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Yes, someone commented that transcendentalism starts with the assumption that we need metaphysics. We need a theory about what the universe is and som...

I think this is a pretty good description of ontological anti-realism. How did you arrive at this view? Did you start out with devotion to some theory...

I agree. Even if one turns against transcendental philosophy and becomes a hardcore anti-realist, the journey to that position requires some immersion...

Why?

Do you think he committed a crime? Or not?

The US is charging him with computer intrusion. Are you arguing that that isnt a crime? Or that he didnt do it?

The OP doesn't limit it in that way. It just asks for thoughts. Stop being a thread Nazi.

Yes. As I suspected.

Cool. How do you show that? Do you take a moment of silence? Do you contribute to Doctors w/o borders? Do you write songs about it or paint? Do you ta...

Can we talk about the victims of the war crime? Or is Assange really that much more fascinating? Why? There was another case where 7 Seals tried to ge...

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There's a good book by Jack Weatherford about the history of money. It came into existence in Lydia and altered human life. It facilitated trade by el...

I don't remember you being this loose-cannonish. If he worked for Russia, it just means he had a bias. The info about the war crime didn't shock anyon...

Walking is good. Especially by a river or lake.

Dont you have a gym membership for that?

I'm not going to tell you how computers are made (although I think I know more about than you do). I was just telling you that private property isnt a...

How would you know if my summary is correct? Do you know what CAD/CAM is?

What's your background in manufacturing?

It's not about ownership of personal belongings, it's about ownership of society's productive capability, like factories.

I understand. I think he was working for the Russian government, though.

This is an interesting article about people talking past one another.

@"Fooloso4" If we agree that mountains don't turn into flowers, this is agreement in forms of life. Wouldn't being aware of that imply a transcendenta...

Doesn't awareness of forms of life also imply a transcendental vantage point?

Cool. So statements about the world imply a weird vantage point, as if we're in the painting and also observing it from the outside.

But isn't "Houses don't turn into flowers" a comment about the world itself? If I say it to a child, I'm explaining something about this world. As som...

The NPR article said the internet has been fairly free in Russia up until now. Is that wrong? But I take your point. Russians have always had their go...

I think it's the apathy of the comfortable here in the US. If Trump tries to obstruct justice, people are just appalled by how stupidly he went about ...

That's not enough. According to Charles Dickens they have a building where all paperwork get shuffled around and lost. They need to get somebody from ...

I don't understand that either. But didn't they get an extension? I have to admit that I haven't been paying attention.

Why would May invite Trump to visit the UK? I don't understand.

But that's just metaphysical possibility, which seems to be on the verge of collapsing into logical possibility, only kept uncollapsed by the sheer wi...

You mean essential properties? I'm not sure. Maybe Nagase could explain it.

If it's a proper name for a human, yes. Kripke wanted essential properties to be related to origin, so I guess he would say it doesn't make sense to w...

"Water is H20" isn't about properties. It's an identity statement. And per Kripke, the things identified by proper names do have essential properties.

We can't be wrong about the rules of a game we ourselves invented. Is that it?

Unless you're doing PCP or something, it isnt the drug. It's that the drug is lowering inhibition. Are there other members of your family who have iss...

Ok. Interesting view.

Do you think the idea of a rigid designator can be adapted for use with general terms?

Ok. A lot of nominalists would say it doesnt refer to anything, thus nominalism is song anti-realism. You're saying... uh, I'm not actually sure what ...

What's the referent?

You didn't answer the question. People frequently speak of songs as singular things. If I speak of the song Sunset, to what do I refer?

It seems clear from your statement that if I speak of the song Sunset as something singular, you would think I'm talking about the idea of the song. I...

Yes. And since I'm using a song as a metaphor for the self, I can note that some say consciousness is nothing other than representation. But the repre...

Are you saying that Sunrise is a potentially infinite number of songs? That doesn't sound right. As I mentioned in the OP, I have an uneasy allegiance...

A performance has a clear location. It's the song that was performed that I was asking about (as a metaphor for the self). Do you think a song has a l...

There's a Grateful Dead song called Sunrise. What is its spatiotemporal location?

Dennett stands for the view that "self" has no spatiotemporal reference, although he compares the self to a center of gravity which obviously is spati...

Cool, thanks!

He should have set up a secondary leakage outlet without any traceable connection to himself and put anything that has to do with American classified ...

I'm not sure why anybody even knows who Assange is. Why didn't he hide his own identity? Do you know?