Metaphysician Undercover

If all trades were like that, we'd go to the market place, trade our wares, and go home with what we needed. The world would be a beautiful place to l...

Would anyone persist in an occupation without making any money? That's what I mean, to support the existence of traders, the traders must make money, ...

I think that trading is inherently wrong. The trader doesn't provide any sort of service to anyone, yet the trader requires payment.

I think, having a blurred distinction is one step better than having misdeeds sanctioned by regulations, and passing as normal.

Roger thinks that herd immunity works by the people with antibodies vacuuming up, and killing all the viruses so that they can't infect others.

The issue is not whether we ought to feel bad for the little fish getting crushed by the whale, the issue is the little fish pointing the finger of bl...

I thought the implication was clear. That I disagree with a proposed definition does not mean that I think it is incorrect, it simply means that it's ...

What makes you think that this was "useful data" after the calf was dead? What do you think causes some words to become visible to the naked eye?

If the space that an object occupies is defined by the object's gravity, we see that objects overlap each other in space. The moon's gravity is effect...

It's really not a different issue, look at the crash of the housing market in the USA, 15 or so years ago. It's well documented that this crash was ca...

Perhaps, but I think I implied that this is debatable. Would you say that someone who takes out a mortgage to buy a house does this only because they ...

Roger Roger, let's all of us healthy individuals get out there and vacuum up all those viruses out of the environment and into our lungs, to make it m...

All investing is speculating, so this is not a real distinction. There is however a real distinction to be made between investing and trading. While b...

I think that this is demonstrably false. If the money came from other traders, there would be an equality between traders making money and traders los...

I'm saying that the the dictionary definition does not qualify as a "rule". Having said that, you can use "rule" however you want, there's no rule tel...

All this does is paint the picture of the difference between investing and trading. What I was talking about is the situation where the rules in the m...

The line between the believed to be true world, and the believed to be imaginary world is not so easy to define for the outside observer of different ...

It is in a very real sense bad, because it gives the experienced traders, and those with access to specific tools, unfair advantage over the inexperie...

If ontology studies "being", as wayfarer says, and being is what is, at the present time, then doesn't relativity, which makes the present an illusion...

Generally that's not a good idea. For instance, if I edited out everything I said that was embarrassing to me, there really wouldn't be much left.

To be corrected is not to be taught a rule. My point is that there is no such thing as a regulation or principle which governs, that is not explicitly...

Yes, I'd say that "necessary" here means that there is good reason for it. Oh, I see the problem, you think there is some sort of "metaphysical necess...

There's shit loads of evidence, you just explain it away, like any good conspiracy theorist will do. What you didn't seem to grasp four years ago, and...

Is that "ironic" in the sense of funny, and sad in the sense of distressing? Lol, now that's irony!

Right, so "necessarily" means that you will judge the conclusion as true if you adhere to the rules, instructions. Clearly there is necessity invoked ...

In rule governed activities, if I have any doubts about what I ought or ought not do, I can consult the rules. I see a semblance of rules for mathemat...

When you say "if those premises are true, then the conclusion will be as well", you are talking about judgement. If tThe premises are judged as true, ...

So you are replacing "must be" with "will be". I assume that "will" implies a free will, which is distinct from "must" which implies a determinist nec...

He's got to keep up the agitation or else the guillotine falls. He's not in a happy place.

Yes, we learn rules from their linguistic expression. If one simply observed an activity and made up so-called "rules" to follow, from the observation...

I don't agree that being repeatable in any or all contexts makes mathematics empty of intention. That also would be the claim of those who support the...

My apologies, your precise words were "necessary truth".

Allowing individuals to buy on margin is another way that the predictability of the market is increased. When a stock plummets to a particular point, ...

No, "language" is the more specific term, while "communicate" is more general. Using language is a form of communicating, but there are forms of commu...

Analysis is reduction. What are you saying, pain ought not be analyzed? That's a value judgement which needs to be justified. How do you justify it, b...

I haven't denied altering one's own standards, I just said the person has to establish consistency between the new information and one's standards. So...

You need to respect the fact that one can only observe what is made possible from one's own capacity for observation. So the observation is fundamenta...

Thanks Luke. Learning is a social interaction, That's the point, a child needs to be able to communicate in order to be able to learn. That's what Wit...

Actually I've been working very hard to demonstrate to you that I do not understand what you are saying, because your use of words is not what I am ac...

It's not "an event" though, that's a misrepresentation, and you ought to be able to see this. There is a huge multitude of things going on all require...

Well, if we want to get really technical, there is no such thing as the third person perspective. We're all somewhat independent, having our own perso...

Sorry Constance, I don't buy it. I don't see getting to "the pain itself" as the final reduction. It's just a turning point, of going from the externa...

I think it's relevant, because you need to show a causal relationship to support your claim. Your claim was that new knowledge builds on the old knowl...

The problem I see here is a backward analysis. The processes of formal logic came into existence following the coming into existence of language. the ...

How could there be grammar which is not surveyable? The rules of grammar must be observable if they are to be followed. It makes no sense to say that ...

The issue here is the question of how much of reality is not experienced. We know there is a huge portion of reality which is unexperienced by us. Qua...

Your experiment is self-refuting. If I were to put a match to my finger, me doing this would demonstrate that I do not believe it to be an ethical bad...

Btw Antony, this is what I perceived you were trying to do with "criteria", use the word in a way which was outside of the concept's grammar. If we al...

So here's the dilemma for you Antony. Can the word "grammar" be successfully used in the way that Wittgenstein demonstrates, which is to go outside of...

Of course they're not synonymous, I don't think anyone suggested that. The issue was how to distinguish a mistake from an accident in order to ensure ...