Tag: epistemology
member name: Gary Jaron
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July 03, 2006 11:52 AM EDT --
Hi George McNaughton,
I will respond to your reply in detail because you raise important questions. I will use
"GM" for when I am quoting you and my reply will by marked by "R". . . .
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December 23, 2006 09:58 PM EST --
I am gong to describe an imaginary person who I will call Mr. Gray.
Mr. Gray is a scientist and believes in the utility of the scientific method to ascertain facts and truth.
Mr. Gray only believes that . . .
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July 03, 2006 01:14 PM EDT --
Let's review how Descartes shaped our collective inheritance, the rose colored glasses that are western cultures mythos and logos.
Since Descartes failed to realize that he was shaped by the ideas . . .
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July 16, 2006 12:08 PM EDT --
The beginning of Wisdom is the willingness to consider that you may be mistaken; mistaken in your perceptions, your conclusions and your beliefs - which all things pass through like a filter. [G M Jaron] . . .
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March 18, 2007 02:15 PM EDT --
A ‘discussion’ I had with someone on Gather got me thinking and thus writing.
A question formed and that is the lead in to this brief essay: Which tribe has truth?
I am defining the word . . .
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August 26, 2007 06:41 PM EDT --
The Emperor’s New Clothes
‘Any fundamentally new system involves new [‘Semantic Reaction’] s.r; and this is the main difficulty which besets us when we try to master a new system. . . .
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July 02, 2006 02:06 PM EDT --
The Cosmos is a place of order, structure and patterns which in Chinese philosophy goes by the 'name'/human pointer the Tao.
All things exist because there is this order/structure/pattern which . . .
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July 02, 2006 03:54 PM EDT --
For many believers their world and their worldview are built upon the premise that there is one true faith; which is of course their own. They have a difficult time imagining a world that is not . . .
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November 11, 2006 12:51 PM EST --
Facts and Faith
I've encountered so many people who fail to distinguish between Facts and their faith. These people act consciously and unconsciously as if their belief in those ideas that form . . .
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January 12, 2008 05:08 PM EST --
The traditional mapsthat sociologists have presented are that humanity has been shaped by twofactors: Nature and Nurture. Many, includingmyself, believe that it is important to realize that we are shaped . . .
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January 02, 2007 09:12 PM EST --
Mystics are found in all cultures and in all times. They are the Noble Prize winners of theology. The Da Vinci's and the Einstein's of relgious thought. They are the explorers . . .
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May 28, 2006 11:33 AM EDT --
The Hammer of Aristotelian logic
By Gary Jaron, April 26, 2006
[Submitted to ETC magazine for publication]
Abraham Maslow once said something very important about . . .
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July 22, 2006 11:46 AM EDT --
Let me back up and start with something deceptively simple: Time.
In the real world of physical reality processes, events, take time. Things do not occur instantaneously, although they may . . .
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January 21, 2007 12:52 PM EST --
"Our age is, in especial degree, the age of criticism, and to criticism everything must submit. Religion through its sanctity, and law-giving through its majesty, may seek to exempt themselves . . .
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February 03, 2007 01:44 PM EST --
[Jan 30 2007]
Let me begin with the premise that Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason is basically right, the maps he in detailed described are correct. What does this mean?
First off Kant . . .
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July 29, 2006 11:34 AM EDT --
Here is a begining essay describing my picture of a metaphysical metaphors that serves as the seed for a Philosopher's Qabalah.
The Rabbinic mystics saw the Divine, the universe and themselves through . . .
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June 10, 2007 02:05 PM EDT --
To see life as it is.
In the play Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, Wasserman recounts the life of Miguel De Cervantes, who created and wrote Don Quixote. There is a moment when Cervantes, . . .
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August 20, 2006 11:08 AM EDT --
One:5
Jonathan Star
How deep and mysterious is this unity.
How profound, how great!
It is the truth beyond truth,
The hidden within hidden.
It is the path to all wonder,
The gate to the essence of everything! . . .
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August 20, 2006 11:56 AM EDT --
Two: 1
Jonathan Star
Everyone recognizes beauty
only because of ugliness.
Everyone recognizes virtue
only because of sin
D C Lao
The whole world recognizes the beautiful as the beautiful, yet this is . . .
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December 12, 2006 09:49 PM EST --
Note: The conclusions of this rather long essay are to show that our beliefs can filter and affect what data comes in through our senses. We can end up seeing and hearing only what we beleive. . . .
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