just dogmatism, mere dogmatism. — Pantagruel

How do you know (i.e. corroborate) that you or any other agent is "conscious" if "consciousness" is completely, inaccessibly subjective?
— 180 Proof

cogito, ergo sum — Wayfarer

The issue with consciousness, is that you must first be a conscious agent to create or provide any kind of explanation. — Wayfarer

Most of what people tell us about their sensory experiences is trustworthy... — Sam26

Life is largely anecdotal [sophistry]. — Pantagruel

Science has no trouble depicting the world as it was before the evolution of h.sapiens, for instance - an empirical fact - — Wayfarer

Biden was not removed by lawful means. — fishfry

Philosophy should be about how best to live. Whatever does not inform that, however interesting and creative it might be, is just a diversion in the form of speculation. — Janus

The precise point Schrodinger was making with Schrodinger's Cat. — Wayfarer

... perhaps unrealistic Idealism is not too far off the mark. But I prefer the unfamiliar term Enformationism, which has no history of philosophical [cogency or self-consistency] politics to elicit incredulity and knee-jerk reactions. — Gnomon

Notice I said "live in the world", NOT the world itself. — schopenhauer1

NOS4A2
And you're happy to let Americans live however they like. :up: — frank

I am outraged that people are given power based on race and gender, yes. — NOS4A2

Logic doesn't work by the principles of logic. — Treatid

You are not a serious person. — AmadeusD

I waa a courtroom prosecutor ... I took on perpetrators of all kind: predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped-off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump's type. — VPOTUS Kamala Harris (D-CA)

But few here would remember Landru Guide Us — Banno

... my point is that you are AWARE of counterfactuals and you CHOSE this one (whatever else might be the case surrounding this decision). — schopenhauer1

I simply ask, what IS it that is beyond oneself? — Constance

There are various systems of paraconsistent logic that accomodate or mitigate explosive results, so I won't rule out some form of dialectic, but I won't rule it in, either. (see what I did there...?) — Banno

But it remains that the sort of contradiction seen in dialectic is not the sort of contradiction found in formal logic. What a dialectic contradiction is remains, I think, ambiguous.

And secondly, even if we supose that dialectic does not breach non-contradiction, the result is not clear. Given the Principle of Explosion, anything could follow from a contradiction, so given a thesis and an antithesis, the nature of the resulting synthesis is far from fixed.

So I would rather not glorify dialectic by calling it a "logic". — Banno

Indeed, what we know is mental, but that does not imply that the world is mental...

The argument attempts to show that the world is partially mental, but only succeeded in showing that the what we say about the world is "mental".

That is, the argument presented here does not demonstrate it's conclusion. — Banno

Does it matter what the primary function of religious thinking is? — Igitur

[H]istory amply shows, imo, that 'religion' is required only (or at least mostly) for herding sheep, prophets making profits and sanguinary propitiating/martyring/scapegoating. — 180 Proof

[T]here is truth to be found and that the person is willing to find it. — Igitur

Yeah, in 2024 that "1 way to lose" will be the same as 2016: HRC. The Dems don't learn new tricks often ... though maybe VP Harris :yikes: (if Biden drops out of the race and the Dems don't nominate e.g. Gov Newsom, Gov Whitmer, et al) – HRC redux. — 180 Proof

Whitmer for President with running-mate Newsom for Veep works just as well for me too – maybe even better! — 180 Proof

[@Wayfarer] wants his cake and to eat it. — Banno

Trump never should be the nominee but the GOP has been shit since Reagan. — Benkei

It’s not a question of whether the ‘wave function’ is or isn’t mind-dependent. — Wayfarer

Has anyone else here had a sense that what they were experiencing in early life wasn't truly real or that it was highly stripped down? — TiredThinker