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Only a statement can be true (or false). You're talking about truth. In your comment I'm literally missing the statement that needs to be true. What s...

Robert Macfarlane asks seriously if rivers have rights. I think this is an interesting question. If they do, are rivers non-human moral beings? Honest...

Is this "you" addressing me personally or is it a general rhetorical "you"? I'm not sure what you are arguing for or against -- or whether your commen...

Cooperation includes several dimensions and magnitudes, I think. It's not a "yes/no". • Short-term cooperation: Do just the bare necessities, forced b...

My hypothesis: Within a group there are usually a few alphas and many betas. The betas are unsure about how to behave. The alphas give the betas the i...

I think there's no universal moral, and that makes the whole morality question superfluous. Yes, there are certain moral elements that are very popula...

I think morality is qualitatively overrated. The normative "should" lies in the feelings and not in those man-made books. The Do is the Should, and th...

Because love and sex feel good.

Exquisite comparison. And the difference between the two trees is the concept of sin in the one plant and the absence of intimidation in the other.

Yes, I know Kant's categorical imperative. I find that concept useless. It might be of some use when implemented in A.I. though, as machines have no f...

I think the "good will" is useful as an excuse to avoid draconian penalties when something went wrong. As cooperation is an essential stabilization fa...

I find postmodernism one of the vaguest isms. It's so vague; one could actually drop the idea entirely.

I guess I understand your thoughts. Here's just a linguistic-technical question: In your text you use the words "I" and "my" for a non-existing entity...

I think Joe will choose that object of all available objects which will lead in summary to Joe's greatest satisfaction. If Joe feels satisfaction in p...

I meant the " Derangement Syndrome" in general. Did you get your diagnosis on this forum? Is it an inside joke?

Exactly my view. And I think this is true for non-human animals as well. A walking horse will not step on this bird that is sitting on the ground alon...

I see. Just checked Wikipedia. Hadn't heard of this "syndrome" before; I live outside the USA, haha.

I agree; I had the same thought and wanted to post a similar comment. It's a generalization of all thoughts that have ever occured. As if philosophy w...

I took a look at your forum profile where you list Donald Trump Jr. as one of your favourite philosophers, hehe. What "reflect/lead" ratio would you d...

I forgot to say that I consider the gentlemen I mentioned -- Popper, Russell, Kant, Epikouros, Sokrates -- in some of their works political too. Poppe...

I correct myself: I actually agree with you regarding the word "usually". I have the impression that most philosophers remain caught in their reflecti...

I think there are some philosophers that reflect and then lead. Popper, Russell, Kant, Epikouros, Sokrates ...

I think the evolution randomly varies the magnitude of the selfishness in the personality of each newborn. With this individual variation in our socie...

That's why I call it a hypothesis rather than a thesis. A thesis can be tested. A hypothesis doesn't claim to be testable as it's just an idea.

Reasoning is done by minds, yes. But reasoning is not a logical rule. In my view, reasoning is a subjective act and may lead to wrong results when cer...

I agree. Logic cannot be done; neither by a rock nor by anything else. You set a different premise than I do. Your premise is that logic is an action....

Is this statement meant as an empirical observation or as a logical rule? If it's empirical, I see no evidence. If it's logical, it stands transcenden...

What's the reason you think your hypothesis is true?

When my mind is blacked out, logic is still valid.

Reasoning is a process. Reason is not a process.

Nobody needs to start your off-topic race.

You mean the etymology of the word "Dimitri"?

In this context I understand "personal identity" as the identity by the person's biography which consists of much more than just the label "Dimitri". ...

If you compare the magnitude of two weights, the reference will be just that magnitude and no other attributes. Now it depends on whether or not you a...

Has any of these humans made it into the sky using their own wings? Your anthropocentrism is using the method of cherry picking. And your conclusions ...

It depends on the definition of that identified object. For example, the identified person is the one which is named Dimitri and which was born in Ath...

I think the Law of Identity, which is a tautology, is useful in analyses: "The person the photo refers to is identical to the person who wrote that le...

I think the subject is embedded within the phenomena; i.e. the subject is not an evacuated cinema visitor.

Absolutely. Every brain owner is curious. Humans are not the only brain owners. Curiosity is the motor of brain development. No curiosity, no brain.

If this thread is about the logical question why there is logic, then this thread is attempting an infinite regress, I think. If this thread is about ...

What's your definition of counting? Is counting an act outside the phenomenal plane? When I'm experiencing a 400 Hz tone, does this particular tone-qu...

To everyone who thinks logic and causality were the same. They are not. The trigger before the explosion is not a logical reason; it's a physical caus...

Interesting topic. Does logic have any empiricity anyway? On one hand, I assume that logic wasn't invented; it was discovered. Just like math, logic i...

Every day, every minute, true, semi-true, and untrue news become available. In order to be informed correctly, humans need to decide which news are th...

No, please reread my post. I'm talking about being influenced. You keep deviating from my point. And I now stop this dialog with you.

Yes, but only after you've learned it was a lie. You are diverting from my point. I'm talking about situations where you are being influenced by frien...

Bad example. You need to bring a complex example where your evaluation can fail. Now you can say you've never failed in your life and I won't believe ...

Yes, this is true. But you don't have 100 % control of your situation. Your situation is partially influenced by yourself and partially influenced by ...

So we conclude: The best solution is a compromise close to "almost unlimited freedom".

I'll add a second point: If you want to be immune against influence, you need to be -- like a machine -- completely free of emotions, so nobody can ma...