I know. Have you ever listened to Musk himself? There is lots of video interview footage available online. I think he recently did a long interview wi...
Be afraid? This was a photoshopped joke post on Twitter/X captioned, "Let that sink in." Musk was a just three years ago. Now he has been demonized fo...
- We're not. It's fairly obvious that the philosophy goes on. If someone posts a thread arguing that conscious minds do not exist, we do not close the...
Revising all one's beliefs is not perfectly easy. I said changing a societal belief from X to Y would have radical implications. You replied that "one...
"Can still believe" is not a good test. For example, someone who does not believe that humans have greater dignity than animals "can still believe" th...
I think Americans are tired of institutional capture, faceless politicians, and demagoguery. Harris is a creation and puppet of the DNC; Trump is a th...
"You are presupposing a conscious mind, but I deny a conscious mind." So has this person stopped doing philosophy? Nope, in fact they haven't. The phi...
Why think this? Different beliefs often lead to different behavior. A pragmatist could argue for a belief on the basis of a desired behavior, as you s...
Nah. It has to be ad hominem here]. But it's worth remembering that not everyone votes. Historically speaking, voter turnout was high, but less than 2...
Good post. This is a clear representation of the variety of univocity that I would oppose. I don't think we have to pick a poison. They are different ...
No, you didn't. And if you want to say something like that then I would ask you what philosophy of mind studies. I don't think your arguments are very...
@"fdrake" has tried to force things into his set theoretic paradigm. It is unnatural but also unreflective, given that it fails to consider why set th...
Does the psychologist think theories of motivation need to be justified? If the answer is "yes," then the psychologist is involved in performative con...
I can sympathize with this. @"J" has an interest in how debates ever come to an end and how intersubjective agreement is ever established. These dialo...
Solipsism would be but one example of a philosophical position which denies the claim that there are independent minds, and therefore that there is an...
The deeper truth here is Aristotle's mean. One can run from "over-generalization" to the opposite error, but the truth lies in neither over-generaliza...
Your argument seems to say something very different: (7) does not seem to follow. Indeed the opposite would follow, where "philosophical" is replaced ...
Note too how your logic here is invalid as it hitches up to your argument. "If philosophy is not relevant to some domain, then philosophy is not relev...
This is a good example of the problematic set-theoretic assumptions you are working from. Is the engine car related to the train? Is H20 related to bi...
Something like that. In every discipline other than philosophy there are unallowed criticisms of the form, "You are presupposing X, but I deny X." For...
I don't see these as problems. There are two conceptions of philosophical foundationalness in this thread. The first says that philosophical justifica...
I don't think your sentence here is grammatically coherent. Not sure what it is supposed to mean. Same with your argument given earlier. When you try ...
Who cares about your "world standards" (which conveniently and arrogantly exclude most of the world)? The point you were responding to had to do with ...
"If the Democrats move left they would only be centrist in Europe, therefore such a move would not make them left." The U.S. is not Europe. This is no...
"Majority of Americans support mass deportations" (CBS). Trump's love of tariffs is idiosyncratic from all political angles, true. But because of that...
I'm not opposed to that, but what I said was the opposite. I don't think I've left that nearly as unexamined as you have. You seem to be committed to ...
- It's not a subset, it's a ratio (Latin). We could study a deer according to its totality, and we could study a deer according to its aspect of movab...
Why does the study of being qua motion (physics) implicate the study of being qua being (metaphysics)? Because motion is a kind of being. I am putting...
I see this as fairly simple. There is a context of all contexts and that which pertains to it is what we call "philosophy." You are relying on a very ...
- :up: The elites navigated the 2008 financial crisis extraordinarily well, but the "morality card" has now been overplayed and the broader political ...
Are you claiming that knowledge does not exist outside mathematics? I don't see why "the elements being less well-defined" results in any serious prob...
Okay. In that case I agree with you that, "...the starting point of philosophy is in fact the realization that its inquiries cannot be brought to an e...
The parties are in disarray. 2016 saw two populists make waves, Trump and Sanders. If I recall, when Sanders was checked by the powers of the DNC, 4/1...
Yes, I think we are on the same page. I was thinking of that as justification, but as your post indicates, if an answer to an inquiry cannot be defini...
Sure, but isn't it that there is no end because there are no presuppositions? If an inquiry requires support and presuppositions are the ultimate supp...
It is left-leaning to simply assume that something is homophobic, transphobic, or racist, which is precisely what you are doing in failing to address ...
:lol: I see it more as an aside, since your OP is not centered on this topic. My first post only touched on it in my first two sentences. I don't know...
Yep. And this has become built-in to culture in a remarkable way. I think of movies like The Matrix. The odd thing is that the DNC hasn't at all figur...
- Right, but I am uncomfortable with viewing the presuppositionaless-ness of philosophy as "an argumentative trick." There is something substantive ab...
Good post. I may have fallen too far behind in this thread, but I don't think we have to choose between logic and physics to explain such an argument....
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