But social reality marches on in spite of belief. I'm not sure how Searle's account of social reality can survive that. In spite of collective belief ...
Point well taken. I don't know what it would mean to abolish sewing machines. Though, on second thought I might know what it would mean to abolish nuc...
Could go either way. In a loose sense, sure, we all talk. But it's not quite the same as the law, states, or money and property, either. More often th...
I take it as the clearest example I know of of the kind of thinking I disagree with. Social reality isn't built out of intentional thought, even subli...
My thinking on the topic goes somewhat in reverse. Rather than defining social construction by finding its negative, I think it's more interesting to ...
While there are merits to remaining dry for a time, I'd say that your experience of feeling better is all one needs to point to in order to justify re...
I think it mostly depends on our relationship with alcohol. To the son rebelling against his family, getting drunk is freedom. To the father morning t...
Just because I believe the medicine will cure me, and that in turn leads me to trust the doctor, that does not then mean that the prescription she gav...
For now I'm staying focused on the topic of explanation. I think that'll suss out differences better than on the topic of certainty, mostly because I ...
An explanation explains something. So, if you hear an explanation which you have not heard before, then you will come to understand some topic better....
It's just a metric I use. And you are right -- I ask because I couldn't explicate it at that level. I don't know if it needs one, but it's something I...
I'd prefer to say "argued for" rather than "proven", just because of how people tend to conceptualize "proof", but I'd agree with you there if you don...
I very much agree. To not include poetry or prose would, I think, miss a lot of good thoughts and perspectives on love. (And, actually, the philosophy...
OK, cool. I found him on Academia. He's very prolific. (and does work on a lot of things I'm interested in) I understand your explanation, but if I wa...
I agree with Terrapin. You have kind of ignored the first reply to your OP: Which only relies upon your supplied definition of agnosticism, and so doe...
Sorry for a delay in responses. The rat wheel scoops me up, but I have the time and energy now. Thank you for the replies. They were nice to think ove...
Well, I like being agreed with ;) That sounds about right to me. I will say that it's possible to change these sorts of beliefs, too, but yes -- to do...
In a way, yeah. Though in another, I don't have that faith. So while I can understand where someone is coming from by seeing that I do have brute beli...
First, I want to own up to the fact that I've rephrased your question here. I'd prefer to talk about brute beliefs to brute facts. Hopefully that does...
For one kind of depression I use a motor for an analogy. It seems to me that there is a kind of emotional emergency-clutch in place for when what norm...
It's not more clear to me because I already understood you were drawing a distinction between medical condition and mental disorder. What I do not und...
That is fair. I don't mean to say depression is just something we say, but I am trying to distance it from a notion of a distinct and well understood ...
I actually don't go so far as to think a dislike of philosophy is a reflection of an ability to reason -- just that the usual expressions against phil...
I think it depends on where one wants to draw the line on language, really. We could draw it so strictly that only English or German is the truly soph...
Depression is a diagnosis -- meaning that it is a term for an illness, with which there is at least the desire for a cure and a set of symptoms which ...
I finally picked this one up the other day. I'm so glad I did. I really like the 1-hit mechanic since it feels like killing the monster is just out of...
I pretty much just say "Nuh uh". If asked for proof, I say "No". But, then, I'm not interested in persuading them, and am giving just about as much th...
I think you're approaching the problem from the wrong end. Rather than defining ideals, choosing identities, and judging which methods of judgment mig...
Ingmar Bergman is one of my favorite directors, and that's probably his most famous flick. I don't want to spoil too much, but if you happen to give i...
Emotions are what is felt on the inside. And I don't think this necessarily has to resort to a Cartesian subject who feels the feeling. Aren't feeling...
I answered in the negative. I sort of feel like I've ridden that pony and know what it has to offer. In an abstract sense I can acknowledge that, cert...
I don't know what the word "gnostic" means in your diagram. As for your question: Do you believe there are not two moons that revolve around the earth...
My thoughts are always drawn back to time when it comes to understanding causality. It's the explanation which makes sense of change over time. We hav...
hahah. Maybe. Though I'd say my principles are the same. I know I don't like really-existing-democracy, but also believe the evils of really-existing-...
I think that capital moving from the west to the east is a reasonable prediction of Marx's work, yes. The production of a communist state, no. I don't...
I don't disagree with your first sentence, and I know one reading of Marx is that the revolution was supposed to happen in Germany. One reading, too, ...
Eh. I kinda feel like this is focused on European countries + USA. If you widen the scope of your evidence, which Marxist analysis would require given...
Actually -- it's worth noting: James had a health condition wherein insulin would not be produced, and he was a participant in political organizations...
There is no property for being a diabetic racist. It's not a singular aspect like red or square. It's more like a cultural archetype -- it's not neces...
a priori, I would say we have none. But, then, I do think the hard problem is a real problem, and at the same time I don't think the proposed solution...
I have a pretty vivid visual imagination. I actually had a specific picture pop up to your question. Clearly it could be different, but I saw somethin...
It seems to me that there is no the first rule -- but rather, there are first rules. And depending on which first rule you state first that has a kind...
Is time an aspect of an object, even? Scientifically speaking, time is that which a chronometer measures. There is such and such a tension placed upon...
I don't think this is disallowed. I think, here, it's all in the timing. An appropriate response to the Holocaust is deferential reverence. Similarly ...
I have to admit that the remark on Palestine did seem to come out of the blue, to me. And I am not a-political or neutral on that topic :D. There is v...
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