Sometimes facts are arbitrary, with so many aspects of subjective testimony. Are there any 'true' facts which can stand above our own grasp and wishes...
I have just looked at your link and it is to my own thread. I am sure that the thread which I have created has great weaknesses, and I started it with...
I will try not to avoid your questions, and I will have a look at your link, but, I really don't believe that philosophy can ever be entirely theoreti...
I am sorry if I have lost you, and, sometimes, I think that I lose myself, trying to make sense of so much information and translating it into knowled...
I try not to get depressed by all that we could strive to know. We live in the context of some appearing as 'experts'. Even within philosophy there ar...
I think that you make an important point about blindspots. One model which I am aware of is Johari' s model , which involves various aspects of which ...
I think that the use of intuition alongside rationality is complex in the mapping of the widest perspective of our knowledge. In building of our model...
I think that Russell did a great job and we should follow his example. I think that it is a delicate balance between focusing on the specifics of spec...
I am definitely not opposed to theories and we need to develop them as working knowledge; but I it is all about different competing descriptions, rang...
Really, it is amazing just how much people do know. We are especially lucky being in the information age and having so much available for us, ranging ...
I find Kant a bit heavy to read. I went through a period of reading his writings when I was a teenager. I read some of writing by him a year ago but I...
I find the discovery of unknown unknowns as being very interesting and that is probably why I am interested in reading and thinking about philosophy. ...
I was just reading your comments and, yes, my question does involve the semantics of what we mean by the idea of 'knowing'. I believe that Kant though...
I think that we probably do have 'stone age brains' in many ways, but I think that the experiences we have, as well as our own philosophical searches,...
My own thinking on knowledge is that it is different from information in the sense of it being about a connection with the information and ideas in so...
I agree with you that in many ways knowledge is about what is useful. I am probably stepping into the realms of the extraordinary because my life expe...
I am definitely not opposed to the methods and findings of science, but, even then so many variables come into play in the interpretations of scientif...
My initial thinking was about epistemology and how much we really know, but with the implications in people's lives and a veneer of knowledge based on...
I am sorry that I have started poorly, and it may be that my thread will not work at all. My point is probably that many think we have such great know...
I know that some people have suggested that Socrates claimed to 'know nothing', and I am inclined to think that he knew far more than the average pers...
Your reply is interesting because I am questioning what we think we know and what we 'really' know, which casts some doubt on apparent knowledge. This...
I know that you query the understanding of English language, but I wonder if your question goes further and is about the limits of any language. How d...
Perhaps the idea of self is problematic I some ways. It is is a concept which is at the juncture of phenomenology and the whole nature of the interpre...
I wonder if Jim Morrison was a bit vague in his question of the ' West is the best' and I imagine that he drew upon the ideas of Nietzsche. One aspect...
I am interested in the area of Western philosophy and other alternatives, especially Eastern philosophy, ranging from Taoism and perspective such as H...
Thank you for music for its power to restore and give inspiration. I have heard quite a bit of Hendrix, but I listened to his 'Axis: Bold as Love' whi...
Your wish to have your poems turned into songs and sung was one of my mum's biggest longings. When I was a child she used to answer ads in music magaz...
I think that one thing we have to remember about all drugs, illicit and prescribed is that most substances come with some potential side-effects. Some...
One aspect of this interesting area of thought, which goes beyond the search for objective reality beyond the human realm such as the Forms, is states...
I think that the way death is thought about in a negative way within many cultures leads people to fear death. It may be that in some cultures it is n...
I was not really saying that I see suicide as actually 'right', but saying that I would not make judgements or see it as absolutely wrong. I am agains...
I have known a few people who have committed suicide and try not to be judgemental in seeing what they did as 'wrong'. However, I do see suicide as be...
I hope you stay well. It is a problem with all the new variants and I would imagine that people will have to keep having further vaccines as the initi...
I was just reading some of this thread today and discovered that you had Covid_19. I hope that you are getting over the long term effects. In spite of...
One thing which I wonder about in relation to your question is how it connects with issues surrounding the development and history of religion. Certai...
I can understand your questions around Gus's thread about the thread title and I am also aware of the problematic nature of metaphysics in relation to...
I emphathise with @"180 Proof" for being thankful for sleep. I am also glad to be having weather which is not noticeable at all. England has barely ha...
Reading Wittgenstein has been on my 'to do' list for a long time, but, somehow, other writers seem to keep winning my attention first. Often, I am dra...
I think that it is a good idea and recommend within the philosophy of the law of attraction as recommended by Esther and Jeremy Hicks. I am sure that ...
I don't really write poetry but do play around writing with a magnetic poetry kit at times and I find that it is a way of accessing what Jung describe...
I think that the aspect which is also important beyond the subjective is the intersubjective. This may account for what you speak of as truth having h...
I think that the way in which you describe poetry is connected to the way in which we are becoming accustomed to think and, how indeed philosophy itse...
I thought that the problem was that he wrote some posts which had some deeper discussions and some which were really shallow. To some extent, I think ...
I have been thinking about what you have written and it is interesting that you refer to the opposition between rationality and irrationality. That is...
I think that you underplay the importance and significance of poetry, as a source of expression and its power. We only have to think of the writings o...
I think that poetry, or poesis, is a different way of viewing the world and, in many ways, is more about intuition than logic. It also is about langua...
In some ways, it seems a shame because he was full of ideas, and he probably just needed to slow down a bit, and reflect rather than just writing. He ...
I am glad to see you have written again on the forum and it is an interesting piece of writing from my point of view, especially because my own last t...
I think that it is a way in which emotions are expressed cathartically, like laughter. Children cry so much but people usually cry less when they adul...
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