i’d just like people not to fear each other
Month: April 2022
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the brain comes at a cost
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What stands in obstruction to the attainment of truth?
a) The perplexity of human cognitive powers.
b) The incapacity of human cognitive functions
c) The infinite difficulty in gaining real knowledge about the world.
D) The pitifulness of all knowledge
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what we actually perceive are our brain’s models of the world.
They are not the world itself, but, for us, they are as good as.
Origin of ethical and aesthetic terms and values
The individual points can overlap
a) divine commandments
b) supernatural laws
c) inherited or acquired moral ideas
d) Right and custom in society
e) Style and taste of the time
f) Police regulations
g) fashion journals
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degrees of certainty
a) doubt
b) belief
c) knowledge
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Three ways of dogmatism
a) Acknowledgment of the truth of all or certain claims
b) Acknowledgment of the falseness of all or certain claims
c) Doubts about the truth of all or certain claims, except one.
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Two ways of scepticism
a) Doubts about the truth of all or certain claims
b) Doubts about the falseness of all or certain claims
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possible reasons for sceptical moods:
a) the fraud of a friend
b) the death of a loved one
c) constant and recurring failure at work
d) a general feeling of unfulfilled life
e) the failure of art as a comforter in facing the daily horror of being alife
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Which way leads to bliss?
a) the knowledge of the truth
b) the renunciation of the knowledge of the truth
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notes concerning sensory perception (improved version)
a) opinions represent our judgments about the experienced sensory perception.
b) do not blame the eye for the mind’s mistakes
c) sensory perception does not provide false, but never true claims
d) sensory perception has perfect intellectual innocence
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is man to big or to small to come into the possession of truth?
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is the transition from blossoming life
to withered life more painful than
the transition from withered life to nonexistence?
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try to use your senses as tools in the household of reason for the knowledge of reality
Is there a possibility of second-order knowledge?
What kind of salvation do you seek to achieve?
a) Salvation from the restlessness of existence
b) Salvation from the struggles of the world
c) Salvation from the chase and hurry of life
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we all have stories
so that’s cool
we’re not alone
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what’s happening?
I think I’m bored.
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many fears are constructed to protect against other fears and also against fear as such.
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shall you have a good day? – maybe
are you okey right now?
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we are limited cognitive creatures that know very little
about the world
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if you see something, say something (to someone)