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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Here's the problem A4H. A "state" is a describable condition, and as such it is "static", unchanging according to whatever fulfills that description. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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