Can an uneducated person be wise?
— Tom Storm
No. — L'éléphant
I’m interested in reading member's thoughts on wisdom. — Tom Storm
Not even old-old but after 20s people are generally removed from the main stage to accept smaller and smaller roles. — unimportant
Dimension is about the unsearchable fact of existence: transcendental being — ucarr
I don't really know enough about economics and specifically American economics to know how accurate what he was saying was but it sounded impressive and Pakman is a stand up guy generally isn't he? — unimportant
Radical changes like that are bound to cost a lot in the short term. Which is not to say I think the DOGE was a good idea. — Janus
when I first realized that Christians lied, I was upset. — Paula Tozer
The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
The Tao gives birth to One.
One gives birth to Two.
Two gives birth to Three.
Three gives birth to all things.
One clear example of possible panpsychism is 'sick building syndrome', in which it as if the energy fields seem disturbed. Here, it would suggest that matter has some inherent consciousness. — Jack Cummins
He's not? — frank
Aren't there multiple studies showing that, for example, Asians have a higher mean IQ than other races? Wikipedia catalogues the general issue of race and intelligence. — Leontiskos
And without stating it explicitly he implied that this greater aesthetic ability of whites was connected with higher IQ. — Jamal
It is a matter of fact that the mind is not an object in any sense other than the metaphorical, such as ‘the object of the argument’, ‘the object of the question’. — Wayfarer
you make a very valid point about how the soul is basically just the body. — Null Noir
It's fascinating, really. I have nothing to add since I’m still at my humble beginnings of philosophy and I would still like to learn. — Null Noir
My claim was the mind is not a thing. Doesn't mean it's nothing. But it's not a thing, it's not an object. Your 'experience of the mind' is not an experience at all mind is that to whom experiences occur, that which sees objects, and so forth. It is not itself an object. That's one of the things that makes philosophy of mind such a big and elusive topic. — Wayfarer
Speaking figuratively, of course. — Wayfarer
is that it is not any kind of thing. Nowhere, in the vast inventory of things we find in the world, will you find 'mind'. — Wayfarer
How do you think the soul works? — Null Noir
If there is such a thing as a "soul," where did it come from? — Null Noir
If the soul and the body are one and the same, how would that even work? Is it something akin to "you are the soul piloting a human body" type situation, like some spiritual people say? — Null Noir
Is "If P then Q; P; therefore Q" about events or propositions -- or both? It can be given either a causal or a logical construal. — J
I don't quite see this. Aren't you saying that the statement "{some set of Xs} caused the plane crash" has to be true, in order to be of use? How then is causality an "apple" in regard to such a statement? The predication seems the same as in any other similarly phrased statement, and would follow the same inferential rules. — J
When an investigation determines the cause of a plane crash, this is of course useful. — J
But I'm confident the investigators also mean it to be true. Is there any reason to withhold that designation, in such a case? — J
I reject it too. — I like sushi
, I need somehow to justify this eternal suffering. — kirillov
Clever. Obviously everyone could do that to their own eye. That's another loophole answer though - the real answer doesn't involve a loophole — flannel jesus