Metaphysician Undercover

This doesn't change anything. It's just more evidence that your world is not the same as my world. Therefore it's more proof that "the world" is actua...

Sure, but @"AmadeusD" just laughs at this very serious problem.

Well, you could say that, but in general, we each produce a world which we assume is shared with others, and that produces an illusion of objectivity....

If "intent" is defined by purpose, then all living things act with intent, because they clearly act with purpose. So I don't see why you have a proble...

Not at all difficult for me, and I'm an extremely slow typist. Go figure.

What's the point of this post? I thought AI posts are banned from TPF.

That's a great idea. Put the seed for a pearl on the end of a line, let the oyster grab it, after a couple years reel it in, and voila. How many lines...

it's also hard to know if an oyster is a fish. It is a shellfish, so an appeal to ordinary language philosophy would probably let it slide. Ha, get it...

The myth busters really like playing with explosives and all sorts of dangerous weapons. They proved that shooting fish in a barrel is as easy as it's...

That's why they use a shotgun, probability is far more productive than actual science. Ever see "MythBusters", when they're shotting fish in a barrel?...

Assuming they could ballistically remove it from the air. Hey, they're statisticians, not rocket scientists.

A see a bunch of guys sitting out in the cold, with guns in hand. You forgot to mention the whiskey, and the reason why they couldn't hit the broad si...

Yeah, I think Trump really likes gifts, it makes him feel special. Qatar gifted him a 747.

Looks like the "Grand Jury" in the Comey case was actually a grand two people.

I think that's what the lounge is for, a place to put to use our omniscience. That practice can be called omnipotence. What does TDS stand for, Testos...

The Romans? When can we have them over to the White House? That's the thing. You can only push so far.

There are many ways to show how the argument is not reasonable, I provided one. The argument requires a very narrow perspective to work. It works for ...

I don't think Trump gives a flying fuck about stopping the drug trade. He just uses it as leverage. You know, he'll keep up the attack, rationalizing ...

A quandary.

Probably he's after oil. He seems to be extraordinarily obsessed with keeping the price of fuel in the US low. I think he believes this will guarantee...

It's possible that Trump is trying to pressure Maduro into negotiations, like he does with the tariffs. The bully tactic he's known for. I think he ac...

We'd have said the same thing about W. H. Woolworth in the 80's. It fell in the 90's. Wikipedia: "By Woolworth's 100th anniversary in 1979, it had bec...

Here's something from Wikipedia: "Woolworths Group is the largest retail corporation in Australia, operating a variety of supermarket and other retail...

Woolworths went bankrupt years ago. Did they steal the name?

Woolies? That's long johns.

Trump uses drug trafficking as a reason to declare "national emergency". This declaration gives the government the power to avoid congress. He used fe...

As I said, I didn't see anything to thank you for. And to be insincere in a discussion about truth is self-defeating.

I didn't see anything to thank you for. But since you seem to be inviting me to critique your perspective, I will. The substance of your reply, I see ...

That's what she (Diotima) said.

But isn't it the case that whether or not there is "accordance" is itself a judgement? You say that truth is "accordance" but isn't accordance a judge...

OK, care to make that re-statement for me? Just so I can understand your perspective on this.

"True" is a judgement. Judgements are only made by intelligent minds in the process called "knowing". Therefore all truths are known.

Fitch's paradox only demonstrates the obvious, that every truth must be known. Since "truth" refers to a relation between propositions and reality, an...

Evidence of the breakup in the bromance?

A conviction for smuggling drugs does not produce a death sentence in the USA. Since the leader of Venezuela has been designated a narco-terrorist, I ...

If the set is not complete, then you imply that there are more true sentences which are not in the set. So, do you mean by this, that "the set of true...

That might be the philosophy about nothing. (Jerry Seinfeld?) I can't think of any philosopher who argues that there actually is nothing. But ask GP, ...

I am very fond of maps and have been reading them since I was a child, road maps, contour maps, weather maps. It's not surprising that you think I'm l...

Looks interesting. A bit expensive, but probably worth it for me to get some background information.

To me, the idea that there is such an algorithm is a faulty principle which negates the possibility of free will. This idea you propose, is an example...

Thanks Jamal. I'm staring to understand the primacy of the object. It's difficult for me because traditionally (Aristotelian) the object itself is a c...

The nature of a tool, and the nature of power in general, is that it could be used for good purposes, or it could be used for bad.

But don't you think that this selfishness is just the basic instinct toward survival, of the individual being? You know, like we have some basic needs...

Well, I like to think that I am somewhat open minded, so I am open to the possibility that he will change my attitude toward ontology. Afterall, we ar...

Read the passage below. Notice, it says "I should like to mention an objection". As "an objection" what is stated is stated as something contrary to w...

I think I see the point, I just don't agree. I think the nature of ontological questions is such that they transcend all social and historical conditi...

I apologize for being short. But I already spent much time mulling over what Adorno said, and I didn't find that your brief effort really added anythi...

It's what you think is the right answer, but it still might not be the right answer. This makes no sense to me. Answers do not take shape just from as...

Adorno talks about Heidegger's system of regions, as subject areas, and how the will attempts to grasp the whole without those self-imposed boundaries...

The difficulty, is that the urge to to share, and the urge to hide the interior reality, are contrary. The reality of the private inner, in its separa...