Mongrel

I transcended your epistemic conditions, Sapientia. I discovered that you're a lot better off than you think you are.

Yea. But there's another category of objects: abstract ones. Numbers are abstract objects, not mental objects. That distinction is supposed to express...

I would be interested if you'd want to explain it again. You were saying that there's an aspect of truth that is mind-dependent and an aspect that isn...

Frege.. in a brick shithouse of an argument.

Truth is unanalyzable.

I still don't know why you're using the word "relation." But yes, we can persist in trying to have sentences act as primary truth-bearers and pin them...

Cool. I got it from a german friend who I haven't seen in a long time. Maybe she got it from that book?

I think I understand your point. But Good Luck tends to reinforce the ideology that existed at the time it happened. So, for instance, King David had ...

Unlikely things happen pretty regularly. Just think of all the events that had to go just so in order for you to be born at all. As a friend of mine e...

We need to clone this guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUkv_jPgTeg

This is wrong because determining what proposition is expressed by the utterance of a sentence requires knowing something about the context of utteran...

No sentence (even imaginary ones) express propositions. Speakers express propositions by the utterance of sentences. Propositions can also be expresse...

I didn't look at that thread, so if my comment is wonky.. sorry. The question of whether anything at all is mind-independent is one that can be debate...

Dude.. do you really think sex is ugly or were you just being silly?

I believe abortion is moral up to the end of the second trimester. I spent 7 years working in neonatal intensive care. My principles on the issue are ...

I do. And this is where politics comes into play... or it would if we were in the same country. If we were both in the US, I'd tell you that I agree w...

Cool. It's hilarious. Government has no role to play in it.

Not really. Puritanism comes and goes. The oldest known literary work graphically details a sex act that went on for seven days. Woo Hooo! The sexual ...

And 'women shouldn't be promiscuous' isn't controversial? Move to Saudi if you feel that way, dude. Stop worrying about what other people think and ge...

New arguments aren't necessarily better. I'll say it again: your starting point is superficial. You come across as morally ambiguous. Start with basic...

No. I'm sure you're very sincere. But your explanation of a rightist attitude toward abortion doesn't strike me as having anything to do with the reli...

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Yes. I think there are, and that's the appropriate circumstances for using "necessary evil." It's tongue in cheek. But I assumed you were talking abou...

Just as one human to another (as opposed to some ridiculous political crap), there is no such thing as a necessary evil. It's psychologically precario...

What's the stickiness of memes? I agree that Christians put some effort into reinforcing the Christian identity, but the religion had been around for ...

But Christianity didn't exactly outlive the other worldviews that existed in its infancy. It absorbed them. I think that's generally how conversion wo...

Why do you think this? I'm asking because I tend to be heavily reliant on a Schopenhauerian outlook when I'm interpreting N. I occasionally wonder if ...

That's an interesting question. Metaphilosophy directed at Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, and Darwin as a group.

It has to do with the topic of that Camus thread that was recently on the board. It's why positive atheism needs only a one word response: "Nihilism."...

I don't know what Bayman is talking about. Divine Lawmaker? What? I agree with the Hart quote.

I thought "God is dead" was supposed to be about an historical event.

I see what you mean. The need to be good blinds people. I think N's philosophy is multi-dimensional. Apparently Bannon stated that darkness is good. H...

I don't think so. His metaphysics is closer to Schopenhauer's. Did he equate life-giving with true? Of course not. That doesn't even make any sense. H...

I know of outlooks that equate the Good with the Beautiful. The True as well?

A work out for what I think is going on: global warming. Bernie Sanders recently stated that unless we do something about global warming the planet wi...

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I was responding to what you said. You're either being disingenuous or you have multiple loose screws. I didn't really expect either of those from you...

Yep. "But to stand in the midst of this rerum concordia discors and all the marvelous uncertainty and ambiguity of existence, and not to question, not...

Could be. He seemed to think that losing your sense of humor is the worst thing that can happen.

Could you expand on this? Would that be called conviction?

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Thorough answer, TS. Thanks!

Cool.

Earth to Hanover. Bannon is tolerant of intolerance. Why is he? Who cares? The president is a figurehead. He represents the US. People who object to B...

Universals are dependent entities. That's kind of like saying they aren't real. But what about truth?

But the ideal never changes. It's just that we always end up falling short of it. I was really happy when the SCOTUS opened the way for gay marriage. ...

I know. My question came out of left field.. it's vaguely related to atheism, You're saying that what matters finally is love.

Okey doke. So far I love it.

What in particular (about either yourself or the world) draws your attention as you go to understand?

"Men go and come, but earth abides." Got the Kindle version. Thanks!