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Yes, I understand that obstacle. I suppose my problem with thinking this has any effect, whatsoever, on these conceptual analyses is that it is wholly...

This didn't help. LOL

The seem to constitute the origin of acts. As I laid out, plenty of horrid acts are not motivated by something bad. But some decent acts are. We can't...

That's a weird one - I don't see a tension between accepting that metaphysical discussion and lets call it 'moral' discussion can come to 'truths' and...

Fair response all round, thank you. How we convey scientific information. This could be how technical writing works, how semantics work in relation to...

LOL. From what I've seen the main argument in the last two pages has been that Banno thinks if there are things we don't currently know, then Antireal...

What? I have literally no clue what you're talking about. I'll try to just clarify what I was saying in hopes that's made-sense-of. What I am pointing...

Right, okay, that makes more sense, thanks. I personally find the "if but for" type of reasoning helpful here. "If but for the belief that negroes are...

The bolded appears to rely on the italicised. That appears quite problematic to me, and likely what Wayfarer is getting at, i think. But you are paten...

Is this also true of mathematics?

I don't think this is anything but disingenuous and inflammatory. I note you do not engage any criticism of your position, consistently.

I genuinely cannot quite understand what you're trying to say here. I don't mean that to be disparaging - it's probably me. It seems you're saying the...

It was just a comment on Agency - you can expect the world to conform to your reasonable, justifiable qualms (such as "I'm black, that shouldn't be a ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-s3vuXopS4 Super-late to hte Party, but Isbell is amazing.

Its not an opinion. Which is why 180 gets no response. Its utter rejection of reality, and not something a self-respecting thinker should be engaging ...

That's fair - but i also think it misses that, assuming 'trans' is a "true identity" in the way claimed by the more committed TRAs, then it is imperat...

This is, imo, such an important point that almost all comers to moral discussions (in modernity, and outside of 'centrist' thinkers) miss entirely, wh...

Well done. It's very tough to slog through this sort of discussion. I'm definitely on the Left (i've confirmed this is several fora, several 'survey' ...

People resist clear definitions like the plague, in talks such as this. I think, partially, that's just a childish reaction to the world not being as ...

That sound absolutely fantastic, across pretty much all changes noted. AWesome.

ucarr, buddy, this is utterly bizarre. I have no hot blood. I am not a trial lawyer. If you see yourself as aggravating, that should say all that need...

Then the problems of modernity are aptly dealt with by 200-year-old philosophy. IF they're created by people who's worldview is 200-years old then tho...

No. They carried their DNA. This is bizarre. Almost every reply is a non sequitur that butters no bread at all. I'm having fun though. I've directly, ...

Hey mate - appreciate your determination to push through this discussion. I am sorry that its such a slog. Yes. The moment of 'Zygotization' is when "...

I did. This is a circle you tend to go in throughout all exchanges I've seen you have. The argument is that something with no beginning never began, a...

That;'s definitely hte approach taken by philosophers who have taken psychedelics. That says whatever it says for different people, but for my part, i...

I think this. But the failure of climate models to-date (and Antarctic ice recession) gives me hope.

The point is that this forum is not the place for school-yard (Or X) type nonsense like that. Total ad hominems are the refuge of those who cannot con...

Nope. I just think exactly what I said. I commit to nothing else and I'm not required to. A universe is an event. If the event never begins, it doesn'...

That you're asking me this proves it wrong. A Universe with no 'opening' never opened, so does not exist, logically. If you're trying to posit a metap...

By definition, we can't. But as T Clark says, that makes the query meaningless and unanswerable.

My understanding of this issue (and this is contentious, so don't take this as my view, its just how I understand the conversation to stand at large) ...

I'm am completely unsure why you're being antagonistic. The idea that my opinions are "unexamined" after this exchange is risible. Why not just actual...

Ah - very fair. Thank you.

That works for me, in an extremely cursory way. I'm not doing technical reading right now lol. Seems reasonable to integration is what's interesting t...

Both of the above: :up: Transitioning children seems... dubious at best. Abusive at worst.

This may come across antagonistic - but it is unintended: I think you're looking at leaves and missing the trees they sprout from. I respect that you ...

I think probably most telling is the bold. Prefacing by saying it was "on my view". I know plenty of trans people, a couple quite intimately. Yes, my ...

I've both studied the relevant science (to the degree a non-scientist) and (more importantly, for this discussion) the metaphysical philosophy. There ...

One is too many, when it could be prevented. So, that isn't all that needs to be said. There also vanishingly small numbers of people kidnapping Nepal...

I am being exactly the opposite. I've explicitly said everything you're pointing out can be true, and consciousness can still arise from an external s...

Usually, you can find pdfs of good papers. I've got a couple of Stocks (and many others). Shoot me your email and I'll send through whatever I have on...

You didn't make it well. Which is specifically not what the receiver theory entails, or imagines. It jettisons this entirely to even get moving. Given...

No. We are on equal footing. Which I pointed out (I appreciate you at least meeting 1/3 of the way there). We, neither, could access good enough infor...

I know you didn't ask me, but this is true of conservative or middling philosophers. Only a couple, like Stock and Lawford-Smith publish on the subjec...

I can't conceive of it being anything more than personal satisfaction of understanding difficult concepts across a lifetime.

27% of Russians support hte war. This seems to be paranoid nonsense to me.

They literally do not. They discuss translocation and mutation. They do not discuss several allele variations. I presume you can quote the passages yo...

This has nothing to do with what I've said.

That is perhaps the worst poisoning of the well i've seen in a long time. Well done. It's also a complete and fundamental misunderstanding of two sepa...