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Yeah, I kinda changed a lot since then. I guess L. Wittgenstein does that to you. Quietism for the win!

Arrived at PF first as "willowz", got banned and came back as Q~uestion. Now I'm here as 'Question'... Kinda funny...

I think Wittgenstein's earlier work is something that can be referenced here. The limits of my language are the limits of my world. And the eliminatio...

I've fixated on the noumena for now. In a couple of days it'll be something else. But, the fact is that you can't have a cake and eat it too. Fun taut...

Autism.

Is it a fact that 2+2=4?

Well, it's hard to disagree with states of affairs. Provided, Joe believes that it is not raining outside, when actually it is, then facts are always ...

See.

Natural response is: What is the correct use of the word 'fact'?

Does anyone else notice the ambiguity and quite actually contradiction in terms in the bolded text? How can a fact be an object of certain mental stat...

See, and here is the gist of the issue. Assuming that facts are always true turns truth into a metaphysical concept of "perceiving the world correctly...

So does that make truth relativistic? One can believe something; but, it may actually* not be true. *Notice how 'actually' keeps on popping up, whethe...

Yes, the counterargument is that 'in reality' something is the fact of the matter. Using such a terms as 'in reality' or 'actually' just shift the pro...

"Can the fact that Joe believes it isn't raining outside, while it is actually raining outside be thought to be true?" Part of my question has to do w...

As in it never happened or as in office fires brought a steel framed building down?

The thing is that many people simply don't believe that the official story presented by NIST and FEMA, which don't hold water when faced with reality....

But, that is just plain hedonism.

Some, all, whatever floats?

Care to mention a few? Maybe I'm more of a Cynic?

So, needs can be satisfied, but, what about wants?

That is a mystery.

Cake is an object. An object of desire. Can desires ever be satisfied?

Everyone, because everyone should know that you can't have a cake and eat it too.

You can have some cake, but, not all of it.

I still think the have or eat cake analogy is apt in describing our current political situation.

Well obviously some cake can be eaten and kept. Just not all of the cake. Best to save some for latter.

To be or not to be, thinks the cake to itself.

The most simple and elegant criticism of consumerism can be found in the cake analogy.

So having a cake or eating it, what is your preference?

How can everything be a lie if that is the truth?

Yeah, his own brother tipped the cops off too. However, having a cake and eating it too is simply irresponsible and dangerous. The cake is a lie also.

In one word, well actually two: language games. Same ancestry though!

You can't have a cake and eat it too.

One has to realize that the more money in fewer hands will cause the economy to collapse or at the very least to stagnate due to reduced demand. A sim...

Surprisingly enough we used to do it in the States. There are plenty of videos of proof of this. Make America Great Again !

What about critical thinking? It's not a hard subject to teach, but the benefits are innumerable and priceless.

Yeah, psychology majors are excellent in the art of manipulation of people. Perhaps, we need more people educated about their own inner workings as to...

Is this some innuendo to Ayn Rand and Objectivism?

I think an important thing to consider that sacrificing your habitat for the sake of a higher GDP is practically unavoidable in a consumerist and comp...

Sort of relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/16/worlds-eight-richest-people-have-same-wealth-as-poorest-50

Now that we have e gotten sex out of the way, we can talk about masturbation.

Not all has been lost. There have been a few public educators that recognized the problems presented in this thread, such as John Dewey, that educatio...

You could really distil the sentiment of this post with the simple truism that there can be no object without a subject. The study of the relations be...

I guess you can say both. Either way, there's exploitation of people going on in both cases.

I'd be interested how one ought to solve this situation? Is it because of the erosion of a strong public ethos? Is it the sense of 'individualism' ins...

An important fact about self-esteem is that it has become synonymous with the possession of material goods and status (again material goods, like a ho...

I would like to point out that advertisements are insidious. Meaning, they prey on our sense of self-esteem and ego in telling us that you should not ...

Hence, my sentiment towards the advertisement of sex. Food porn being another example.

Yes; but, they're still human.

Someone mentioned a video called, The Century of the Self. It's 3 hours long; but, can be split up in 3 parts for watching. Never felt so enlightened ...