TheMadFool

I don't think that's entirely true. One book on philosophy, actually critical thinking but critical thinking is the meat-and-potatoes of philosophy, I...

There doesn't seem to be an issue if you look up the word's definition, theory (noun): a plausible set of general principles or body of principles off...

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Yes, the details are a bit sketchy with my analogy as you've noticed. The exchange between a porter and the person who employs one isn't equal - the p...

Good Luck, It's a well-written piece of work and in the end I did agree with you :grin:

Even among humans there's a gradation in intelligence that matches the gradation in morality. Apart from the familiar trope of hyper-intelligent super...

Sorry if it seems like I'm playing games. I'm not. What I've said is what (I think) is the truth which is that there's no real attribute that can be s...

Well, I find philosophy, in and of itself, pretty esoteric. Things you see discussed in philosophy and its allied subjects logic and math are either p...

The first step would be to investigate the feasibility of such a transfer. Is it possible? Now that I think of it, I think it's a great plot for a mov...

I was thinking about something with no minuses whatsoever - between the porter who carries your bags and you there's no net loss - you're disburdened ...

I suppose psychiatry comes closest to what I have in mind. The only difference is that the "porters" I'm talking about relieve you of stress that's co...

Although I'm not referring to religion per se, the question is about whether technology is a religion.

Scroll down to Google's Vocabulary Test You'll be asked the question: Which word is similar to the word "object"?

Your notion of natural egoism is a description of a fact and means, all living things, humans included, are naturally egoistic. We could say that egoi...

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We're in search of something that runs like a thread through all physical phenomena, in effect unifying them, just as producing milk for offspring uni...

@"Pfhorrest"What if the barber is a woman? A prerequisite for the paradox is that the barber must have a beard; only then does the paradox enter the p...

Equivocation? How so? Was God, despite how things turned out between him and Adam and Eve, not pleased with his creation? Again, I could be mistaken a...

I maybe completely off the mark on this one but I get the distinct feeling that parents love it when their kids are smart and simply go bonkers when t...

I suppose you're right but from the little experience I've had not all drugs come in the form of pills, syrups, injectables, inhalants. You know what ...

Yes. What's wrong with that?

I'm tired of repeating myself so I won't. While there's the expression, "preaching to the choir", that suggests I do the opposite and argue with you, ...

No problem.

I agree and the probabilistic model for moral objectivity you propose is true to the way all matters of objectivity are handled in other areas - the m...

I was tempted to say that deductive logic ensures certainty for it's a truth-preserving system in the sense that if we inject a set of true propositio...

Isn't this the fallacy of appeal to the majority? That more people have a certain belief doesn't make that belief true. There was a time when almost e...

Thoughts don't have mass. Radio waves don't have mass. Photons don't have mass.

Oh! Fantastic! How about we work backward with your conception of intuition. It doesn't matter that we, when we intuit something, can't express it in ...

Yes, I agree but that doesn't yet make me an antinatalist because to agree here doesn't necessarily mean we immediately recommend nonexistence as the ...

Before we proceed any further, what exactly do you mean by intuition?

You're making a mistake here. The pleasure of raping is not the same as the pain of being raped. You should be, like a good antinatalist, focusing on ...

This is another example of the Wittgensteinian problem we're discussing. The gut-feeling in math is different from the gut-feeling you get when you he...

I meant to offer a possible mechanism why you're under the impression that good is an intuition. The gut-feeling you get when someone uses the word "g...

I acknowledged the existence of suffering in the world and also that, comparatively speaking, it's greater in severity than any happiness that can pos...

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Don't forget happiness in your equation unless you want to end up dividing by zero, mathematically speaking. Whatever scenario an antinatalist will in...

It appears that definitions can be of two types: 1. AND definitions. An example of this type of definition is mammals. I'm going to rely on my rudimen...

Yes, I'm referring to objects at the human scale - things we can, well, bump into. Interesting that you should bring up atoms but at that scale too th...

There's something odd about Plato's, and it seems even Socrates', idea that philosophy is some kind of preparatory process for death. Well, for sure i...

Your words ring true, my friend, but only in the past and the present. I'd like to ask you why utopia - the secular version of paradise - is impossibl...

First thing to be clear about is that people don't want to, everyone, without exception, loathes, suffering. A certainty there's no point arguing abou...

If what you say is true then, as I said, morality is, well, man-made in the sense it's just one of those systems of rules we build to make living easi...

I don't think your WYRBS argument works for the simple reason that sleep is known to be a temporary state of unconsciousness. People prefer to sleep r...

I don't think it's as bad or impossible-to-deal-with as you make it out to be. For you to be correct suffering, that which we don't like, even hate, s...

I think you're confusing learning morality with knowledge of morality- the difference between the two being that the former is dynamic - morphs over t...

Plotinus, if you're reporting his views accurately and I'm sure you are, seems to be attempting to describe something beyond the reach of ordinary lan...

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My remarks pertain to one specific idea, the so-called One of Plotinus. The absence of any attribute is the very definition of nothing. The One is, if...