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- Wed May 20, 2020 2:47 am
- Forum: Philosophical Counselling
- Topic: Why Suffering is a Good Thing
- Replies: 93
- Views: 503634
Re: Why Suffering is a Good Thing
I like your post, Felasco. You have definitely captured what I was saying, though yours was put differently than mine. Now, it is correct that life is like a ball, where it is thrown (birth), it flies up (life), but it falls (old age), and then it hits the ground (death). It is true that life is li...
- Wed May 20, 2020 2:35 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: What is Wisdom in Atheist Philosophy?
- Replies: 218
- Views: 35206
Re: What is Wisdom in Atheist Philosophy?
...what empirical change might one observe if you were to accept the theistic narrative? I dunno. A few mutually self righteous, happy-clappy exchanges with the god squad on theses pages perhaps. ...I don't know whether I believe in God or not, and I have no idea how to test. Well, it could be as s...
- Wed May 20, 2020 2:23 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Mind has no location
- Replies: 106
- Views: 22914
Re: Mind has no location
In here we discuss that the reality is made of two things, minds and ideas. Minds are not due to/subjected to ideas. Therefore, they have no location. A lot of people on farce forums, aka, philosophy forums make use of what they have while at the same time denying that they have it or can't locate ...
- Wed May 20, 2020 2:19 am
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Truth/Falsity as a False Dichotomy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13582
Re: Truth/Falsity as a False Dichotomy
The truth/false dichotomy is a false dichotomy given the expression of contexts reflect truth values to have multiple grades of meaning. All contexts are derive a truth/false value given the contexts through which they are presented. For example "a unicorn exists" maintains a simultaneous...
- Wed May 20, 2020 2:07 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
- Replies: 780
- Views: 213671
Re: Is It Possible To Think Without Language?
Absolutely. Einstein developed his theories only to later painstakingly put them into words.
- Wed May 20, 2020 2:04 am
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Certain Knowledge
- Replies: 38
- Views: 8783
Re: Certain Knowledge
Wow that’s an incredibly long winded way of saying cogito ergo sum. We all learned that freshman year in philosophy 101
- Wed May 20, 2020 1:57 am
- Forum: Coronavirus Discussions
- Topic: Sick until proven healthy
- Replies: 96
- Views: 31550
Re: Sick until proven healthy
get on the train... wait, we are armed... -Imp A man’s rights rest in three boxes. The ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge-box. -F. Douglas Not these old saws again. Take a good look around the world and see what the US infantry is capable of. If your Prez decides to treat you like the Japa...
- Wed Feb 20, 2019 6:24 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: The Free Will Pill
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5388
Re: The Free Will Pill
Ever taken an IQ test? What you say makes no sense, it's incoherent babble! Care to be more specific? Let me put it this way, you are a "rain man" devoid of rationale, you don't understand basic self explanatory things. Maybe I can give a longer more sensical answer another time, but for ...
- Wed Feb 20, 2019 6:17 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The Wrong God
- Replies: 309
- Views: 58754
Re: The Wrong God
So is your Aeon space (or its force) linked to consciousness in your theory? Wyman, Yes. I see it as the space from which single potentially conscious units came into being. The force manifested by Aeon space is that which powers the deepest level of your mind, and even of mine now and then. Of cou...
- Wed Feb 20, 2019 6:13 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Perception and Consciousness
- Replies: 143
- Views: 25597
Re: Perception and Consciousness
the comparison of the perception as something manipulated would require access to a "pure" perception... -Imp Not sure what you mean by 'pure perception.' As opposed to what? the one you judge as manipulated... -Imp There need not be a proto-percept as something prior to and distinct from...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:06 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Perception and Consciousness
- Replies: 143
- Views: 25597
Re: Perception and Consciousness
Not sure what you mean by 'pure perception.' As opposed to what?Impenitent wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:02 am the comparison of the perception as something manipulated would require access to a "pure" perception...
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- Wed Feb 13, 2019 5:18 pm
- Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Topic: The Liar's paradox
- Replies: 83
- Views: 16423
Re: The Liar's paradox
Rinse/repeat. What the fuck is an assertion? If you paid attention to the book I posted above propositions are types in Homotopy. How do you assert the truth-value of a proposition? If your answer to most questions involves type theory, then why not start a thread on that topic? But referring peopl...
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 3:24 pm
- Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Topic: The Liar's paradox
- Replies: 83
- Views: 16423
Re: The Liar's paradox
What the fuck is a truth-claim? e.g which theory of truth are you are appealing to? There are at least 20 of them... Who is "we"? I don't understand what it means. The sentence contains zero bits of information - therefore it is infinitely vague. See first point above. What the fuck is a ...
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:51 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Perception and Consciousness
- Replies: 143
- Views: 25597
Re: Perception and Consciousness
I think you are on to something, but the perceptions themselves are not manipulated, rather the descriptions we give to said perception via language, distort it... first privately as defined by oneself and secondly, when communicated publicly... then nuanced distortions begin as the public descript...
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:09 am
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Knowledge, encrypted in our brains or not
- Replies: 49
- Views: 13076
Re: Knowledge, encrypted in our brains or not
One plausible theory is that the knowledge is encrypted in our brains and it somehow is decoded as a result of mental activity becoming ready for experience. Where the knowledge comes from? Evolution, by chance. Basically those creatures who by chance have more knowledge could survive better. What ...