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You're not. I think you're giving @"J" and @"Banno" far too much credit. They are avoiding the questions being asked and failing to give arguments for...

This is the modus operandi of @"J" and @"Banno". Someone claims that there must be some criteria and in response there is an immediate equivocation be...

I think it is helpful to try to outline the two competing theses, but I'm not sure you're trying very hard. It looks like you attached a vacuous thesi...

But who is making that counter? Doesn't it just sound like a strawman on the face of it? And where in the thread do you find someone arguing for it? A...

Well, see: Banno is constantly making threads and posts that amount to, "Monism is authoritarian, and I won't say what I mean by 'monism' or 'authorit...

Too good. :lol: As a sophist it behooves you to avoid them. When you say something silly and another person points it out, apparently you think you ca...

Elsewhere @"Banno" considers such behavior to be "talking about others behind their back." What would happen if we held him to his own standards? The ...

If you were to remove the words, "final infallible," then you would be offering a real argument instead of a strawman. But I understand why you and @"...

If Banno's categories of "dissector" and "discourser" are just "metaphor," and all dissectors are also discoursers and all discoursers are also dissec...

Really? "Because it isn't," is probably not going to be satisfactory to anyone, anywhere. What everyone, everywhere, will want is a reason why. Can yo...

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Okay thanks. I may have been misunderstanding the EKM to some extent. I guess I am wondering how that abstract metaphor of a "machine" would be though...

As @"Fire Ologist" aptly points out, what you are doing here is providing a "narrative." Your narrative involves the claim that there are many differe...

Thanks for the overview of his works! I think this is the one I will read first, since it looks interesting and may dovetail with Simpson's book on Il...

We could think of a very simple example. "Trump dyed his hair brown!" "Why do you say that?" "Because I saw it on the news, from *this video*." "That ...

Good post. The idea is apparently that mathematics is systemically authoritarian (in the same way that something might be said to be "systemically rac...

Linguistically empathy implies a lack of differentiation between the two subjects whereas sympathy or compassion implies a retention of the differenti...

Why isn't this just the fallacy of denying the antecedent? I don't think this is what I am talking about. When I said, "They begin Our refutation ," I...

I was looking at his books. What books or articles would you recommend as a starting point? Clear and important points. :up:

Here is a general claim you make: <One should not accuse anyone of a moral deficiency which bears on their argumentation> You see this as "authoritari...

So the critic is actually a builder? That's your solution? "Critics don't need any builders, because they are builders too!" You are conceding my poin...

These are excellent quotes from D. C. Schindler both here and in your previous post. :up: I will have to look into him more closely. I don't think the...

- Sure, but is existence a form received by an essence? If existence is a form and an angel receives the form of existence, then the angel must have m...

Aquinas is claiming that an angel does not have matter, and therefore has no material parts, but that it does have a composition of essence + existenc...

Remember that we are talking about refuting someone's reason(s) (R) for belief (P). They begin: R ? P R ? P Our refutation is a refutation of R: R ? P...

That's the thesis, and you haven't defended it. You've just imputed bad ("authoritarian") motives wherever you like. I was hoping for more from that p...

Well that makes two of us. Okay - good to hear. Well how do you answer this question?

Yes, that's fair and I noticed you pointing that out. Interesting. I noticed it when I joined. Now I take it for granted. :grin: I think that's well s...

Yes, I think that's right. A closely related point, made by many authors, is that the masses do not reason in the way that philosophers reason. For ex...

This could be an interesting discussion. For now I will only add: Every determination is a negation, including the determination involved in the act o...

It would be hard to overemphasize the importance of what you say here. :up: :fire:

I agree, but let’s give the devil his due. I think it will be helpful, and it will also afford an opportunity to give an example of how to constructiv...

You're again doing that thing where you ignore the central conversation where you are having the most difficulty: We can't just paper over your invali...

Note too that in the past you have claimed that, "This sentence is false," is an example of a sentence that is both false and true simultaneously. So ...

Sure, but I never contested that and it doesn't intersect with what we were discussing in that line of the conversation. My question to you was litera...

Right. Chronologically and logically, assertion precedes dissection. :up:

I asked you what a critic is supposed to criticize if there is no builder, and in response you pointed to a critic who criticizes a builder. Do you se...

If nothing is built there is nothing to criticize. Without builders what do you say that the critics criticize? If the critics are to criticize themse...

Even on your premises, it remains true that bad arguments are better than nothing at all. The builders can exist without the critics. The critics cann...

Right, which turns out to be a problem for an OP that wants to prefer one over the other. First, I would point back to the twins. Again, one's activit...

In his reply Aquinas says that material things have a twofold composition, and immaterial things (namely creatures) have a "onefold" {my word} composi...

It's the same "arrogance" at play when you decide not to read or respond.

Why? Does poetry exist? Film? Music? The irony is that you are a highly "mystical" thinker. Analytic philosophy allows so little to be said that analy...

Did you have a point to make, or are you just gesturing without taking the risk of saying anything substantial? Edit: Ah presumably you are talking ab...

The thread required more energy and research than I possessed, but this synopsis was helpful. This post will be a bit tangential, and inevitably simpl...

I have a friend with twins. One loves to build things and the other loves to destroy things. The second is parasitic, and is out of luck if no one is ...

Thanks, that seems fair to me. Sorry if I was impatient - I did not appreciate that you were thinking through some of this for the first time. As an e...

- I agree. Good points and good posts. :up: The OP made me think of Isaiah Berlin's idea of, "The Hedgehog and the Fox," although it doesn't fit quite...

Why not? Do you have any valid arguments for this thesis? You say: Suppose I ask someone why they believe P. They answer, "Because I hold to S and S i...

Not true. No, not at all. My argument was never, "Every S implies every P." This is a strawman. Is it decidable? That is the question we are asking. S...