Thu 20 Mar, 2008 06:35 am - [quote=de Silentio]So, are you suggesting that whenever we cannot think of something, it is because our mind is repressing it due to bad associations? If you are, this is quite the generalization.... (view)
Wed 19 Mar, 2008 06:39 am - Hi de Silention,
Sorry for replying so late, I've been very busy these days.
[quote=de Silentio]From what I understand, and I am no expert in this matter, one has to be careful when they... (view)
Sun 16 Mar, 2008 11:59 am - [quote=kennethamy]I like distraction not because I prefer it, but because it is a less complex explanation than the Freudian which, in any case, I find incomprehensible. [/quote]
Ok, so... (view)
Sat 15 Mar, 2008 05:22 pm - [quote=kennethamy]So what does "meaning" in a "more philosophical fashion" mean? Anything? Psychoanalysis is a better excuse? I still like distraction myself.[/quote]
No, it... (view)
Sat 15 Mar, 2008 03:16 pm - [quote=kennethamy]Maybe he does not see it as a stapler, if that is what you have in mind by "meaning". I don't think staplers have much "meaning" in the life of most of... (view)
Sat 15 Mar, 2008 11:42 am - [quote=kennethamy]But since she sees the stapler, she is not prevented from seeing the stapler, as you write.[/quote]
If you read my last post again you'll see that I wrote "see"... (view)
Fri 14 Mar, 2008 11:54 am - [quote=saiboimushi]Kennethamy, I think you're right. My fiance does, on one level, see the stapler; but she does not see [I]that[/I] the stapler is there. How in the world do we explain this... (view)
Fri 14 Mar, 2008 11:24 am - [quote=saiboimushi]1. In order to have knowledge of a thing, a person must at least have-or be able to summon-a true mental image of it. By "true," I mean that the qualities of the image... (view)
Fri 7 Mar, 2008 10:24 am - [quote=kennethamy]Yes, reason justifies itself, because there is no other way of justifying anything except by reason.[/quote]
So would be the case that Philosophy is based on a circular... (view)
Thu 6 Mar, 2008 08:38 pm - [quote=de Silentio]I see the trouble with using reason to justify reason, but why does reason have to justify itself to be efficacious?[/quote]
Hi Silentio et al,
The case is not that reason... (view)
