A friend just sent this to me. He said that it reminded him of me. I guess it could work for plenty of people here. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_sa...
Yeh I guess I was questioning that. When people say 'society will be better off' it's hard to know what the hell they're talking about. He doesn't mea...
Hey Sapientia, I guess who is 'we' and what is the nature of the need? I don't need another welder or another philosopher. Of course plenty of people ...
I'm not sure about the origins, it doesn't really bother me much, we get socialized. I actually disagree that we can know before a situation what will...
The Australian government would help. We love helping your government and following it into war. Also it would be our honor to help your government to...
I'm pretty happy that people on the forum can't reach through the screen and stab each other with some kind of knife emoticon. There's a small chance ...
It's a little weird with these thread creations. I thought this conversation was one of those fooling around, not taking it too seriously ones. I have...
http://postimage.org There are a bunch of other sites like that. You can use it or just google 'upload images'. You upload images to the site and it w...
Don't have much to add, just read the paper and checking in. I found it quite difficult. In brief I gathered his argument was that if we have a theory...
Hey , maybe the problem exists with your version of truth or certainty. To believe something is not the same as knowing without any doubt that it's fa...
About a year ago I met an American who was generally on the left. He thought that the U.S. would be better off with gun control and agreed with lots o...
Yes unfortunately many of the interesting issue are politically charged. And it's not like the ones that are not have never been, it's just that we ha...
Hey Shevek nice post, the problem is that it describes our actions. With certain issues my worldview is ill-formed and somewhat sceptical. I'm not nec...
Yeh, I've had the same issues trying to work things out in the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Also it's not only history but science, for instance do mobi...
Hey @"Sapientia" I'd also be interested in joining in the discussion. I haven't read the prolegomena but have read bits of CPR and some secondary lite...
I actually like the freedom to do anything, it's just that it doesn't end up looking good. Are you interested in putting up any of your own work, I'm ...
@"John" Thanks. "Decisions" you give me too much credit :) I'm still learning and can't mix the colors that I want as acrylic paint gets slightly dark...
I'm still a beginner at painting, this was my attempt at a self portrait, left unfinished because I couldn't do the hair at all. http://s21.postimg.or...
Well it's not about overcoming it with any sort of proof or argument. Rather it's a statement about trying to understand art whilst ignoring the point...
I don't really get your position. I can't see how you are arguing for an ideational theory of meaning. If knowing a meaning is knowing a rule then whe...
This may not be critical; it's the first thing that comes to mind. The kind of ideas that an idea theory of meaning requires seem to be created after ...
@"Thorongil" I wasn't planning on getting involved with this conversation as I don't know much about art. I was just listening to danielcoffeens podca...
All people cross culturally should receive increased fines as the current value is not enough of a deterrent. It's obvious that the argument that I ma...
Hey , sorry for the late reply I've been spending too much time here procrastinating so cutting down a little until after my exams. If I knew the lang...
I'm not taking it as that negative. They want to stop you posting for now but are not (at least for the moment) outright banning you. It's a pretty di...
It may look empty but it feels heavy, worst of both worlds. I actually find it pretty freaky to look at, feels like a large disconnect between the ima...
Nothing too serious, I have delayed sleep phase syndrome. My body naturally adapts to sleeping between ~4:30am and 12:30pm. Trying to work 9-5 for me ...
Things can probably turn on the way that we are using sympathy or empathy. If it means a general concern with other, then I would agree. But when used...
One thing that PF had that I think was quite effective was the automatic text speak/spelling detection. When I first signed up I bashed out a reply to...
This is really interesting. I have been thinking about moral rules in analogue with the way people teach chess. At first the beginner learns rules, 'd...
Hey @"Baden" yeh I agree there is a problem with my view, because I would definitely feel responsibility to prevent a future famine if I was placed in...
Hey AaronR, Putnams point is about reference. He thinks that there needs to be the correct causal connection between the picture and Churchill such th...
Hey I actually agree with everything you wrote. In the OP the particularism section got a little long so I rushed the talk about practical reason. I d...
Yeh it's a little weird because someone will exist but any individual that we think of won't, they must necessarily be a fiction. I'm kind of riffing ...
In a way it doesn't make sense to have a duty never to accidentally cause anyone harm. I don't think it can be a duty and definitely not one that we c...
Kind of weird calling you that. The problem is that there will be discrepancies in the way your mono-deontology (deontology with only one rule) and ut...
No worries. I think this also could have come about because the word 'action' is ambiguous. I meant to use it as referring to agency i.e an action is ...
I voted no, but I guess it depends on how well we tell their story. Any individuals who exist long into the future are fictions to us. We cannot actua...
Hey, Pneumenon. I think the problem is equating Deontology with what is good in itself and mixing P1 and P2. P1 is an action, P2, P3 ... are situation...
Nietzsche Naturalism and Interpretation - Christoph Cox. I'm having some difficulties understanding Deleuze's Nietzsche and Philosophy and I happened ...
Yeh I think the blog is a good idea. I do like it here, seems a breath of fresh air after years at pf, but it's currently tiny. There's a danger that ...
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