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What happens if we're not?

Isn't part of the calculation our own pessimism or optimism? The more deathly pessimistic a person is, the more they'll attribute evil to the path tha...

I can't help you with either question. I can just say that there have been those who found the kind of labor exploitation that took place in the 19th ...

What do you mean?

Large scale change happens because of seismic shifts in political, economic, or natural environments. Somebody invented iron, or a new trade route to ...

True, but if the tide turns in favor of progressivism, inertia will support that, for better or worse.

Marxist alienation is when a person lives contrary to human nature. I think.

So we should save the elk from being eaten by wolves?

Inertia works for both sides.

If anything is permissible, there is no reason to preserve the status quo. Expressed as an aphorism, if anything goes, there's no telling what we'll d...

Every time I have a headache I wonder if that might have been covid.

There was a small possom in my bedroom closet this morning. It's like a prehistoric rat. I trapped it and let it go in the front yard. Hopefully it wi...

Some expert said everybody on the planet is going to get covid eventually.

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I think this is true. If you think about your own metaphysical leanings, do you detect emotion? What are they? What are they connected to?

I think Russia's goal may have been to lower their unemployment rate.

You're either delusional or enlightened, but too cryptic to tell.

You don't hope for anything?

:cool:

Since the war started at the end of February, Ukraine has destroyed about 10 Russian tanks per day.

They can be detected while you're awake. Wars break out between them. It's bad joo joo. That's my experience anyway. They aren't two dimensional. They...

But dramas involving mothers and fathers are much bigger and older. My persona is tiny by comparison. If you see a symbol of one of those cosmic sized...

Bloch was a staunch supporter of Stalin up until Kruschev's denouncement of the monster. Somehow that's part of his philosophy of hope, isn't it?

Was the point that Trump isn't responsible for Jan 6?

I agree. The basis of metaphysics is often emotion: the hidden fuel that drives philosophical conflict. Philosophy without metaphysics might be philos...

Yea, but they fight them with drones.

If we had conscription and more conventional wars, the number of school shootings would decrease (in the US anyway).

I think you're wedded to the idea that there is one “Christian" metaphysics (unless I'm misunderstanding you.) Early Christians lived in the so-called...

How is that related to what I said?

Doctors invented subjectivity when they adopted the idea of mental illness vs physical illness. "Physical" was originally a reference to the human bod...

That was their metaphysics.

Nah. Medieval Christians thought hell was underground because of volcanos and they thought heaven was a rigid dome up above us: the firmament.

You're ignorant of the facts.

We're talking about their worldview. That's Homer, not Aristotle.

Ohhh yes.

The stuff we call "inner" they called divine. They thought the universe was alive with lust and arrogance. We say those things only reside between our...

Up-down, left-right, cold-warm, old-new, big-little, intriguing-boring, violent-peaceful.

AP: Analytical philosophy. A fair chunk of AP as it relates to truth revolves around Tarski. I didn't refer to any specific article.

I didn't say anything about its explanatory potency. You don't appear to know the basics of the philosophy of truth, so we're even. :razz:

I'm open to being corrected, but I don't think we can imagine changing the rules of natural language the way we can imagine changing a formal system.

I think we're broadly in agreement.

It's not me splitting the hairs. AP gets very specific about what a sentence is when comparing Tarski's project to ordinary language use. If you wande...

I'm sure it is good for many purposes. But a solution that's subject to revision is not a strong solution. I don't propose that they change anything.

And this makes a world of difference. If we can evaluate it by ordinary standards, the paradox stands.

A sentence is no more than a string of words that conforms to some linguistic rules. Once you add context you have more than just the sentence. You ha...

No, we don't. A sentence has to be contextualized by some form of utterance to qualify as a truthbearer. I think you'll need more weight than this off...

P-zombies are specifically stipulated as appearing to be normal people.

In the real world we don't use sentences as truth bearers. I don't think we need to break from ordinary language use in assessing Russell's paradox. I...

I don't think a p-zombie would claim to be one. She doesn't understand what her deficiency is.

Demand destruction is a side effect of high inflation. An example is that stores are ending up with a lot of unsold fruit because it's so high in pric...