Tom Storm

In order to do what?

Thank you, I'll need to sit with that for a while. Yes. That's how I should have put it. That's much better.

Nice. Thank you.

Good points. Did the Greek understanding of reason generally identify this faculty as human or divine in origin? In relation to Hoffman, I noted this ...

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When I was around 10 my Dad told me that life was just filling in time until you die. He winked and said, 'Make it good and be of use to others.'

Christ, any moment now you'll be telling me that god is superfluous to human experince....:wink:

Nice. Well that does make sense. Never thought I could call this objective but I guess it fits. I hear you on details and devil.

You raise interesting points. I was struck by something Rorty said about truth. 'We don't need to define truth, we know how to use it.' I kind of feel...

Cool. Tell me more. How do you get objective morality? Or do you mean an objective process or an objective source of morality? I suppose I could say m...

I've always assumed that one's personal preferences are derived by enculturation. But I should have also said that there are likely to biological fact...

That makes sense. Somehow these matters always take us back to Plato, right? :cool: Would you consider this a useful refinement of Plato's idea of ins...

Your view only makes sense if you posit a particular god. Good luck with your subjectively derived understanding of right and wrong. :wink: I don't th...

I thought at @"Gnomon" was using information/enformation as a kind of secular analogue for essence. That fits in with my tentative models for self.

I get that. I don't think truth outside of human experience (in the Greek or Christian sense) is accessible so for me everything boils down to presupp...

Thanks for articulating your perspective. I always find it fascinating to hear from believers who are not led by dogma and dominated by fear. Can I as...

Indeed. And we thought the hard problem of consciousness attracted trouble! :wink: Thanks for that perspective. I'm inclined to align myself more with...

Yes, I did read the Lewis a few years back. And his polemical work, Mere Christianity. I think reason is paradoxical in as much as we believe it has t...

I think there's a lot of truth in that. But some goals like this are ultra hard to achieve and I opt out on the grounds of insufficient information, t...

Agree. I think for many people philosophy has a broad aim of providing coherence and integration, but as humans we are not overly coherent and integra...

Agree.

Lots of people have made similar arguments over the years. I think it was Orwell who said that the norms of one culture might look insane next to the ...

Yes. I very much prefer polite, abuse free discourse. I have rarely seen disrespect serve the interests of an argument. Sound reasoning is unaided by ...

Your argument is interesting but I'm not sure I properly understand it - perhaps because it doesn't entirely mesh with my innate skeptical pragmatism....

Is it intrinsic to this particular blind spot that its enactors are often blind to it being a blind spot? Is this when a blind spot bites? When it is ...

Nice work. :clap:

It's sounding and playing out a bit like a discussion about religious faith from where I am sitting.

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I've been both and I can attest to this.

Somehow we almost always seems to arrive back at qualia. I don't really have a dog in this fight but I also think it is not so easy to determine the a...

That's very nicely argued.

Yes, and experiencing trauma and profound unhappiness may also propel one towards philosophy in the age old question to try to establish a 'why'.

A fair assessment. I think it's important to consider too that everyone is different and draws energy from different activities. Some people may not h...

Probably impossible to measure but I can only go by my own view which is, of course, subjective and situational. But I think it is better than it was ...

Nice. I find it curious how often I come back to the same questions and concerns no matter how well they are answered. I see others doing it here too....

The Scott Joplin music works in it too, even if it's the wrong period.

I suspect you are right. That's very elegant.

That's a good point. Maybe if it is a fork, it's one with multiple prongs - a veritable junction of possibilities rather than a banal bifurcation....

:up: I keep asking the same fucking questions. Jeez.

But that would end most of the discussion here... :joke: :cool: Can you say a bit more about the 'context free' component of pseudo questions? I'm ass...

Seems unlikely to work. How do we test that people share the same sense of rationality, insight and experience? We can find people who attest to the w...

Who counts as a legitimate prophet and how do we tell the difference?

Indeed - I also suspect that many people are drawn to logic because it is emotionally satisfying to them. :wink: It might be interesting to get a post...

What exactly does intellectual intuition consist of? Is this how universals or archetypes are thought to be apprehended? Sorry if the following seems ...

What about Eccentrica Gallumbits the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six?

Would Kant qualify as a mysterian? I'd be interested to read what people think and ask a question or two.

I saw that. Isn't this one of your favourite arguments?

There's plenty of debunking of Plantinga on line if you google it. This particular argument is used - and often badly interpreted by presuppositional ...

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Agree. I contemplate no singularities. There's enough to be getting on with in the day to day.