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Of course. Externalism is great. Let's say it demolishes solipsism. By that same method, solipsism will slay externalism. There is no sociality withou...

It's not a matter of details. Note the meaning of "sociality". Like left and right, north and south, it only means something relative to it's opposite...

I agree with Witt about metaphysics, it's fun to play with (speaking of toys :razz: ), but it's beyond the limits of informative language use. I get t...

I'm sure they do. Care to do a reading of the Tractacus? Again, you're trying to deploy externalism against it. That's only satisfying until you reali...

But this goes for realism and every other type of ontology. You can't use externalism as a weapon against solipsism. Externalism and realism are forms...

It's this from the Tractacus: 5.63 I am my world. This is more thoroughly explained by Schopenhauer, but Wittgenstein shows how it's nonsense (not to ...

Probably. :grin:

If there's a claim, there's a claimant. Any psychological position you take, whether it's transcending society, transcending time, transcending Everyt...

I believe that too. It seems logical. I need the Other because without it, I'll lose definition and fade into everything. If you recall, I brought thi...

You're free to share your proof with others once you prove it to yourself. Point is, if you proved to your own satisfaction that the world goes beyond...

The Other can be manufactured. Happens all the time.

I think the challenge is to disprove it to oneself. There's no way to do that. I can easily disprove your solipsism, though. I'm here.

Again, I think this is more hypothesis than conclusion of an argument, isn't it?

This assumes he doesn't talk to himself. Why would you think that?

:cool: Maybe. How would we know this is what's happening? This is what irritates me about realism. It builds castles in the sky and hands them to you,...

I don't find solipsism to be sad. I'm not sure why I haven't won the lottery yet, but I guess I have my reasons. I'm also not sure how I can exist wit...

That just sounds like indirect realism with a little skepticism sprinkled on top. That's a limited view of idealism.

Yes. They both posit that the universe is alive and conscious. Solipsism denies anything beyond the content of a single mind. In other words, there is...

I wonder if the tipping point they're talking about is where the loss of Antarctica's albedo effect causes positive feedback on warming. Once that sta...

Courts aren't always necessary:Holocaust reparations Sometimes it helps: Native American settlement

The question was about whether the state, the guarantor if property rights, can be guilty of theft (as NOS4A2 accused). The answer is: yes.

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This is a weekend project for me.

So it's not just idealism you see as problematic. It's realism as well.

What serves as your stable foundation?

Nothing wrong with that To avoid solipsism, yes.

They can just posit that there are other minds if they want to. Realists do that. Nobody actually tries to apply logic to whether there are other mind...

Interesting.

NOS4A2 has already made one poster fall ass backwards into that one. Good to see you're not as stupid.

I think you're saying that property rights only mean something in the context of community. You don't want to argue that we can't make mistakes and di...

Doesn't this have some impact on the kinds of societies we build? I don't know. What do you think?

I think what you're saying is that there is no consensus regarding the morality of ignoring people in need. Therefore we have a lot of them. That's wh...

We can agree it's not right to ignore people in need without establishing the status of morality, can't we? Pretty much the same thing.

They could definitely use a little more gravitas.

Abortion is an exception to the rule. We generally agree on moral principles like: it's not right to ignore people in need. There's a whole philosophy...

I misunderstood then. Earlier in this thread, NOS4A2 manipulated Isaac into saying that a Nazi attack on Jews was ok. Amorality on the part of the maj...

Focusing on your own values is relativism?

I would say the Democrats want a presence in the Pacific. There's no telling what the Republicans want. I don't think they have any coherent foreign p...

It's worth noting that the American taxation system is presently reinforcing wealth disparity. Only a fool would let an anarchist paint them into the ...

Not sure what the strategic interest in Taiwan is. Pelosi is like, "Whatcha gonna do about it?"

1. Does one have a right to one's earnings? Of course. 2. Is taxation theft? It can be, as in the case of the Nazis placing a special tax on Jews, or ...

That's the wrong answer.

The actual coins and paper are, but the government's backing turns that into money.

All well said. But what about that perspective from which we see the self and knowledge as residents of a social complex: is this perspective the 'foo...

Not even for national defense?

Let's not do that, ok?

Without the Other, the "I" would... what? Disintegrate?

Actually the OP doesn't say that at all.

What about the intellect, the ego (the "I"), and the self. Do you think they're explainable?

No. I was just killing two birds with one stone: contributing to this topic and preparing to edit a poorly written Wikipedia page. That page used sour...