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Oh, I see. Right, that's illegal.

That link wouldn't load for some reason. It's illegal for non-indigenous people to pass their works off as indigenous, but indigenous people can make ...

How do you classify words? I think you could picture them in such a way that it's absurd to say they have the property of being definable.

It's called "dots for dollars." You probably already knew that. Art doesn't have to adhere to traditions. It can evolve and it would really weird if A...

That's the nicest compliment I've ever gotten.

No, I'll just rupture all over the place. It'll be fine.

Okey dokey.

I'm the inflamed appendix of the shoutbox.

Cool. Nietzsche was an expert on that btw.

That's a good mother who realizes the baby isn't part of her. She's willing to let it be free. That's healthy. :up:

I am what's left when you subtract out the Other, yes. Right. Antigone hangs herself. The point is that this devotion to the higher good (higher than ...

I had an old American Heritage Dictionary. In the the front there were two essays giving opposing views of what a dictionary is. The first was by Will...

I'm not sure what this means. A point of view without a viewer makes no sense.

Wow! That quote says it all!

There's definitely more.

It came from ideas about the order of the universe. Women were supposed to be lower down on the cosmic scale, so the act of penetration was a symbol o...

If you continue this behavior I'm going to have to have you ban yourself.

Really? It's true, Hegel's mind was gigantic. Nobody knows how he got it all crammed into that little skull.

Just riff on Hegel and it's usually right.

Oh good grief.

We're not here to read your genius posts. We want you to read ours.

I think most parties in philosophy of mind would agree with you. They really are respectable philosophers, not shaman shaking rattles the way we on th...

Why did you visit Houston?

A coworker visited Houston, Texas and took a tour bus to see the stuff. The Tour Guide told them to guess what the three most popular languages in Hou...

I speak Joshese. He's saying that Becoming is primal. Being presupposes the Spacious Now, and so the Grand Dramatic Arc from the Eternal Past to the E...

Chalmers has no particular viewpoint on the constitution of experience. I have to explain this every time his name comes up. :confused: Cool. So you'v...

If that's true, fdrake is wrong. The conceivability of the p-zombie just shifts the burden to functionalists to explain why we talk about having exper...

You might be right.

If you have to advise people not to use certain words, that's a bad sign. There's something you don't want to face.

I just noticed you have a transformer symbol as your avatar. Electronic engineer?

Nice.

If DeSantis were elected, he'd be the first Italian American to reach that office. Why can't he show some respect for the principle of tolerance that ...

I didn't mean to police your tone. I feel I benefit from discussing things with you. Your challenges are almost always worthwhile to me. Yes. I had to...

I specified that we don't know how the brain produces the experience of sound (assuming that it does). We're at the bootstrapping stage of theorizing ...

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Not at all! I didn't take it that way. :grin:

Ignore the question of the nature of experience if it doesn't interest you.

The field of a sound wave is air. Specifically, what's waving is air pressure. Those waves stimulate membranes and bones in the ear which convey the v...

OK. But clearly the normativity is partly a priori (as per the Transcendental Aesthetic). Yep. Ok. Math as we know it originated in tandem with the co...

If you can, please insert a character called The Yellow Jacket Queen.

Start with what you can't do without, then ponder the ontology. Otherwise the tail is wagging the dog. By and large phil-of-math people have recognize...

The typical abstract object are things like numbers and sets. They aren't mental objects because one can be wrong about them, but they aren't physical...

Sounds like another thread. I think it would end up being a collision of analytical philosophy and continental. For AP, a sentence is an abstract obje...

CPI data came out today!! Inflation is lower than expected. The USD drops.

Apparently, so is the tree. The epiphany comes from looking at the tree the way an artist would. Just see the shapes and shades. When you realize that...

What's the difference?

I saw a documentary on atheism once. The documentarian said a world without religion seemed "thin" to him. He was an atheist, but he appreciated the f...

Sweet!

What program are you using?

I think this might be one reason we draw philosophers into a discussion. If I mention "reference" and then nod toward Quine, I'm giving you the basis ...