You seem to have hit the nail on the head there. Consciousness is, for each and everyone, wholly a first person experience, information gathered thenc...
I picked that word because you seem to identify masculinty with it but, in my experience, women too covet authority; I'm sure the female section of th...
:up: :ok: What I want to draw your attention to is that duality is qualitative in charcter by which I mean they're non-mathematical e.g. when Heraclit...
First off, I'm neither attacking nor defending a side on the matter of outlawing Moslem women's dress code. What I do want to convey is the glaring in...
Well, for all I know I could be holding the wrong end of the stick here. I'm simply considering the possibility of an underlying quantitative (mathema...
A couple of points: 1. I'm sympathetic to Wittgenstein's point of view that there are clear instances of words being used in such a fashion that precl...
Red = 650 nm wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum. Red is a quantity or in different words, the quantity 650 nm (wavelength) is perceived as red...
Firstly, because you haven't provided me a concrete case of a real-world object that can't be quantified, let's exclude all the elements in fiction th...
:ok: :up: Thanks I wonder though how Kierkegaard or Sartre can talk of people without there being an essence to people - the word "people" wouldn't re...
As luck would have it, I'm currently reading that exact book - I'm on the 30th chapter and, to be honest, I find the book a challenging read. Anyway, ...
I still feel something's wrong with the idea that existence precedes essence. I admit that from a certain angle it does look like there are no qualiti...
Well, I'm trying to wrap my head around this issue with little progress. What does Soren Kieriegaard mean by existence precedes essence? I know or am ...
Never mind. While it's commendable that you're approaching the matter with intellectual rigor, such a strategy is unhelpful to our discussion. I'm bei...
Your objection brings to mind a Buddhist story. A great competition was held between clairvoyants and logicians. The challenge was to determine the co...
My take on the is/ought issue is that there are two facets to it: 1. The is/ought problem: Killing is an undeniable fact - predators kill their prey, ...
Firstly, being perfectly logical implies that no fallacies are committed. A mind free of fallacies never makes mistakes i.e. the art of gaining knowle...
No. Enlighten me. Not necessarily. The reason is same in both cases - Christian nuns are women who want to showcase their piety and Moslem women want ...
I recall making a similar argument a long time ago. If one is a master logician, all knowledge would be one's (omniscient), and given that knowledge i...
Your sarcasm is unwarranted. Ask a Christian nun why she wears what she wears and whether she has any issues with the arrangement and the answers may ...
I've never heard of Christian nuns being at liberty to "...wear what they like whenever they like" This is news to me and I'm going to need some relia...
Speaking from my own experience, be mindful of the certainty and the scope of your argument. 1. Certainty : Can range from probably true to certainly ...
A causes B IFF 1. There's a correlation between A and B (check) 2. B doesn't cause B 3. There's no C that causes both A and B 4. The correlation betwe...
You made a claim but I don't see an argument to back up that claim and if you had one, it would like like this: 1.Blah blah blah (premises) So, 2. The...
For what you say to be of any significance it must be true i.e. your claim must be a necessary truth. The whole point of logical argumentation is to p...
This I find interesting. It's as if people under the influence of a drug/alcohol or are sleep walking are real instances of p-zombies (the human "robo...
"Fashion is not the opposite of oppression". I'm not claiming that it is but oppression if it's institutionalized can have a profound effect on fashio...
In what sense are "...both their faith and Moslem men..." f**ked up? Are you suggesting that Islam breeds thoroughgoing male chauvinists who engage in...
Let's say that Muslim women don't have a choice in the matter and those who chose to be Christian nuns did so of their own free will and the habit was...
In both pictures, women are covered from head to toe. Yet, one is considered the epitome of virtue and the other is seen as the very definition of opp...
I'm a chain smoker (thank you) and my intention is to kick the habit. I've lost count of how many times I've wanted to quit but...alas...I couldn't. I...
I think your reasoning is domino-effect like, slippery-slope-ish. We can stop at any point in the chain: judge -> condemn -> punish. Anyway, the idea ...
Thank you very much for the link. Very informative but...I still feel there's something off about considering rhythmic/cyclical behavior "remarkable" ...
The OP seems to be amazed, erroneously so, by what he assumes/infers is some kind of temporal awareness on the part of living organisms. He mentions s...
Yeah, that's a problem. So, it's a dilemma then. We have control over our intentions but we don't have access to a person's mind and what people say t...
Viewing rhythmic biological processes like sleep-wake cycles, oyster opening-closing behavior, etc. as awareness of time is a grave mistake in my humb...
Come to think of it, it's a mistake to look at the issue in an "either...or..." way. We could take both - thoughts and deeds - into account when we ju...
Can you break it down for me? How many Christian sects are there and which Christian sects subscribe to which beliefs. You can keep it short and stick...
Firstly, I find the notion of beauty to be a masculine perception of womanhood. Ancient cultures seem to identify beauty with the female form as is ev...
I suppose we could like at all such experiences, from wet dreams to cold mountain streams, as real in their own way. However, the domains of the mind ...
Firstly, the distinction undeserved and non-deserved doesn't make sense. In both cases the individuals concerned don't, by some metric, fail to rightf...
On a serious note, I think love is, dare I say it, a form of rationalizing and I'm talking about so-called romantic love. When people say they've fall...
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