Ø implies everything

Well, first I just want to ground your question; I think it is (ultimately) a response to this: So, to answer the question as I interpreted it; the pr...

There is something we can do about it, yeah. But will we? This all spawned as a worry about what automation will do to our society. If I was talking s...

As I said in my comment to @"Metaphysician Undercover", a line must be drawn, and I don't know exactly how. It is a tough question. One thing I find c...

No assumptions; from an absolutely skeptical standpoint. It may seem impossible to derive any propositions from no assumptions, but I believe I have. ...

I would not say ontological naturalism is in alignment with common sense. I believe dualism is the most common-sensical notion among laypeople, and on...

The way I categorize objective idealism and subjective idealism is the following way: You, under no hallucination, look at a tree, and then you look a...

I see. Would you say your style of epistemological idealism is really just ontological idealism, but based on epistemological grounds instead of ontol...

Objective idealism is not postulating an object that can (perhaps) never be encountered by a subject. It is saying that there is an all-experiencing s...

It seems the term naturalism is a bit vague (see this SEP article). I think we should explicate what we mean by the term. When I used naturalism in re...

It's hard to say where the line goes, but subjecting yourself to boredom has a benefit. The benefit from the tedium of performing long division howeve...

I like how you quoted my cat joke xD Although I am very worried about AI in general, I am not so worried that the text coming my way belongs to humans...

Noticed that my Latin grammar was wrong, so I've edited the quoted text. I hope the message you received has not been affected.

And, it bites less!

Objective idealism, if mind is considered necessary for the mental to exist, does entail a mind at large, as Bernando Kastrup puts it. Adding a few qu...

As a proposition, the sentence does not convey that I am convinced of anything. As a statement, one could argue that the omission hints at a lack of p...

Well, my own cat is quite proficient at the act of stroking keys, so I'm always wondering if there's truly a human behind all those blocks of texts th...

I'm not quite sure I get what you mean. I might seem to be overly literal in my confusion, but their efforts cannot literally be the previous groundin...

As is your feline nature :P

You point to a tough challenge for idealism. In some ontologies based on objective idealism, all thinkable, perceivable and feelable objects exist reg...

Well, I have many questions regarding how to grasp anything as an object of cognition, but I do not think that the category of the mental poses a lot ...

Out of curiosity, what do you consider reasonably polite and sincere?

It seems we probably share quite similar ideas of the self. Though, my ideas are quite vague and underdeveloped, still.

Yeah, that's definitely true for my over-thinking ass.

That's good to know :) At least I know I won't be breaking any rules by this, and I'll simply have to figure out some decision procedure to help me ba...

xD brilliant

True that, but the philosophical spirit is tender and can lose its oomph under enough pressure. Having an external structure outside of it to force it...

Yeah, I see that. Such a practice could perhaps imply that one wasn't so interested in the first place, which would violate point a) of Starting a New...

Yeah, I agree with that. There are posts I have yet to reply to because I've gotten distracted or because I need to do more research to reply. And som...

You do point out something important there. If I cultivate the feeling that I am obligated to answer, then I am more likely to produce replies for the...

Haha, you're not too cynical. Although you were wrong in this instance, I would have suspected the same in your shoes. Thanks for replying to my quest...

I see, thank you. Extending my question beyond issues of moderation, is lazily choosing to not answer going against the site's normative etiquette/eth...

Hey, I have a question. Is it a violation of point 2 in Site Guidelines to not answer a comment due to being too lazy to deal with a view one has judg...

@"Wayfarer" Are IDs generated by the email account used to sign-up with? If so, cannot email accounts be automatically blocked? In any case, banned ID...

On what basis?

Ah I see. Well, I hoped that the prior (and possible future) existence of trees in my metaphor were taken for granted by analogy to the real world. In...

To say that the relation R does not hold between a and b is not the same as saying b does not exist; in fact, if anything, saying \neg(aRb) only impli...

Who said there is nothing for them to go into? There is, and that is precisely why the axe becomes the hammer.

If there are no trees to cut, but instead, only nails bereft of a wooden embrace; is the axe a chopper or a hammer?

If you are very fluid in your ability to shift between semiotic mappings, then you are good at pushing aside previous groundings of signifiers so as t...

Well, I am in that boat, but only reluctantly so. I have been able to derive things from the empty set of assumptions, and as such, I might be able to...

Let me guess; you get paid with gratitude?

A fine choice of rodent. I prefer Capybaras though.

One does not necessarily need an argument. What if the misanthrope simply values all non-human life more than humanity, and thus their anti-natalist v...

Oh, you get paid to be a moderator here? That's amazing, especially given that there are no ads.

There is definitely much value inherent in this process. It exercises many things; one's discipline, one's ability to comprehend and reason, one's abi...

The four stages of certainty.

As in, they have nested interpretations at different levels of depth?

Says the guy whose joke included a koan. Then again, if koans aren't supposed to make sense, can they really be complicated? I guess if they're nonsen...

You assume humanity is the foot; what if the life on Earth in general, and/or some notion of nature, is the foot in which humanity is the thorn?

As someone who finds sports gruesomely boring, and given the tradition of forcing sport upon men as necessary part of masculinity which is then later ...