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"P" probably entails that I know P, just as it entails that I exist and I'm communicating and I'm speaking a language. "P" is not identical to any of ...

The Trinity is Neoplatonism, so Aquinas would have accepted doctrines that emerged from Neoplatonism whether he would have accepted the vision we asso...

Neoplatonism, Bob.

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Right, but research indicates that visible features of an organism tend to be sexually selected. So it wouldn't be about patterns in chaos, it would b...

Scientists say that visible features are usually the result of sexual selection. So if that nose was a result of natural selection (as opposed to gene...

Strangely, mammals became more aesthetically pleasing over time. Why is that?https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Synapsid_divers...

That's correct. So what you're really complaining about is the the OT God doesn't conform to the Neoplatonic image. Neoplatonism is a type of monism, ...

So if a child is on fire and I have a fire extinguisher, it's ok for me to withhold help? Just stand there and let her scream? That seems moral to you...

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Well God's nature conflicts with a flood in Texas killing a bunch of teenage girls. God supposedly has the power to stop it, but he just stands around...

That's a lot of beet juice!

But she'd be like, it's just a hemorrhoid, dear. Stop freaking out.

You can read it while you're pooping. Ok, but I don't really like beets.

The idea of an omni-benevolent, omni-potent god is logically inconsistent, leaving the believer to struggle with various philosophical bandaids for th...

Imagine toilet paper that has Heidegger's Being and Time laser printed onto it. Or the Bible.

Aren't those all components of raw wood processing?

I don't know. Can't they just put the old paper in the washing machine, blend it up into paper soup and make paper? How is that more expensive that cu...

I would say yes, sort of. We could imagine gradations of betterment that go on forever. It just keeps going. I don't know of any reason to deny this s...

You joined on April Fools Day. Just kidding. That's great. I'm sure you're a positive influence on your community. Sometimes a little compassion makes...

No

He was a bit of an asshole.

I hear you. But with some people, you're going to have to rain hell down on them to make them leave you alone.

Doormatism is where a person acts like a doormat. Some people won't respect you unless you meet their aggression by making a giant fool out of them in...

I'm afraid this might end up as door-mat-ism.

Paper made of recycled paper cost twice as much as the ones made of raw wood. Why?

The artwork is just sitting there. Whether it becomes part of a living person depends on the person. Adorno's form/content distinction makes sense her...

I agree with that.

It's a metaphor. Explaining art is philosophy, which I think is an activity that stands apart from language games. With the idea of language games in ...

I would say there's no Bansky or Derain language game. An artist is more like a farmer than an interlocutor. Her art is like seeds that sprout in the ...

Cool. :grin: Well, yes, but it could still be that consciousness is related to something undreamt of in our philosophy. We'll know if we ever know. Ye...

I see what you're saying. Somewhere along the line I started wondering if propositions might come from a time when people thought that the world was s...

Yes. We used to have an AP expert who would stop by the forum from time to time. His name was Nagase, and I learned a lot from him. I asked him once w...

I don't think so, but that sounds a little like an ontological question.

A proposition is a product of analysis. Hegel would object to hanging propositions in a netherworld, per his mechanism argument, which says we end up ...

Are you not able to explore an issue without judging it? An disenfranchised person could be white if they live in Kentucky and their community has bee...

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That's true. A proposition is along the lines of content. I don't think you have to talk about propositions. It's not a bad idea to know what it is, t...

I see. Thanks.

Ok. So you could tell Williamson not to hold his breath waiting for more work to be done on the issue because the two sides crashed in the middle.

The difference between realism and anti-realism comes down to this: how we handle the unknowable. If you think the unknowable is still truth-apt, you'...

True, but Williamson is holding Davidson up as an example of realist semantics, and he is compatible with both.

In the context of the OP, anti-realism is just the attitude that speech doesn't conform or correspond to states of affairs. Language is first and fore...

Ukraine: "Send More Weapons." US. "ok." Ukraine: "Thank you."

I think you might be more at home in an anti-realist place. Language games. That's anti-realism. Propositions really come from analyzing realism, wher...

I agree. But I would say that lacking a clear sense of identity isn't necessarily a bad thing. Yes, it poses an obstacle to self-advocation, but a per...

We identify propositions using sentences. For instance, maybe you said "That's on the mat" while you were pointing to the cat. The proposition you exp...

I can see that. With recognition theory, we're just saying that if a person doesn't receive recognition, they end up with a frail sense of self. This ...

:up: If you note the part I bolded, that's what we call a proposition.