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If everything I have experienced counts as direct knowledge, and assuming is experience, then it only follows that assuming that dinosaurs lived in th...

So, assuming is not experience?

If direct knowledge is everything I have experienced in the past, then what would indirect knowledge be? What's the term "a" doing in the second sente...

You're lost.

I admire those who've made mistakes and were better off as a result. No one makes a mistake on purpose.

Confirmation bias anyone? X-)

Well there's something to be said about deeper appreciation of what's good in life being had by experiencing what's not...

I agree. When the ends justify the means.

If your objects are your subjects there's a problem. If my objects are my subjects there's a problem. If my objects are your subjects there's a differ...

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

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Or you could continue to set out the subjective particulars. That's a good step. A winnowing out, of sorts.

May I suggest looking elsewhere?

Objects are not subjects. Subjects are not objects. Sensibility requires drawing and maintaining a meaningful distinction between the two. Calling one...

Everything thought, believed, uttered, and/or written is existentially contingent upon the attribution and/or recognition of causality. Hume's 'proble...

Your attempt to prove the existence of God via holding that that which exists has an effect/affect has no bearing upon what I've written. The objectio...

Just to be clear, I've not promoted divine command theory. I suggest looking to all moral systems as a means to identify and isolate the morally relev...

We were discussing divine command theory. Suicide folk in particular. Yanking someone's trousers down ought be more memorable, unless perhaps you've b...

Truth police. Who decides what's true and what's not? That is the question posed by both genuine skeptics and those who already know what's true but w...

I'm not sure if this is a question or an assertion. Are you asserting that truth does not enter into bullshit, or asking if and/or how I think that it...

The critical parts of being able to distinguish truth from falsity?

Doesn't this post-truth conversation involve and/or revolve around frameworks? I mean, isn't it all about what the article called the democratization ...

I don't see the issue. Gravity has efficacy. Thought and belief have efficacy.

You mean purely physicalist explanations? If so I agree. However, I also hold that thought and belief have efficacy, so I wouldn't reject causality as...

Because you supported your "not always" claim with something other than the case we were discussing.

That which exists has an effect/affect.

Always in the relevant cases.

Of course. Bullshit is thought in statement form. Bullshit is one manifestation of the ends justifying the means.

Edited for ease of understanding. Banno I would've thought you would also want to discard the notion of "objective truth". I've seen you reject the di...

There are other ways to qualify the term "existence".

May have something to do with how truth is situated in relation to ethical and political matters. How is better. Hopefully a bit better than just the ...

We'd be arguing over a few things had it been you. It's a nice article, because it is exemplary, and not in a good way. There's a bit of irony in it. ...

Ridicule emboldens and further empowers that which you seem intent upon weakening...

Good stuff in Fdrake's post as well...

None of us have a choice in either our original worldview or our cognitive ability. In that way, and in others, we are all on the same ground. The abo...

No. You're sorely mistaken. Ridicule has no place being used against someone who cannot yet distinguish between their thought/belief system(worldview)...

Well Markus or Vagabond... Ridicule of one whose belief system that calls anything contrary to it "evil" and holds that world is a better place withou...

Nice article Banno...

:-O Are you a priest?

Well, certainly everyone presupposes that their own thought/belief is true... moral claims notwithstanding. Not sure what you mean with the last state...

No it's not. It situates meaning.

Well, it began with a refutation of idealism. I'm attempting to get it back on topic. If we hold that perception is equivalent to how one 'interprets'...

What's Wrong With 1% Owning As Much As 99%? The accumulation of wealth is impossible without a society. Those who benefit the most from a society are ...

I'd like to think that we agree upon much here, despite the differences. Those seem to be more about human nature, or perhaps what we ascribe to be su...

The meaning of life consists entirely of whatever associations and/or connections that you make with and/or within life.

So, let's relate this back to the topic... If someone thinks/believes that another is lying simply because they intend to change another's mind about ...

Codes of conduct, rights, and notions of self are existentially contingent upon language. Being an interdependent social creature requires only being ...

Seems to me that being interdependent social creatures predates codes of conduct, rights, and notions of self...

Being social then, according to this, is not acting as we see fit... Doesn't make sense.