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I always liked Dolly Parton (she wrote hundreds of songs including some hits - a real artist) and Johnny Cash was always more than country - another t...

I choose to leave you thinking that you have a free mind that is unable to affect others with words. Enjoy!

You would have to form a persuasive argument. But words only work inside rational people. So, what gives you the impression I even speak English? I ho...

Depends on what effect you want them to have in others. So maybe you do.

I am. I find that inconsistent. What framework clarifies “anathema”?

That’s the rub for you. What is compelled, and what is free. I don’t think you can explain either consistently.

I did way back - I tricked, incited, coerced, and provoked you into responding to me here on the forum. Remember? You are my slave now. You keep posti...

I don’t like country music. I am certain I have not been introduced to it properly. There is no way a 100 year old genre of music enjoyed by hundreds ...

Something that helped me understand what I think Moliere is getting at is thinking about discussing something aesthetic for someone else. Not just say...

Yes - I personally don’t need a government and am basically a libertarian. I’d be one of the good guys in Lord of the Flies. But I would rather there ...

I think I have the concept wrong. It seems Kant was trying to get at critiquing art, and not generating art. Does that sound right? It takes a certain...

In my understanding of the idea of disinterested interest it has something to do with: - letting the muse inspire the art, where heart drives the inte...

Isn’t that in Kierkegaard too?

Don’t this: And this: Contradict each other? Aren’t you just disagreeing with the substance of where you are being led, (somewhere specific vs. confus...

I never said law isn’t coercive. It is. Government speech (law) needs to be highly restricted by a constitution and the power of people to rewrite the...

That’s what I tried to say a while ago. Everyone here seems to agree there is a such thing as freedom of speech and that laws should not restrict it (...

My short answer would be yes, generally speaking, but not essentially and so not in every case. I need time alone, and no thing but my mind, to do the...

Interested in the term of art distinction here between understand and know. Do you mean “important questions in philosophy are driven by a desire to u...

Yes. All people ask what, how, whether, and why, but the way a philosopher asks them might have something to do with disinterested interest. (You rais...

Moliere, Classic battle between a “what” thinker and a “how” thinker I am getting at on your Matter of Taste thread here (https://thephilosophyforum.c...

So you would come up with “the Analogy of the Information Processor” to describe sensation, Kant’s noumenal/phenomenal distinction, and maybe some oth...

Thinking about this OP again, I realized something about myself that might speak to an aesthetic analysis between philosophers. What questions intrigu...

Yes, mixing, as it relates to blue paint and yellow paint, is an important part of the analogy. But like we aren’t really talking about paint, or blue...

I’m starting to think it is. If we stick to all of the physical sciences, we can stick to talking about things in the world. If we stick to logic and ...

I may not follow you here. Your OP places the aesthetic as the prior, and asks what is the aesthetic behind one’s attraction to this or that particula...

I appreciate that you use plain language to get to the heart of things and speak your mind. I think I see what you are saying. At root, this is your s...

You realize that in most of these threads, we keep falling back into virtually identical discussions. (Good ones, when I don’t interrupt.) This makes ...

Yes, but I would say, if the ideas are the focus, the ideas can reshape the aesthetics as much as the aesthetics might have pushed one towards a certa...

I agree. Although I hope it doesn’t prejudice the way we view each other. Just because someone is drawn to Nietzsche, but repulsed by Aristotle, might...

All of the aesthetic aspects to philosophy are by-products. The ideas are the products.

If all the place settings were different from each other, I think we would all agree the table setting was disordered. But if they were all the same w...

I saw a beautiful thing once. Then I saw another, different thing, and I thought it was beautiful too. Two different things. But I said the same thing...

Maybe because the person is left-handed. Not “just” because I looks pretty to someone.

Ok good. We are coming together. We are forming the much celebrated consensus. I would say, we are forming this consensus both because we each know ho...

Yeah. I don’t just make order up. I learn how to make order up from nature because, there is a physics to things, because nature has an ordering to it...

I take out the “all of” and the “laws of”. My end result is, order I observe. I am educated to make maps from two teachers: the world AND people who u...

That actually also demonstrates my point. I agree astrologists are kidding themselves, both or all of them that can create logical chains of astrologi...

My point is just this: Whether 1) there is the world and its order as it presents itself to me, (which is my position), or 2) there is the world as I ...

I agree assumptions are what we must be looking for the most when we ask questions. You said “co-created”. That implies two sources of creation. I thi...

How about we take out “proof of any intrinsic”. Throw that baggage away. Nothing proven. Nothing certain. Nothing intrinsic discovered. And just say “...

Order is prima facia unlikely, given a non-informative prior. I’m not sure I follow “a non-informative prior.” Are you talking about a teleological ca...

I’m please you’re pleased. :cool: At the risk of completely ruining this moment, how would you respond to this question: When the descriptions we make...

A law is a description. Good. That follows. We make the descriptions, and can call them ”laws”. Good. But then, doesn’t the question just become “why ...

This asserts “there are laws” and asks why. This asserts two things: that there are regularities and that we pay attention to these regularities. So c...

I’m pretty sure “liberal” can’t be described in zeros and ones.

So you are not exclusively conservative and not exclusively liberal, but either at different times? Or you are those plus libertarian with some monarc...

So if philosophy seeks 'thinking well, and what it is important to think about,' formal argument is a tool to confirm or aid thinking well, but it is ...

Yeah, another point that will stick. Good stuff. That one concept is what I needed to flesh out that 'the damned dissolve into multiplicity' more. It ...

I agree. However, along the lines of some existentialists (ie. Camus and the "absurd animal"), I think there is a sort of non-sectarian way of viewing...

I think you are thinking about the terms of the analogy too literally. The blue paint would represent all kinds of different inputs. The yellow paint ...