Fair. I agree there. We need evidence to support assertions of likelihood. But then I think -- we have no evidence of an afterlife being a particular ...
Mkay. I thought you were saying the opposite in describing Sartre as misinterpreting Heidegger here: So you're more saying "these are not fundamental"...
Reading over again -- yeh. I don't believe there are any fundamental tenets of existentialism, and "existence precedes essence" is one I'd count as no...
I've heard that claim before. I think they were both creative philosophers with very different aims, but somehow the philosophy bridged them. I don't ...
To use your precision/accuracy distinction... We can see the general commonalities between various descriptions of the afterlife -- some of them have ...
Oh no worries -- I was just making a bit of a joke. You were right to give more focus. Cool. Let's start with this part: I'm going to try and draw an ...
Heh, you mean you don't want to just hear my opinion on the matter? :D Fair enough. Though reading through your post again I can say I'm not sure I un...
An afterlife would look like waking. What would we remember? What do we remember upon waking up? In a sense every day we wake is an afterlife. But I h...
@"AmadeusD" confirmed w/ me that he hopped on early and left some 30 minutes in, and I joined about 30 minutes late and nothing was going on. I'm down...
:D I can't help myself sometimes. I think there's something to be said for this. Contrary to my impulse to define everything by its history it's not l...
https://youtu.be/fn1R-5p_j5c?si=mlc_UDNQs091heRi Given what I said before about N and K, I disagree -- existentialism can certainly be an activity or ...
Seems to me this is the most existential answer -- you were inspired and made a decision and don't even care if the other interpretations are "more ri...
I went with "no" because the only existentialist philosopher I know of who could and has made that claim is Sartre, and I tend to think of "existentia...
Eh. Propaganda abounds, no doubt, and I think something ought be done about that. But I don't think this recent ban has anything to do with curbing pr...
I'd say that this all well and good, but it's only because we have direct access to reality -- like a direct realist might hold -- that we can disting...
I think I'd say that these are questions within the philosophy of science -- it requires knowledge of both to reasonably perform philosophy of science...
The general structure I'm coming from is Marxist. Marx's description of capital points out that there are owners of workplaces and people who work for...
I tend to think of science, at a minimum, as what science textbooks say. The science textbooks I am familiar with never talk of properties in the abst...
I think @"Banno" and I share a suspicion of all metaphysics, though I welcome correction from him if I'm wrong. I don't think science parses to Nature...
I do. I think I just have a general structure to think through those specific problems. By analogy I'd say the law and its practice is another structu...
In that case I think the sometimes is enough. As in, we're both weakening our claims ;) I'm not claiming universality so much as generality. In the se...
laid out some very good points that should generally hold for all workplaces. More on the descriptive side: I think the social structure of property i...
heh me either I just felt compelled to add my bit while admitting it's not the old debate. Cool. "Quantity" is the part that seems hard for me to put ...
That's very clear. I see enough generalities that I think the discussion holds together -- we work for money, we want more money and rewarding work in...
Makes sense. Though I'm wondering about notions of environment here. "Hydrophobic" and "hydrophillic" relate to general structures of molecules, howev...
Does "the work environment" import no detail? I think it's apt for ethical discussion probably because of my own personal history, of course. It seems...
Cool. My guess, here, is that we're just beginning from such philosophically different places that we're talking past one another. heh. I'm happy to h...
The relationship between employer and employee has no relationship beyond the fact that they have a relationship, and yet that relationship doesn't in...
Hah! OK maybe you'd like it! If you ever get to chance pineapple, I recommend it with spicey things -- my favorite way to have the "forbidden" fruit i...
I think I'm fine with a "whose-who" -- cuz I think of art as a collaborative process between at a minimum an artist and an audience (at least 1 person...
Sounds like you'd accept pineapple, on some occasions. White pizza too, I think. But have you tried Barbecue Pizza? (to be clear, this is an abominati...
Re-reading this, I'm not so sure we're off there -- the debate gets shifted to "which institutions?", in a way, although I'm clear at this point, I th...
My initial guess has something to do with an audience and an artist. "artworld" can sound all-encompassing, but I prefer to think there are artworlds....
Found and browsed How to Make Our Ideas Clear -- there's a lot there so I've only skimmed at this point. We agree that art and philosophy are not the ...
Cool, then I don't have a ready-made response in that case. :D Your first attempt looks plastic enough that I could make it work somehow. It's tough t...
I don't think silence is needed, I just think it's a hard question to answer. I've read a little bit of aesthetics before, but didn't decide much. I'm...
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