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I'm more of an apple pie person.

I grew up with the stories about how they had to ring their necks. I'm sort of a vegetarian now, except I eat eggs.

I bought some organic bananas and started thinking: organinanic bananananas. Organi-organi-nannananic banan-ananananananas. I'm trying to fit this int...

I know. I was trying to be humorous.

You need to teach them to do it themselves.

Ah. Well we're getting our climate change on over here. The mosquitoes will rule.

Why do you have Saddam Hussein as your avatar?

Ain't it the truth?

Did you stub it?

Ohhh. Did you stump your toe or something?

You're wrong. Wait, keep going. This might be your most fuck-witted feat.

Cool. I'll have time tomorrow.

Takes one to know one. What was your greatest fuck-witted feat?

Anybody who takes a dim view of metaphysics is a type of anti-realist. "Real" just has a use in social settings. Don't get carried away such that you'...

Both idealism and materialism are forms of ontological realism, which just means they both want to make hard claims about ontology.

There's an obvious similarity between Schopenhauer and Neoplatonists. Is that also true of Kant?

Both sides are doing a good job of reinforcing the conflict.

Maybe it was obvious to you that I haven't read Kant very thoroughly. Same here. You haven't read Schopenhauer. Especially the third book. Trust me, t...

I don't know if we're talking past one another, but Schopenhauer is not indirect realism as it's usually imagined. He thinks reality is unified. He th...

I mentioned this earlier, that piety is the way to control the gods; to derive their blessings in war, at sea, in procreation, etc. So you're saying t...

What's the principle of piety?

They're actually on key in that video.

Sorry, shouldn't have added the bud.

Yea, they want a dictatorship. I guess the left-side of American liberalism has been accepting a judiciary that was probably too strong. Gotta expect ...

As in your body is a representation of the Will. This is not indirect realism, bud.

Philosophical flint? :chin:

No, I was just thinking it's in the national anthem, but I'd have to look it up to know what it means. That's odd.

It was the age of essence. We're in the information age. The mechanical age stands between us and Plato.

That's what I'm talking about. Do you know what "spangled" means exactly? Just wondering.

I would love to have one of those.

Are there? :yikes:

It's trickier than just adding idea to matter to equal a thing. It's that a thing is a fusion of idea, the unchanging identity, versus matter (in the ...

The QAnon believer would do well to question whether the conspiracy he believes in is real. So it's a valuable use for "real.” What does subjectivity ...

It would be useful for Jack Torrance. Maybe for a QAnon member?

Two sides of the same coin?

But don't they partake as observed with the duck/rabbit? Isn't that sort of what Kant is saying here?: "The capacity for receiving representations (re...

You just have to tweet that you did it and then say that anyone who disagrees with you is a traitor who should be beheaded live on Fox news. See if yo...

That was an awesome post. But isn't idealism about the part ideas play in the makeup of the world?

I don't think it's really gotten off the ground yet. It's not clear what it means to have a "logical position." If I believe the sun is bright, is tha...

I think the difference is psychological. They both ignore the problems with verifying their respective ontologies. This implies an emotional basis tha...

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Turning to the gods (or more precisely priests) to learn what righteousness demands is moral externalism. Things are changing, though. True, the forms...

Yea, let's leave him alone.

I was kidding. No, I entered the conversation because you had gone off the rails into the Torah. It seemed we needed to talk about what this thing cal...

Goat has been gotten. My work is done.

I think our main difference is that you see the outcome of the dialogue as a life-long quest, searching in the darkness, so to speak, for what constit...

Yep. He's leading the reader to think in terms of essence.

I'm trying to explain to you that we're reading Plato's ideas. Not Socrates'. :meh: @"Banno" You're not helping this guy get his head on straight. You...

Isn't this the same guy who was just banned?

So Plato was faithfully taking dictation? No scholar believes that. We're reading Plato (or someone who slipped his own work into the Platonic collect...