Caldwell

Life sucks and then you die. Do you like this summary of one's existence?

Sorry if I'm still trying to understand this problem, you seem to have moved on to another thread. I think (as other participants here are seeing also...

In that case @"TheMadFool" and @"VagabondSpectre" are correct. :smile: Here's why. This is not marble-picking. This is choosing a unique answer from a...

Good. Time, not the best argument you have, will change the other person's mind. If, at the moment, you have satisfied yourself with your own argument...

I hope not. Just benevolent advisers would suffice. Cool headed, intelligent,benevolent advisers to world leaders. The right arm. Within inches of the...

I don't know if there's statistical studies done on what we should fear the most. Death by car accident at hundred miles an hour, terminal disease, na...

Yet we act with absolute certainty all the time. Do we hesitate entering our house each time we come home? No? Oh cause we know it's our address, that...

Philosophical inquiry is a continuing process of questioning established beliefs and theories. It is misplaced to compare the trajectory of scientific...

By "think" I mean how you're using it in this thread. Such as a "sense of reality" in your opening post and think as in seeing reality.

I have no idea.

To the extent that Wittgenstein is not a philosopher. We think in pictures, as in complete picture, one shot at a time. This is a problem of certainty...

@"ArguingWAristotleTiff" Cool furniture. Awesome! No I haven't seen anything like that.

Ah. Yes, I got one from a boxed furniture. It's a long paper, good quality.

What's a butcher paper? Awesome work!

I refuse to believe that there are only these options. There are people who truly reject cruelty and war. Their shadow could be that they have no aspi...

So true. I agree. Here's one: "You breed crows, your eyes are gonna get pecked."

This is good! And true to its meaning. Another philosopher had posed the question, at which point do we see the heap instead of the millet.

To the sociologists, 'chaos'. This is a courageous thing to say coming from them, of all people. They said this before the 2007-2008 collapse.

No point in straightening you. You will always be crooked. Some ________ are round, and some ______ are _________.

I disagree. By 'object', philosophers really do mean intelligible objects. The "top" or "bottom" part of an atom, as you say, is unintelligible. They ...

Not so straightforward as "what humans really want out of life". There is some structure that humans want. It's in the background. It just happens tha...

Sorry, guilty as charged. I truly thought that was what you were asking. Explain the line again, "People who have hearts that don't work very well.......

Yes. Yes, I say that in the most sincerest of the truth. No. I said nothing of that sort. When I say organic, I mean it in a descriptive way, not norm...

The reductionist explanation of the world. You do not need to look at every instance of the most fundamental thing in order to explain reality. That's...

Why don't you ask the Federal Bureau of Futility? They must know something. The work situation is an organic thing. Humans do want responsibilities. T...

Then you haven't been at the elephants' funeral. I give you that. Machines do not know the concept of futility. They know utility, functionality, and ...

Then there's your answer: disconnect self-awareness and you're fine again.

And of course he also knew that to know one atom is to know all atoms. This is not the case of white swan/black swan. Good god.

No, we are making a distinction between individuals who have experiences (empirically derived) and the will, which is metaphysically derived. These ar...

:grin:

You're a legend now, unenlightened.

Are you referring to another brick in the wall?

Good comeback.

A (type of) philosopher who uses non-empirical method to arrive at truth.

The title of this thread is wrong. Hume is arguing against speculative philosophy (metaphysical theories). "Those remote considerations" -- metaphysic...

Philosophical questions are written as critiques, which may include questioning our ordinary way of seeing things, the certainty of our knowledge, wha...

Yes, that's correct.

:grin: Incorrect. Not sure if that answer is for my question, though. Also, if I give another hint, that would make it too easy. This philosopher is f...

What is psychoanalytic theory? (Wild guess. I didn't google) He declared that human life is a never-ending suffering.

All in good spirit. Like I said earlier, if this discussion is about the normative function of account of reality, no need to bother with reductionism...

What if all underwear ran extra large? How do you _______ after you _____ ?

Yes, I realize that they are.

Those concepts matter. We are having philosophical arguments, after all. We need to use certain concepts to explain what's going on here. Relativism i...

Confucius says be calm in the face of spider on the bathroom wall. Whenever I feel ______ I want to touch ________.

Okay, I read your last response to me, but I'd rather respond to this quote instead. I am sympathetic with your idea. lol. I am now officially defendi...

This can confuse your readers. There is a global language that comes before words? Language is communication using words. Don't you mean "global commu...

:grin: Yeah.

(Good reference. I like Rosen's description of complex and simple). Yes, reductionists could be easily read as idealists. After all, the exercise of t...

I realize I am sort of defending the traditional reductionism even through I am not a follower of this school of thought.

:smile: It'd be hard to argue persuasively if it's only pretend.