creativesoul

I'm not interested in rhetoric. There's already more than enough of that on this forum. If you're interested... I've offered an argument. If you want ...

:brow: You'll have to do better than this.

Manana... :up:

You would think it uncontroversial, unfortunately it's not. If the current running documentaries on animal thought/belief/reasoning skills are any ind...

Sorry to put it all out there. I'm short on time. Priority is real life. Time is money right now. :smile: Reply however you see fit. I am willing to h...

Perhaps it be best put like this... I would readily agree that consciousness is itself existentially dependent meaning, as compared/contrasted to sema...

Consciousness is not existentially dependent upon such high order social skills.

It follows from some basic common sense assertions. Meaning is not equivalent to semantics. Semantics involves thinking about (pre-existing)meaning. T...

Perhaps. Semantics, by my lights, is the study/theory of meaning. It's all about meaning. This endeavor also requires thinking about thought/belief. T...

I could be misunderstanding your position. I've always thought that you had argued along Heraclitus' lines(one cannot step into the same river twice)....

The same river is changing.

This deserves more attention.

The relations or the river?

What's changing?

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That would depend upon the notion/definition/delineation/explanation of each term. Some may by definition alone. Some definitions may take account of ...

Put forth a duration.

I know the difference between a hallucination as a result of ingesting LSD and a normal everyday driving experience where suddenly things quickly beca...

Don't fall for that crap. If one cannot step into the same river twice then s/he cannot step into it even once. That strict criterion for what counts ...

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Well grounded true belief. That's the epistemic standard. I'll go this far... I know based upon my own driving experience, my own understanding of mat...

My mistake. Sarcasm can lose it's umph when presented with written word alone. It's easily mistook for sincerity. That's my default position. Trusting...

Noah, I like your honesty here. The bravery, knowing the potential for ridicule... The end times thing has been going on since the death of Jesus. On ...

It was a black swan scenario, I think Janus. Sorry to be nitpicky. Came with the hardware I was born with. Hear me out here, I think you'll agree. All...

Attention. Awareness. Consciousness. All too vague to be of much use. Funny thing is, that none of the above require our attention, awareness, and/or ...

Hope you like her.

Belief is necessary and insufficient for both - true and false - belief. Without belief, there can be neither.

That would be true if those were the only matters agreed upon cross-culturally. They are not.

Hannah Gadsby Something tells me that you may find something in her.

Spiritual beliefs are explanations. Here's where Ockham's Razor applies. Spiritual beliefs may not be empirically falsifiable/verifiable, it does not ...

If we teach our children to appreciate and respect diversity; if we teach our children that everyone deserves a certain modicum of respect; if we teac...

There will be no systematic mandatory retrieval of guns that are publicly owned by legal means. Public spaces ought have rules that keep the space usa...

I'm left wondering... Do you disagree with the report I offered regarding the go-to talking points of pro gun people(including but not limited to NRA ...

By my lights it's quite a bit more complicated than that. The NRA is doing exactly what they are allowed to do, and what they are doing is - in and of...

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We can change our own shape by seeking our influences. We do not have to remain in any particular way that someone else shaped us... Step one is belie...

There is a true answer to the nature/origen of math. If there is no definitive philosophical answer, perhaps it's because no one has gotten it right.....

So, you aren't willing to bear the burden of your claims? :brow: Tradition has it that when one voluntarily enters into a debate, s/he and/or they vol...

Sure... I'll run right out and prove that S has offered no argument here. How do I do that again? :brow: Look Dingo, you're the one who said I'm wrong...

Show one. Just one.

Indeed. Sometimes hard to pick out of all the other stuff, but there's some good stuff in lots of places, as long as one is willing to separate it fro...

You were clear enough. You were and still are - quite simply - mistaken. I was clear as well, and I'm not. There has been no argument given by S. I do...

Quote them please.

Depends upon what else - aside from you - that that bridge is standing between my friend. Some bridges are best burned. The trick of course, is knowin...

Of course. Helps me to make choices that increase my available choices, if that makes any sense...

This coming from one who has no argument... mind you. Sitting high up in the stands heaving personal ridicule and criticism at those doing the work is...

:wink: Well Jeep you certainly recognized Ayer's influence on my position what... a decade ago? Unfortunately the positivist guiding principle is unte...

I'm glad you've experienced improvement. I'm not nowhere near presumptious enough to think/believe that I know what your thought life consists of asid...

Well, I have a marked distain for modern day therapy. Learning how to come to acceptable(different) terms with the same events is crucial to looking a...

Indeed.