, 2024 at 05:33
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June 15, 2024 at 23:04
Kind is an abstraction from natural regularities, and as such is a fixed or static identity. Abstractions, like number, are static, although obviously...
June 15, 2024 at 21:57
Something must exist in nature that would support the judgement of 'kind' otherwise how would we have arrived at the idea? Animals generally associate...
June 15, 2024 at 00:31
When I spoke of rational justification I was referring to "pure' rational justification, I think the examples you offered may be cases of practical ra...
June 14, 2024 at 23:32
Kind and generality consist in identity. Each particular is unique, so there is no identicality of particulars. Things are counted as being of the sam...
June 14, 2024 at 23:25
I don't see the question you are asking— that is, simply put, "how is abstraction possible" as being capable of an answer. I tend to think that questi...
June 14, 2024 at 01:20
Yes, I agree it most certainly is. There is no rational requirement to deny that what is real for humans in general is "really real" on the basis that...
June 14, 2024 at 00:08
No, I haven't pared down the concept of blame, but made a distinction between blame which can be rationally justified and blame which is merely affect...
June 14, 2024 at 00:02
I'd say universals are inherent to cognition because cognitively enabled organisms could not survive without re-cognition, which involves pattern disc...
June 14, 2024 at 00:00
I disagree with everything you've written there, or at least find it all irrelevant to the question. I remain convinced that whether determinism or in...
June 13, 2024 at 23:24
I disagree; blame is attendant upon the idea that the person really could have done otherwise; it is based on a libertarian notion of free will which ...
June 12, 2024 at 23:55
Perhaps we are talking at cross-purposes. Of course, as I already acknowledged, for perhaps most people intent and responsibility may be inextricably ...
June 12, 2024 at 23:47
Of course they are intelligible without the implication of blame. We can say as Jesus reportedly did: "forgive them for they know not what they do". T...
June 12, 2024 at 23:31