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I happen to find that comment hilarious cause its precisely the type of reification Quine is talking in the Inscrutibility of Reference. Through incip...
January 28, 2025 at 19:23
The electrical sensation of that often comes in pleasure and life affirming activities. That sensation that runs down your spine when you feel empower...
January 28, 2025 at 19:08
No, actually the will to power is a sensation above all, and certainly suggesting it is "Will to Life and pleasure," is the misnomer... More than just...
January 28, 2025 at 18:01
My girlfriend's sock was pulled off her foot in such a way that it looks like the head of a dead pig. I'd reckon there's more philosophy there, than i...
August 30, 2024 at 14:23
Perhaps the question ought to be who really has the time to "love" so many people if one is successful in loving one's own self?
May 21, 2024 at 13:01
Nice assist, appreciated.
May 20, 2024 at 18:50
Not necessarily. And just repeating the same argument just repeats the same fallacy. *shrug* I don't need to repeat the same rebuttal, as it still sta...
May 20, 2024 at 18:47
Of course it is, it suffers from the is-ought leap of logic, you'd need an additional premise that connects the initial descriptive with the final pre...
May 20, 2024 at 18:24
Except the argument you made is from presupposition on "what is good" among quite a few others. Which if we're going into logic ... well, let's not fo...
May 20, 2024 at 17:09
Opinions change overtime, and well, could you imagine a time where there is too much existence?
May 20, 2024 at 16:51
I read the OP. I find it a suitable adaptation of "Selflessness is Selfishness." People that don't enjoy it probably just don't like the idea of "Obje...
May 20, 2024 at 16:47
That's subjective. Which for Philosophim, it is. All philosophies are the prejudice of the philosopher who creates them, and although this isn't a phi...
May 20, 2024 at 16:38
Fair enough, but I suppose the biggest issue with all philosophy is that any philosophy is the prejudice of the philosopher who admits them. Therefore...
May 20, 2024 at 16:21
More than one person has come here suggesting this post is you projecting your difficulty with the material upon others. That's probably worth noting.
May 20, 2024 at 14:01
Basically if I wanted to understand from Wittgenstein's point of view, wouldn't I stay within Wittgenstein's framework? Rather than assuming from some...
May 19, 2024 at 22:35
Is it not the same with nearly any philosopher? If I wanted to clarify Schopenhauer's position, would I quote Plato's or Descartes'?
May 19, 2024 at 22:26
At a glance I can tell it will be an interesting read. But I must run along and chase my wild hounds elsewhere at the moment! I'll be back, but I see ...
May 19, 2024 at 18:55
If existence is inherently good then that would mean, as something fundamental to existence, perspective is also good, which means the only objective ...
May 19, 2024 at 18:35
I'm sorry that you feel that way, but here, allow me to demonstrate a few times that he does: Ecce Homo; first section of Why I Write Such Excellent B...
May 19, 2024 at 17:37
We are just different, you and I, I find Nietzsche to be a legitimate philosopher. Though he is quite a complexity I suppose.
May 16, 2024 at 13:54
Again you're not explicitly framing the statements in the context of moral subjectivism. Moral subjectivism holds that moral propositions have no obje...
May 14, 2024 at 17:06
Why did Kevin Kostner crawl away from his medical treatment in the beginning of Dances with Wolves?
May 14, 2024 at 16:16
Yes but from your bias on truth being objective, you're conflating that a moral subjectivist would conflate their truth as objective fact with #2 henc...
May 14, 2024 at 13:37
Ironically, Dawkins still made God the center of his universe ... but this isn't the case for all Atheist.
May 14, 2024 at 12:56
Here's how prayer works, in my opinion: When someone has a "moment" with prayer, this is an affirmation of one own existence that resonates internally...
May 14, 2024 at 12:47
I do not wish to read through the whole discussion, so my apologies if this has already been addressed: 1 is your bias of the word belief, and certain...
May 14, 2024 at 12:20
Autobiographies are somewhat of a rarity in general. Thankfully for us all, Nietzsche was merciful enough and left us a very significant one, Ecce Hom...
May 05, 2024 at 12:24
Nihilism can cause ennui which can eventually lead to dissatisfaction with life ...
May 04, 2024 at 21:16
How about I decide what opportunities I miss out on? Rather than someone else telling me what I can and cannot do?
April 27, 2024 at 16:46
Sure, sounds like Wittgenstein's approach is more of a style of marriage between science and philosophy, where as Russell and the others were more in ...
April 27, 2024 at 16:39
not sure how to delete a post but it posted a few times
April 27, 2024 at 16:39
As an atheist, I don't mind declaring: God gives purpose, which is generally something to live for...
April 27, 2024 at 16:33
I'll accept that defense, thank you for the insight. I decided to pick up the text and got an audiobook of it also. Would you say Wittgenstein was att...
April 27, 2024 at 03:33
Enter Greek Mythology cause this is how many of them thought? Time is a Circle that repeats all things have happened all things will happen. Giving yo...
April 26, 2024 at 12:34
Nietzsche seems to have a few things to say upon this IIRC. I remember having to look up "atavism" from a song I really liked a long time ago, and I b...
April 26, 2024 at 12:25
See how facts change? The fact: Tractatus is positivism simply by the first few lines. And according to sources it was only ever hailed as a masterpie...
April 26, 2024 at 11:53
What is the case is often subject to perspective. If PI was clearly not pro-positivistic, but Tractatus is, then doesn't that espouse more than a marg...
April 26, 2024 at 01:08
And of course, doesn't all of this rely upon Wittgenstein's presupposition of what a "fact" is? Doesn't Wittgenstein himself later overturn the logic ...
April 25, 2024 at 20:09
Yes, it uses solid theories and slams them all together with some hyperbole to argue a thesis that cannot be currently proven. But science has hinted ...
April 25, 2024 at 18:23
Icarus was a Greek. To the Greek, and especially the Stoics, time is an infinite circle, and they (many of the Stoics) thought that everything repeats...
April 25, 2024 at 18:02
It would be like trying to cut you with air, and without any force behind the air.
April 25, 2024 at 17:37