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Are you entirely sure hte move you want to make is to talk about hte aggregate of the vulgar, rather than the arguments actually at hand? I don't disa...

In reverse: That wont solve the problem of disagreement, which is, in fact, the problem (i.e not having a precise point to rely on isn't a problem, if...

Just a random note on this: You can find criteria for a heap.

I've already directly responded to it. Having shown, by pure juxtaposition, that your two claims are either empty, as they are the same claim, or lite...

Yes, fair. I think that's what I'm groking from your directions (plus some further digging). It doesn't quite shift my position though, as that wasn't...

Yeah. I think it fairly clear (and this from canvassing hte use of 'direct' in all contexts I'm aware of it's usage in) that using 'direct' to cover a...

Do we really want to leave such a social institution to the (let's be honest) whims of a particular class of people who share a political bent? I'm no...

Can’t see how. Science is a method not an institution, in my sentence. “Upon investigation” might be a better term there and I misspoke. But in any ca...

No, not quite. But clearly philosophy about “things” that doesn’t adhere to the facts as science finds them (perhaps I mean “which does not obey the l...

Sure LOL. The weirdness I find so interesting there, would be - can the clone be 'more aged' than the (eventual) person from which the clone came? Tha...

Most 'facts' of human life are not obvious enough to fall prey to philosophy, in the way you want. Surely, philosophy's main role (at least now, post-...

It is not an argument. Your phrase contradicts itself. I've had to say nothing at all. Simply quote you. It's getting really boring working through yo...

I appreciate this, but this misunderstands what the 'objection' is trying to do. Disagree, as you have, for sure. But It is no help to simply say scie...

I think, for me, the problem is that a skin cell comes from a 'living human', but a Zygote hasn't reached that stage. What are you cloning? Obviously,...

I have to say, this is entirely intelligible to me and (linguistically) solves a problem I've had for some time - there are clearly non-physical objec...

I have to say, looking at the writers who are considered under each head, its clear that one camp is after clarity and the other is not. That seems th...

It is self evident. See: Is in contradiction to the very next phrase: You cannot have both stand in the same symbolic role. They are contradictory (th...

Fair enough - very much respect that. Thank you!

No they don't. I've been explicitly clear that this is simply not hte case, and so none of your arguments, supposing this, can go through. There is, s...

b-b-b-b-bingo (merely enthusiastic assent. Not trying to say you have the moral authority lol

Then it doesn't, directly, address a-theism. A-theism is russian-dolled into what you're talking about, but is not what you're trying to find a contra...

I think this is true, but then you can't really employ the term, which I would need to supplant here, of "genuine belief". Though, I think we can simp...

Yes, ok cool. Perhaps I was just insufficiently clear initially. THank you!

This is directly contradictory. If the former, not hte latter. If the latter, not hte former. Can you choose one? Is it love and war, or the series of...

Thank you - appreciate the elucidation. Fair enough. The brute acceptance of a connection between the two, in lieu of anything to substantiate it, doe...

Not to hijack the thread, but I always want to drill into this. What do you think mind is on that account?

I think the inference is that rights are brute, rather than something "consider-able". Lots of pro-life people take this stance, instead of Banno's, i...

I think this somewhat misses what dualism is getting at, but that aside, I think its correct that talking about a separate mind (in the physical sense...

Risible. As i said, your need is noted.

I don't think there's a 'proper' way to 'do philosophy'. But I think there are 'proper boundaries' to kinds of philosophy. Analytic could be a type, b...

I don't have quite enough interest yet (most likely, I will in about 10 months time) in phil of science, but yes, quite a bit of ignorance in those ea...

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Haven't read ought but hte OP - isn't this the standard philosophical view in science? No one claims to obtain any knowledge without experience, that ...

Try reading some case law... (im jesting, but its very, very clear that the boundaries of all these things are murky and mostly institutional. The 'un...

You continuous need to center yourself has already been noted in subtext. There is simply no need :)

I wouldn't bother. This type of ignorance can't be reasoned with.

So, this couldn't possibly be restricted to love and war. Are you able to somehow make those two claims work together? This is counter to all else you...

I retract my support of 180's post.

That's your moral proclamation. And so be it. It wont be so for many (potentially, the majority) of people. Let's just allow that a blastocyst is, in ...

Yes, that is also how I read it. Perhaps something is getting lost in whatever is wrong with the language i'm using. I don't propose there are two wor...

I'm not quite sure I understand what you're rejecting. Sincerely thinking something is true is a belief, right? It's not a logical position but an emo...

The context here was pretty important, though. If you have accurate (or: near accurate, accurate but incomplete (and similar formulations)) data, I wo...

Ok, fair enough. I suppose I am simply left unconvinced :P Common! And I think this is why. Though, if you would accept the following, I think I can g...

We're not. The term 'adventure' here is nothing to do with what I've said, and I'm not sure what you mean by it. Interests exist in non-humans, in bot...

This is exactly why, as 180 noted twice, you have a problem. Rejecting theism does not entail rejection nontheisms. Therefore, unless you restrict you...

This doesn't seem, to me, to be true at all. You can be rational with inaccurate information, provided it isn't directly illogical. If you've been mis...

Ahh, i see where you're going. Ok, it may just be that we disagree about hte limits of the concept of experience (as opposed to what Kant is treating ...

I will ask you, with respect, at the end of this reply, to do something very specific with your response to me... Please try to do as I ask, because i...

I considered, but that would be very bad faith. I'm unsure Mikie needs to cloak anything. Pretty outwardly incapable of being civil. Maybe time will t...

There is absolutely no contradiction to say that something in the world triggers a set of processes, the end-result of which are our experience, and d...