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Is the tree I see a phenomena?

I agree with that general sentiment. It's a matter of finding the common denominators between their thought and belief and our own. Consider evolution...

What is the aim though, seriously. Does it have a goal in mind?

Different strokes, and all... I find talking in such terms to be very unhelpful. I see trees, not phenomenal representations thereof.

Nada. A worthy concern... Nah, metaphor is poor philosophy. To say the senses "report" is to be involved in anthropomorphic thinking(the personificati...

Brilliant.

I haven't forgotten about the studies. I've been doing a little bit of research into recent studies that are very similar, and a few podcasts which se...

Spoken like someone who likes Kant's Noumena. Kant was my favorite for a very long time. There are serious issues of inherent inadequate explanatory p...

Here is your argument in simpler form... Perfect is unassailable. One is assailed. Therefore, one is not perfect. The primary premiss is false. All pe...

Please show the argument. Then I'll respond accordingly. Did you notice mine?

I suggest that you carefully re-read our exchange. It would be helpful to do so while believing that you've missed something important... because you ...

Those three things are thought and/or belief statements. My offering them is to offer a report of my own thought and belief. The notion of report I'm ...

A report is an account of what's happened and/or is happening. They are all meaningfully based in thought and belief formation(drawing correlations be...

No. It doesn't seem like that claim stands to reason at all, does it? Reason tells us that it makes no sense to claim the source of an answer is not p...

It would follow then that either you're perfect or you cannot know if an answer is perfect. If you cannot know if an answer is perfect, then what sens...

Only if everyone knew the perfect answer. If the perfect answer was against common wisdom, the answer would be assailed...

It's very interesting, and I'm not finished investigating. Thanks for your subsequent clarifications on what you're claiming... :smile:

No. Ooops. If thats true. Open mouth, insert foot. I'll attent to it more. Keep me in line! :yikes:

In the modified version the necessary precondition for agreement as a precursor to being rewarded was foregone... The agreement is precisely what esta...

If that's the case, then the notion itself can and ought be cast aside for it cannot be used to further discriminate between anything at all. It becom...

Fair enough. I'm sure that not all experts/specialists are characterized well by what I wrote. The groupies... particularly some who call themselves p...

I don't think Janus is as flippant as you imply.

I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings. I've offered very good solid reasoning for my claims. Perhaps you could dispel me of this mindset. Address the argu...

I'd like to see the abstract and/or the synopsis along with some video footage of the behaviour under consideration. That would be very interesting.

I'm sure there are a plurality of different phenomenological approaches that I'm completely unfamiliar with. The one I've been considering here is Kan...

You're welcome. I love sushi, just so ya know! Freshly sliced pickled ginger, freshly ground and prepared wasabi, and some good shoyu... Mmmm.... Mmmm...

Ugh! Really? Phenomenology works from the notion of indirect perception. It presupposes two worlds. The real one(which we can know nothing about aside...

Should addicts be treated with anything less than the utmost care?

I believe that Mww is arguing from such a position. I do not. It denies direct perception the actual role it plays in rudimentary level thought, belie...

Say what you're thinking. The neuroscience is beyond my comprehension. I've been waiting for them(the experts, specialists, and groupies in/of the fie...

How did Banno say it??? It's just a bunch of esoteric language use that only philosophers care about. The focus is on non linguistic thought and belie...

Remaining to be seen presupposes the possibility of something or other actually happening. If we are looking to see if we populate the concept and we ...

Unfortunately many purported experts in the field of the human mind do not work from a framework that is even capable of drawing and maintaining the a...

These are the ones that can be peeled away... but not by the likes of anyone who fosters more globalization, more good paying jobs being outsourced, m...

I would completely concur. I thought much the same thing upon reading the celebration of killing...

Acquiring well-grounded true belief about what all thought, belief, and concepts consist of is a methodological approach. I also do not think that the...

You're more than welcome. Don't get me wrong here. There is no such thing as a perfect human who holds nothing but well-grounded true belief... I was ...

This puts the cart before the horse... Without the attribution of meaning(thought and belief formation), there is no mind/consciousness. Mind/consciou...

Just wanted to mention something here. Do with it what you may. It's just dead on point relevant... on my view anyway. Interpretation is always of som...

There's much to be said about our discussion. There are certainly several aspects I'm looking forward to getting into. However, I think that I just re...

:rofl: That's hilarious... I literally laughed out loud for brief time... then began laughing again for another... Oh shit... That's too funny.

Of course they don't. If being respectable required only a large number of different people's respect and approval, then there are all sorts of histor...

Of course not. One can be right about something and wrong about other things. However, perfect knowledge would be had by a perfect person. Perfect kno...

Hope this doesn't sound trite. It certainly could be thought of overly simplistic, but I find there to be a universal common denominator in all of tho...

Or perhaps they just wanted a grape...

If that's the case, then I've got it all wrong... :razz:

I do not share your enthusiasm about those excerpts. I'm much less enthusiastic about philosophers who employ rhetoric as argumentation in what is not...

This approach puts all concepts on equal footing as being the names. It would only follow that there are no concepts prior to naming. I could agree ac...

Respectable does not equal well-known... Does it? :brow: