Which makes the idea of an innate idea particularly hard to define and the argument hard to set in place. I mean you could define it as some kind of p...
I like the metaphor; I think too that drives blend into emotions, which blend into nascent ideas, which blend into linguistically clear concepts of va...
The very first human "language" (if you accept language developed gradually, and not everyone, notably Chomsky, does) probably had no tense at all (te...
Anyway, only two weeks to go... My predictions: Clinton 47.5-48% Trump 43% Stein 3% Johnson 6% Other 0.5-1% >>Easy electoral college win for Clinton. ...
Nor I. Don't see the point if you live in a big city with good transport links. Sitting miserably in traffic for hours a day pumping out pollution see...
Not trying to avoid your question, but that's leading into a discussion of aesthetics, which seems a bit off-focus here. Anyway, the beauty is in how ...
Well, beauty is also difficult to define uncontroversially, but following my definition above, that form of beauty which cannot be denigrated or degra...
I'll try a broad definition then: That which is sacred is that which the nature of which is that it cannot be denigrated without denigrating the natur...
I'm a fan of anything that presents as the antithesis of the piped pop of the day, which in the climes I now inhabit is of a deeper stratum of insidio...
Another debate loss for Trump. Of course he lost the election the moment he was nominated, but it'll be interesting to see by how much and how he and ...
Ironic. Trump claims the elections are rigged (against him) but it is the fact that they are rigged (to sustain a two party system) that has allowed s...
I have reasons why I wouldn't, but I don't want to side-track this discussion into a debate about the Clintons. That's the strategy of Trump supporter...
But again your post proves me right. I made a collection of arguments about how Trump used his anti-media persona to his advantage and was actually ad...
Do you for some odd reason think I would be surprised by this? Of course the media are biased in lots of different ways. They are businesses selling p...
If you have a reliable source for this, do share. But I'm not claiming the media is not biased towards Hillary anyway. I'm claiming it doesn't matter ...
You're doing a lot of things, but philosophy isn't one of them. I haven't done an analysis, but it would be hardly surprising if Trump got treated wor...
The fact that you think you are doing philosophy illustrates my point. Just to take a minor example, can you explain what is philosophical either in s...
I appreciate your thoughts on this. There are conservatives on the forums too that I respect despite disagreements, and I'm willing to engage construc...
Exactly, what Agustino has been presenting and then railing against is an infantile caricature of progressivism, which focuses on issues such as rampa...
Agustino is like a sick quack who on encountering the healthiest people on the planet immediately resolves to make them as ill as he is. I can only ho...
An explicit syntax is derived from an implicit knowledge of how to put concepts together etc (if that's what you're referring to). People, of course, ...
It should be clear now that nothing will prevent Agustino continuing in this forum his ideological mission to denigrate progressives and elevate any p...
Hm, I thought you were referring to the notions of intertextuality and dialogism à la Kristeva and Bakhtin i.e. the meanings in texts being nested in ...
That is a basic truth about politics. But an ethical analysis (even an informal one) of political positions and politicians' respective characters, in...
It's the nature of politicians to disregard the truth and put their own interests before the public. If that was all that were wrong with Hillary Clin...
You don't need any explicit knowledge of grammar to be a good writer. You may, however, need explicit knowledge of it to understand feedback on your w...
I don't think this is going to work (in so far as I understand it at least). Anger can be expressed, suppressed or repressed (using the passive voice ...
I'm not going to get into an argument over who is the biggest scumbag, Donald or Bill Clinton. Both have been accused of rape and sexual assault. If t...
I read Scruton's "Modern Philosophy" (Penguin) and found it very irritating the way he inserted his conservative and anti-continental bias into the bo...
Exactly, although I think the latest revelations about Trump molesting women and sexualizing children may be enough to make even @"Agustino" rediscove...
Good stuff John :) Love those cartoons. I too was incensed by the Iraq war, but don't have something so bitingly creative to show for it. 8-) (I have ...
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