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Good. Let's keep it that way.

Trump used to make regular guest appearances on The Nany. Remember that?

Yeah that, and being a Nazi.

To me it sounds like that, and it also sounds like Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Augustine. Heidegger was an intellectual thief.

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Remember when Trump made guest appearances in The Nany sitcom back in the 90's? He also made a guest appearance as an amateur voice actor in The Simps...

I do see your point, though. You're arguing that he doesn't seem to know the craft of painting as well as his grandfather did, as in, he doesn't seem ...

Is there a Dasien/being-in-the-world binary in Heidegger's philosophy? If there is, then it's just a historicized version of the good old subject-obje...

Do you have a horse in this race, mate? According to some Oossians, you need to have an intellectual horse in a philosophical discussion, in order to ...

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But that was the creative intent of Vincent Namatjira. He made her ugly on purpose. Why? Because she's ethically ugly, she has no moral values. EDIT: ...

Hey Bob, quick question. Why is it called an argument from composition, if God is simple?

Since it seems, according to some folks, that language is somehow more important than ontology, I claim the following. The following music video is th...

It is what it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zLb4s3dsxg

The Wittgensteinian notion of linguistic "family resemblance" is lumpen etymology.

That's a good point. Harman himself makes that point, he says that things exist in two ways: really, and sensually. And this occurs even in the inanim...

I think that's not what Wayfarer intended to say. And even if he did, why would you assume that it's also my idea? I don't define tables that way. I d...

Thanks for the critique! No one had commented on that article yet, you're officially its First Critic. And I think that what you're saying has substan...

Humor is subjective. Yes, its essence. Tableness, to be more precise. :clap: No, we don't. We discover (or invent, or stipulate, as you said so yourse...

was Heidegger off-topic in Being and Time?

No, because essence is a genus, and tableness is one of its species. There are other essences beside tableness. For example, chairness, treeness, dogn...

Regardless, I think that we can all agree that Time is the most perplexing philosophical problem of all. It is more perplexing than Reality, it is mor...

Tableness. The essence of a table is its tableness. See above. Essences. There are essences, Banno, you just said so. There are no essences, unless we...

You're saying that tables don't have an essence. Unless we stipulate it so. But then they can have essences, in a modal sense. It's possible for them ...

My point was about your dumb point about tables.

Yeah but it's like, you're making what can only be described as a dumb point.

Today is Sunday (in Argentina). Nonsense. Appeal to the stone, yadda yadda (on my part), I don't care. What you just said there sounds like nonsense (...

You don't want to mess with me, @"Banno". I'm from Argentina. I grew up among Eucalyptus trees.

Now you explain to me what the blimey this got to do with a Thread called "Ontology of Time". And explain that to me rationally.

Ok, then on the Good-Evil Axis, you're a Neutral.

Here's the thing, People (of this Forum): @"Banno" is not an atheist. He's a Spinozist.

It's a low blow. A Deleuzian low blow from a Wittgenstein fan. Deleuze hated Wittgenstein.

Yeah well, I'd rather err on the side of caution. Good rule for online Forums, good rule for ordinary life. The obvious question here is, is there an ...

@"Count Timothy von Icarus" Please help me out here, as an intellectual colleague. You're the Christian one, I'm the atheist one, just explain to me h...

Are you sure about that? It sounds like it's true, but don't want to rush to any conclusions here. Are you sure about that? Again, are you sure about ...

Great question. As I understand it, no. The problem of the Ship of Theseus, in my view, is about indeterminate identity. What I'm asking Banno is a di...

Let's say that we chop up the table into a fine sawdust. And let's say that we scatter this sawdust in several different countries. If we say that thi...

There's two problems with that, IMHO: Problem one: it's counter-intuitive. Obviously our intuitions can be wrong, so perhaps this is more of an aesthe...

Thank you. Here's how I think that ATI4 can be denied. Let's first recall it here, for the sake of convenience: (ATI4) If it is not a revealed truth t...

Sure, but the distinction between LL and the contrapositive of LL is inessential to my argument. In second order terms: ?x?y((x=y) ? ?P(Px?Py)) Being ...

If you're interested, I've published a paper about this exact problem (the one about tables, not the one about time). It's free to download. Send me a...

Here are two reasons why it isn't: 1st reason: the table and the atoms that compose it have different properties. So, by Leibniz's Law, they're not id...

Sure. I'll give you two for the price of one. Here's a modus tollens for the elimination of tables: 1) If tables exist, then a table is one more objec...

If n atoms compose the table, is the table the (n+1)th object? If there are a billion atoms, is the table the billionth-and-one object in this case?

Of course. Trolls deserve to be promptly berated. Civility is for non-trolls.

Yes, I am. I'm not in the habit of entertaining trolls.

Nah, you don't get to act all sweet now, after the tremendous virtual shit that you just took on my Thread. I've flagged your most recent comment as w...

You've been reported for trolling, and I've flagged your most recent comment as well. EDIT: By the way, I've brought more value to this forum in a mon...

Like responding to your nonsense, for example? See the SEP entry on Ordinary Objects, particularly the section on Arguments from Arbitrariness, in ord...

I think it does. Even though I don't have a sixth sense that allows me to obtain sensory information about time, in the manner that my eyes allow be t...