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RE: magical thinking
January 31, 2010 at 6:36 pm
(January 31, 2010 at 5:52 pm)Watson Wrote: Well, all we really have to go on in this world is our perceptions, so to say that what is being percieved by someone as magical is not magical would be to dismiss that person's perception as false, without have seen from that perception or understood it at all.
I think you misunderstand what perceptions are. If you're talking about personal subjective experience versus, lets call it reality, then you're talking about schema (map) versus reality (territory). Only the map can be falsified.
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magical thinking - by TruthWorthy - January 29, 2010 at 3:11 am
RE: magical thinking - by tackattack - January 29, 2010 at 12:17 pm
RE: magical thinking - by Edwardo Piet - January 29, 2010 at 12:46 pm
RE: magical thinking - by tackattack - January 29, 2010 at 1:16 pm
RE: magical thinking - by TruthWorthy - January 29, 2010 at 3:41 pm
RE: magical thinking - by tackattack - January 30, 2010 at 1:28 am
RE: magical thinking - by TruthWorthy - January 30, 2010 at 1:52 am
RE: magical thinking - by tackattack - January 30, 2010 at 2:00 am
RE: magical thinking - by TruthWorthy - January 30, 2010 at 2:29 am
RE: magical thinking - by tackattack - January 30, 2010 at 4:33 am
RE: magical thinking - by Edwardo Piet - January 30, 2010 at 6:01 am
RE: magical thinking - by tackattack - January 30, 2010 at 6:54 am
RE: magical thinking - by Edwardo Piet - January 30, 2010 at 8:10 am
RE: magical thinking - by Watson - January 31, 2010 at 12:19 pm
RE: magical thinking - by Edwardo Piet - February 5, 2010 at 11:28 am
RE: magical thinking - by TruthWorthy - January 31, 2010 at 5:46 pm
RE: magical thinking - by Watson - January 31, 2010 at 5:52 pm
RE: magical thinking - by TruthWorthy - January 31, 2010 at 6:36 pm
RE: magical thinking - by KichigaiNeko - February 1, 2010 at 12:03 am
RE: magical thinking - by tackattack - February 5, 2010 at 5:29 pm

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