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You disagreed with me while saying exactly what I said. Neat trick, Pierre.

Grab a hold. It's logically possible that you're from Kentucky.

Sorry.. I'm not explaining this well. Some cookies are iced with chocolate, some with strawberry. "You pick chocolate." and "You pick strawberry." Nei...

So anti-realist. Hmm.

By the fool on the hill? :)

You have free will to the extent that there is no contradiction in your doing otherwise than you have. That's Leibniz's view. It's closely kin to the ...

Diagnosing the underlying structure of what?

You're saying it's contradictory for a person to struggle to persuade an audience to accept determinism. That's true. I guess I was reading grander st...

I guess you could outline some alternate history.

Not per Leibniz. He said that free will just amounts to the absence of contradiction in some alternate action being performed. I'm not saying you have...

Only a lawyer would think that acceptance of the potency of argumentation is a precondition for meaning. The word of the day is: Leadbelly.

It-was-a-dis-AS-ter. --Searle It was needed at the time. Physics as we know it was trying to be born.

If the whole of knowledge is self-knowledge, what about their philosophy? Would they allow some realm of the other which humans may correctly perceive...

There are definitely six logical possibilities. When we say "The 2 has a 1/6 chance of appearing face up.", we're talking about logical possibility. T...

I agree with that.

I think they're still logical possibilities. Say you're in a casino and you toss a die onto a craps table. As the die tumbles along, you may imagine 6...

Thanks dude. I have glanced at the iep. So far the most helpful author I've found is Nicholas Jolley. He explains how Leibniz varied from Descartes an...

But on closer examination, Leibniz didn't think of bodies as qualifying as substance. Bodies are phenomenal. Substances are eternal. If there's a dist...

Morality is commonly defined as ideals of behaviour or conduct. Do you know of an exception?

Yep.

Seems like there ought to be a lesson in there somewhere.

It's all about the message. Actions follow... or not.. who cares? That's from my upcoming book: What I learned from watching Donald Trump.

Even NASA doesn't know about it?

"In a war of ideas, better ideas win." -- Mubin Shaikh

There's been a fair amount of misunderstanding from the start, apparently. I'm sure Unenlightened won't mind me helping others to avoid making the sam...

Those are baby predators.

Everybody loves a little pedantry. You, Baden, and Sapientia all let me know that I had misunderstood Un and again, I appreciate your taking the time ...

You usually refer to yourself in the plural? That's weird.

Sure. I'm familiar with that view. My question about it would be whether it runs aground in the face of something like GE Moore's thoughts about commo...

Seems like kind of a side-issue to me. Analytical philosophers stipulate. Phenomenologists refer to their own experiences. If we-none-of-us thought th...

So again, really simply.. there is no need for you to come across in a dictatorial fashion. Your fellow moderators agree with that and have informed m...

I've spent as little time as possible working in my region's intensive care burn unit, but just enough to be able to assert pretty confidently that sk...

I think people vary in that. It's not really a matter of taking in more data to see the person behind the face, skin-color, religion, gender, etc. I'v...

It's not morally wrong to think that Asians are good at math. It's a stereotype that will be confirmed by some Asians you meet and disconfirmed by oth...

Good. I'm glad to hear that. It was unnecessary and it was the kind of comment I've seen from you many times. The next time you make that sort of rema...

Don't despair, folks. It's not as bad as the previous post might make you think. See here: http://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/485/how-totalitari...

You're probably right. I won't take it seriously. I'm not apologizing for it. I found Un's "I'm in charge and nobody gives a shit what you think" scht...

Could be. I appreciate your taking the time to discuss it.

You both agree with me that the moderators are interested in the opinions of the other members. So, I don't know if Un was drinking when he wrote this...

In that statement, Un. said that members vote with their presence, which I took as an invitation to leave. I would like to see Un endorse your stateme...

I did disagree with the decision to fold a poster's topic into a kind of trash-bin thread, but I didn't address it directly because the damage was don...

I may be wrong about various things, but if I am, it's obviously out of ignorance, not malice. I assume the same is true of everyone. Further, there a...

As if you folks would do that without any interest at all in the thoughts of the members. No need to be fucking offensive, un.

Just start over, dude. Post your question in a non-inflammatory fashion. If you don't know what that is, I'd say there's no time like the present to l...

It's not a misconception. It's a principle. You either like it or you don't.

One is a number, that's true. And numbered subjects is Russell's beef with the "world apart" and in fact, all of German idealism. So keep expecting mo...

It could be done with an amendment, but why would it require that?

So you're a Democrat? A Republican SCOTUS might overturn Roe v Wade. That would suck.

That's an interesting issue you've raised there.

I agree that beliefs can't be inherently good or evil. I say that because I believe morality is about actions, not beliefs (Jesus disagreed with that....