Yes, but please hold on a second here, look closely at what the first sentence of that quote is saying: This is, in a nutshell, the main goal of the l...
Yup, I agree. But some philosophers would still argue with you, for theoretical reasons (i.e., mereological universalists, who also happen to be metap...
It doesn't start like that, but that's how it ends. It starts as a general "Left vs Right" thing, then the conversation progressively degenerates unti...
That's a brutal question, and it's more or less the same question that arises in the paradox of material constitution (i.e., the case of a piece of cl...
Right, but eliminativism in this sense is a metaphysical thesis, while mereological nihilism is a thesis about the part-whole relation (hence, van Inw...
That could well be the case. (BTW the Problem of the Many is absolutely brutal form a purely intellectual standpoint, it's like the problem of materia...
Yes, but there are two other options, for answering van Inwagen's Special Composition Question: mereological particularism, and mereological universal...
"Us" who? Humans and machines? Do machines feel? If they don't, then art has no purpose for machines, because that purpose, as stated in the quoted ve...
But every human being is in that club, matey :death: There is no human being that does not philosophize Or at least that's what the curricula says tha...
Finally, imagine a "white" Castilian (as in, someone with beige skin, black hair, and black eyes) say this to a "white" Andalucian (as in, someone wit...
And now imagine that a white Mexican says this to a mestizo Mexican during Spanishness Day (Día de la Hispanidad). Do you see how grim this whole thin...
Now imagine a Castilian saying this to a Catalan. Imagine a Catalan saying this to a Basque. Imagine a Basque saying this to an Andalucian. Imagine an...
I don't know. What I know is what you're probably getting at there, if I were to read between the lines. But no, the Spanish essence (Hispanidad) is a...
The following song would be something like John's political Manifesto, I would say. And I happen to agree with him, if he intended it as such. Otherwi...
Sir, I will politely point out that you have not answered my Question, which is the Question of the OP: Is the number 1 a cause of the number 2? Yes, ...
And now we're going to listen to Alestorm's masterpiece, their song Treasure Island. I'll even post the lyrics, because it's their Masterpiece. It's l...
Nevermind me, I'm just playing the role of the DJ / Bouncer of this Thread, right now. It's all ambience from me at the moment. https://www.youtube.co...
Check out this other song by Alestorm, this one is (to my mind) a serious song, unlike the ribald shanties that they usually sing. It's a philosophica...
The actual story behind the song is even crazier: I totally get it, believe me. But let's be real here, "A Country Boy Can Survive" is a dumb song. Ma...
The reason why "Gallo Rojo, Gallo Negro" (Red Rooster, Black Rooster) is such a heart-wrenching song to listen to is because it directly relates the t...
Though, if you think about it, @"BC", Home Free are just a "boy band" at the end of the day. Here's what a real, civically and socially responsible ad...
I would say that much (though not all) of the criticism in that sense is born out of the following sentiment (I'm just hitting below the belt at this ...
It's a pleasure to meet A Realist that has used philosophy in order to placate the horrific subjective experience of hallucinations, which are symptom...
Do you speak Spanish? Here is an article from La Real Academia de la Historia (España), about a clergyman called José Manuel Peramás, a thinker from t...
As for the Silver Medal, I suppose that Swashbuckle currently deserves that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53A4GyB96RI As for the Bronze Medal, that...
To answer your question. It's a tough question, because most metal bands actually suck at instrumentation (believe it or not). I mean, in the jazz com...
I know, I was just playing along. Vera, I'm not sure I need to remind you that there's people that say that the Earth was created just a few thousand ...
But that's my point: how could God clone her, if there were no eggs for the clone cell? She was the first woman, right? So where did the egg come from...
Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying, now give me my briefcase full of money. Of course, I've just settled it. Glad that I could help. Now, about that...
Tool might be one of the closest examples, though I wouldn't compare their technical knowledge of the guitar (acustic, electro-acustic, and electric) ...
Right, and he impregnated her as a ghost, because that's what the Holy Ghost is: a ghost. Some people say "no, it's the Holy Spirit" but then in the s...
Yep, it is what I thought it would be. I have an even better "argument" (if this is what passes for an actual argument these days): 1) Physics is the ...
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