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Perhaps. But that seems unlikely given the 2020 result for Biden. Unfortunately.

All words are reductive, but concepts don't need to be. I think Bob is trying to ascertain the word-resistant concepts we all accept prior to language...

I take this to be an avoidance. So, can you answer it with the 'where' rather than a reference to it?

What? Where are you getting that?

Dropped this in another thread just now, but I found out I got an A on my first undergrad Phil writing assignment last night. I am pretty darn happy.

Absolutely. I chose this in my first batch of Phil books (i ordered about 12 at once) before starting Uni because I assumed I would never get to it ot...

I understand that you are refusing to engage with what you have obviously understood: Your position makes no sense. Which is why that question is obvi...

There is no good answer to this question. I have read the remainder of your reply, and i appreciate it. But this question just doesn't have an answer ...

I'm not so sure you're right here. "The president is sort of like Goebbels." 'If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then ...

Hmm. Again, im not so sure (literally - i'm unsure, lol). Many things are much better understood by demonstration. Including many thoughts. "I was thi...

INterestingly, Parfit was well aware of Buddhist thinking on this. Appendix J of this book, Reasons & Persons, is called 'Buddah's View'. I'm not ther...

I think this is, fwiw, one of the clearest, best things I've seen on this. Thanks for that. Really concise and illustrative. I don't think your two co...

I don't think it's either from my reading of that chapter. It seems that what Parfit is trying to do is simply point out that there are thoughts, with...

You for sure do not. You are speaking purely about linguistic conventions here and not what they pertain to. There is a clear distinction between a sh...

I would simply assume your second sentence was a lie ;) It is more likely that this is true, or that I have a mental lapse, or that I am day-dreaming,...

You may enjoy Rob Amster.

Unless I am totally misapprehending your meaning... Nice, heh. Don't be put off. The insistent know-alls are few, in my experience. I'm still in the s...

Ok, Cool. I reject that. Someone's incredulity, or lack of knowledge isn't a reason to come to a rash conclusion. Novel situations don't, in the vast ...

'Supposed' is the operative word here. And that supposition is erroneous. Point to the Good, sans human interaction? It literally doesn't come into co...

Not sure. But there are also elected officials who think people can change sex, so meh. It's all a carousel of stupid.

Being a conservative, to an anti-conservative, is tantamount to being a literal Nazi. Its a big carousel of stupid.

Again, refer to Parfit treating this exact issue as you all are treating it:

Yeah, i think you've intuited how i'd explain that response. The issue is what reason would that person have to invoke God? I can see none. :lol:

With you so far, and no objections.. Still with you, and clearly that's an interest for several hundred hard-working writers. Yes it is. Yes it does. ...

"these terms" being that we're insinuating (as a jumping-off point) that Telepathy is 'Direct'. So, in these terms that we're discussing, without bein...

I don't understand why that's being asked, though. The proceeding passage doesn't help me I'm sorry. Ethics claims this. I think it fails. Ethics is j...

:ok: :ok: Im unsure it does. But, it could be. I disagree, but thats important. This does nothing for the discussion. If there is no better way to 'he...

I would think so too. As I don't know A.Ms work, I'll take your word for it - but this actually exemplifies exactly what Im talking about. Taking a mo...

Hmm, fair. Thanks for clarifying. It is, though. Nothing you've said comes close to even a reasonable objection to it. Those more meta-ethical bits yo...

Gang gang.

In the context of this discussion, I don't think this means much unless we return to conflating 'perceptual experience' with 'phenomenal experience'. ...

Fair enough then :P

pgs 224-226 where he follows B. Williams and G.C Lichtenberg "Descartes, famously, made such a claim. When he asked if there was anything that he coul...

I am somewhat lost now. I don't know why you're asking these things here. The metaethical discussion about why a person might find something morally i...

This is Parfit's conclusion - he insinuates that there is no personal identity, and so the Cogito could not be a basis for a discreet doubter.

You can guess. You can use statistical analysis to guess approximately - and people are disposed to overreact when someone comes close to their though...

Suffice to say you are not an honest interlocutor. Take it easy.

I probably don't understand the concluding question adequately, I don't think. I'll take a stab at the end. As to the description of ethics generally ...

I've just been through a section of Parfit's Reasons and Persons which deals with exactly this issue - whether future reasons constitute 'now' reasons...

I think you might be trolling at this point. You asked for a logically sound argument. THere it is. You're now objecting to empirical matters. I canno...

Is laughably wrong. I think this is a mistake. I think it is a mistake that leaves us, necessarily, in a hopeless loop of arguing with anyone who disa...

Definitely. Personally, i'm not even willing to consider telepathy as formulated for this reason. It's a step-too-far in speculation. I think DR would...

Short: Yes Mid: This is my view of morality, and we're lucky that only humans are sentient enough to be considered moral agents. This means most peopl...

Having not read any responses my take is: You're describing despair, in other words. This is a organisational tool that often avoids sunk-cost fallaci...

Isn't this kind of side-stepping the debate and saying "You have your truth, I have mine" the way Uni students who can't handle be wrong do? (applies ...

I would like for this to be a bit of comedic self-awareness *crosses fingers*.

While this tradition is slowly dying off (luckily) it has, for about 30 years, been a rite of passage for 21-Year-Olds to drink an entire Yard Glass h...

Telepathy is an example i've given a few times in the thread. Has been ignored. On it's current formulation, it would be 'direct'. There is literally ...

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Interesting. Even moreso in that this smacks of many of our number here on TPF. (unrelated)An interesting article from a few years back with bold clai...