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So I'm hearing a few different claims from you then. At times you're saying that philosophers don't say anything interesting and at times you're sayin...

Independence day is coming up in the states. I often have similar feelings about it.

I think it's worth noting that your two examples are clearly medical. To go from them it would seem that a mental state is a belief about ourselves (i...

What's the difference such that being a God is sensical, and feeling like God is nonsensical? I suppose it depends on what one means by God. If we mea...

Have you ever read this book? It's very clear and lucid. Disagreements are spelled out. Reasons are given for why the author thinks this or that posit...

Seems convenient. :D How about time? You have the A and B theories of time. This is metaphysics. I understand both. They are clear and easy to underst...

Probably not :D I'd like to hear more from you on this argument. While I don't think there is a single point at which basic reasoning becomes philosop...

Well, in the post I responded to you said there was no way to become versed in the discipline of metaphysics. But with the problem of consciousness, w...

I'd say that this is inconsistent with your position that the question about consciousness is a meaningful question with an obvious answer. One can be...

Just because I cannot make sense of some question that does not then mean that the question is nonsense. There are many technical questions that I can...

Well, to be honest, I am at a disadvantage in that philosophy of law, specifically, isn't something I'm familiar with. I've been thinking mostly by an...

Good points. I was just using that as an example, but you're right to point out the very human concern with spelling out the nature of some practice, ...

I've had lucid dreams and I don't know if I'd say I felt like a God. In a lot of ways my lucid dreams were very much bound up with my desire and the p...

Consider: a scientist may say that science is nothing more than what scientists do. But other scientists may disagree with that, on philosophical grou...

I'd pretty much go along with that. I tend to think that philosophy of is neutered without experience with the . So in philosophy of science you have ...

Yup. Not certain but I'd say it's actually under threat now.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/supreme-court-issues-devastating-ruling-against-labor-unions_us_5af9ec8fe4b09a94524b2ae9 More bad news.

I think I would just say that your fashion of answering perennial questions in the philosophy of law is itself a particular philosophical disposition....

I see two stories there. In one case we have the SPE demonstrating that people act in accord with circumstance, and then in his rebutall all he says i...

I think I view knowledge as a minor good -- so the difference between us is probably one of degree. Because I don't think I disagree with your point a...

Ah. Sometimes hard to hear that in text. My bad.

CNN is fairly conservative. But watch the R-wing conspiracy sphere and you'll see that, to them, CNN is the American version of Pravda.

lol. That's too clever.

CNN being liberal is a mainstay of right wing propoganda. It's the boogeyman. Idk if it's gone more liberal, just saying that that has been a very nor...

Eh, it's not like I wasn't enjoying myself. I wouldn't engage if I wasn't -- so no need to apologize.

You've got it bass-ackwards. Which distribution just depends upon the phenomena under consideration. It's not like all phenomena are linked together, ...

If you have to make an assumption you're basically admitting the point -- that the number you're assigning is arbitrary. Just because you believe 50/5...

But your starting with 50% is entirely arbitrary. You just like the number 50%, so you decided to start there. It seemed like a good number to you. If...

I'd say that it depends on the domain under consideration, and so evidence is a part of such things. "Is the dog nice?" -- the weight given yes or no ...

I do not know what you mean by evidence being built into a question. The primary difference I see is that you're asking about existence, whereas I had...

*blinks* That comes as a surprise to me. But if she's happier then good for her. A shame for us.

Thinking a little more deeply about it -- what is the graph you propose? I would put it like this. The x-axis is the number of yes/no questions asked....

I'm not sure how your first statement links to your second one. And picking a distribution you can do -- but it's pretty arbitrary. What's to stop me ...

That is only the case for phenomena which follow a normal distribution, though. To pick the normal distribution is an arbitrary assumption. There are ...

I'd say that common sense, in this case, is misleading. How many yes/no questions are there? I don't think there is any reasonable way to count. Langu...

Why? If I know nothing about the proposition, then I cannot assign a probability value to it. Again, why? Where is this 60% number coming from? Why no...

I think at that point we'd have to ask -- what makes it ethically acceptable? Deception and manipulation are ethically accept in certain circumstances...

I don't think that feelings are irrational, tout court. If your life is in danger it makes sense that you fear. If your loved one is in the hospital i...

Because it is appealing -- both in the sense that it allows us to make appeals, and also in the sense that it is aesthetically satisfying.

Would you say that we engage in authentic relationships with people all the time, too? It seems that way to me. Authenticity is not deceptive or manip...

I don't think you have to resort to hermitude. (is that a word?) to avoid playing games. It's just a matter of having an authentic relationship with s...

Hrm! That's the first I've heard of this. I certainly had gone over the experiment in our intro psych class. Thanks for sharing.

Well, I'll admit that I am inclined to say that individuals are given. I have a general suspicion of there being an explanation, a why, the stapler is...

Gotcha.

I know that it sounds outlandish -- but I think that there is something worthwhile in acting in developing practical reason. There is something import...

Must teleology be bound to pre-destination? Or do you just mean teleology in the sense of cause-and-effect?

I think I would put it that disinterest can apply to art as it does to reason. While I think that Kant is closer to Hume than traditional readings ten...

I definitely feel like picking through a problem has a similar feel to struggling with some work of art. There is a kind of leap in coming to a novel ...

https://twitter.com/giocalagiocala/status/1005414847016849408 Neat

Well, sure. I think there are advantages here too. But you're asking something more personal. Something I would want to know more about you in the fle...