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Actually I'm making it. All thought and belief consists entirely in and/or of mental correlations drawn between 'objects' of physiological sensory per...

Two problems here. The first is that Virgil's behaviour is driven by his thought and belief. He is not thinking about acceptable and/or unacceptable b...

What makes Virgil's behaviour moral?

In order to achieve the relaxation that accompanies belief that something or other is true... How many ways are there to convince another to believe s...

At conception, we are all void of any and all thought and belief...moral belief notwithstanding. Some thought and belief are extremely complex. Others...

I'm not talking about what's on the surface. I'm setting out what all thought and belief is comprised of, without exception. That's a bold claim. Howe...

That was a segue into understanding the bit you asked about. There is no fallacy of composition in saying that apples are always a basic elemental con...

At conception, we are all void of any and all thought and belief...moral belief notwithstanding. Some thought and belief are extremely complex. Others...

Which wouldn't surprise me at all, given that my position is unconventional. They're catching up though. ;) Paradigm shift is a slow process. That pos...

We can walk barefoot and accidentally kick a rock that we didn't see. Becoming aware of that has quite a different feeling, one that causes - or at le...

Right. I was just answering the question about what becoming aware feels like. I took feels to mean emotional 'feelings'.

Poorly expressed on my part. Self-awareness it is then. That's the way it seemed.

I wouldn't use the term inherent as qualification for belief, unless it was discourse about kinds of belief. For example, moral belief is always about...

Not sure what you're referring to. In the above question, replace the term "that" with what you're asking me about. That would let me know what you're...

Emotional maturity. Understanding one's own emotional triggers. Coming to acceptable terms with oneself and the world. All those things and more... pe...

I think you may be skirting around self-awareness.

Becoming aware of something horrible makes one feel quite differently than becoming aware of something wonderful. Right?

The implication here is that we cannot derive the necessary properties of an object by talking about the properties of the object, because talking is ...

That all depends upon what one is becoming aware of, doesn't it?

Not quite. False is a truth-value. Facts cannot be false(I mean if you're working from a framework where facts are either true statements or propositi...

When I wrote "Yes it does", 'it' referenced the article. Maybe you should read the post; it's just above. Then compare what I wrote with what you quot...

Well, that's similar to the correspondence theory. In the details, I reject the conventional account for the same reason(and more) that I reject the n...

Of all things said thus far, this is the most significant. Would you care to?

By the way. What you've just quoted is a misrepresentation of the facts. It makes it seem as if I offered that answer to that quote. I didn't. I abhor...

Events. Ongoings. Happenings. States of affairs. The case at hand. The way things were and/or are. Reality.

You have and you did once again. Not much more can be said, except to point it out. An astute reader will take note. I'm not missing your point, I'm r...

Indeed it's not. Nor was that the whole of my answer. Misquoting, blatantly even, is bad form. Red herring. Non-sequitur. Strawman/dog. None of those ...

The former is directly perceptible and the latter is not.

When one passes judgment upon an entire group of people based upon the acts of only a few, s/he has dipped a toe into racist ground. It's a bit sandy,...

If everyone acted like that, the world would be a much better place. That my friends... is good behaviour. Admirable. Noteworthy. Aspirational. Inspir...

We set the bounds as we go. As we must. We are aiming to improve. Game theory is another ends justifies the means construct.

History shows that that would be all of us. We measure what's good about things with different metrics, depending upon the candidate. For example, whe...

If the end cannot be gotten solely by virtue of good means, then there ought be no such end in sight.

That evidence with not be forthcoming for it doesn't exist.

What our friend Bitter is saying could also be said by a racist. Doesn't make Bitter one, does it?

Surely talking about race is required for coming to acceptable terms with the history of racism.

I'd like to see that.

Indeed, as you've just shown.

I find no justification at all for attributing strategy to such simplistic thought and belief.

How would you know if any of this is true? What makes you think and/or believe that Virgil's behaviour was governed and/or driven by moral intuition? ...

Unfortunately that is precisely the sort of thinking that underpins inevitable disfunction. Without a society there is no accumulation of wealth possi...

The cashier. All of those folk who you neglect to consider when eliminating their jobs by virtue of 'adding value'. Folk with limited cognitive abilit...

Yes it does. That fact grounds my questions. I've heard enough. Thanks for the exchange. I'm not interested.

You underestimate the effects/affects that language has and the different ways it's used.

Or it could be that when the ends justify the means, any and all means are rationalized by virtue of meeting the goal of the ends...

Language is required in order for us to become aware of some things. So, placing all awareness as prior to language is a mistake for it renders you un...

Not all white groups have the same culture even though they're all caucasoid. The same is true of negroid and mongoloid groups. Perhaps that point wil...

With regard to defining true and false... Defining true is calling something "true". Being true is not equivalent to being called "true". Exploring th...

Economic jargon is far too often used as a means to justify knowingly causing quantifiable harm to millions upon millions of people.