Moliere

If there be a perfect being which infinite power and infinite goodness, then we'd expect to see some effects from that -- that the being would use the...

I think some of the confusion comes from zeroing in on "examined" -- and that said confusion is, if not resolved, at least addressed by the apology. T...

Haha, yeah you're right. Had one word in my mind, and spit out the other.

I had or have a lot of sympathy for the idea that Socrates was simply too idealistic, but I think I have become more sympathetic to Socrates, over tim...

I'm taking a snippet from the Apology that you're referencing: What do you gather from that about the unexamined life?

I'm not sure what you're asking for here. Are you wanting criteria? Because surely we have the means of selecting a belief from a set. All we need do ...

A belief can be counted by the number of statements held to be true or assented to. So a set of beliefs would just be a collection of statements. But ...

I don't find that very convincing, at least, on the grounds that it can just be translated back -- it's logically equivalent. I'm saying that the nest...

I'm wondering if the English sentence has a different meaning when it nests conditionals than the surface logical syntax would indicate. After all, it...

Umm... I mean, if it's logically equivalent, then they are the same? Just as you can convert "A ? (B ? C)" to "(A ? B) ? C", you can also convert it b...

Either way seems fine to me. It's just one of those things where you get positives and negatives regardless of your decision, and I don't see them as ...

I will speak in defense of the radical position, minus the assertion : Only on the basis that the working class is already pacified, with respect to t...

I think this is the more important thing to focus on. While there is no general answer to how one ought act in a particular election -- the questions ...

So it sounds like you're giving existential equality to holes and surfaces, and agreeing with me that there is such a thing?

I agree with this idea of a hole -- a gap, an absence in the middle of something. But it seems to me that the set of natural numbers, for instance, ar...

Are those services which have been well known to stop the distribution of propaganda? Maybe the story is true. Propaganda requires truth to work, afte...

I mean, when I read it, it just reads like propaganda to me. This part especially: Um, what? Isn't that an oddly specific thing to promise God in the ...

Yeah, but that's my old belief I'm attempting to move past :D How come it is the more you learn of philosophy, the less you really know? But I see wha...

Ok, yes, I see the difference. It's not the same. was my first attempt at a formalization, but it doesn't get at the inference I was attempting to lay...

Only an idiot would discount the continuous back and forth accusations of fallacious reasoning :D

Can something be the value of a variable prior to a speaker? Well, it seems so to me. Water had a density prior to naming mass and volume. We didn't h...

You understood me fine. Is it fair to call a gap in a number line a hole? I think it has some similar problems to holes we see in the ground, except t...

I don't mean where are the horns, but where are the unicorns. That's clearly just a representation of a unicorn, and not a unicorn. :D I've already dr...

I don't think there is one. We are vulnerable, weak, and even pathetic creatures -- invulnerability, happiness in spite of circumstances, is a myth. W...

I've thought such things before, too, but now i'm going to ask you: If Unicorns have horns, where are they? The other thought I had was simply to acce...

C'est la vie! :D We can repeat ourselves if you want. "All donuts have holes" is false because there exists a donut without a hole. Where? Right there...

I am aware of these things, Benkei. It could just be that we disagree, you know?

Just to make sure we're not delving into exegesis, as I also refused to with @"180 Proof" , let's just drop the name Quine and say "this account", if ...

Not to be rude, but it seems we're at that point of repeating ourselves, no? I'm not sure what else to say than what I've already said, at least...

Haha I'm still figuring it out! And maybe it's not the right way of putting it, but I've noticed I'm entertaining beliefs I would not have before, at ...

The premise being begged is in the first conditional: "all donuts have holes" How do we know that? By the definition of what a donut is. Hence the cha...

If you happen to come up with a conclusion, please share it with me.

Honestly I find myself becoming more and more a naive realist, but being surprised at what that really entails...

Sure. But if it's analytic, then I'd say my charge of begging the question still holds: it's a knowledge of self-definition.

The story is there to help understand why I'd say such a thing. Strictly speaking the torus is not in 3D, but rather space itself is a torus in Pacman...

Hell yeah. :D Still my favorite philosopher of science. Do you think you could give it another go?

*shrugs* Ok. I guess I just don't understand it, then.

Ahhhh, OK. Sorry for misunderstanding. So the aspect you're referencing is void -- there is stuff and void, though void is more present than stuff. So...

Ok, I got a piece of paper out to simulate these movements and I think I'm following, now. Please correct me if I'm not :D. I think I would agree with...

It was the best interpretation I could give your assertion. But apparently it was wrong. I don't think I'd say that any void is a hole, then -- as you...

I'm comfortable with that. Still thinking on your first paragraph.

What, in your view, unites the standard story up to Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature?

:D It's right there, of course.

I think that we're assuming a lot in making an assertion about atomic structure. Also, even granting their reality, I'm a little uncertain about calli...

Sounds good to me. Reading the SEP article the cognitive aspect of holes is part of why people think they exist -- as you say, they stand out as a who...

So you would say that there is a hole in pacman's world, because the hole is a relation -- one which changes description depending on the donut. Do I ...

Do we? How's that? If we know it by definition, then we're simply defining what we mean -- it's a stipulation. Which can work if we have something els...

Ahh, here we go -- an example of a donut without a hole that is less abstract: http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/TECH/05/21/pac-man.game.anniversary/t1...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Graph-paper-10sqsm-5sqin-4sqin.jpg/1200px-Graph-paper-10sqsm-5sqin-4sqin.jpg Imagine you're ...

Hrrm, probably just misreading you. I'll try and restate in a different way to see if it clicks: The hole is in Kimberley, South Africa. Kimberley is ...