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Cool. I think we're closer in belief, then, actually -- and I misgrouped you. I am of the belief that holes exist. It seems less queer to me than the ...

Whoops! I missed you in my responses. I don't think I'm arguing that. What I'm arguing is that the materialist is committed to the hole not existing -...

Well, because we can see the hole, and the hole has properties such as depth, width, and location -- and those properties differ from the properties o...

I think I can group @"hypericin" , @"Benkei" , @"unenlightened" together a little with this one response, though I'll give some direct responses below...

Well, color we could say is electromagnetic waves. Texture strikes me as a little funny, but it's not so in the same way. If I say that a pipe feels s...

But a hill is made of something -- dirt and rock and such. That's the strange part about holes. (or shadows, too, as has been mentioned -- similar sor...

Would it matter either way? For what it's worth, I just woke up early. If language is fine as it is, then "this hole is 3/4 inch in diameter" is true....

So, as you would have it, when we say something like "The hole is five feet wide" if we wanted to be literally rather than metaphorically true we shou...

The creation of analytic/continental philosophy as a historical category definitely escaped me -- I basically had the standard history in my head befo...

Let's go a step further. If holes exist, then there exists at least one entity which does not have a material basis -- rather, a hole is something of ...

True! But surely that's different :D Or no?

So are rings -- the bit of jewelry we wear on our hands -- holes, in your book?

Yes, this is the sense in which I am asking. I suspected it :D I heard some philosopher talking about it once, and once they did (i forget who it was....

I'm just leaping from that point, more than anything. Similarly so with the argument I'm presenting -- I think it's an interesting puzzle. I don't mea...

So does that mean they don't exist, or do? Philosophically, say.

I guess I'd just ask if what Langston Hughes is doing with these words gets at the meaning of the poem or sentences. The very structure of the poem, w...

I don't think I'm following the metaphor. Or ,maybe I'm getting caught up in the metaphor. *** I want to say that reason has limits, that philosophy n...

So did the moon learn to smile, or something?

By innocence I don't mean to question your sincerity! Far from it. Only that there's a lot to unpack and while it seems a simple question, it's actual...

What are some of the phenomena you would propose as being governed by this property? So far I gather you mean primates like ourselves, and bacteria. B...

That's a meaty question. :D It's also not quite innocent, though. Wouldn't a person whose against physicalism already consider the uncontroversial exa...

I suppose it just depends on the person. The Holy Book is still at least claimed by people as a moral guide, which is certainly more ambiguous than th...

Quite the opposite! :D I am lost at times, I'm afraid, but I'm trying to follow along. I will state what I think I can understand from your post. It s...

I disagree that there are moral facts. There are two thoughts I can't quite decide between. Thought 1 was a defense of moral error theory, but I'm not...

I mean, science is good for me. But even in the most recent example of its goods, the production of a vaccine, the goods have been distributed unevenl...

Uhhh..... dude. 5/10 bucks a month is not a lot for most of us. And regardless of jamal's politics, he's keeping the sight running. So just... decide ...

I feel like you're getting close to my criticism of rights, in general. With your ending I suspect we're closer in mind than the language of rights wo...

Through twitter i got a new pluhar translation of kant's "critique of judgment" my old copy broke at the A side of "On the Mathematically sublime" and...

I have not read the replies, but in reply to your initial question... I suspect that Biden will continue Obama-precedent imperialism. And it is a bad ...

The problem with inviting everyone to the table, including the police, the businessman, etc., is that not everyone is effected the same by police targ...

Heh, it's ok. It's just the myth handed down that needs to be dispelled. No need to feel like you need to know the myths of other countries that shoul...

I'd say the school book story is that after MLK racism was solved, more or less.

That has nothing to do with the fact of systematic racism. Just because an officer is black that doesn't mean he's not an officer. The race of the pol...

One study stripping away history and using statistical methods on a database covering a single year while denying the "benchmark method" because of a ...

One can affirm each instance that goes to support the notion that there's systematic racism in the country, and yet deny the inference at the end of i...

https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/history-policing-united-states-part-1 I think this is well trod territory. It's not so much a discussion as much ...

Nope, I mean "spend less money so there are substantially fewer persons playing the role of police officer" - get rid of beat cops. Make it a service ...

There's a line that's been well orchestrated in the media about good and bad protestors, with examples of the poor people effected by violence, usuall...

I agree. I'm wanting to finish this Goodman stuff before posting next, but I think I'd say that though one could be in a position to form a rudimantry...

The above was the OP, but like I said I'm still meandering and it's entirely possible that I'm conflating things or just saying something stupid witho...

I'm not sure I'm following here. I mean I might have to go do something else but everything I was doing before having to do something else was still w...

No worries. Nothing wrong with beating down essentialism. :D Hrmm, I think it just started there with me because of the original song that inspired th...

Well, all. Please forgive the meandering. Thanks for the input so far, it's helping me to at least express something and not just get stuck in an intu...

Still wanting to loop back around to @"TheMadFool", and also more of what you post @"jamalrob" -- but it's taking me more time to formulate thoughts t...

Still by far my favorite things to come from the internet is the wealth of references I never would have stumbled upon on my own, or would have done s...

Oh, OK! I may have misread @"TheMadFool" then, or just read him into your response too. My mistake. I guess I'd say that you did not hear the entire p...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrBoQLkZY2g This was the piece of music I was listening to when I formulated the question. It's something that really ...

Let's try it like this. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2cI63FI-euw/XrQxJyEZorI/AAAAAAAACiU/UzxYS575J309ZMeUpbLyGYasFkQTzMW2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/oldguitaristT...

I, for one, am very appreciative of historical methods. You've given me a lot of good thoughts to chew on @"Snakes Alive", and for that I am appreciat...

Yeah. I have some drafts thus far, but that's the kind of thing I'm actually focusing on right now with occassionally looking up sources to see where ...