You have to maintain limits so you still have pleasure and pain. You have to do stuff that's annoying every now and then to keep the old psyche from b...
I would fly down into Mauna Loa, the world's biggest volcano. Then hang out at the north pole building ice sculptures. Then fly away and explore the r...
I was talking about Quine. I'm afraid there's a field of incomprehensibility surrounding him. You've been deflected by it and stumbled into Janus. :sa...
I think it's both, they go hand in hand. Kierkegaard said that you can notice that there's nothing new in anything you go through. It's all happened t...
Maybe it's just where I am. I don't think it's against the law to evict, it's just that renters are notorious for wrecking rental property, so where t...
In the US they don't evict tenants when rental property goes into foreclosure. The next owner might want to keep the tenants. Could it be that it's al...
I think he means that it's just a folk theory that language refers. It's a theory that ignores the limits of knowledge vis-a-vis beetles in boxes. I d...
I think Quine's point was that there's nothing in your knob twiddling that stands as evidence that what you mean by 'gain' coincides with what the eng...
Don't hurt me, don't hurt me now. It just seems like if one acknowledges that meaning is use, one would want to downplay the aboutness of language. Wh...
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Human nature probably hasn't changed, but the need to write down moral principles would be much more important during a relatively chaotic time like t...
Did you actually go to a seminary? But yeah, as Christopher Walken said in that movie, "It was the iron age. You had to do a lot of bad stuff just to ...
Where ethics is statements that transcend all times and places, to speak these statements would require a vantage point that's unavailable. People sti...
But imagine you saw that in a gallery and then noticed the name of the painting. You'd be like, "That's cool!" But for AI software, it doesn't mean an...
The science of perception is built on confidence in our knowledge of the external world. We can only speculate about why that confidence is so easy to...
It's a strong claim that we don't have experiences because it's counter to common sense. If you don't have that, you wouldn't notice. Lack of evidence...
Yes, we need humans for some things. China's progress toward great power status won't be hindered by having a slightly smaller population. The war has...
If you're claiming we don't have experiences of red and pain, you're making a strong claim and you'll need a strong argument for it. But you wouldn't ...
I understand your argument. I think most blind people would disagree with you. As a child I would pretend to be blind, walking around with my eyes clo...
The blind can know how to use the word, that color is often a property of objects, for instance. They also know that they don't know what it is in the...
I think he's claiming that you can't teach someone what red is. You can only point to it. If they have the anatomy and physiology that allows them to ...
Listing properties communicates experience? Only if speaker and listener have common ground. Hypericin is correct wrt congenitally blind listeners. Th...
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