I've been meaning to get back to this for awhile. I hope your statement above is an accurate description of your view. However, I can't say that I get...
Sure. A significant element of my thinking is related to evolutionary psychology, and I see it as naive to think that humans are born blank slates. I ...
I don't associate aggressiveness with apologetics so much as naive confidence, and I can relate to having such naive confidence myself. When I was 16 ...
Yes, it is an interesting aspect of things to consider. My knowledge of human hearing is not very up to date, but what I recall is that for low freque...
Ah, that's a shame. I happened on that article some time ago. Probably before the website became so annoying. I'll keep an eye out (and if I get reall...
I think we are talking past each other to some extent. We can hypothesize about some sort of neuromorphic hardware which maintains analog fidelity to ...
:up: I loved the Chandler quote the first time I saw it, as well as reading it again just now. Yeah, they are given a hard time for it, but I don't se...
What is your theory of truth? I would say the cat on the mat is the truth bearer for the proposition, "The cat is on the mat.", and I don't see it as ...
:up: This is a good point to bring up. Analog can preserve a more accurate representation, and per Nyquist's theorem, there are limits to how accurate...
Most of my relevant experience in recent years has been with discussions at William Lane Craig's Reasonable Faith Forum. So not a remotely unbiased sa...
Interesting question. I think I will be thinking about it for awhile. I think in some sense I know what you mean. It seems I have a more clearly delin...
I don't think Plantinga's EAAN does succeed in showing people their epistemic limits except in cases where the person recognizes that the EAAN fails. ...
Your intuitions about intuition could use some development. If knowledge is justified true belief, then that is different than intuition. (Or at least...
I broke my big toenail at the cuticle by the way I had my feet back under my chair while reviewing the design of a circuit board. Dangerous stuff. The...
There is more to it than simply acquiring knowledge. Tom Storm and T Clark brought up important points. TS brought up experience and TC brought up att...
No problem. It was perfectly understandable for you to respond as you did, in light of my newness here on TPF. I'll try to get around to writing somet...
I'm caught up on the thread now. I don't really want to get into a discussion of the fine tuning argument, because I've spent the past 15 years arguin...
Not really. Scientists observe regularities and develop strong intuitions as to the reliability of the observed regularities. It is not a matter of ha...
This seems insightful to me, although I've never been very interested in philosophy of language, and I don't know much about it, beyond the idiosyncra...
I've got some talent for math, but never developed a love of mathematics for its own sake. I remember one day, during my first semester of college cal...
a) The schnapps were separate shots which we would slam, and then drink the beer at a more leisurely pace. When we got close to finishing our beers so...
I've only read this far and need to step out, so will look at the rest later. I just want to point out that we might equally say that the universe see...
:up: Insightful. "Analogy" in this context is also a metaphor, but a valuable one. Off the top of my head, I'd suggest that metaphors are simplistic b...
Right. While I often find 'the map' to be a handy metaphor, that is all it is. Certainly language plays a huge role in how our 'maps' evolve. I'd say ...
In the interest of adding a sense of decorum to the Shoutbox... There was a period in my life when I was spending every other semester in Boca Raton, ...
Yes. There is a huge amount which can be learned about ourselves, from observing infants and young children learning. When we are very young all of ou...
I don't see temper tantrums as particularly relevant. However, I do see what I infer to be your interpretation of Kuhn's and Popper's thinking to be a...
It. conveys a difference between having well trained intuitions and not having well trained intuitions although it frames it in magical terms of using...
Right, learning is required and the consequences of that learning are not fully predictable. However, I'm not talking in black and white terms, of int...
That's a long twisty story that might be said to have begun with my being born a few months after JFK's moon speech. I'm not sure what you are looking...
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