Least risky right off the bat is an incredibly hard thing to track. But I assume you would be against parents buyng kids skateboards, since these are ...
And further if we look at the past normal would now often be diagnosable. And to put this another way, I think there is implicit in the contrast betwe...
Actually I wasn't worried so much about the kids imitating. I think it is a myth that the drugs are necessary for their art. I am sure that the drugs ...
Well, yes. But it seemed like you framed my first response as weighing in on solid/liquid issues. I wasn't. I just went back to my original reaction b...
I wouldn't say we have an illness, but we are affected by nurture. If mommy says trees are dangerous and screams when she see them, children will deve...
Since the discussion is metaphysics, I would like to second the implicit ontology in this sentence. I think the primary substance is confusion. Occasi...
Well, it's not the entire culture, and there are degrees of it. And some cultural things do not create anxiety, they can create just joy or fun, or ar...
We can keep the distinction up. Collective neuroses and individual neurosis. I think these are different phenomena. I just want the collective behavio...
Though in a sense it is an unfair distinction. You are pathologizing people who have neuroses that are not shared socially with other people, allowing...
I do understand that people doing those things are not diagnosed as neurotic. I am arguing that they are neurotic. That these are cultural neurosis. I...
This description, which I am not disagreeing with, has parallels with a lot of traditions, cultural habits and normal behavior. For example, all sorts...
But I just gave you a rea...oh, damn. This new style of yours, now including humility...it's cruel, brutal. I've never felt so weak and ineffective......
Actually yes. I think if the person espoused racist views by presenting arguments in favor of their positions, other people should respond by pointing...
I think both anti-natalists and at least one anti-anti-natalist were pretty insulting. I didn't mean just anti-natalists. But it seems like some issue...
You could be skeptical, focus on their justification or lack of it. Point out logic flaws or unsupported assumptions. Avoid calling them or their idea...
Might be two crimes. At the very least cutting your penis off in public would get you taken into custody. Putting in someone's lap would be a crime. O...
I think it is a part of a larger issue. Much of the problematic behavior can be seen, for example, in antinatalist threads or even with metaphysics (a...
epistemology = épistémologie epistemologist = épistémologiste My guess is most native English language philosophers would understand the French pronou...
because knowledge is not an alternative to belief - according to what he said - but a subset of beliefs, a subset rigorously arrived at, however the i...
In philosophy there are a myriad of 'handlings' of knowledge. There are many, many different takes on what knowledge is and how it should be handled a...
:up: + I would add or perhaps stress that there are metaphysical assumptions in place underlying current understandings, models and what is consider p...
or on the behalf of oil companies and the arms industry. Or a mad politician. Or partly on racism, partly for the finance industry and partly because ...
I got used to the eye and the eye got used to me someone needs to be watched from birth until I die Who is the I that needs to be eyed Surely not a go...
Yeah, sure. I wasn't really disagreeing (I don't think). I just decided to come into the thread in response to you. I had this sneaking feeling if I s...
The thesis, not yours, but the question in the thread is so binary. Let's say it's some soldier fighting what is basically a muddle of a war, like WW1...
Hey, maybe. It would have to have some way to be matter that shows certain attributes that include 'responsiveness, growth, metabolism, energy transfo...
I am not concerned about philosophy's feelings or honor. I don't know what to say otherwise to someone who raises a number of concerns about knowledge...
And the East Germans had Stasi. Stasi was extremely effective, for the time, about finding out a lot of stuff about people. I am not sure East Germany...
Can you be honest and dishonest at the same time is a tighter question, I think. IOW it puts more pressure as a paradox. Lying and telling the truth a...
There's a lot of work on epistemology in philosophy. It is not that beliefs support them. I am not saying the knowledge is supported (or not) by belie...
We are humans, we are fallible. But can one gain knowledge via introspection? yes. Can people improve their use of introspection? I think they can. I ...
but it's not an either or situation. Scientists often work(ed) with a certain epistemic knowledge justification method while at the same time having m...
Earlier in our dialogue you responded that you had made a facetious comment about not having to read these authors to dismiss them. You clarified that...
Yes, I think that would be a metaphysical assumption. Especially, but not only, if it means in a complete sense or all parts of the natural world or a...
Not quite sure what you are saying in paragraph 2, but as far as my involvement I think paragraph 1 is not a good summation of what happened, which my...
Physicalism is not a field. I mean, not in the sense of physics or biology. And since he was expressing views I agreed with, I just went emotional. Pe...
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