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So I'll argue that scientific reduction is the only rational approach. It works. With regard to consciousness, we only need to explore bridge principl...

A theory is a system of ideas. A grammatically correct sequence of words may be used to express a system of ideas. The word "expression" implies a veh...

We just need to Finn Nagel it.

One challenge to Nagel's approach is that it basically reduces scientific theories to arrangements of words. Intuitively, a theory is more than a gram...

Do you feel like throwing hand grenades into the Haymarket?

That's Thomas Nagel. The bridge-laws guy is Ernest Nagel.

Yes, well said.

The Nagel approach says we will eventually reduce a baseball game to quantum theory by way of bridge laws which connect the dots. This is expected to ...

Death and taxes, man. :smile:

Do you know of any cases of that?

Civil rights require a government that is divided against itself so that one portion of the government can defend citizens from mistreatment by the ot...

You're thinking of civil rights.

Because I figured you'd post a picture of a chair made with human skin. :up:

The idea of natural rights goes back to the Roman Stoics. It's that nature rewards those who adhere to its ways. Those who pit themselves against natu...

Did you know that when Psycho first came out there was great consternation because it presented the sound of a toilet flushing in one scene?

JTB is knowledge internalism, which asserts that in order to count as having knowledge, a subject must have access to some justification. Knowledge ex...

Not at all. It's very intuitive and would probably only be denied by certain externalists who believe knowledge reduces to behavior.

Al knows where he parked his car. He doesn't know whether it was stolen.

I figured the Ukrainians are consulting with American strategists though. The run toward Kharkiv was supposedly a strategy the US military has used be...

Are you that blonde lady from the food channel?

So NATO is monitoring their targeting systems and won't allow them to strike the Russian interior?

The week it happened, I was thinking the US did it.

Isaac. Read the sentence: The outcome mentioned there is not whether they contracted it. We already know they did by laboratory confirmation. "Outcome...

Here outcome means whether you lived or died. What I need for you to understand is that nobody cares about your well crafted insults. This forum has p...

Isaac, the portion you quoted was about outcomes. Pay attention to what you're quoting. It might not, but it may. I think most people get the flu from...

For vulnerable people like the elderly and chronically ill, it makes sense to keep wearing them. For everyone else, probably not.

@"Isaac" This is about outcomes for those who contracted the disease. It's saying that if you contracted the disease, your outcome is not changed by w...

Sure. I agree.

And the preceding Greek religion was likewise an attempt to explain why things happen. The first priests were caretakers of all the science that exist...

This is the Eleatic philosophy. "Eleaticism, one of the principal schools of ancient pre-Socratic philosophy, so called from its seat in the Greek col...

They don't, though. It becomes a stable part of their identities. They'll just rage until they die.

That's exactly what I'm saying. We are the recipients of a worldview in which mental and physical appear to be in different dimensions. This conflict ...

I think you found it relevant because to some extent, you created it. There's nothing wrong with that, though. I did the same thing until I studied th...

Do you agree that it's a mistake to project our own mental/physical division on the dialogs? That distinction, so embedded in our own worldview, didn'...

The process for qualifying a person for donation takes time. Tests have to be run, a pulmonologist needs to do a bronchoscopy if the lungs are candida...

A popular theory is they were looking for a drug dealer and mistook Nichols for that person. Otherwise, you're right that cops don't usually randomly ...

I was saying that we should exchange views on what the dependent nature of oppositions says about the theory of forms. I'm no longer interested in doi...

I don't know what you're asking. You said the Cyclic Argument is about physical things, but since it's about the Soul, that would mean you think Plato...

The word "physical" is in the dialogues?

That's not what the Cyclic Argument is saying.

And a "thing" is what?

Partly. But Reagan was the real deal. He read Hayek's Road to Serfdom, and Hayek was one of his favorite thinkers. I don't think you can really unders...

Yes. And then there's my all time favorite Platonic argument: the Cyclic Argument, which shows that there can be no "bigger" without the preceding "sm...

Big and small are two sides of one coin. So the forms could be Size, Equality, and so forth.

"Empirical" is a kind of knowledge. There is no "empirical existence." But you can certainly learn empirically that two things are equal.

If you like, do something with that. I'd be more prone to seeing the early works as attempts to let Socrates speak, although that view is questionable...

Interesting thing about that is that the authenticity of each of the dialogues has been called into question at some time or another. We only have bes...

Interesting. What are the advantages of doing that? It seems absurd at face value.

So you're saying the idea reduces to the word, which can be used as one wishes. If we generalize this, we'll have a form of behaviorism on our hands. ...

The word "equal" is not a form. The idea, equality, is. The idea isn't arbitrary, though the word may be used in any manner one wants.