Artemis

Well, my favorite philosophy professor in college had a better line about suicide: "Suicide is like getting a tattoo. It's a permanent solution to a t...

I think Kenneth Burke's Unending Conversation metaphor pretty much captures what any approach comes down to in the end: "Imagine that you enter a parl...

Right. There is at least no deductive, non-circular proof for x=x, because a deductive proof requires formal logic and all of formal logic rests on th...

Ah, I think I see a problem here. You're introducing an observer into the mix. Our observations of the world are always (to some extent) inductive. (A...

Well, first things first: X is just a stand-in symbol for any object or number you wish it to be. But I think you got that far yourself already. To a ...

It's kind of in the definition. By the bye, if you're talking about who is culpable, then you are talking about whether it is right or wrong.

You mean like sadistic serial killers might? A person's enjoyment of being a bully does not make a right.

:100: Does that have no limitations? If someone binds you to a table and has water drip on your forehead for ten years straight, is it still your own ...

@"A Seagull" Is right about that. You have to be clearer what you mean by "irrational." Even a schizophrenics paranoid illusions are rational once you...

That's kind of supposing a false dichotomy. Intuition and emotion are not separate from logic. In order to be convinced of a logical proof, you must b...

Because he got caught. It's the equivalent of saying a bank robber should get let off the hook because he was stopped before he could get his hands on...

Beyond kind of objective criteria, like no swearing at people, or no posts filled with only swears, the mod decisions about what counts as too much or...

I'd prefer it if we tried to monitor swearing here, personally, as I have yet to see an instance when it has not subtracted from the philosophical con...

The Venetians would like a word with you.....

Martha Nussbaum, Love's Knowledge Her take on the philosophical content of literature. It helps that her own prose is positively divine. It's dense to...

The German way sounds way cooler, imho. Mih- chah - ale. (My best phonetic approximation.) The ch sound in German is soft, like at the end of Bach. (H...

Perhaps we can try again sometime with a different philosopher. I like some of his ideas, and I enjoyed his single post, but even among professionals ...

Good ol' Walt comes in handy once again! "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" From Song o...

I asked this before, but if he wants Pigliucci to hear his life story so bad, why doesn't he just email him himself?

:gasp: Aw, that's too bad. Despite our rocky start, we were getting along just fine and I appreciated much of his commentary. Too bad he couldn't back...

I just check the site on my Android's Chrome app. What do you think a special app would add?

Realist? Non-hog-wash-ian? Educated? Jk :razz: I think being a teenager as well as a total novice at anything at all, including philosophy, just means...

Phew! His posts were really making me question how seriously the mods take the basic grammar and spelling requirements. I don't know if it was just me...

Question: how will responses to Pigliucci be moderated? The forum tends to be pretty lenient in terms of anything from sarcasm, snark, up to and inclu...

I have not had the pleasure of talking to this person myself, but I have noticed over my time here that some of the mods are just very inconsistent wi...

I'm not disagreeing with whether banning him was the right move, because reposting deleted posts does seem to be asking for it... But, didn't you accu...

That's what he claims to throw out. Irony at its best.

Okay, I get it now. I think you either don't mean expunge or futility in that case. Anywho, Wittgenstein had some okay ideas, but I think some of it c...

This is an intriguing list, Pfhorrest, but holy cow, man. Each one of those questions deserves a book-long (at least) answer! I don't understand this ...

I would not cite Wikipedia in an academic article, perhaps, but it's been proven to be quite reliable for information: https://www.nature.com/articles...

The relationship between religion and suicide isn't always good news: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4990512/ http://dc.medill.northwest...

Mainstream media is trying to report what is interesting and important for the mainstream to know. Not all people are religious, and obviously there a...

"Adult"

Depending on how you choose to parse it, agnosticism can be seen as a kind of atheism. By that I mean, if you phrase it as "not believing in the exist...

Wouldn't all knowledge be living knowledge and have the potential to die? Considering knowledge needs a knower?

Depends on what you mean by exist. Concepts exist qua concepts. Whether any entity in the physical world shares the exact traits of that concept is no...

Sure, sounds and the scribbles on a page don't inherently mean anything. But we have defined tri to mean three, and we have defined triangle to mean a...

And a side note, the German and English words for triangle literally contain the words "three angle."

I don't know what the Asian script says, but the German and English are the same. Yes. That is the point. Just as triangle means having three sides.

I agree with you generally that all a posteriori truths are <100% certain to be true. But a priori truths like a triangle has three sides, or all bach...

I assume you mean create the Karma Zone? I'm confused, is this supposed to be a virtual reality or a real reality? Also, my initial thought is that it...

What Jesus is saying by talking about how you should treat the weak, is suggesting that just because you have power over someone else, doesn't mean yo...

This is an interesting line. I'm not sure I've ever encountered someone whom I consider a troll who has any apparent fans or following.

Surely some sociologists must have studied this online phenomenon? Something about the anonymous, impersonal interface of a forum makes people less li...

Again, I've shown that your demands of ethics are absurd and irrelevant. That is also there for the world to see. I'm happy to leave it the way it sta...

I mean, that can be your personal opinion as well. But of course you were making impossible and simultaneously illogical demands for proof... but you ...

I'm sorry, but you're just a moving target. You've gone from needing ethics to be totally and absolutely exclusive to ethics (which is dumb, because e...

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/principle noun an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a fundamental, primary, or general law or truth f...

Does an apple only exist because it is different from everything else? And here I thought all fruit share various qualities and aspects. I can put the...

Yup, that's what happened. You've shown that principles might have non-ethical applications, not that this invalidates their ethical ones. No more tha...