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I agree. You committed the "I didn't read what you wrote" fallacy. Throwing shade on a drug addict in a courtroom can be called an ad hom attack. The ...

In a courtroom, the testimony of a witness may be painted as suspect because of who the witness is. That can be called an ad hom attack, and it may be...

Typical ad hom is: "Well, you would say that." Your response to Hanover basically had that form. And wiki should change their entry. It's not always f...

Not usually irrelevant. And it's not always a fallacy.

But back up for a second. What's obvious is the way culture shapes us in terms of roles and values. Culture is like a piano available to be played by ...

Oh. Maybe you're right.

She probably just wanted you to get out of the street.

That was awesome! :heart:

There are a number of layers to it. I'd invite you to let go of any need to establish what's true or false about it, but just explore those layers ins...

You are expressing a hyper-materialistic view. Is it not a unique feature of the humanoid to have awareness of concepts like nature?

Are you saying that people are objects like cars? Is there not a little something special about humans and humanoid entities like cultures? What makes...

This made me chuckle.

H doesn't think much of traditional ontology. He thinks its more interesting to look at our background experience with an eye for what we can say abou...

Neo-Nazis are our kin. You can't expect everyone to have compassion for them. Similar situation here.

A wide variety voted for Trump. I don't think it's wise to assess them "as a group."

American intelligence determined that Russians (possibly involving Putin personally) attempted to help Trump's campaign by providing both real and fak...

That's what I figured. Just making noise. So this occurred to me: when we get highly upset that the Russians tried to interfere in American elections,...

He speculated the same thing I did, but came to different conclusion. But surely he realizes that forces monogamy isn't going to happen. So what is he...

No. You have to blow somebody up.

Commune and reinforce. Actually pretty scary.

If it saves white people, it's worth it. But so, how do these various groups influence events in the real world? Are we looking at a new kind of platf...

Alright. :)

I'm thinking that in the 19th Century men enjoyed a seller's market. Women could enter into business, but only if married. Women couldn't own property...

Pow!

Depends. If you're young and totally naive, you bare your chest and run straight into the swords. After you've been righteously torn to shreds, a litt...

It's the journey, not the destination. Unless it's the destination.

Dreyfus has a chart for how "ontic" and "ontology" are used in various circumstances. I'm not getting it, though. I think I'm going to cruise on and c...

You're right. "Ontology" is being used in weird way. I need a flowchart.

Try capitalizing that.

We don't know how people learn to speak. There's reason to believe that latent abilities are activated by social interaction. Let's not just pull a sc...

What counts as a societal problem? For an existentialist, social practices are embraced mindlessly, but important aspects of intelligibility emerge fr...

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Do you mean "intention" in a Husserl sort of way? Interesting that you bring up faith. Faith isn't a universal feature of religion, is it? It's import...

I imagine it's the same. Misery can be a product of attitude just as much as circumstances. The OP was aiming more at the value we attach to truth. It...

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If you happen to smile at a person who's going through hell and barely hanging on, it could mean a lot. Would it matter if the context of the hell is ...

Cool. Thank you.

You're associating freedom with reality as Moliere did. Assuming you have greater freedom outside a dream or matrix, what value do you find in that fr...

Given that we probably often do assign belief as an explanation for events that may not have involved any thought at all, that doesn't mean I can't si...

Cypher was guaranteed wealth and power for betraying his friends.

The similarity between the lives of twins separated at birth is just one sign that much of what defines a person is innate. My greater peeve about thi...

What do you mean by "person" when you say it's socially constructed? If you mean that society is ontologically prior to persons, I don't see how that ...

True. I was talking about the choice Cypher made. I think it's true that we associate adversity with reality.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Hammers have a purpose. A person doesn't. A hammer doesn't reflect upon its own existence. More Heidegger dammit!

Money is a good example of a social construction. I have no idea how a person is constituted or instituted. That the idea of a person is logically tie...

MC Hammer?

We don't need no metaphysics.

This is the heavy-weight answer, I think. To be or not to be, right?

His body probably would. Is he nothing but a body? What is the difference between Cavacava and a hammer?