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Indeed, but only after already having a belief system intact. Suspending one's judgment is a metacognitive endeavor. Metacognition is existentially de...

I do not quite understand the sentiment hereabouts that seems to suggest that either one is with the US or against it. As if acknowledging the role th...

You say this as though it is either an accurate or an appropriate thing to say to me. It's neither. For whatever that's worth around here.

Yes. I'm aware of the agreement Bush Sr.(???) made after the fall of the Berlin wall to not expand NATO "one inch farther" to the east. Then, during t...

Indeed. If that article is true regarding the coup to overturn a free and fair election, it is well worth noting. If the free and fair election was no...

Ukraine chose to build financial and diplomatic relations with the west, against the wishes of Russia and it's leaders. Sure, there are agendas held b...

Indeed. Agreed. It highlights the importance of having a stringent, prudent, personal standard for what counts as sufficient reason to believe somethi...

If by "telling the truth" we're talking about saying what one believes to be true, then yes. If by "telling the truth" we're talking about making true...

Spell this out in a bit more detail...

Well, I'm not even going to attempt to defend most of our foreign policy decisions during my lifetime. Ukraine begged for help. Russia clearly seems t...

At the person... fail! I am a Noam Chomsky 'fan'. For whatever that's worth around here.

I do not agree.

Those are not mutually exclusive notions; influence and choice. Of course the west wanted Ukraine to join forces. There was something in it for the we...

'Empire', 'domination'... Rhetorical drivel. Key words:Ukraine decided... Ukraine liked what NATO and the west had to offer it as a sovereign country....

This is working from an emaciated set of morals. That all depends upon how we treat others, including our enemies(those whom we despise and hate), doe...

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As Banno said... the problem is not that we believe, but rather it is what we believe. So, seems better to examine how we come to believe the things w...

As if this model does not consist entirely of beliefs about the world and/or ourselves.

You may find this of interest... This rests upon the dubious presupposition that you have a choice in the matter. You do not. Have you ever lost somet...

In more ways than one regarding what you think and believe about our 'conversation' here. You're confusing what I've said with what others have said. ...

Wondering if you still think this way???

No. Crudely put, the body is one necessary part of consciousness. I'd be interested to see what you think count as all necessary parts of consciousnes...

Just realized, that that number is not right, but there are many many of them... unfortunately.

Not to mention committing fraud against the American people. This is unprecedented. Nearly two hundred active elected officials in congress have parta...

Until the all the parties guilty of seditious conspiracy against The United States of America are charged and punished to the fullest extent of the la...

I'm not following you. You claimed that science(in general) ridiculed some other scientists(presumably a minority) who were "right". I asked if the ri...

Negation by contradicting reality is a big problem for Rorty(and anyone else for that matter). I would venture to guess that Rorty denies prelinguisti...

The term has several. Prelinguistic belief is or becomes true by virtue of correspondence to what's happened, is happening, or what has yet to have ha...

That's based upon a notion of consciousness that I find is a bit emaciated. Cut off the foot, it affects the nervous system, the belief system, etc. A...

Whereas, I personally find that to be a very poor example of an explanation. I would also argue against the idea that consciousness is the sort of thi...

If you're claiming that conventional academic/scientific understanding could be wrong, I would readily concur. However, that alone is insufficient gro...

Neither would help here. Speech act theorists are not considering pre-linguistic belief. Banno's position holds that all belief is propositional in co...

Views that are based upon repeatable peer-reviewed scientific results?

They are not. But those are not problematic for Rorty. Nor are they prelinguistic. The prelinguistic true beliefs negate Rorty.

A mouse is a mouse. A tree is a tree. The spatial relationship between the mouse and the tree is the spatial relationship between the mouse and the tr...

No irony to speak of there. That's known and deliberate. As far as creationism goes. Occam's razor applies.

Whether or not it is logical depends upon the possible world in which robots develop consciousness. Saying it does not make it logical. Logical possib...

Sure, I suppose we could say that it is logically possible. That there are certain conditions and/or circumstances that would lead up to robots develo...

You cannot. What makes you think that non(pre) linguistic true belief is about things that require language to understand? Belief that a mouse ran beh...

Science is philosophy. Methodological naturalism.

Artificial intelligence is not even close to being the same sort of thing that human intelligence is. Not even close. The point here is that it is a m...

Hey my man! Hope all is good is peach country. Get rid of that effin lunatic Taylor Greene... Phew!

We are part of nature, aren't we?

Rubbish. Effin' Rorty... True belief is prior to language. Either true belief does not require truth or truth does not require language(vocabularies).

It's our intelligence that forms the basis of our understanding. We must get it right prior to attempting to attribute it or something like it to some...

If the term means anything at all, it must include biological machinery. Our intelligence is most certainly a result of our biological machinery inclu...

For the record... I'm quite fond of Dennett's paper "Quining Qualia". Quite indeed!

Mind/body dualism? Internal/external dualism? Material/immaterial dualism? Mental/physical dualism? Another, perhaps? Which dualism?

I do. It's not because consciousness is something that lies outside purely mechanical processes, but rather it's because consciousness is a muddled no...