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There seems to be an equivocation involving knowing action. I know others' actions as appearances, whereas I know my own actions " from the inside" so...

Materialists don't have to contend with the problem of "a view from nowhere". To say that the world existed prior to humanity is to express a view, a ...

And yet you speak on behalf of other species: You may be right, or you may not be right; we simply don't and cannot, measure the suffering of other sp...

I thought the topic was "Kripke's skeptical challenge". If the challenge is based on an inconsistency that shows up when thinking of counting as rule-...

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As I said I don't think about it in terms of following rules, so your question is not relevant. In any case even if it were a matter of following rule...

You cannot be absolutely certain that you are a cat, if you are not. You might feel absolutely certain about it even though you are not a cat. On the ...

That sounds exactly like what happens when the body dies and its constituent particles continue to exist while the form is consumed and (mostly) disap...

I'm not invoking anamnesis. I also believe it is an established fact that some animals can do basic counting. I think behaviorist accounts neglect hal...

An initiation which would be impossible if the child did not intuitively get the logic of it. Once understood the logic can be extended indefinitely, ...

I believe counting is intuitive, so no need for rules. All the basic arithmetical operations can be shown with actual objects like stones or marbles. ...

They are less costly to transport and process than beef cattle. Also, they can be sold locally thus avoiding the need for abattoirs and transport. Chi...

I agree with your assessment of clunkiness, I think it needs more editing and as others have suggested, perhas more dialogue would help. I don't know....

Cheers 180, that means a lot coming from someone whose mind I hold in high esteem. Yes, the "Summer of Love-state of mind" lingers perpetually, (I liv...

Those associations are yours, not mine; I am well familiar with both empiricism and positivism and although I think there is some truth in both of tho...

How are you going to farm the cattle without clearing land or using land that is already cleared that could otherwise be planted with trees, ideally f...

These all seem to be, as you say, common definitons of 'logic'. The question that arises for me is whether these definitions have a common element or ...

All the talk of rules seems overdone. This just comes down to counting, as I showed in my last post. It pays to remember that arithmetic used to be do...

You must have had a very different childhood than I did. Or else you are speaking about a different aspect of constraint. My activities may have been ...

Thanks Amity...I was just being a smart arse in saying that Saying Nothing was saying nothing...

I think the problem is more that you misunderstand what I say and accuse me of being either an empiricist or a positivist. An empiricist believes that...

I think it would be both coherence and correspondence within our experience. It seems to me that if by 'the world' is meant 'the world as experienced'...

I think this is right. I don't see the "invisible order" as being the "symbolic dimension", though, as Zizek , following Lacan, seems to be saying. I ...

Is it the "sincere repentance and faith" or the "in Jesus" which saves? And what is heaven...the eternal moment in the here and now, or some unknowabl...

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As Tom Waits sings: God's away, God's away, God's away On Business. Business. God's away, God's away, God's away On Business. Business.

You got it, the poem I submitted was 'Saying Nothing', I mean it really was saying nothing...

How very anthropocentric! As to whether a story about a talking pot is nonsense, it all depends on what is meant by 'nonsense'. If I told someone "I s...

I don't think of it in terms of having "blissful feelings" but in terms of being at peace, in a state of acceptance, not anxious about imagined possib...

As you should know from past exchanges, I am well familiar with Stephen Bachelor's secular Buddhism, having read several of his books, and as I have s...

I've outlined the ways that knowledge claims may be tested, by observation, mathematical operations and logic. Can you think of any others? How shall ...

Yes, you're right and it seems you are one of those.

The possibility for public demonstration is the same as intersubjective testability and emprical verifiability. If I claim that it is raining, right h...

You lay out 68 marbles and then you lay out 57 marbles in a separate row, then you ask the other "what are the names of the numbers of marbles in the ...

I haven't made up my own mind about whether Osho or Gautama were enlightened; I reserve judgement on that question due to lack of evidence, same as I ...

You haven't answered the question. The point was that it is not possible to publicly demonstrate whether Osho or Gautama were or were not enlightened....

As do you Tom.

Scientific observations are really only augmented empirical observations. Even the "hoi polloi" know how to test claims like "it is raining" or "there...

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I haven't said there is no intersubjective agreement amongst the religious faithful, I have said there is no definitive intersubjective testability wh...

You seem to me to be uninterested in good faith discussoion. I don't expect you to agree with my views, but if you want to discuss our differences the...

"Appealing" is an attitude; don't presume to tell me what I'm appealing to. The provenance of the word, which I am amply familiar with, does not const...

:up: Optimism is the only attitude worth taking; pessimism brings about its own prophecies...and complacency is capitulation by default. Denial is the...

Yes, the propaganda, and willful ignorance and complacency, are all strong. If enough people get on the same page, then we will still face the issue t...

It's the presumption that something is known about the real character of consciousness introspectively, or more strongly, that that is the only way an...

You obviously have no counter-argument. I've laid out my argument in good faith and all you can apparently do is attempt to dismiss it by labelling it...

I don't believe you have one to mount, or you would have done so by now...it's been years... LOL, I was simply outlining the different kinds of knowle...

The way I look at there is direct observation which can be personally inter-experentially and publicly intersubjectevly confirmed. such as there is a ...

I can understand it might be that for you, bit it is not so for me; one person's plausibilty could be another's implausibility. I do agree it is very ...

Sure, but presuming holism the thing in itself would presumably be the same as things in themselves, the world in itself or reality in itself. I don't...