I don't think they really care, often. I don't mean they necessarily consciously know and decide not to weigh the consequences, though I do think this...
Honestly, I don't know. I have been hopping sides of the fence in the thread and I am not sure what my position is on hate speech, nor do I have a wor...
Any type of language use can be misused. I'd need to see a reason to eliminate any particular type of usage. There is no reason a person cannot challe...
I would think that ordering torture and other war crimes are not merely speech acts, but the use of power. I can see why they might be good examples t...
I couldn't find, despite going back through the discussion, the reason you brought up Fukishima, but since you did I must add the following: this was ...
Tell that to a rape victim or an abused child. I notice that we are always supposed to accept what is outside us, but when it comes to emotions we lab...
or it isn't. When we say something is possible, in these kinds of situations, it can have two meanings which often get conflated. One is a factual und...
A few more examples: I got these primarily from two sources.... https://blog.logos.com/2016/10/quickly-find-every-rhetorical-question-bible/ https://m...
I still don't understand the threat of rhetorical questions. I see you citing the NT above. The Bible uses metaphorical language, which also can lead ...
There certainly is a faction that thinks this, but it's a silly conclusion. Why throw away tools or facets of ourselves (emotions, desires) that have ...
One irony is that people who are for the censorship of hate speech spend time telling each other negative things about him. IOW not just Terrapin's ar...
This all arose from your statement. he is asking you for more information about your position and instead of going into that, you 'turn it around'. Th...
I did address this and other issues, not just the Shakespeare, in the previous post. (It was actually Browning and I fixed that error). It seems like ...
I guess to me it's similar to a trope. Like my husband is a lion. Well we know he's not actually a lion. We could look at the grammar and the verb and...
And here we get into the meaning of CAN and then the human use of this razor. I think it's a poor razor because it can often be good to explore what m...
There is at least one missing assumption here. First, just to be anally clear. I think you mean I should not make this claim without evidence. Since o...
I don't know where you found anything in my post that says you can't challenge the use of rhetorical questions. I disagree with you on the issue. I tr...
Languge is for us and we get to use it how we collectively like and even, often, how we individually like. It's cool that it sounds like a question, b...
I meant it as your hair was not on fire. So, the person is lying. If you believe, well that ought to be a strong reaction. If you don't then there oug...
That would be a very bad conclusion or rule. The evidence of the usefulness or accuracy of the axiom might come much later on, after the axiom is assu...
One person's self-evident truth is to another person an assumption without evidence. Axioms are assumed to be true for sake of argument, for example. ...
Just to be clear I used the phrase 'whether you believe it or not' with the 'it' referring to the assertion, in the hypothetical scenario, that your h...
Well, I certainly think that's possible, that one can know more about what is going on in another person than they do, but here I just mean that that ...
Yeah, that's in a welter of stimuli. Someone walks up to you in a not noisy corrider and says 'excuse me' pauses 'your hair is on fire' You might not ...
I think I even used the driving analogy - heck it might be more or less the same thing - myself a few posts ago.The beginning of this tangent was abou...
Sure, and thanks for working with what I am saying and nuancing your responses. I mean, this should be the rule, but it's actually rather rare. Like, ...
No, it wasn't justified in T Clark's own estimation. He told Khaled that if he wanted answers he would need to talk to someone else. Which means that ...
But that's a separate issue. It's as if you don't need to justify since he hasn't. If he has asserted it comes from other processes or sources, sure, ...
Sure, but I thought the whole idea was that you choose to make meanings. That someone saying 'the ape is on the loose' has no affect on you unless you...
If he presents the hypothesis that they do then he needs to demonstrate that, but he was asking you for evidence of your hypothesis.If you know you're...
Well, if someone starts talking to you about apes you will now be performing the act of thinking about apes. And the meanings of hte sentences will be...
Fine. I thought about that issue also. But still, to read something and to choose to construct the meanings of the words as they arrive would be, jeez...
The meaning is not in your consciousness. You not thinking about it before. And further what you are implying is that if you read any text and there i...
So, while you are reading my words here in this sentence you are choosing to have the meanings of these words arise in your mind. And if I mentioned b...
The point I perhaps ineffectively was making was that as humans, in situ, finding out for ourselves must always be doubted if we believe in determinis...
Or it just seems that way and you are utterly determined to think it is so and to base this on utterly determined memories and utterly determined qual...
There was certainly theism before Christianity, since Christianity flowed out of Judaism. We know from shamanic and indigenous cultures that people ha...
It doesn't make it more likely that it exists for you, but it might make it more rational for them to believe. Their beliefs could be based on their e...
So when the religious people enact homophobic speech or worse, or control women, or do any of a number of things that one might consider evil, it is r...
Agreed, but currently the divisiveness is extremely binary. No nuance. Any quibbling over either sides political correctness and you are evil and lead...
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