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I agree with that. Part of the challenge is attaining the self-knowledge we spoke about earlier; seeing if an attitude or belief I hold is on account ...

Yeah, that's it in a nutshell!

I agree with this; I am all for unfettered imagination, and the "curtailment" I advocate consists in not taking those flights of imagination as being ...

Do you mean getting clearer via critical thought as to just what can be knowable and justified metaphysically speaking? I probably didn't express myse...

There do seem to be laws of nature; there are constantly observed regularities, and very little, or perhaps even no, transgression of those laws. Are ...

I cannot see "the field of normativity" as consisting in anything more than the principle of consistency. This applies as much in theology as it does ...

I tend to think that when it comes to thinking about the empirical, about how things appear to us to be, and to work, we can get clearer and that that...

Yes, but if it happens it is global warming causing local cooling. Global warming may also cause more extreme weather; colder minimums and warmer maxi...

:up: I want to add that I've often heard it said the we humans are the world coming to know itself, and in that sense, it didn't exist until it came t...

Philosophy gets us clearer on empirical reality perhaps, and I think that is the only reality that @"plaque flag" allows.

"I think therefore I am" is a mere tautology, because in the beginning "I" is posited in "I think". Of course I can say that I am; I would contradict ...

I have never claimed that our understanding that every change has a cause is universally applicable, or that it tells us anything beyond how things se...

I think it's just different ways of talking. I don't know what mountains are independently of humans recognizing them as mountains, but it seems reaso...

What is observable can be confirmed by observation: no faith required, unless we want to claim that what is observable is real beyond the context of i...

What is most generally called 'reality' is empirical reality, the reality of phenomena. This reality is relational, it is relative to our experience. ...

Surely the dog is what it is absent the concept or more precisely name, "dog". Actually 'dog' by itself does not seem to be a concept but is so only o...

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:up: It seems we have reached the end of our disagreement such as it might have been.

Right, however that doesn't seem to support your argument. This seems to accord very well with Kant's notion of the ding an sich. We know things only ...

If we acknowledge that we know things only as they appear to us, then the dialectical counterpart of as-they-are-in-themselves becomes obvious. We rea...

Do you have a reference for that?

I don't pretend to understand your position.

I do try to, and yet you continue to misunderstand which is puzzling.

I don't believe science show us the truth about anything beyond how things appear to us, and even then, I am only speaking about the basic observation...

I don't believe that story because even animals can see and respond to things they have never encountered, The pygmy story is more plausible, but I th...

Since the very idea of "in itself" denotes that which cannot be known by us, I think what you are saying cannot be substantiated. Intellectual intuiti...

I'm not seeing any relevance of your questions to what I've said, so unless you can show me some relevance, I have nothing to say at this point.

Yeah, I don't agree with that at all; I think all the evidence points to the fact that the only world we share is the publicly accessible empirical wo...

True, you could not see the lamp from every possible angle and lighting, but you could in principle see it from any possible angle or lighting. Right,...

For me the original and its lack of capitalization reads much better, but, you know, "there's no accounting for taste".

I don't intend to imply that appearances are not real. I think they are real on account of real pre-cognitive effects on our senses. In principle we c...

I haven't said or implied that immediate responses cannot be conditioned by reflection or cannot be intentionally trained. It seems to me you are chan...

I agree they are both information processing. But the immediate response does not consist in reflection on the information. When there is reflection, ...

It's interesting you say that, and it may be different for different people, but I think it is easier to be honest with others, an honesty of expressi...

I think the assumption is based on the known fact that we cannot be conscious of the processes of self and world arising. We inhabit our cognitions, a...

The well-documented cases of multiple personality disorder show that one person may experience being multiple personalities. From the common perspecti...

I agree with you that when we study the brain, just as when we study anything else, we are studying the brain as it appears to us. We have no idea wha...

The boundary is not enacted by the proto-organism; it is always already enacted to enable the existence of the organism before it can do any of its ow...

Nice, a tinge of horror, disturbing colours chilling a distant eroticism...it worked for me, rhythm and all. I don't want to analyze what it means bey...

The content spoke to me, apart from a few parts, but the form turned me off. Not inapt, but poetically inept it seemed to me. That said, it doesn't ma...

A simple heartfelt emotion...I wanted to rewrite it though, as I felt it doesn't quite work.

This poem really grew on me. On first reading it came across as a bit of fluff, but after a few more goes at it, it seemed to come alive. I think it i...

I, like others. found 'The Argument' felt contrived and did not form a whole poem with 'The Poem'. The ideas in 'The Poem' came across as too romantic...

I liked what I felt as the gist of the poem, a moment of opening up to a larger world, which for me had to emerge kind of drunkenly out of a somewhat ...

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The claim I am resiling from is that possibly developments in mathematics were catalyzed by the discovery of fossil fuels. Of course, there was always...

Yeah I probably had hold of the wrong end of the stick there.

Sounds about right!

Possibly advances in mathematics were catalyzed by the discovery of fossil fuels, but I do agree that mathematics played a part, particularly in physi...

In the sense that we cannot really do anything with the 'in-itself', I agree. I also agree that when we try to imagine the existence of the world prio...