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That's why I said 'likely'. Of course I can forgive a person for being stupid (and in many cases there is nothing to forgive as it may not be the pers...

I acknowledge that this would explain why they don't commit suicide.

Do you think I have mischaracterized the DKE? Or are you implying that I am a demonstration of the DKE? (The latter would be somewhat question begging...

Because it hasn't been gathered in a scientific setting. We don't know that things were not mentioned to the patient about the operation afterwards. I...

It's not a respectable source. But anyway, the main point is that the DKE is accurately characterized as 'the stupider a person is, the less likely th...

So when I am unconscious I disappear? Consciousness is a state. It's not a thing. It's a state. Water is wet (normally). Wetness is a state. it's not ...

We have a natural inclination not to want to eat something that looks unappetizing. But if we found out that it actually tastes delicious, then we'd g...

i wouldn't have thought an expert would write a wikipedia page - they're too busy being experts. But anyway, the main point is that the DKE involves p...

Yes, I think so.

I now think you're manifesting the DKE. I did defend myself (and the original poster). If someone lacking expertise in a particular area will likely o...

I think you don't understand the DKE, for the reasons I've explained.

And it follows that if someone is stupid in general then they will overestimate their intelligence in general. And so a person who identifies the DKE ...

Isn't the most moral form of government no government at all? Governments are monopolies. Aren't monopolies bad?

I think there are margins here. For example, we can generally recognize when someone is a bit smarter than ourselves. It's just when someone is a lot ...

I don't think the poster has misunderstood the Dunning-Kruger effect. And isn't Wikipedia written by those who fancy themselves experts in matters the...

I think the fact the reason of many represents abortions to be morally permissible is itself evidence that the fetus is not a person while it is insid...

But they're not synonyms - one is a state of a thing and one is the thing itself. But anyway, I suppose that's just a terminological issue (actually, ...

I believe in life after death. But I want to quibble first with some terminology. Why do you say 'consciousness' survives death, rather than 'the pers...

If 'thought' is interpreted broadly enough, then a representation of our reason would be a kind of thought, but it would be a specific kind: one gener...

Where did I say that? That is a clear misrepresentation of my view. I said that the reason - the faculty of reason - of most people represents killing...

But to use my jungle-guide again, that is to insist that I am assuming I already know that yellow berries are poisonous. No, I have simply looked up '...

But you just begged the question - you're assuming the fetus is a person. The question is not whether it is morally ok to kill a person just if they h...

I'm arguing the opposite. The guide book is only really useful if one doesn't make assumptions. If one makes assumptions and then looks up what the gu...

Well no, that's clearly false. Humans do not have a monopoly on having minds and some humans lack minds. Dead ones, for instance. And it is question b...

I think it is good logic. The guide book is about the jungle and its author is clearly keen that we not poison ourselves inadvertently. It warns us ag...

The reason of virtually everyone represents it to be wrong to kill a new born baby. So, to extend my jungle guide book analogy, the jungle guide book ...

I do not follow this. I can see (though I disagree) why it might be thought that two objects cannot share all the same attributes, due to this making ...

I take, perhaps mistakenly, being a person and having a mind to be synonymous. I think the best explanation of why it would be wrong to have an aborti...

Hello, I think the issue of whether materialist monism or idealist monism is the correct view is another matter. The point I was making is that it is ...

Hello Fire, For the most part that may be correct. Our faculty of reason is not a pair of eyes that is able to detect moral properties, but instead we...

I have, perhaps, a different approach. Maybe I should say what it is first, and then justify it, as the justification is a little long-winded. What se...

However there are two forms of monism. One could assume that the only things that really exist are the objects of sense experience and then conclude t...

Yes, I agree that the mind is not the body (yet are causally connected). And yes, I too do not consider theological claims to have any probative force...

Perhaps I misunderstood, but your evidence that the mind is the body is that doing things to the body affects what happens in the mind. Yet by that re...

"The evidence I'd point to with respect to the mind being a part of the body -- and only a part (my foot is not a mind) -- is that what we normally th...

But this - "Things that affect the body affect the mind. For example, drinking alcohol changes what we feel. Construct a long list of such examples" -...

Where's the evidence that the mind is the body? Without assuming that the mind is the body - which is question begging - what evidence is there that t...

Isn’t a law of logic defined by its origin rather than by how general it is? In other words, a law of logic comes from Reason itself, not like a law t...

I’m new here, but I’m curious to know what evidence there is that my mind is the same as my body. The quote from Maurice Merleau-Ponty didn’t offer an...