Dualism as a cover-up solution to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg The dualisms will work as fictions as long as you don't take them too seriously. But keep in mind: IMHO all of those dualist positions are not logically valid. Instead, they are phoney attempts to get around the unresolveable issue that mind and body are completely

Re: Dualism as a cover-up solution to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
Roger says that mind and body are completely contrary substances Richard replies what is dualism if not that? On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg The dualisms will work as fictions as long as you don't take them too seriously. But keep

Re: Dualism as a cover-up solution to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, November 5, 2012 6:45:50 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg The dualisms will work as fictions as long as you don't take them too seriously. But keep in mind: IMHO all of those dualist positions are not logically valid. Instead, they are phoney attempts to

Re: Re: Dualism as a cover-up solution to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg What they say about economists is also appropriate to say about philosophers: If all of the philosophers in the world were laid end to end, they'd never come to a conclusion. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end.

Re: Re: Dualism as a cover-up solution to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Craig Weinberg
I don't know that I'm a philosopher, but it seems to me that I have come to a conclusion. Craig On Monday, November 5, 2012 8:13:38 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg What they say about economists is also appropriate to say about philosophers: If all of the philosophers in

Re: Dualism as a cover-up solution to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/5/2012 9:01 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: I don't know that I'm a philosopher, but it seems to me that I have come to a conclusion. Craig On Monday, November 5, 2012 8:13:38 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg What they say about economists is also appropriate to say

Re: Re: Re: Dualism as a cover-up solution to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg I must be a philosopher then, for everything seems to be a work in progress, if not immediately then afterwards. But I am for the truth and sometimes, temporarily, seem to have found it. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the

Re: Re: Dualism as a cover-up solution to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King But the course of true love never did run smooth :-) Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time:

Re: Re: Dualism as a cover-up solution to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Indeed, dualism is -- has to be-- science fiction. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time:

Re: Re: Re: Dualism as a cover-up solution to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Craig Weinberg
Can the work really be said to be progressing if no conclusions are ever found? I agree that there seems to always be newer and greater understandings to be discovered, but in between those moments of discovery there can be thousands of years of relatively fixed ideas. On Monday, November 5,