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I'm not certain. I feel as though elucidating Kant's ideas about categories and a priori and a posteriori needs some elucidating if someone is unfamil...

But, there really isn't anything emotional about expressing the proposition that 1+1 is 2. Is there?

What's your take on speculative trading @"ssu"? I know emotions drive a lot of decision making in the financial markets.

Not necessary to have psychologists explain the idea. I think you did a good job at explicating the overt and rational mind contrasted with the implic...

Great to have you on board @"Snakes Alive"! The Investigations thread is dying out as we speak, so I hope we can get this one started.

But the proposition such as 1+1=2 is an emotionally devoid proposition. No?

So, can one have a thought without emotion? I feel a certain way; but, this does not correlate with my thought. Therefore what?

You may not be enlightened; but, you are very close to it!

Yes, but how do you delineate between the two?

I think anyone enlightened would never claim to be enlightened. Hence being unenlightened.

I consider @"unenlightened" to be pretty close to being enlightened.

They are fickle beasts. They nag on emotions to get their work done, or lack thereof.

But, that's not how depression or anxiety works. First comes the thought that you feel like crap, and then come to the endless rationalizations as to ...

What do you mean??

Wallowing is fine. Some wallowing is healthy for the soul.

Just distress in terms of emotional health. When emotions fail us, then things go sour? I think that I'm unhappy, therefore I am?

Haha, but, that's wrong? How do you get out of it then?

Yes; but, what makes the mind of a depressive more prone to cognitive distortions?

I read K, in my teenage years. It taught me some important lessons about the value of knowing what I don't know. Don't know how to phrase it different...

I do not know of any; but, I do know that those claiming that they are awakened are most likely not.

Why is that so? How can you appreciate the positive more? Can you stop disqualifying the positive? So, mindfulness meditation is the key, here?

Just a note to the moderators, I will be trying to post about all the cognitive distortions in separate threads and how to address them. I hope this i...

It is available here: https://academiaanalitica.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/kripke-saul-a-naming-and-necessity-cambridge-harvard-university-press-1981...

And I agree. Where have we left off at?

Kudos for the great quote there.

Thanks for sharing that!

I am. But, I don't know how to deal with my apathy and anhedonia. It's a deep issue of ADHD also. I can't focus for shiet. I'll give it a try. Thanks.

I have considered reading that book but don't have the ability to read long books. Can you summarize what you think is pertinent to this topic with re...

Phanks Tiff. I'm thinking of becoming a Honey Badger next.

Yeah, if a sufficiently enough complex computer were to come about, then I'm not aware of any laws of physics prohibiting a simulation of reality that...

Yeah. What's wrong with that sort of thinking this issue through?

No, I'm saying that it's irrelevant because of the state space of a computer simulation being self-referential.

But, that irrelevant because the state space of a system is enclosed within that system itself. So, variances would arise; but, independent of any ext...

Speaking about the future, do you think this in some manner or form proves that technology is progressing at every greater rate in being able to simul...

i. "Cum ipsi (majores homines) appellabant rem aliquam, et cum secundum earn vocem corpus ad aliquid movebant, videbam, et tenebam hoc ab eis vocari r...

I'm fine with that. Anyone else?

The ant just does. It doesn't think. Blasphemy?

The ant doesn't care about anything apart from it's role as a worker. It is a very Kantian creature and communist in nature or even totalitarian.

The ant doesn't care. It doesn't give two shits. It simply does.

The single ant is a solipsist.

Valentinus started the reading group here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/4520/philosophical-investigations-reading-it-together I welcome a...

Hurray! Praise @"Valentinus"!

Again, I'm very apprehensive about leading anything here. I'm liking the anarchic manner in which we are discussing the Investigations. Please start a...

As far as I'm concerned this reading group has already started. I don't mind the lack of organization. A discussion is what's most important. So, bomb...

Will do. Do you think philosophy is awash with too many existential questions for its own good? What can be said about philosophy, then?

Please expand.

Hi jorndoe. :) None, as I see it.

Well, I don't want to turn this thread into one about depression; but, if that's what it leading to then I oblige.

How do you stop this process? I already elaborated on it in my Disidentification thread.

Cognitive distortions can overlap and attain different affective states on a subject. I'm quite interested in the psychoanalytic aspect of their diffe...