You're wrong about these things being "entirely subjective". It isn't pure coincidence that large scale agreement occurs. There's inter-subjectivity, ...
It's degrading because ogling at their legs takes a serious and important matter down a grade - it drags it into the gutter. And it's disrespectful to...
It's wrong given the context. Given the context, it's inappropriate and degrading. There are right and wrong aspects to focus on in different contexts...
Yes, you have: If it makes no sense with regards to the world or nature, then, contrary to what you said in the first quote above, the answer would be...
All of the above at some time or other. I spend time away from the forum when the exasperation becomes too much to bear or if it all seems like a wast...
But words, and notes for that matter, are like tools in a limited sense. You use notes to compose a piece of music, just as you use words to compose a...
Yes, words are like tools, and just as a hammer is not a skill, neither is a word. Skill is about ability. A hammersmith is skilled with a hammer and ...
It's not just my problem. If you say that belief is an attitude, that's going to be quite a common reaction. I think that there might be a better way ...
It's a connotation, and connotations are not about whether a word is used formally or informally, they're about what a word invokes in you - what mean...
No, I am familiar with it. But that term wasn't used in the original comment that I was responding to, nor in jamalrob's last reply to me, and I was t...
It's definitely not perfect. When I see the word "attitude", I think of things like stroppy teenagers. What goes on when I believe that I'm in my livi...
I don't think that "attitude" is the right word to use, or at least the best word to use, because of its connotations relating to emotion. I think tha...
No, you don't know what belief is. Belief is not an attitude and it certainly doesn't require that bit you've made up about evidence. You seem to be c...
Function, quality, characteristic, attribute... whatever you call it, the burden is on you to show that these essential features of personhood are att...
False. He has voted for that kind of thing, and he cited an example in his answer to this question. As he has explained, he did vote against some such...
I know! Early days yet, but very interesting. Looks good for Corbyn, bad for May. So far, some swings to Labour and some gains too. The look on Amber ...
Kind of, but it's too complicated to call it a sequel. It's on a different timeline, and is situated some time before the end of the first anime, if I...
Are you telling me you can't figure out the obvious behavioural differences between someone like you or I and someone who's brain dead? Those behaviou...
People with intentionality behave like people with intentionality, rather than like people who are brain dead. It makes a lot of sense. I would be not...
Someone like Owen Jones could answer that question much better than I could. He has written quite a lot about that kind of thing, like in his book The...
With regards to human beings, and other beings, determining intentionality is more obvious than you make out. You'd look at things like behaviour, for...
The former. Otherwise it would have had a weaker impact. I think it's more a matter of ethics than intelligence. It's about how that intelligence is p...
No, that's not all I'm saying. I said that personhood is for persons, and that the world is evidently not a person, it's the world - it merely contain...
That strikes me as one of those quotes that might sound good superficially, but upon analysis makes little sense. There's a problem with the grammar o...
It's not unsupported, although of course I didn't support it in my original comment, because I didn't think it was necessary to do so, which, in hinds...
Indeed. Almost as pointless as pointing out that it's one explanation or that's it's very fashionable, which is blindingly obvious and utterly irrelev...
But they'll only do so if you give them reason to. Yes, I've actually watched quite a few. Some of my favourites so far have been Naruto, Steins;Gate,...
I've never seen Code Geass before, but it looks entertaining. The question is, is it as entertaining as deleting your posts? Actually, do you know wha...
I'm not asking you to guess what's important to me, and when talking about your conception of God, my ideas regarding God are not the focus. I was jus...
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