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Feeling impatient is one thing, showing it another; there is private experience as distinct from public behavior after all...

Thanks...don't you just love pedantry?

I agree it's not a simple equation, otherwise Being and Time would be just Being. And there is of course a conceptual difference between #being# and #...

Even a coma wants life support...

The equation of being and time seems to be a truistic pseudo-profundity if it is accepted that time is nothing over and above change, and being is not...

Apparently I misunderstood you then; my apologies. Cheers Tom.

He critiques onto-theology, but perhaps that is a screen (for himself and others).

I think you're right on the ball here. Knowing other people are conscious is not a propositional knowing, like knowing it is raining, it is a sense of...

Almost nobody reads anybody's posts charitably and thoroughly as far as I have been able to tell judging by the bulk of replies. For what it's worth, ...

Thanks, I have read that book, but maybe twenty years ago. I think it is still on the shelves somewhere, so I might revisit it. Another example is sem...

Right, death is the other face of the manifest universe, the twin of non-being to the universal being, the dark unknowable counterpart to the sunlit k...

What god is there other than the universe? It presents us with the face of the knowable and the face of the unknowable. We cannot but be its followers...

No, I'm saying just give me a brief rundown of a current theory. I'm saying I've never heard of any cogent explanation for how matter can give rise to...

Promissory notes or wrigglin' and squirmin' won't cut it. Present an account or admit you cannot.

:up: I don't see how it is possible not to be confused about it.

All that signifies for me is the seeing of both sides of the argument. I don't hold any magical views, but I also don't dismiss the possibility.

Can you cite anywhere where I've peddled any magical theory?

The difference is we have a basic idea of how things become hot; and idea which is consistent with all our understanding of combustion, chemical actio...

I agree we are always already linguistic once having been inducted into a language; I just don't think it follows that we are therefore linguistic thr...

How do you know that no one can suspend the linguistic/ conceptual function and just see whatever it is they are seeing without identifying what it is...

We have a pretty clear physicalist understanding of how, for example, a material object can become hot; by agitation of the molecules.Do you have an e...

Recognition would not seem to require language since animals can do it. So perceiving a dog as a dog is ambiguous. A dog recognizes other dogs as her ...

Yes, riddled with that and many other dualistic cliches...can we escape it discursively?

It seems obvious: we witness dances, we don't witness meanings, purposes and consciousness.

So, the indirect realist asserts a reality (what the world is like in itself) beyond appearances. In any case doesn't perception inform us about about...

The universe is a two faced god and we are its two faced acolytes.. They have strict codes of conduct those Pythagorean Punk sages: don't bring up the...

Interesting thanks.

Of course, do you?

It's possible the dominance is regional and shifting. Perhaps starling still predominate in some areas. It's an interesting subject I may researvh whe...

When I was a kid living in Epping, a Sydney suburb, it was Starlings, no Mynas. The Starlings were supplanted by Mynas, and I never saw Starlings agai...

Adjective and noun: a wise sage.

I don't think we can identify sages reliably...maybe other sages can. Even then maybe there are not 'universal' sages but rather musical sages, mathem...

I actually agree with you. There is no captain at the helm of the ship of state, and to rerun the old metaphor, what is presently being done in the na...

NIce retort and a fair point. Perhaps I should have said "undecidable" instead of "meaningless". We just see which ones are the best. :razz: Seriously...

I agree with you; I was really just pointing out that any analysis is necessarily dualistic. In the East awakening is understood to be a return to a u...

I think it is pretty much universal: when people see or feel a quality, they tend to think others should see or feel it too. You dislike both but can ...

It was Kant who pointed out that when we deem something to possess aesthetic value, we take ourselves to be talking about something universal. and not...

And the way you see it is completely free from bias, right?

Right, but the thrust of the Euthyphro dilemma is the undecidability between whether something is good because the gods love it or whether the gods lo...

:up: Some good subtle analysis from both of you there! These points in particular I strongly agree with. Complete, or even substantial revolution: des...

The point is that the theist can say that, in her view, the creation is good, and that God loves it because it is good and it is good because God love...

I don't see how the thought of being in something is not dualistic. The thought of simply being is not dualistic, but when it 'in-the-world' is posite...

Right, you could interpret "neither true nor false" as not not merely not demonstrably true or false but as not capable of being true or false.

I agree the claim that theism is true should be challenged, even dismissed, but not on the grounds that it is demonstrably untrue, but that it is demo...

That was a dilemma in the context of the Greek gods, because they might disagree with one another about what is good. It is a false dilemma in the mon...

The same kind of thing happened in the Sydney art scene in the late sixties and early seventies. But I see that as tribal politics being enacted by in...

Right, but people don't fight egregiously over whether Rembrandt was a greater artist than Leonardo or Jackson Pollock is better than Andy Warhol, or ...

Conversely atheists may claim that a calling to science is higher than a calling to religion, which would be an equally arrogant claim. The world woul...

Excellent OP, Tom! The way I see it there is beauty in courage and cowardice is ugly. Greed, jealousy, hatred, exploitation and cruelty are ugly. Gene...

Very well described! I agree wholeheartedly.