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by PrfromTexas
Mon Dec 03, 2018 9:18 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: What is Belief?
Replies: 139
Views: 26926

Re: What is Belief?

Here is an interesting article re What is Belief; http://changingminds.org/explanations/ source /belief/belief.htm Articles on belief include: What Is Belief? : Gives a simple definition. Adaptive Beliefs: Beliefs that can change. Beliefs About People: Very much affect how we interact with them. Be...
by PrfromTexas
Thu Nov 22, 2018 6:14 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Language
Topic: Metaphysics and language (verbs as nouns and nouns as verbs)
Replies: 5
Views: 5014

Re: Metaphysics and language (verbs as nouns and nouns as verbs)

Hence what we deal with in language and the problem of wording is founded upon the inherent nature of how we not just classify words but the metaphysics behind how we view the nature of quality. If any of this makes sense, I may have to elaborate further on some points. That is why I'm specifically...
by PrfromTexas
Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:39 am
Forum: Philosophy of Language
Topic: Metaphysics and language (verbs as nouns and nouns as verbs)
Replies: 5
Views: 5014

Re: Metaphysics and language (verbs as nouns and nouns as verbs)

@ experts Eodnhoj7 The nature of a noun is a classification, quality or concept of a percicevably stable object which exists as a boundary of change. For example a cat is composed of a variety of movements ranging from cell replication to behavior patterns. The noun is fundamentally a stable verb, ...
by PrfromTexas
Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:05 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Emotion and Meaning as Directed Movement
Replies: 10
Views: 2341

Re: Emotion and Meaning as Directed Movement

paper writers One may observe two extremes, lets say emotion for the sake of simplicity. Joy and Despair effectively are relativistic duals of the other. Joy, as an emotion, may be directed towards despair and despair may be directed towards joy. We observe these emotions effectively directed, one ...
by PrfromTexas
Sat Oct 20, 2018 1:23 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Imagination is more important than knowledge
Replies: 27
Views: 9123

Re: Imagination is more important than knowledge

You cannot imagine nothingness. Therefore, you can only know life. You cannot know death. Of death, you can only know of. Do you agree? I agree that there's no knowledge of death, however, there's a concept of death which is produced both by our knowledge and by imagination and the circumstances th...
by PrfromTexas
Fri Oct 19, 2018 4:23 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Imagination is more important than knowledge
Replies: 27
Views: 9123

Re: Imagination is more important than knowledge

I'd rather say imagination and knowledge are inter-dependable. History is based on the events, which are in their turn stories told by people from different points of view (in Linguistics and Literature, there's a perfect solution for this explanation - focalization , for example, the same story tol...
by PrfromTexas
Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:25 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Comparing philosophies, creationism is the best.
Replies: 39
Views: 8143

Re: Comparing philosophies, creationism is the best.

Hello Syamsu,

I never support the absolute and extreme statements (best-worst). I see the valid points in each philosophy. And that's the main reason we actually can talk about philosophy itself - because we have many.