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- Actually if you read the OP you will see that Epicurus had a strong notion of unnatural human desires. So did Aristotle, the Stoics, and the Christi...

Let me agree with your last sentence for the sake of argument and pose a related question: Was that we say "Elizabeth Windsor" a matter of fiat when s...

But, "Elizabeth Windsor is now deceased," connotes either 1) Elizabeth Windsor no longer exists in bodily form, or 2) Elizabeth Windsor no longer exis...

Presumably he is referring to the movements. An awake person and a sleeping person differ in quantity of movement. An awake person and a corpse also d...

Fair point. I think in this case (and others) Descartes may have exacerbated a distinction that already existed. First, I do not say, "I have a body,"...

I think a better word than "different" would have been "estranged." Mind is different from body. Self is different from other. It is a particular form...

I'm not so sure. The Cartesian sense of dualism is mind/world. The linguistic sense of dualism is me/everything else. For instance, the linguistic inh...

It's true. I agree. :blush: Thomism is actually a very large phenomenon, with lots of different schools and quasi-schools. Not a lot of it engages cri...

My earlier post related to this, viz. that we do not suppose that the human and the corpse have the same identity. That is the first question at stake...

An interesting quote that I saw posted elsewhere. I am not overly familiar with Lonergan (a transcendental Thomist): The claim here is that Kant follo...

- Great, thanks. I grabbed a pdf copy and will be sure to give it a read.

Okay, that sounds pretty similar to NodeBB. I can neutralize the logic of reputation so that it does not trigger any events or rewards, and I can remo...

That is a fair post and I can agree with much of it. If I tried to engage the points of your last paragraph in detail I am sure I would quickly move b...

I was thinking of hitches that could be preempted, and one thing did come to mind. It seems that your users aren't fond of the reputation system. For ...

Even from generation to generation? What if the span of time is 2000 years rather than 200 years? I am a moral realist, but I am doubtful of the idea ...

"Why is rational agreement so elusive?"

Cool. I think that's all you need. Sounds good. :up:

I think we are probably in agreement, but in order to argue for your position and propose mediation for the conflict of interests, I would need to des...

Sweet. :up: So on NodeBB a lot of the customization comes through themes and plugins, which can be substituted, created, shared, etc. But the access t...

Thanks, I did miss that addition. Yes, and those entrenched spats make these political situations exponentially more complex. So I think you are right...

Yes, and one way to look at this is the difference between a right and a legitimate interest. Interests can come into conflict and must be balanced, b...

That's fair enough. I did not see <this post> before I wrote my first post to you. As soon as I saw it, I edited my first post to ask about it, but yo...

It seems that way, but I think politics gets murkier. Also, I want to stick to your original phrasing of a justified cause rather than a just cause ("...

Plush seems like it's working pretty well. I really like the feature where I can click on the title bar and return to the post I just quoted. My conce...

Good, that's all I wanted. It's a fine argument, and I agree. It's just not non-metaphysical. I just don't understand why this always has to be like p...

Eh, but my initial post to you asserted that Realism is not "metaphysics-free," to use your phrase. You responded by eschewing metaphysics and pointin...

So do I. Of course not. Do you? You seem to claim the power to shoot down metaphysical claims from a metaphysics-free rooftop.

All I am seeing are thin double-standards about what is shite and what is not, or what is metaphysical and what is not.

Well you appealed to "realism and common usage," but the relevant question is whether you made a counterclaim in response to a metaphysical claim. Wit...

I basically agree with your position vis-a-vis Kant, but I don't think it is right to associate metaphysics with Kant and dissociate it from Realism. ...

Thanks , that's great stuff. :up: I think I agree with most all of what you say, and the categorization of the different kinds of knowledge as express...

These debates about the nature of the mind can get tricky. As I understand it, Greek writers will commonly use dianoia to indicate the more discursive...

Not all acorns become oaks.

Yes, but this is not so unusual. I have never used a BBCode editor that supports all possible BBCode tags.

You are committing the fallacy of affirming the consequent, claiming that because reason is ordered to truth therefore (all) truth must be derivable f...

Haha - yes, I agree with all of that. I have three instances of NodeBB running locally, one on Postgres. NodeBB was originally built with MongoDB, but...

To be frank, you should know that as a rule I am not going to respond to you, and this post exemplifies the reason why. With limited time, I am forced...

The interesting thing here is that Aquinas is rather precise about when a revealed premise* is being used and when it is not. This reflects not only h...

You stitched four clauses together and added a double serving of non sequitur for taste? This is why I don't often respond to your posts.

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Right - the corollary here is that morality is not an all-or-nothing affair. The pacifist can claim that all bombing is wrong, but no one is rationall...

This is such an important point, and it runs right through all of this to the very bottom. Incidentally, this is the moral import of killing babies: i...

- Wonderful data here, thank you. This is basically why I chose to focus on Python/Django with Javascript on the side, but I was using secondary sourc...

I used to write Ruby on Rails and Flash, among other things. This year I decided to try to brush up, so I did some things in Python and Django, with m...

Yes, as often as Sophists operate. Who said anything about revelation? You're engaged in axe-grinding. You can attempt to give an argument for such a ...

Interesting. I have a hard time pinning Plato down. Like @"Fooloso4" said, the dialogues are very nuanced, and say different things at different times...

Hello @"fdrake". I see that you are away and I don’t mean to resuscitate this conversation, but I do want to say one thing in the manner of a concludi...

Given that armament factories are not usually found in residential neighborhoods, I see no reason to assent to your claim that Group B's actions smash...

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Okay, so you assert that final causes are reducible to Aristotle's other causes. Does not adaptive feedback presuppose final causality? It would seem ...