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- 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...
- 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...
- 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, ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
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.