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It could be contradictory. Depends on the context. Point was, we frequently refer to the part of experience we can't communicate with words, music, no...

So we have two kinds of privacy. One means unshareable even in principle. The other just means unshared, but potentially shareable to some degree. The...

I think this was an episode of One Punch Man.

Cool. One problem solved. It's the object of "can't explain.".

It's the same as sky diving or having children, except it's unique. I'm the first guy to go through a wormhole. The reporter asks what it's like. I sa...

Why not?

"If you've never had a child, you can't know what it's like." Private stuff has been talked about. No falsehood. No nonsense.

If you've never been sky diving, no amount of communication will convey the experience. If you have, we can easily understand one another. Sure, langu...

This.

I really have. Your assertion is just ridiculous.

Climate change.

The notion that we're in all telepathic isn't likely to gain traction any time soon, but you may be right and we're just all deluded. :up:

But you grant that people can have experiences that aren't publicly know. :up:

Indirect realism"s weakness is about the trustworthiness of representations. How do you confirm that they're accurate?

In Saudi Arabia they believe the state rules by divine right. Bartricks denies any legitimacy to the state, which means he needs to move to the US whe...

That's why there's an implicit social contract.

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It's materialist to judge people by their appearance.

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This is to try to put us on the same page: Indirect realism comes in various forms, it has a well known epistemic problem, so if you bring indirect re...

When you say "model", this is basically the same as "representation" Right?

Either way, they're talking past one another.

I think Isaac is basically an indirect realist who has a persistent misunderstanding about what others, like Luke, mean by "private." If we could get ...

I can help a little. Isaac believes things like pain are social constructs, as are things like trees and the moon. That the category of social constru...

If morality is rules of behavior that I just follow and I don't contribute to their content, then yea, they'll have an objective basis. But if the rul...

It's a focus on who the participants in the war are and what their goals are. The whole world was shaped by the British Empire. I guess the good parts...

Ok. If you were to go step by step through the 1970s, how would you describe how we got to fiat money?

I see. I'm a brown person thinking of it against a backdrop of Malcolm X. I think Mr Morrison was smuggling that into his article and it's blatant bul...

We now know the US was planning to blow up the Middle East to get oil flowing. The Saudis backed down and were forced to send all oil profits to NY ba...

So I guess you're saying BLM should just shut up and go home because they already lost.

I wrote out this long post to 180Proof to explain that calling it a war is falsely dignifying what happened to my ancestors. They were never in a posi...

I still don't totally understand why this is. I think it's because it leads to a state of equilibrium between wages and prices so that profit margins ...

There's more to gorilla warfare than just sitting around eating peaches. There's the baring of the fangs and beating of the chest. It's intense.

So I guess empty of anger and fear. Too bad. I was thinking we might have a holy war between Hindus and Buddhists over whether there's any emptiness. ...

Emptiness of what?

"Empty" in Buddhism is always of something, like the emptiness of a pot. It's a reference to illusion. Is that what you mean by emptiness? Let me know...

Oh good.

It was the Iron Age, so yea, probably.

Zen vs the original.

At the bottom. Are you sure you aren't talking about Zen?

I frequently use wikipedia to find scholars. It's in the foot notes.

Exactly, and that's part of the neoliberal doctine. Civic responsibility and equality leads to stagnation. Raiding social assets and fostering concent...

"No, even secular scholarship will admit that the Buddha's original teaching was not emptiness or non-Self. I don't need yoga to figure that out." — D...

Hmm.

I see. I guess I misunderstood you. So it's not a problem for you that the moon, for instance, is also socially constructed. :up:

So how would you explain the stagflation of the 1970s?

Wouldn't that be the role of the market?

I'm not understanding why you wouldn't extend the same attitude toward the psyche. I know why Banno doesn't: his materialist ontology governs his enti...

The neoliberalism I'm talking about is a post ww2 philosophy that identifies various threats to freedom. Freedom is the key word, and the almighty goo...

True. I'm still getting my head around the development of global neoliberalism. There are a lot of moving parts. :grin: