The Falsification of the Standard of Certitude

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Buddhists believe that a thought comes when it wishes and not when i wish. The author says he is trying to be consilient with the more scientific worldview of science. He also argues that thoughts just appear right in our heads this is a William James David Hume thing too we don't even have the conception of thinking like that right we just have thoughts umYeah so i still think that this is not laying claim to the kind of objectivity that uh it while at the same time i think making something that is going to make all of us look at ourselves and introspect and reflect on our own experience"

David and Tamler dive into the first two parts of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil which contain some of Nietzsche’s best drive-bys on philosophers like Plato, Descartes, the Stoics, Kant, and Hegel along with beliefs in free will, hard determinism, Christianity, morality, conceptual analysis, objectivity, and the value of truth. We argue about Nietzsche’s metaphilosophy and the implications of thinking that all philosophy amounts to a personal confession by the author. Plus – have David’s prayers been answered? Does quantum theory entail that our consciousness outlives the death of our physical bodies? A blog post about a somewhat recent book says yes!