This makes it no different from beliefs in general (reflected in our action or sayings). I can think of only two ways to interpret the idea that there...
BTW, a lot of these criticisms are answered in the article or in the ensuing discussion that happened when it was first published years ago. I don't k...
Think about this some more, because it's the key to what I think is your misunderstanding. Of course, I deny the furniture in the head: there's just t...
I can make a change to the template so that the copyright on articles shows the author instead of The Philosophy Forum as it does now. I'm not sure wh...
I voted yes, but it's paradoxical. In saying "we hold these Truths to be self-evident", we're making a choice. Natural rights are stipulated or assert...
Yeah, one of the first things they did in Antarctica was close all the bars and restaurants. As far as I can tell there's the untrustworthy authoritar...
They're outnumbered by Americans here and that seems to frustrate them. It's like when you corner a Tasmanian devil: even if you don't mean any harm, ...
It does grab me, because I've had the same thoughts, and my post was almost a reproach to my own tendency towards essentialism. This might be an unwel...
The obvious question is: why is this important? What if you didn't hear the entire piece, and yet you loved it, you were able to analyze it and unders...
This is rubbish. Not only that but it weakens the case against the EU, as if the EU is only bad for the English, or that they're the only ones who can...
I haven't see it, but I heard about it recently when I saw this review by "ecomodernist" environmentalist Mark Lynas on Facebook: https://www.facebook...
Nobody cares, except for your sexual partners, and maybe some of your friends. This is what Baden was talking about: it's a sign of self-obsession tha...
Sure, but it doesn't follow that the way to persuade them is to follow the quoted advice, i.e., to use disclaimers and clarifications to remove all am...
You may be right, and I agree that aiming for clarity, concision, and logical comprehensiveness is not the recipe for a great work of philosophy. But ...
What's the problem? No, I don't think that's implied by what I said. But I don't really know what you mean. You're being too vague. Should we openly e...
Politics is public, sex is private (most of the time). The less private and sacred sex becomes, the less we are reticent to talk about it openly in pu...
@"boethius" Could it be that you have misunderstood this topic? It looks like it. The advice to assume your readers are stupid, lazy, and mean, is mer...
I think you're right. And in particular, fortifying your writing against mean readers can result in verbosity, with, as you say, "a fortress of discla...
In an unprecedented move, the staff has decided to unban @"Pfhorrest" after communicating with him by email. We're confident that the flaming was out ...
I see what you're saying, but I haven't seen flaming as bad as this for a very long time, perhaps never on this forum. The guidelines make it clear th...
Yes, it was about those comments. It was me who deleted them. And I did in fact give him a chance by first opting to warn him instead of banning insta...
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