Tue 25 May, 2010 07:52 pm - I think the answer to this question gets us to the root of the matter. Indeed, anything "about" a "Fact" is always relying on presuppositions. A pure Fact, as it is Fact, e.g.... (view)
Tue 25 May, 2010 05:59 pm - I would not call them criteria as these are essentially cognitive features and keywords. I am saying that people make claims based on deeply rooted cultural and psychological features which stand... (view)
Tue 25 May, 2010 05:40 pm - The main point that many people here fail to recognize is not about 'factual validity' proper. Factual Validity, as Gosh hinted at and which I will elucidate is highly dependent on... (view)
Mon 19 Apr, 2010 03:20 pm - In modern times (and perhaps in times of old, for many people) what is [I]spiritual[/I] and [I]esoteric [/I]merely refers to those things which are outside the scope of what is currently considered... (view)
Fri 16 Apr, 2010 12:52 pm - I would need to see some more compelling similarities between Marxism and Christianity in order to see that the former is the secular form of the latter.
It should come as no surprise that a... (view)
Fri 16 Apr, 2010 12:34 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;152665]
My brother knows that all dogs are mammals. But he has not claimed (or said) he knows that all dogs are mammals. So, what is he claiming?
[I]you can be claimed to... (view)
Thu 15 Apr, 2010 04:28 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;152478]Knowing something is not a claim. No more than wishing something is a claim. What is a claim is the claim to know. And, the claim to know is not knowing. For you may claim... (view)
Thu 15 Apr, 2010 10:27 am - [QUOTE=Reconstructo;152050]
I agree with Jung, and perhaps yourself?, that myth can reach places that abstract language cannot. And for me this is related to the power of music and visual art,... (view)
Fri 9 Apr, 2010 06:08 pm - Many of you are forgetting that collective knowledge is merely the notion of a result leading there. While we have made advances or such in the sciences, what we have before us is merely a... (view)
Thu 8 Apr, 2010 04:49 pm - D'oh, you are correct, been a while, but the Culture Industry always remains in my head as the 'odd one out' among those essays. (view)
