From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2025-05-03, Ed Cryer  wrote:   
      
   >> You either get it, or you don't.   
   >>   
   >>    
   >   
   > Well, some people got Covid.   
      
   Okay....   
      
   > What? Are you claiming that philosophy is founded on   
   > intuition or behavioural conditioning?   
      
   Every thing is whatever you believe it is. When you "get"   
   something, it's because you believe you do. And when you   
   don't, it's because you believe you don't.   
      
   Similarly, philosophy - for you - is what you believe it   
   is, and couldn't possibly something else until you believe   
   it's something else.   
      
   Get it? ;-)   
      
   > φιλοσοφία; love of wisdom.   
   > Plato wrote about the difference between opinion and truth; and assured   
   > us that the latter required for us the addition of reason.   
      
   Sounds like another believer believing in their   
   representation of an alleged reality to the point of   
   forgetting it was merely representation elevated to   
   something more than representation.   
      
   --   
   NPC's dutifully ignored.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)