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:ok: :ok: I haven't had time to come back on other replies unfortunately. Writing for school.

Currently writing for University on this topic under one of Parfit and Williams PhD students. Interesting thread

in reverse, I did no such thing. Please don’t make accusations like that up. I didn’t miss anything. I agree, but that’s not what suffering consist in...

I note the recursion. If “I see mars” is a figure of speech “I am seeing mars” can’t be what it symbolises without an endless circle of self-referenti...

I’m sure you can work out which two words in my response can be swapped out to meet any potential challenger

to suffer is to have a bad experience. And the argument would go like this: you are delusional.

Interesting. I can’t see how an obligation to bring humans into existence is a serious point to be argued. I am an antinatalist and it is patent to me...

this is great fodder for the OP

hehe… well, I’m getting there

I suppose it would be any verified suspension of the known laws of physics/nature in service of a biblical claim. Obviously I would be predisposed to ...

No one's claiming it's an authority. It spit out the scientific facts of our sight system. My claim remains, and is entirely untouched by what you've ...

HI Banno, I think rather, it makes more sense to suggest that you not pretend to be quite that silly, and read the piece itself.. This is a completely...

Unneeded.

Hmm, fair comment. How would you think about a 'representation' if it isn't available to the mind in experience? I guess, what do you take a 'represen...

As pointed out, depends if you mean 'every day philosophy' which is certainly not idle - it is the basis on whcih people act, day-to-day. But it is ce...

Yes, I think this is happening more than I've noticed, causing a lot of 'wtf' in me, wrt responses i get sometimes. To be absolutely clear: That 'acco...

definitely agree with you here (final para) and apply to many other ideologies

it wasn’t posited as either so I’ll just leave that.

I agree. I liked that particular synthesis. I was referring, though, to the 'crux' i previously referred to as a bumper sticker (previously offered by...

Interesting. Yes, and as seems standard around these parts, no one's noticing that, as is standard in philosophical discourse, I am parsing phrases an...

And you don't see that this is fallacious, and unwieldy at best, and complete irrelevant at worst>

That's fair, prima facie, but it's very clear to me. I get the exact same feeling as when some has misheard a word, when i read a lot of the replies a...

This is the worst piece of reasoning ive seen along this line. "if but for" is not the same as 'cause'. Without Aristotle, there would be CPR either. ...

Perhaps. I would say it’s undecidable because of the linguistic issues. But I also reject entirely that something odd means a position is wrong. Nothi...

I don’t agree with much of this. I have provided where, in Kant, the two concepts are objectively removed from one another. Not sure what else to say,...

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I'm unsure what an 'officially accepted' interpretation is, but it seems to be the most common. Ding-en-sich = The thing, simpliciter Noumena = that s...

Neither, overall, but... It is defined as otherwise. So thats incoherent. The Noumena is not hte thing-in-itself. It is the existent as perceived by s...

One more quote to the now-removed log of your intense bad faith and ability to dehumanize based on your ideology. Neat that it got removed though. In ...

Nice.

That is a very interesting paper prima facie. However, I have some serious reservations about an hypothesis that posits mental events cannot be reduce...

Per above, on my account, there is still going to be this obstacle to establishing a direct link between the experience and the object, in any given c...

It wouldn't. But I cannot force your hand. It had. I essentially had from the outset - but apparently, no one like theories that delineate the senses ...

Ah ok, fair enough. Yeah, effective in that context. Thanks mate.

Given that these are two demonstrably different things, morally and actually, how are you equivocating? Genuinely, not like i've written it off and am...

I'm thinking you and I are misusing these terms, as circumstance within Philosophy proper, would dictate. That's why i was a little clearer in the pro...

It could be..It would be accidental...I'm not trying to making an argument, just trying to find solutions to the problems I see. What argument is requ...

Before I attempt to (because it'll be embarrassing for me lol), could this be (as noted earlier, but a little more specific) that when you say 'direct...

I suppose i'm trying to understand where in a situation it''s apt to use something like "because of" or "with" or "through" without that affecting the...

Doesn't this still place a middle man in your 'direct' position? Truly unsure how you'd see that - not arguing against your form of a direct realism p...

Correct. But I'm unsure what else to say, because I've addressed the delineation between 'putting in mind', 'causing' and lets call it distant(in time...

I don't know what you're trying to say, largely for the reason Lionino has highlighted. Can you clarify the comment? However, if it's an attempt to sa...

And there's the bumper sticker

Irreligious. Because I don't think religions are a reasonable enterprise in any sense of that word, even as a social institution.

This seems counter to common sense (other than the first half-line). "enumeration" is an act and you're obviously correct here (just think of roman vs...

This may speak to where i highlight 'naive conceptions of cause' earlier in Timothy's reply. I see nothing in Kant which does this, rather I see much ...

Very tough. I'll probably be another couple of months yet, and that's just the first pass lol. It was a bad idea to get into this immediately after CP...

Hey mate, Unsure I get what you're saying in the first response. Your choice and your act aren't separable. I've made room for inspiration and incitem...

I guess, as a non-PM-ist, I'd just posit that the various 'numeral' systems all represent the same thing and can be read across multi-directionally (b...

Its crucial, so I'm not going to nevermind it. If you do not understand what im saying, you wont udnerstand anything im saying. if the aim of the beha...