Jamal

Yep, it’s annoying. The devs won’t change it.

No, the point at issue was whether beings are all sentient or conscious. They are not. Only sentient or conscious beings are sentient or conscious. Th...

Hold on. Who started saying that that quotation was from Heidegger? Whoever it was, now you’ve got me doing it. It’s a quotation about Heidegger.

On the assumption—no matter how unbelievable and insulting—that you are not joking… You didn’t complain of Heidegger’s panpsychism when you quoted him...

I think I’ve mentioned the tension several times. It’s important to distinguish between (a) a priori concepts and forms of intuition, and (b) inner/ou...

Perfect colour for you :up:

Quite noble really.

Your position on this looks a lot like those odd people who turn up here sometimes, loudly calling for the end of belief. They seem to think belief on...

I was going to say that you should say tortoise rather than turtle. I was going to say that while I now accept that apes are monkeys, as the Americans...

Interesting. Are you suggesting that the idea of a form of life is an elaboration of the earlier position?

Going for pirate/West Country, I was.

“The most deformed concept-cripple ever to exist, the great Kant” (Twilight of the Idols)

That's a fair point, since there are many types of nihilism anyway. But you were not “only” doing that; you also effectively accused me of attacking s...

Since I was the one who pointed out that Outlander hasn’t read Nietzsche, I’m entitled to reply to this. The focus was not on whether he’d read Nietzs...

But he does not explicitly state that “there are laws of nature”. He says we could say “there are laws of nature” if there were a law of causality. He...

Appreciated, Dust, but I’ve come around to the idea for the new thread and hereby give it my blessings (1.75 blessings to be precise).

It’s a bold move, you have to admit.

:lol: I did. Just like my Gran used to make it.

Everyone, @"Lionino" has, without discussing it with the Shoutbox luminaries, created a separate thread for food: What did you cook today? Never mind ...

I had two chicken liver and onion wraps for lunch. For dinner I’m roasting a chicken leg that’s been marinated in Chinese things. It will be served wi...

For fuck’s sake. Check what Wittgenstein actually wrote before you go off on one of your rants:

I agree. For any interested beginners I recommend The Gay Science, or The Joyous Science as it is in the translation I recently read.

I'd like to use this as a story title. I would have thought this was connected with the importance of politeness, etiquette, and formality, traditiona...

Good story :cool:

I think it's a matter of taste. But Kant is indispensable for a discussion about Kant, which is what this is (as well as being a discussion about Witt...

Yes, I often say if you want to know about a place, don’t ask a local. Or at least, be very careful who you ask. A few times I’ve seen tourists in Edi...

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You deserved the attack. Another member a few weeks or months ago behaved in just the same way as you have, ranting about the evils of Plato. I attack...

I already told you that you’re wrong. Your earlier post presents a philosophy that is the complete opposite of Nietzsche—“Wake up. Be miserable. Repea...

:up: I’ve been to Vancouver Island a couple of times, would love to live there. I knew someone there who lived off the grid in the forest in a small g...

Never read Nietzsche have you :lol:

Ah, I get it now. A @"Banno" impersonation. Still, good question.

Thanks!

The consensus seems to be that they missed what made the book great.

Good points. It’s a minefield. Maybe they’re like beliefs, only determined post-hoc. Does it make sense to say that in the moment I was enacting the c...

Sounds promising. I was put off reading it by the crappy film.

In my experience, largely yes.

A very beautiful area.

Alan Partridge, from Norfolk, suggested amalgamating Norfolk and Suffolk to form a new county. Its name would combine the Nor- from Norfolk with the -...

This is encouraging. East Anglia here I come.

I’m from the UK. Many years ago I lived in four places there that had the community feel you’re looking for: Fairlie in Ayrshire, Wigan, Stockbridge i...

Intra-shoutbox noxiousness shall be extirpated.

I always assumed everyone did both. To imagine is, after all, to form a mental image. I suppose people who can’t do this just somehow think of the con...

Davidson distinguishes three kinds of knowledge: subjective, intersubjective, and objective, and he doesn’t reduce any of these to any of the others. ...

Yep. Wittgenstein and Davidson are much closer to your way of putting it than Kant is, since they emphasize other people, whereas Kant is thinking abo...

Yep. Nevertheless, I can say a few things in support of the OP, even if they're far more vague and suggestive than is required to carry the point. Fir...

:cool: Let us know what it's like.

Yesterday I got a copy of Saramago's The Cave. I don't know when I'll get around to reading it. I'm intrigued by the premise.

Cool! :party: :death:

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