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Cats are the only mammals who can't experience sweet tastes.

Coriander.

A crunch is alright. But it's not as good as a "Ni!".

You overvalue being unusual.

Like I said before, that's probably because you interpret things differently. I think your interpretation is the more unusual.

Yes, I suppose so, in a sense, but now you're moving away from my point, which was about how we behave when we're not conscious of some philosophical ...

:rofl: It's not possible for anyone to have an entire novel of that size in their head! Your title is spot on. (And no, a rough outline or collection ...

On second thought, maybe you do act as though your musical preferences are correct. A lot of people do that, actually. And YouTube comments would be e...

Yes! If your "paradise" is like a wholly black, wholly red, square circle, dry watery ground sky, then it doesn't even count. We can't even have an in...

It annoys me that you see things through such a narrow perspective, and cling to that way of seeing things like fundamentalist, but I should probably ...

No one here doesn't get that a paradise is a paradise. That's an irrelevant truism. Rather, the issue is that some of us here dispute that your so-cal...

I see that you keep going back to nonsense as if it were sense, without seeming to realise that that's a disadvantage, not an advantage. It's like tho...

I assume there was a typo there, and the first "without" should be a "with". No, I don't think that it would be worse off. I think that it's just a co...

That's an understatement.

Well, given your awareness of all of those accompanying problems, why would you conclude that you'd prefer it over what you do know?! You'd risk a nig...

It wasn't about this thread, it was about your comment that most people would opt for a life without suffering. If you're satisfied enough not to ques...

You're not interested enough to do so yourself, then? Even though you were the one who seemed to be offering up that speculation about how most people...

Only insofar as one might think that that could have some bearing on a meaningful discussion back in reality. If not, then I think that it would be a ...

Why don't you do create a poll on the forum? My money would be that most people on the forum would choose a life with suffering, because a life withou...

Now all you have to do is actually explain why you think that. Do you also think that there is merit in discussing how many angels can dance on the he...

I reject your suggestion that what I said of you in relation to moral stances is sufficiently similar to musical preferences to make that analogy a tr...

In practice, and going by my understanding of the statement, you do think that your moral stances are correct, in spite of what you say. To deny this ...

Computer broken. Bing bong noise. Email. It's an IT Crowd reference.

Of course I'm not a subjectivist on reason. And yes, you can arrive at correct moral stances through reason. You think that your moral stances are cor...

Well that's easily refuted. If reason were subjective, then, for example, whether affirming the consequent is reasonable would be moot. But it's not.

I'm a moral subjectivist, but reason is objective. There's no inconsistency in that. Do you need me to explain that to you? Moral stances can be reaso...

No, whether it is or isn't will depend on how you interpret that. You must be interpreting it in a way which leads you to that conclusion, so just don...

Moral stances can indeed be arrived at through reason, just not reason alone or "pure reason". And yes, I suppose you could say that reason transcends...

No, that's a non sequitur. That I endorse a more sensible way of approaching the matter than you do isn't the same as putting forward a stance that is...

I'd vote for neither. I'd vote to keep FPTP. Although admittedly I have a conflict of interest as a member of the Labour party.

Then we've easily confirmed what your problem is. You have a faulty test. It might well pass your test, but your test itself is wrong. That's obvious ...

Well, what do you think? You presumably acknowledge the problem with a methodology which allows for all kinds of nonsense, which would be a consequenc...

And they do have that right, just not without consequence, at least if you're in a country with decent laws.

Okay, I'm bored of you now, because ironically you're the one who is giving me nothing of substance whilst demanding it from me. Clearly you were just...

I thought you'd been following the discussion. He's not just innocently bringing up a fantasy out of the blue. It apparently comes from Schopenhauer: ...

Why? All they're doing is helping people by providing them with artificial limbs. Leave 'em alone.

Mimicry, in evolutionary biology. Cool stuff.

A methodology which doesn't permit all kinds of nonsense.

Bing bong noise.

What is it with people in this discussion and avoiding direct questions? Are you in training to become a politician? So you were referring to my reply...

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I'm none the wiser after that reply. You don't see any merit in my reply to what he said, or you don't see any merit in what he said?

I'm always dismissive. It's kind of my thing. It's her thing, too. But I'm better at it.

She's fiesty. I'll give her that. More like a Jack Russell than a swan.

I knew this would turn out to be amusingly ironic. Hate is an intense dislike. Lots of people have an intense dislike. Obviously not just the kind of ...

In what I said or in what he said? If the former, then can you explain it? Because it seems to me to be the opposite of good philosophy. It seems to m...

Okay, but are you full yet? Or still a bit peckish? And when are you going to create that discussion about the idea that music can invoke feelings bei...

It doesn't need to be explicitly stated in those exact words when it's so obviously implied, in the logical sense, that even a halfwit could figure it...

It's logically implied in what you cited earlier.

Why would anyone with any sense see any merit in that sort of abstract, unrealistic, nonsensical speculation?