While re-thinking is the exchange of conceptual validity, which is an entailed judgement alone, re-thinking is not necessarily conceptual substitution, which is a separated cognition incorporating its own conditions. — Mww
While re-thinking is the exchange of conceptual validity, which is an entailed judgement alone, re-thinking is not necessarily conceptual substitution, which is a separated cognition incorporating its own conditions.
— Mww
I have no idea what this means but it looks great. — Tom Storm
Some isms are, debatably, not possible to reject. For example (debatably) it's not possible to reject the view that there is a world outside our own perceptions. — Cuthbert
"There's no escape from isms"- ↪TheMadFool
Ism there? — Janus
...so you are an ismist. You espouse ismism. — Banno
Can it? Rejecting the purported overarching status of any ism looks like an ism... — Banno
Not all isms end with “ism”
To reject all isms is another ism. “Rejectism” let’s call it. — khaled
I am not sure that we are just restricted to isms. For example, one can be a Jungian and that is not an ism. Generally, I think that isms are about putting ideas into boxes, and I am not sure that we need to make use of such boxes to label our ideas, but rather juxtapose them in the most creative ways to develop our viewpoints. — Jack Cummins
Depends on what you mean by "reject". The purported overarching status of any ism can be rejected without that rejection being an ism, but rather just an observation of the diversity of human fields of inquiry and opinion — Janus
I was gonna say 'Escapism' - but there ya go...you just can't get away...and perhaps it is a good thing that we can't avoid -isms. — Amity
Maybe it is about having an encyclopedia or not, crystallizing works to make them comparable to each other.
Like a butterfly collection but with thoughts being held down by the pin. — Valentinus
Any conception can be rejected merely by re-thinking the conditions for it.
While re-thinking is the exchange of conceptual validity, which is an entailed judgement alone, re-thinking is not necessarily conceptual substitution, which is a separated cognition incorporating its own conditions.
(Re: I can easily think some concept does not belong to its cognition, without ever thinking which concept does so belong.)
Therefore, rejecting an -ism, which at the same time explicates rejection of the concept appended to it, does not necessarily require another —ism and its appended conception be substituted for it.
It follows that the statement, “rejection of -isms is itself an -ism, and hence contradictory”, is false. — Mww
Having fun, guys/gals as the case maybe?
Carry on! — TheMadFool
Thanks for the invitation but ''No Thanks'' !
The thread provided some lovely quirky moments - a nice mix of serious and fun...but I'm done... :cool: — Amity
Really? It looked like you two just started! Thank God! — TheMadFool
Yeah, have moved on to prisms. Of light. More fun :wink: — Amity
You had to reply didn't you? — TheMadFool
Are you a writer by any chance? You know, like, having written novels, articles, in an official capacity? — TheMadFool
Stop confusing yourself and go study some actual Buddhist doctrine instead of relying on popular pseudobuddhist soundbites.It's something like the Buddhist desire conundrum which defies a solution. Buddhists à la Siddhartha Gautama, believe that desire is the root of all suffering. Thus buddhists are of the view that to end suffering one must put out the fire of desire. Unfortunately or...not, to not want to desire is, salva veritate, to want to not want to desire. In other words, we can't end desire without the desire to do so. — TheMadFool
Yeah. I find it difficult not to, sometimes - more's the pity :sad: — Amity
No. Wot wiv my atroshus gramma an' all :gasp:
However, I enjoy writing here - as a way to enlightenment :wink: :sparkle:
You ? — Amity
Stop confusing yourself and go study some actual Buddhist doctrine instead of relying on popular pseudobuddhist soundbites. — baker
In Early Buddhism, there are two types of desire: the bad one (tanha) and the good one (chanda) — baker
??? :chin:the "ism" is a mind thing — Anand-Haqq
Human beings, by nature, cannot have any belief system. — Anand-Haqq
You believe only things which you don't know. — Anand-Haqq
Belief grows only in ignorance — Anand-Haqq
To my understanding, to reject ALL Isms, including nihilism, itself can be treated as an Ism and that's what the title of this thread spells out - "There's no escape from Isms". — TheMadFool
schizophrenic world — Anand-Haqq
Trust in doubt — Anand-Haqq
My question, though, was as to what it could mean to "reject" them all. — Janus
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