creativesoul

We are interdependent social creatures... necessarily so. How is that not natural?

By gratuitous assertion? What is the criterion which when met, counts as being by nature?

And yet... the declaration's sole aim was to change her mind.

By what standard are you determining human nature? Humans are both, reasonable and sensitive creatures. The Rousseau quote implied otherwise, as if we...

All the guns in the world won't protect one from some kinds of harm. Rather, using arms in such cases makes one a danger to society.

In doing so, they neglected to act in a way that guarantees the equal rights of all citizens. By virtue of allowing undisclosed amounts of money to be...

Morality naturally arises because we are interdependent social creatures. One's 'sense' of fairness, justice, and history are cultivated via common la...

Yup.... Charletons.

Assuming sincerity, a speaker believes what they say. An insincere speaker does not. The former is honest, and the latter is not. The former is not ly...

All motivational speech are lies according to you. There is also the problem of being both, a mapping of reality and aiming to manipulate the world an...

Good luck with that Banno. Those who are financially vested in gun/ammo have money and power and people who write the laws as well as people who pass ...

Where does morality come from? If morality is taken to be a code of conduct, then it comes from us and it is entirely about what's considered to be ac...

I declare to a group of people who do not know that person A is a thief, that s/he is as a means to change the way those people think about person A. ...

I declare to the love of my life that she is the love of my life for the sole purpose of manipulating her mind into believing and/or knowing it, becau...

'Beliefs' that have been formed with the intent to deceive others are not beliefs of the liar. They are statements that the speaker does not believe. ...

This made me chuckle a bit, given the position I've been arguing for and/or working the bugs out of for over a decade...

So then, we're at odds. Let's take a gander at our respective notions of a lie. On my view, a lie is a deliberate misrepresentation of what one thinks...

A friend of mine once argued that we do good(help others) to make us/ourselves feel better. I argued that doing good had that result, but it's not why...

They just haven't found their true selves yet. That's all.

Rubbish. The opinion of a deceiver is not what he wants others to believe. When one believes what they say they are not lying.

If the spatiotemporal location of the heavenly bodies on the day of one's birth determined which of the twelve main kinds of people one is and/or will...

One cannot unknowingly or inadvertently deliberately misrepresent his/her own thought/belief. This tangent on self-deception began with Janus asking h...

Looks different to me... quite actually. As you note below... Looks we're effin' 'em... Not sure what you're attempting to show here aside from perhap...

Because it makes no sense to say otherwise.

You and I can have differences in what we believe Sam. No problem. I simply do not see how Witt's writing(later years) causes an issue with/for my own...

Logical possibility alone constitutes neither adequate justification nor warrant. Brain in vat arguments aren't at all compelling to me for that reaso...

I agree. Repetition of 'X' does not make 'X' true.

Well, good arguments make a difference to me. The simpler the better. However... Aren't we talking about metacognition here? It makes no sense to talk...

Thinking about one's own thought/belief requires language. A plurality of minds presupposes something external to thought/belief.

What distinction? There is no distinction between belief about the ineffable and the ineffable.

One cannot imagine, without contradiction, that everything is completely generated by a mind/minds. The position itself requires thinking about though...

Qualities and/or features aren't reasons.

Even in this absurd case, the electrodes are external to the thought/belief.

Tree rings become meaningful by virtue of an agent making a connection between them and an other thing or things. In this case, tree rings have been c...

Are you saying that we cannot form and/or hold well grounded true belief about what the tree is beyond human experience? I've already argued for that ...

Well, if one bullshits and later comes to believe it, then they didn't believe it at first. They were aware of the fact that they did not believe what...

So, one knows that what they say about themselves isn't true, as they're saying it but they say it anyway as a means to make themselves look a certain...

An interesting thing about certainty is that the degree to which one is certain of 'X' is determined by virtue of how many other thought/belief are gr...

Certainly, this notion of self-deception requires believing falsehood(s). Are false belief said to be the cause of self deception or the result?

Unsurprising though...

It's not whatever reasons. I've offered them for you to consider. Our positions conflict with one another. At least one of us is wrong. Thus, because ...

Self? What is that? Or rather, what are those?

Others'.

"Type of truth"... Banno, do you mean sense? In that certainty is not equivalent to a sense of "truth"? What's a type of truth?

Deception is based upon the intent of one creature to convince another to believe something that the one does not. When successful, the second believe...

I believe that the terms "really" and "utterly" are being used in a manner that adds nothing to the discussion aside from reflecting either misunderst...

I'm wondering if the belief in self-deception shared an origen with the notion of falling into a pit of vipers? Do you know the source(s) of those tho...

You cannot depend upon your conscience as a guide, for it is you who must keep it satisfied... Bob Dylan(similar at least) Your experience includes ta...

Then we don't do it at all. That's the point being made here.

That doesn't seem to follow from what preceded it? Got an argument for it?