So, in this thread I am asking about how this area is important in evaluating philosophies and philosophical ideas? It is a different way of thinking about truth' from the quest for validity and accuracy of knowledge, which is often valued as the measure by which philosophy is measured. It involves thinking of the potential which they have psychologically, as well as the use and abuse of knowledge.. — Jack Cummins
Perhaps, it is why philosophy seems to be so much of an area for heated debate . . . — Jack Cummins
Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth — 180 Proof
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — W. K. Clifford
dialectic — 180 Proof
wellbeing and philosophy — Jack Cummins
So, in this thread I am asking about how this area is important in evaluating philosophies and philosophical ideas? It is a different way of thinking about truth' from the quest for validity and accuracy of knowledge — Jack Cummins
:fire: :up:Your interest is psychological. You're worried that knowledge might hurt you? Make you sad? Yes, probably.
It's a good idea, as implied above, not to be susceptible to bad ideas. And not to be susceptible to bullshit. — Srap Tasmaner
... "The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy that saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy." ~G. Deleuze — 180 Proof
Peircean-Deweyan fallibilism rather than Jamesian 'expedience' (or Rortyan 'relativism'). — 180 Proof
It is a different way of thinking about truth' from the quest for validity and accuracy of knowledge, which is often valued as the measure by which philosophy is measured. — Jack Cummins
His own disagreement with Freud was also relevant in the context of the friction between Jews and Germans. — Jack Cummins
As facts are not always straightforward at all it seems to make sense that some are drawn to different philosophies — Jack Cummins
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