You cannot arrive at the universal/ idea without a pre-conceptual gestalt that stands out for you. Inanimate objects like clouds, mountains, rivers, s...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
They published and presented important information to the public, so they were obviously a media organization. Who decides what criteria counts as 'bo...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Do you think he is referring specifically to practical wisdom (phronesis) rather than some kind of metaphysical or transcendent wisdom. I'm not trying...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
My understanding is that human beings and other animals demonstrate purposiveness, but that science cannot show there to be any general or overarching...
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...
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...
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...
Kind is an abstraction from natural regularities, and as such is a fixed or static identity. Abstractions, like number, are static, although obviously...
Something must exist in nature that would support the judgement of 'kind' otherwise how would we have arrived at the idea? Animals generally associate...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I'd say universals are inherent to cognition because cognitively enabled organisms could not survive without re-cognition, which involves pattern disc...
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...
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 ...
Perhaps we are talking at cross-purposes. Of course, as I already acknowledged, for perhaps most people intent and responsibility may be inextricably ...
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...
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