(February 10, 2015 at 12:13 pm)Rational AKD Wrote:(February 10, 2015 at 8:18 am)whateverist Wrote: I could play the what-if game out too but I can't imagine talking myself into idealism as a viable alternative. Nothing wrong with it as an exercise of course but why would you want to live there, or do you?
glad you could join the party. why would you want to live there? i'm afraid what we want of reality has no impact on the nature of reality. I don't chose beliefs because I like them, but because they seem most reasonably true. it seems quite a shame your ability to accept something is impaired by your subjective liking of it.
Okay, well played. But I only assumed it was an idea you were motivated to make work because you'll find so little support for it. But I'm all for following where the evidence leads, both the kind that is empirically determined and that which you recognize from the inside out. You've just taken a turn that doesn't at all tempt me. Enjoy.
