TheMadFool

Yes, you got it. Anything wrong with it?

All I can say is we don't see eye to eye on this issue. First, we should agree on time being relative - a well established fact, entailed by Einstein'...

Of course not but it's a general principle of discourse.

Or...that my words reflect my worldview.

They call it political correctness I believe. What do you think Ludwig Wittgenstein meant by that?

How can this be? Every statement must be from a point of view. For instance, the statements you kindly provided, "X is black. X is white" makes sense ...

From the last discussion I had with you, I'm beginning to think time isn't an objective part of reality. Consider an object and suppose it appears red...

:up: For a contradiction to occur, the point of view must be identical. If you and I differ in aesthetic opinion there's no contradiction because we'r...

Ah! I see what you're getting at but I don't think time is necessary to make sense of coming into being. A fetus begins its journey in the plane of ex...

Yes change is possible, from beauitful to ugly and vice versa but a contradiction as when you claim something is both beautiful and ugly is impossible...

I think David Graeber is conflating Communism with morality but that, oddly, doesn't surprise me. May the place he's left and the place he's going to,...

Well, if Jordan Perterson puts it that way - as religion conferring those who have it an evolutionary advantage - then it implies he doesn't actually ...

Yes, but both can't be the case for a single individual.

A gazillion thanks. :up:

If one endorses the view that everything flows, an endpoint doesn't exist - everything is an in-between. Since you seem to ascribe a tangible existenc...

:up: Meditation does wonders for the mind and body or so I hear. BTW thanks for the links

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You said this: You should've done some calculations.

That's mind-blowing. Any references that I can use?

A conversation I had with a Buddhist: Q. Does the self exist? A. No! Q. Nihilism? A. No! Q. Does the self not exist? A. No! Q. Eternalism? A. No! As y...

This is interesting. Suppose there's a proposition P. According to Nagarjuna's tetralemma, there are 4 possibilities: 1. P 2. Not P 3. P And Not P 4. ...

Show me the numbers.

I don't know what you mean by that? It's all greek to me. Anyway, I think you misunderstood me. Personhood is a real issue as is amply demonstrated by...

It's highly likely that I don't fall within the 99th percentile of young adults but as one I too didn't "fully fathom that it is in a state known as l...

An completely plausible explanation. Yet, I wonder...pro-choicers are, at the end of the day, making the exact same claim - the fetus is an "it" just ...

Last time we had a discussion about time I remember telling you that time could be unreal. Doesn't that make your point about there being, how did you...

Can you break down this analytic, synthetic, a priori, a posteriori concepts for me? You'll be doing me a big favor. These concepts appear to be depen...

What do you mean? To be honest, a distinction can be made between dying and death. Both are painful and I've met people who wish for a painless, usual...

To the extent that I can discern, there's no reason not to posit noumena. In other words, Kant can't be penalized for his concept of noumena. That sai...

It's an outright contradiction to say it's both beautiful and ugly. Ergo, to avoid a contradiction, it must be that it's neither beautiful nor ugly.

This is fallacious thinking. Suppose there's a group of people X, Y, and Z and X observes something, say W. The relevant probability for W being real ...

Not taking any sides on the issue but the only person known to have asked for proof of the resurrection was Doubting Thomas but all Jesus did was show...

Well, I wasn't saying objective morality doesn't exist. I was offering a theory that it could and that it's just that we haven't understood it. I thin...

It appears that the entire edifice of rational morality in the sense that there are good reasons to be moral rests on the assumption that such reasons...

only if it's not murder.

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First things first. Religious morals don't fare any better than secular ones. There are the moral injunctions and there are the reasons that make them...

What be that?

I guess so but only if one equates the self to experiential memory. What else could be the self?

What's missing when we sleep? Consciousness. Is consciousness a necessary aspect of "the self"? Or is consciousness just an "on-state", the only possi...

So, the issue was never about whether a fetus is a person or not. It was only a matter of whether a woman wanted children or not. There is no objectiv...

I thought of that but it doesn't solve the problem. We know the sex of the dogs we have as pets and yet they're "it". No words can be adequate for suc...

Personhood

Dying is a physical sensation, it leads to death. Both are undesirable fearsome/fearful states to be in.

I haven't driven a lot in my life but I do recall a trip where I saw a road sign that read "falling boulders". The sign didn't scare me as much as the...

Read my reply to @"JacobPhilosophy"

What is suffering to you? The way I see it, the fundamental stuff of suffering is pain. Give some consideration to the idea of pain. Pain occurs in ci...

So does the infant who you think it's permissible to kill.

Just like the person who insists spoken/written language should make direct references to grammar, Patte is also guilty of demanding the mention of la...

Isn't this like saying that you shouldn't speak English because you're not a grammarian? The laws of grammar are functional and operating in both spok...