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Yes! Not an abandonment of truth or anything like that, only a difference in emphasis. One can believe, for instance, that Jesus did not rise from the...

Isn't this the pattern pointed out in the OP? I think I'd accept that dogma is truth-apt, and therefore can be true -- at least insofar that it's a de...

All the bad religious shit listed by may or may not be caused by ideas -- but the idea of the OP is a pattern of thought some atheists adopt. The OP i...

I'd say there's a fair pattern of thought in the OP. Not that this is a good way of thinking, but rather it is a dogmatic way of thinking. No claims o...

Oh, no.... :D

Homemade is just preserve style is what I meant. To be fair I remember the cans more than remember having seen them recently. They taste tart, but the...

There's the kind you make, and the kind that is shaped like the can it came out of it.

I might eliminate point one in favor of point two. Point one is where the philosophically interesting action is at, at least as I can tell, but I thin...

A person of true caliber. Not the lite, but the King of Beers.

Hey, me either. Let's cancel them. But for this other reason, that will surely be easy to convince people of with a meme.

Also, I might add, I drink Hamm's. So this is some high-class talkin' ;)

Is this a misunderstanding between "common" and "consensus"? It's been more than a minute since I read Chalmers, but even on the 2nd page: Which would...

Common for whom? I don't know the domain you mean.

Doesn't really seem worthy of ethical consideration. Someone different got to show themselves in a positive light, and some people hate that. But my g...

Felt like I ought see the ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVGDPlG42bU&ab_channel=4thphaseofmalaise

A joke version of the question: how are a priori synthetic judgments of a priori synthetic knowledge possible?

:) no worries. I put it here for that reason -- there's something-ish there, but I am also not being systematic. More floating and grasping.

That was wonderful.

I'd say an A does not definitely represent more knowledge than an F -- for instance, if one grades on a standard curve such that there will always be ...

I advice the chicken pot pie. Beyond that, god speed.

You don't have one of those stand-ups, eh?

O no... I see you! Stop, stop!

Welcome to Beacon -- home of the beacon. (it's a specialty cake)

I think that likely. :) So one of the things that's different here is that with sociology you're interested in the opinions of others, at least in thi...

This is where I lose the plot, and hence why I favor moral anti-realism out of laziness. I could make something out of this distinction, but I can't t...

Yup. No comment on anything else, but I wanted to say you got it.

They just hung around for way too long.

What a talent. Amazing to hear all that from one guitar

I'm not sure that a fixated upon virtue is something I'd say relies upon a will. Making the virtue true -- that part takes a will. But if goodness is ...

*highlights sections to remember for interpreting both Chomsky and @"Baden" 's comical depth* EDIT: Reminded me of http://sequart.org/magazine/52159/t...

I'd counter here and say that a metaethical theory in conjunction with a metaphysical theory of naturalism is what makes that fixation a form of moral...

I can go halfsies here. I agree, in a universal sense. There have been many social organizations that are not in the form of the state. I wouldn't fli...

Even the rare self-employed sole-proprietor requires a state to enforce contracts and tender. Would you say that such a state, where everyone is a sol...

The way I look at organization -- work is already an organization, even of the more traditional sort. It's a legal entity with property claims and con...

Not that a reformer couldn't do something, but that wouldn't be radical politics -- but the first one that popped to my mind was the AFL-CIO. In gener...

:D Yup. Care to spell out the argument more? I don't see how you reconcile your notion of everyday social life with seeing oligarchy everywhere, unles...

Oh yeah. How else would you organize if you didn't communicate? The general anarchist thrust is that it is a radical politics, in the sense that there...

If need be. Or there's the bad kind of anarchy -- but usually that's just warlords and gangsters rather than anarchists. (Not to say it's not a threat...

Maybe in the abstract. In practice, though -- most people hate anarchy not because it is exciting, but because actual democratic practices take work. ...

If the Quakers even count as an oligarchy then I'm not surprised you see it everywhere :D. I'd draw a distinction, of course. But I think it would be ...

Right. And I'm not unaware of these things, either. There's a truth in there -- it's the generalization that's being questioned, as well as the formul...

There are two thoughts I've yet to express that I'm uncertain even how to -- But I keep coming back to Aristotle's Politics, and the second formulatio...

How about the Quakers? They run their organization on the basis of consensus. Not just consensus building, but 100% consensus. There's a lot of groups...

I think, in a practical manner, you're right. This tells me what I need to know in choosing a particular group -- what are they doing, rather than jus...

First time I've listened to the album. It's good morning listening.

The biggest organization which pushes individualism is the United States government and the laws it enforces. Every individual is held accountable for...

With respect to ossification, though -- I think it makes sense to treat what is organized like an organism, and apoptosis, like extinction, is a natur...

One of the things I also tend to push against is the notion that political parties get to define what's political. So I'd naturally push against the i...

Yup, I agree. I begin with these personal relationships because I can relate to your expressed suspicion of abstractions. I'd only push further and no...

Good thing I recognized both, then. The group is composed of individuals, which themselves are not isolated monads, but multiplicities connected to ot...