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Dave Toast

You haven't said why any of these reasonings are non sequitur. What on earth are you talking about? They are non-sequiturs because the conclusions do not follow from the stated premises - that's what non-sequiturs are. I laid out your premises and your conclusions and said they were non-sequiturs. ...

Dave Toast

This has occured to me a number of times over the years. Recently coming back to the board has, for me, only reiterated the necessity and primacy of correct definition in philosophical enquiry. The issues and the logical operations involved are usually very simple and uncomplicated but incorrect def...

Dave Toast

Since it perceives change, then it can not change, because change is an aspect of perceived phenomena. Similarly it perceives color, thus it can not have a color, because color is an object of perception. And finally it perceives limits, beginnings and ends, thus it can not have limits, beginnings ...

Dave Toast

average wrote:If I claimed you guys were deluded I would fall into the same trap, I would be trying to conform you guys to my primary irrational values. But I don't do that

Dave Toast

Hi David. I must say it's been a giggle hearing you boys on the podcasts. I have been disappointed by one thing though. You have yet to use the word 'Cobba'. But I expect it will crop up in one of the shows so, 'no worries mate'.

Dave Toast

Heres what you don't see, the fact of the matter, 'how it is in reality' is what we form beliefs about. it is very relative and dependent. Not absolute like you say. The example is poor and fails utterly. It is also very deceptive and intellectually dishonest. Again here is what you dont see - you ...

Dave Toast

So then, to be clear, are you saying anyone is wrong, yes or no?

Dave Toast

Putting aside all of your categorical errors for a moment, let's humour you and pretend that you're correct. What then are we to make of the fact that you are somehow able to tell us all that we are deluded, ignorant and wrong because nobody has the ability to justifiably say that others are deluded...

Dave Toast

The rational person's attempt to be completely rational all the time is undermined and ironic because in order for the person to begin his system-of-thought he must make and irrational leap into it, and in order for him to continue on his path he must also maintain the same irrationality he used in...

Dave Toast

While you're at it, you should probably address the quotes I've cited from The Buddha and Nagarjuna which contradict your claim that 'A=A fails in the Buddhist perspective' in the A=A thread.

Dave Toast

K so, very slowly, being as I'm obviously unable to understand your point, explain to me how said irony undermines.

Dave Toast

Cory: Dave, it seems like you are assuming the pile of gold inherently has some sort of value. Do you realize that something only has value insofar as it serves to support something else? Hopefully now you can see that I was merely using the value of gold in the conventional sense within the analog...

Dave Toast

It was actually a simple analogy designed to put the lie to what Average was saying in the post before Matt's. But Matt got in before me and I figured it didn't matter. The pot of gold doesn't matter one bit, it could be a crock of shit but the point would still stand. I'll do it again with the rele...

Dave Toast

If I were to stuble upon a pot of gold, how exactly would the fact that I have a pot of gold be undermined by the fact that I stumbled upon it? Further, if, as I'm sitting on my pot of gold, I see someone sitting on a big pile of pyrites and crowing about the value of their big old pile of gold, how...

Dave Toast

Dan Rowden wrote:
Matt wrote:Hey Dave Toast. Howya been?
Ditto

How do chaps. Not too bad ta, ups and downs, level bits, you know how it is.

How goes it around here?

The podcasts have been a laugh up to now but I've only done Victor and JQ.

How are the new crop of contrarians, entertaining? inane? both?

Dave Toast

By and large this world is supported by a polarity, that of existence and non-existence. But when one sees the origination of the world as it actually is with right discernment, 'non-existence' with reference to the world does not occur to one. When one sees the cessation of the world as it actuall...

Dave Toast

San Bao: Something that has struck me from perusing the forums here is an (apparent?) contradiction between the Buddhist sunyata and the Aristotelian proposition A = A, both of which are affirmed despite this (perhaps merely apparent) contradiction. There is no contradiction, if fact A=A and inhere...

Dave Toast

F'shizzle my n'izzle

Dave Toast

Are you still only "masturbating" if you are a foot away from a stranger in a public place and looking directly at her?

Pure Zen David.

Dave Toast

Exist: To appear - to have identity.

I: To concieve of appearance.

I exist.

Dave Toast

I just want to reiterate what David touched upon earlier concerning the real world situation which spawned this conversation. The people involved quite clearly represent a biased sample, the kind of sample even the lowly scientist wouldn't touch with a dipole, and a logical fallacy to boot. These ma...

Dave Toast

You don't have one already?

Dave Toast

Elizabeth R, The Queen, lives in Buckingham Palace mate.

Slag!

Dave Toast

You keep saying that. Round pegs fit into square holes just fine. Which brings me to this: Eratosthenes: greek maths wizz who mapped the world containing lines of longitude and latitude and who falsely calculated the earth's circumference likening it to a cube. The circumference of a cube eh! The ma...

Dave Toast

Nobody will take you on. Haven't you got that yet?

Flamboyant poodles come here to yap for attention all the time. They are treated accordingly and ignored.

You will either sit and roll over, or go find some more naive food providers.

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