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More directly: Art is not definable, because it's creative Even so -- there is at least a possibility, to my mind, that philosophy can be art, and vic...

Hah. Yes. Weird that freedom is opposed in the face of property. I'm hoping my kiddos get better than I.

Oh, sure. Just casually ask the hardest questions there are in philosophy. Why not? ;) I think Plato counts as art, though, given its dialogic form. T...

I also didn't learn about evolution until going to college, though I took a biology course.

Looks good!

"Hedging" on whether the work environment is subject to ethical scrutiny, is what I was thinking -- that the environment can't be judged on ethics, bu...

1st/2nd/3rd is how the US splits it up, at least colloquially -- since there are also 12-hour, and even more, shifts. Divide 24 by 3 and you have thre...

Those are the sorts of things I like to discuss. Hopefully I haven't poisoned the well too much. I prioritize money, then insurance (as an USsian), th...

Seems to be hedging your bets -- what one does in the environment changes the environment, such as when one builds a house. The work environment is no...

Ever ethical? Never has been. ;) The work environment can be fixed and improved through organizing with your fellow workers, because that's all worker...

Now... how to convince my younger me that this is so.... :D It's pleasing to me to have some consonance between us.

Why not neither? Must we choose one or the other, or could we suspend our judgment here? I think, in order for this to make sense, you must at least b...

Yup! I make friends for life -- some of them have even been lovers where we've parted ways because we weren't good lovers, but we continue to be good ...

Thinking now it seems a bit silly to exclude romantic love. My thought was more with respect to a broadening of the notion because of how wonderful my...

Heh. We agree there. Pessimism is not my gig.

I call it anarcho-Marxism.

I suppose what I like about Valentine's Day is how it's only slightly attached to the old traditions, while being "unserious" enough to be reinvented....

:D True. I think that's not too bad on a philosophy forum, though. At least in the public. Thinking here about how philosophy is part creative, but pa...

I'm also glad to hear from him, if you can let him know.

yet ;) In a highly technical sense I'm Morman because I was baptised at the age of True Responsibility and Knowledge of Good and Evil: 8, and have yet...

"speak my language" was pretty careless on my part, among other things :). Mostly it was an off-hand thought about language and animals and W.

Heh. Naw, dolphins and whales.

:razz: Love is important. I am a man and like the idea of a holiday celebrating love. We ought not bring it to the level of the nonsensical politician...

As long as they speak my language, sure. Just hasn't happened yet. The aliens in the ocean seem to be speaking, though.

From a tower, perhaps, but what if the ball hits a number of pegs along the way?: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/8713/causality-determinati...

Oh yeah. I liked that paper because it gave me something to think through weaknesses in the parallel -- I also made the comparison fairly early on and...

That makes sense to me -- The purposes of philosophy differ between them. I couldn't find a free version -- I wish I could because when I read this I ...

Found an interesting paper that, according to the Izmirli definitions, would count as a Modernist philosophy of mathematics that is simultaneously soc...

OK so it's more specific than anything I've laid out. I accept a distinction now, but I don't think I'd follow Heidegger in saying normal science is n...

The stick is bent. But it's not really bent. in that way. For reals, you can pick up the stick yourself!

I believe it is and isn't -- just depends on how you want to say things, but doesn't depend on the light, the water, or the stick. Language is tricky.

I'm a bit tempted to say the Big Building Thing is causally related. Why build a bigger monument? To show up the other one! I suppose my thought is th...

at this point I just want you to say which indirect realist you're talking about. I don't believe in indirect realism. I also don't believe in jesus, ...

Certainly. you did ask, though -- and I answered. And I think, at this point, we've given the blogger enough fodder to blog upon lol.

Seems to follow the logic of indirect realism -- there's an intermediary between reality and you, whatever that is. Acknowledging that there's a diffe...

According to these definitions I'd not qualify is either, yet I certainly believe reality doesn't care about my beliefs, at least. I'm not tempted to ...

The argument that dislodged me from my belief has already been alluded to. It's the infinite regress argument. Suppose that we're only indirectly awar...

Ah. Indirect realism is a halfwayhouse between transcendental idealism, and materalism. It wants to be neutral, but can't be because it's incoherent w...

That gets back to asking you for an argument: what argument do you want me to address?

I fall all the time, so no worries about it. Going back to your original comment: I meant I'm fine with making a distinction between direct and indire...

I'm granting the distinction to you to go ahead and make a point, while acknowledging that I'm not on board with it entirely.

Sure, I'm open to that. Not the same as saying the distinction is foolish, tho.

For myself I think I'm cautioning against a tempting philosophical sleight-of-hand. I'm committed to saying I'm a realist, of some sort, but the indir...

Makes sense. I'll say I started out as an indirect realist. But I'm not googling, only reflecting and conversing. As far as i'm concerned you can defi...

What do they say, according to you?

i'm sitting in a chair at the moment. I'm typing on a keyboard. I perceive these both as I do them. That's basically what I'm thinking.

But what if the statement about minds and perception are the same as whether or not our physical bodies really physically touch other physical bodies?...

I read this a few times over. I'm fine with granting Descartes to Nietzsche, ala Heidegger. I'm tempted to say this supports my notion that science an...

Golly this was 7 years ago: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/512/reading-group-derridas-voice-and-phenomenon/p1 That's where I'd start becaus...

Gotcha. And surely I don't mean to denigrate the attempt -- I've been scratching my head about how to respond and that's still the closest thing I had...