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For myself I tend to never use "belief" since that can be used to state sure knowledge and faith based assertions; this makes the meaning of the word ambiguous. All words are inherently ambiguous, including these. It is why trying to make a rigorous philosophy that resides in the domain o...

It seems that quite a lot of what passes for philosophy is little more than playing with words and expecting the reader to make sense of it. Here is one of my favourites from Kant's Critique of pure reason: 'The foregoing deduction is an exposition of the pure conceptions of the understanding (and w...

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:42 pm

henry quirk wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:33 pm Let's be fair: the communist has more than his fair share of kills notched on his bedpost, but he ain't the only one...

No...but by very, very far, the biggest offender in numbers. So that needs noting.

.. and no one does it to their own people quite like the communists...

Who was it who was discussing his anhedonia? Mozart Link or something? Because I'm hitting the same wall, and it's really sucking. I care enough to care that I have it, and don't want to go down the rabbit hole, but that's pretty much all I care about anymore. Perhaps we expect too much from this l...

:shock: So Anhedonia to you is just a synonym for getting bored with something? Wow!! Insight of the year. ... i do not employ 'intuition'. 'Intuition' is within, guiding and teaching. How? Give me an example of how this works for you. Clearly Age enjoys being annoying; s/he should be congratulated...

RCSaunders wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:20 pmYou believe an axiom is an assumption, because you believe what your teachers have taught you.
You have confused the ontological and epistemological, or rather have been taught that confusion and accepted it by faith.

You are talking complete nonsense.. so forget it.

So I will just conclude with this: There are some truths of the world such as 'Then Earth goes around the Sun in an elliptical orbit' and 'e**ip=-1', and these truths can be demonstrated from a few simple assumptions and a fairly complex sequence of inferences; but to claim that some banal statemen...

Well I don't know what process of inference you used to arrive at your conclusion so I cannot unambiguously identify what assumptions you used.. so if you can identify what process of inference you used.. then I could help to identify the assumptions. Why would I need your help. Your the one that a...

It would have been better, in that case to say: At least one of these two propositions will be true: P1: This airplane did crash. P2. This airplane did not crash. That is true and it requires no other evidence. Are you aware that you are making a lot of assumptions in your claim that this is 'true'...

It would have been better, in that case to say: At least one of these two propositions will be true: P1: This airplane did crash. P2. This airplane did not crash. That is true and it requires no other evidence. Are you aware that you are making a lot of assumptions in your claim that this is 'true'?

Which bit of that page are you complaining about? I see a very brief overview of the philosophical concepts of morality followed by sections for other subjects such as psychology and neuroscience, but I don't see what's got your back up. Have you taken the neuroscience bit out of context? Well mayb...

I have just read the Morality page on Wikepedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality It really is muddled nonsense. Which is disappointing as most stuff on wikepedia is quite good. It seems to be saying that there is an inherent 'morality detector' in the brain and that this brain function can som...

If the usa is still the greatest country in the world, then the slogan "Make america great again" seems redundant. Unless, of course, that slogan refers to the whole of the american continent and not just a part of it. Ignoring the question of whether the USA was ever great; how would it ...

Would you rather live in USA or China? Tough choice I reckon. Pro China: Less likely to get shot by some gun toting lunatic or verbally assaulted by some bible bashing red neck, not such a target for nuclear attack, free tea at cafes, Chinese food. Con China: They don't speak English, totalitarian ...

Would you rather live in USA or China? Tough choice I reckon. Pro China: Less likely to get shot by some gun toting lunatic or verbally assaulted by some bible bashing red neck, not such a target for nuclear attack, free tea at cafes, Chinese food. Con China: They don't speak English, totalitarian g...