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This question doesn't make sense. How is it that you know anything? To experience something is not sufficient for knowing something, the experience mu...
April 25, 2017 at 12:33
Well here's the problem then. If each proposition requires a different standard to be judged as true, then "true" has a different meaning in each of t...
April 25, 2017 at 12:19
No, the rock does not intend to kill you, because the defining feature of intent is purpose. Unless the rock was thrown by a human being, or otherwise...
April 25, 2017 at 11:58
You'd be surprised at all the situations where it is necessary to posit intention. Anything which acts for a purpose, or aim, has intention, by defini...
April 24, 2017 at 20:17
Purpose is the reason for any "drive or need". So when self-actualization is defined as a drive or need, then the purpose of life cannot be self-actua...
April 24, 2017 at 15:46
Consider the difference between an object having the property X, and the concept which is X. So for example, we have an object which is red, and a con...
April 24, 2017 at 14:57
The problem being that you refuse to examine how language is used in deductive logic. If you would get over this refusal, you would see that examining...
April 24, 2017 at 13:51
No, I read your posts, but we're both on completely different wavelengths. You use the word "experience" in a way which doesn't make sense to me. I do...
April 24, 2017 at 12:20
This is clear evidence that you didn't read my post, and that's why I dropped out of the discussion back then, it appeared like you only read the firs...
April 24, 2017 at 11:44
As I explained earlier, there is no "correct" or "incorrect" to word usage unless we are talking about logic. And since "essence" is an aspect of corr...
April 24, 2017 at 11:40
You don't, and can't, identify such an essence. That's why I claim that "common usage" is a fiction. You can look at all the different instances of us...
April 24, 2017 at 02:25
That's only if the claim that there is such a thing as "common usage" is a justified claim. But as I explained, to create such a generalization, to su...
April 24, 2017 at 02:14
Great article, it explains just how bad relativity theory really is.
April 24, 2017 at 01:56
What's the issue with viruses? Why would one not consider a virus to be a form of life? I agree that there is an issue with functioning parts, but a l...
April 24, 2017 at 01:46
None of this makes any sense to me. How is a dead cow an example of life? It was alive, but no longer is, so there is no life there. It is not an exam...
April 24, 2017 at 00:53
Life is the property of a living thing which distinguishes it as alive rather than not alive; if it has life it is alive. Would could you possibly mea...
April 23, 2017 at 18:48
I really don't see how a sensory experience of seeing the colour green can be construed as a sensory experience of seeing not-red. This conclusion mus...
April 23, 2017 at 16:47
OK, because I was wondering if maybe lots of "pulling it" could have some additional affects for a young man. But maybe that guy should stretch and do...
April 23, 2017 at 11:52
Playing games makes your thumbs grow longer?
April 23, 2017 at 11:30
There is no such thing as "common usage", you are making an unjustified generalization. I use a word the way I want to use it, you use it the way you ...
April 23, 2017 at 11:25
No there is no experience of such a distinction, that's the point. What kind of experience is an experience of is not? There's no such experience. The...
April 22, 2017 at 21:30
What do you think "guilty" refers to then? If the jury makes a determination of "not guilty", but you allow that this is not necessarily a true determ...
April 22, 2017 at 13:32
This is what I disagree with. My claim is that you can think in relationships themselves, that is what logic is, thinking in relationships without the...
April 21, 2017 at 12:07
I like that reply, it's well composed. If it's the case, as Burr said, that "The law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained", then wh...
April 21, 2017 at 11:18
Care to expound on this special kind of intelligence required to be an able lawyer? Is that the capacity to outwit the others, thereby proving your po...
April 20, 2017 at 12:23
I think the form of government plays a large role in the overall mindset of the populace. In the west, democracy is seen as the best form of governmen...
April 20, 2017 at 11:47
I'm not referring to "the fundamental aspect of the mind". I've taken exception to your claim that "you can only think in the same forms that your exp...
April 19, 2017 at 12:14
Let's call it what it is, "democracy". The western way is the way of democracy Those who are dissatisfied with the "decadence" of the western way are ...
April 19, 2017 at 12:05
That's why I prefer "desire" over "causal disposition", because there is no "cause" here. "Causal disposition" is a misnomer, because what is being re...
April 19, 2017 at 11:19
The working of logic isn't dependent on evidence.
April 19, 2017 at 01:18
OK, so what I call a "desire", you call a "causal disposition". Do you recognize a difference between a causal disposition, and an intention? The diff...
April 19, 2017 at 00:49
Obviously I'm not talking about something like imagining a green colour, that would be obtained from sensory experience. I'm talking about the relatio...
April 19, 2017 at 00:21
This is false though, and that's why we have "fiction". The imagination creates forms which haven't been experienced in the world. You may argue that ...
April 18, 2017 at 11:39
Too much religion will leave one dead in ditch?
April 17, 2017 at 21:22
Here's the problem A4H. A "state" is a describable condition, and as such it is "static", unchanging according to whatever fulfills that description. ...
April 17, 2017 at 12:08
Yes, I know there is ambiguity in the common usage of the word, that's the case in any word which has more than one definition, which is most all word...
April 16, 2017 at 11:23
Very interesting. I like Tolstoy, he had a very complex and thoughtful mind, making for some really good reading. And I've heard that "The Death of Iv...
April 16, 2017 at 10:48
Why would memories be necessarily deleted? They are part of your present, just like anticipations of the future are part of your present.
April 16, 2017 at 10:37
I don't believe that this is a proper representation. Jones' decision exists within Jones's mind at each moment of the passing time, so it is incorrec...
April 16, 2017 at 01:21
There are many things which the laws of nature would incline us toward believing that they are impossible. But through intelligence we can mitigate th...
April 16, 2017 at 01:03
This is what I am saying is wrong. I am saying that one does not choose to desire. Desire is type of feeling we get whether we want it or not. We can ...
April 15, 2017 at 11:29
Don't you find that to be unreasonable though? To accept something is to willingly consent to something. I think it's unreasonable to willingly consen...
April 15, 2017 at 11:15
I think you misunderstood what I said. What I said was that the concept of individual survival after death is what makes death acceptable. You said, e...
April 15, 2017 at 02:01
I don't agree. I think you interpret the feeling of hunger as the desire to eat. But you can still have the desire to eat yet intend not to eat, that'...
April 15, 2017 at 00:59
I assume you are saying that there is no such thing as correct usage. How does logic work then?
April 14, 2017 at 12:27
Yeah, I've reflected on this before. It really makes no sense to offer an answer to a question when one does not know the answer. And that's the probl...
April 14, 2017 at 12:24
I find this to be a questionable idea. It may be true, that such things as pain and suffering are attributed to the individual and this is why the ult...
April 14, 2017 at 01:58
Clearly, you have stated here that you belief that you could sometimes be wrong in your use of "tree". Remember, what we are discussing is not whether...
April 14, 2017 at 01:42
OK, I agree "survival" is not the best term here, because of the very thing Noble Dust is arguing, the association of "survival" with evolution, and t...
April 14, 2017 at 00:46
It may be useful for you to distinguish between feelings like desires, and the will itself. It is most likely the case that most desires originate fro...
April 13, 2017 at 14:07