Philosophy Now Forum

Did you ever have a thought pop into your head that is totally unrelated to your current chain of thoughts, and unconnected to current perception? A thought “out of the blue” as the saying goes. If you describe this thought it seems so out-of-place that you might say, it’s not even my own. I think ...

A belief is an assertion of reality. Whether that belief is rational, or actually is real, is a question of knowledge. Every statement, sentence, is a claim to knowledge about reality. As an example, your first sentence asserts that beliefs exist, assertions exist, reality exists. It's recursive wh...

Only the physical exists. Thoughts exist. Therefore, thoughts are physical. Belief is a thought, therefore belief is physical. I am aware that what might broadly be described as 'thoughts' come in different kinds. Some thoughts impose themselves upon me, I cannot will them away. They are also have ...