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Yes, they should be outlawed. They should be safely gotten rid of. And they should be prevented from being made. There are no realistic circumstances ...

I'd say that the USA is a limited or partial democracy, i.e. democratic in some respects, but not others. Just like the UK, where I've lived all my li...

I voted to keep things as they are. The 'cumulative likes' list makes things a bit more interesting, although I don't take it seriously, and I could e...

It seems to only support the thesis that meaning does not require reference, but only function in some cases. Can you explain why? I don't know the na...

My initial excitement soon dissipated as I began reading the essay. I've read it twice and I still haven't been able to wrap my head around it. At lea...

https://youtu.be/ucE2WQ-YveQ

Damn you and your adorable cats, mayor! I want one again.

The degus. http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo187/thorpie17/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20151111_210616.jpg http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo187/thorpi...

Yes, I was going to point that out myself. Although I think that he's exclusively talking about being a philosopher as a career, so in order to do bot...

Hey @"shmik". The "we" is society, and the question is whether or not society would be better off with more welders and less philosophers. So, accordi...

I need to catch up with this month's reading group and the one that I started on the Prolegomena. But, first things first, I'm hungry. I'm going to Do...

To talk of responsible gun owners is to miss or evade the point. What about all those irresponsible people that have managed to legally obtain a firea...

No, having a gun at hand, and having sufficient skill, and some degree of good luck, would do so. Otherwise you could be easily overpowered or at leas...

That's a weird question. As if there were an option to not believe anything.

Which is why loose gun control is bad: people are foolish at times. The tighter the better, in my view. It's not tight enough over there.

Perhaps because there have been cases in which Americans have done just that. It's obviously not a matter of 'all or none': some do and some don't; so...

That's insane.

Who does he think he is? As if he were entitled to a life outside of a philosophy forum!

The old goat has turned up, but he hasn't said much. Shame. I'd have thought this month's reading group would be right up his street.

I've found the following to be useful resources: http://www.uri.edu/personal/szunjic/philos/proleg.htm http://sparknotes.com/philosophy/prolegomena/

Sure. Why not? I don't mind if this discussion is moved to the reading group category.

Please do so. Why aren't they possible in the way that Kant thinks they are? We could focus on 2) for starters. I have already quoted the first part o...

But why can't (or shouldn't) the two overlap? Natural philosophy is a branch of philosophy, after all. Based solely on the meaning of the component pa...

To start with, his definition of "metaphysics" seems problematic. Although his explanation for defining metaphysics the way that he does makes some se...

Thanks for your reply, and for the advice above. Maybe I'll start near the beginning, and break things down as I go forward.

"Prolegomena" by Immanuel Kant, 1783

Or a pleasant surprise. But, generally, fighting the aforementioned tendency is not sensible advice, in my view. Besides being ineffectual, it would m...

But many people, myself included, want to live, and want to live despite the risk of losing, and despite having lost in some respects. The comparison ...

Ok, so we both agree that we don't identify ourselves with any one part of ourselves, such as our beliefs or our desires, or any one particular belief...

Yep. Dissolved by analysis.

We've moved up to page 8 from page 11 (where we were several days ago) for "the" + "philosophy" + "forum". We should be the first result. We're undern...

You point out a common, yet imprecise, manner of speaking, and draw a conclusion of questionable accuracy from it. That we distinguish ourselves from ...

I just realised that that doesn't follow at all, and seems to commit the fallacy of composition.

Maybe. Anyway, to go back to your original comments to which I responded, if you think that you can demonstrate - in a new discussion, perhaps, so as ...

Even if we accept that K=JTB (which is debatable), it isn't necessarily the case that determinism entails that beliefs are not based on justification ...

No, sorry, I meant 'The Extended Mind'. Ooh, another one I think I'd like to read, and possibly discuss, at some point.

Good bye, Sentient. Right, that's it. No one else is allowed to leave.

I think I'll go back to Kant's 'Prolegomena' again. It has been a long time since I last delved into it. And maybe I'll start reading Russell's 'The P...

"Embodiment or Envatment?" sounds interesting. I read about three quarters of the last one, and I found it quite boring. That's not so much a criticis...

I thought you meant a conscious, willful acceptance. Words like "actively", " decide", and "acceptance" seem to imply that.

Because, based on experience, and upon reflection, it's clear to me that passions are what primarily influence what we prioritise in these sort of sit...

But "actively deciding the legitimacy of accepting a belief" or "signing off on a belief" that we've already obtained (since it has already been deter...

But you're good at what you do here! I've reached the same conclusion before, although possibly for different reasons, but I've changed my mind, and I...

I don't have a definition; only a set of things that I can point out in regard to my self. I haven't yet arrived at a definition. And besides, I gave ...

I call it a "she" as a formality, because Modbot is a clone of Eliza, which is a female name.

I agree that beliefs can - and at times do - influence other beliefs, but I don't draw the same conclusions that you do, or define "self" in the way t...

Ok, but actions weren't the issue, were they? Beliefs were.

I'm not sure how to best describe my "self", but I understand my "self" as identity, in terms of ability and location, in relation to other, and proba...

Good question. A bit of both, perhaps. It's you talking under the influence of alcohol. For me at least, the discussion is primarily about whether or ...

Yes, I suppose so, in a sense, but that'd be just one factor of many, and a more remote one at that, at least in the example we discussed. But where d...