It’s incredibly easy to fall into the trap of conceptual confusion in philosophy – or really anything in general. This can have some pretty wide-ranging side effects – consider the free-will debate. That’s as a conceptually confused debate if there ever was one.
I see that more often in more public discourse, such as the media. Reading comments on a post about religion or politics from a mainstream news source like yahoo (never a good idea) makes obvious commenters’ confusion about concepts. What do you suppose is a solution?
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The obvious solution to me is to simply spend more time thinking and less time speaking – thinking and learning. But on the whole I’m not holding my breath for that to happen.
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Please find a reference which challenges all of our usual pre-suppositions about the nature of quite literally everything
http://www.beezone.com/whiteandorangeproject/index.html
Also
http://www.dabase.org/up-1-1.htm
http://global.adidam.org/truth-book/true-spiritual-practice-4.html
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