That's a possible interpretation. The latter question assumes that if there is a God, then the reason God is not experienced by those God is not exper...
There, you just did it again. You told me a fact about me. I am not you. I am outside you. You didn't say it appears to me that you do not have knowle...
I actually hit this at a very abstract level. Anything self-evident, it seems to me, will only be that to some people. But OK, here's a few.... In for...
Depends on what power it has and is able to create for itself over time and how it considers those it might or might not cooperate with. An AI might b...
Right, but you need metaphysical ones in epistemology. That things can be understood, that there are natural laws, ideas about the relation of perceiv...
Interesting. (wasn't your forum I mentioned, though that should be clear since the topic wasn't physics). I didn't realize Kuhn got so skeptical about...
I remember once being the the philosophy forum of a science forum. I brought up an issue about the cause of a medical condition. The condition was con...
Since philosophical includes metaphysics I would obviously agree with those sentences, but I see no reason, for example, to say that cosmology is obvi...
Yes, the word 'observation' is key. Or to look at what 'empirical' means.It's not science. It's something else. Even if it is possible, it's not what ...
But that's a bit like saying science is not a language. Well, yes, but uses one. Or Science is data. Well, yes, but...Science is not perception. Scien...
Which is such a bizzarre idea. All their conclusions are based on, well, experience. Or, they are based on direct intuition. Either way, since they wo...
Which is already a kind of metaphysical assumption. And if we take in multiverse type models, it might be, in a sense or more than that, incorrect. Bu...
OK, sure. I also think that people view things as if they have a bird's eye view, rather than being people in situ, waking up and depending on memory ...
Then positivism will end up being self-contradictory, since it makes a number of ontological assumptions and conclusions. You really can't avoid that ...
Is that conclusion based on scientific research? If not why should anyone accept it? Scientists have philosophies. The issue is how good is it? Could ...
I don't think that's true. A lot of the current political ideas on the Left now, I worked with back in the 80s in one of the subcultures where these w...
I certainly agree with the epistemological argument. IOW I agree that what it argues is the case. I don't agree that it's what people mean or at least...
You set a causal chain in motion. You made a choice to try to convince people of something. If you do this this leads to consequences, and ones which ...
This is the problem. The solution is not to shame everyone into thinking that, say, not having a parent who beats you makes you less moral, good, enti...
Sure, there are so many things you do not explain or give concrete examples for when I ask and you often do not respond to core points I make. I am gl...
It's still not clear to me why you keep bringing in math. It seemed like you were saying that certain things were simply true in math, period. I point...
And I would add that putting forward anti-natalism and trying to convince others of it risks causing harm. Not just in causing guilt, but if a success...
It is certainly true that one can say a lot of stuff in philosophy, get it published somewhere, and it may not be useful or insightful. The anti-spam ...
Putting them in quotes indicates they are not you. Just as we take what you wrote without quotes as you. It would be odd of us to assume that when you...
That's not the point of what he or she said. It seemed implicit that people were begging. That this is response of, say, minorities to mistreatment. H...
My point was, again, that something you seem to be putting forward as the only way something can be taken, isn't the only way. I am not exactly sure w...
Perhaps I misunderstood what you were up to. I was affected by the comment that if you tell a geometrist that the angles of a triangle don't add up to...
OK. I didn't recognize the phrase 'toxic to me' I can see now it's a reasonable paraphrase of what you originally wrote. Next time a direct quote inst...
OK, seems a stretch to me to assume I meant everything and not that last portion, but fine, I get how you took it now. In any case I saw those quaitie...
It wasn't the harshness, which I took as aimed at the idea, not at him. It was the conclusion. Even if we do not think there are objective or universa...
yes corporate personhood is another horror. and the fact that corporate charters are no longer seen as priviledges that can be revoked. Conservatives ...
Even with geometry there is non-euclidian geometry, and, in fact the latter has turned out to be useful in describing reality in science. So even what...
I think worse undermining of democracy comes from campaign finance, lobbying, consolidation of the media, and revolving doors between industy and gove...
Insects don't have empathy, as far as I can tell. Humans do. Humans are social mammals. So we take into account emotional effects on ourselves and oth...
Sure, but that's not morals, that's practical. I think it's more like there are no morals that are objective. We have no way to determine if suicide, ...
Please show how I proved your point. You seem to be confusing the merits of a position with the behavior of the adherents. I was writing about the lat...
As long as we are defining consciosness as 'experiencing' or 'awareness' it seems obvious to me that there is no dependency on language. Babies are cl...
Well, if you want to include epistemology in metaphysics then it is completely and utterly true, without controversy, that science has metaphysics, wh...
Yes, but it's not the same kind of knowledge. It's an agreement with others on how we will use a word. Like if we are discussing 'what is consciousnes...
Epistemology is the rules/viewpoints on how we know things, not metaphysics. And it doesn't seem like you responded to any of the points made or what ...
I thought I responded to what I cited, and that in context. I haven't read the other long posts, just glanced at them. I can't see how snake pit is mu...
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