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you and that other guy are arguing with yourselves. I have never denied that we are "unique." So stop thinking you need to persuade me that we are "un...

From what we know for sure, everything is either true or false Seriously?

I would agree to a point. However, there are theories that are supplanted by what most people would agree are better theories. One example is the eart...

is that a yes or a no?

is there a presumption that there is such a thing as a non simulation? I remember way back in the day when one of my professors routinely stated "in t...

seriously, don't flatter yourself.

I am done. I can be no clearer.

1. I am certain I clearly said I had no issue with whether we are unique. We are, after all, the only species that has ever intentionally killed other...

that we are unique is not the issue. I am quite confident that there are many species that are unique in their own way. The deeper issue is to behave ...

It rests upon the unstated presumption that you have something beasts do not. If all H's (Humans) have A's and only A's and all B's (Beasts) have A's ...

you can never get me that information too soon. I have started Tractatus a couple of times and just could not get into it. Reading it in a structured ...

seriously, are the proposed itemized sessions agreed upon and is there a proposed schedule for their timely completion? Please advise.

if the world is everything, then why does he keep going on and on? Just asking. :smile:

and if they say that my ancestors were just meaner and more war like, then that just means that my ancestors were meaner and more war like. Not every ...

yes, whatever happened to the good old days when our politics were so serene?

I did see a post to the effect that white privilege does not mean your life has not been hard. Instead, it means that the color of your skin is not on...

Good read.

:smile:

I do not believe in drugs for non-recreational purposes.

I said philosophy was a discussion regarding the nature of the real. I did not define any "goals" to be achieved by such discussion and even if I did,...

First and for what it is worth, I said I define philosophy as a discussion regarding the the nature of the real. In that sense, it is only the subject...

I would agree that we have no concept of meaning that would attribute to the tree any meaning regarding the number of rings a tree has. But from that ...

only for those who sleep. I am less conscious when I sleep. And seriously, how do you think anesthesiology is all about? I once had a client who was a...

it is anti-philosophical to not respond to a request for definitions.

I disagree. Data is the same as information. Meaning is essentially derived from the context of the available data/information.

indeed. if we were live, so to speak, you could simply ask for them. But given the nature of this particular medium, having them in advance would be b...

I like that. To some degree (perhaps a significant degree) emotions do tell us what matters to us. And of course what matters to us contributes to dec...

Heidegger posits the notion that each of us has an "ultimate for the sake of which." Some of us grow up into them, some seem to choose, and some do no...

is the relationship between teleology and determinism as strong as you suggest?

what is the difference between destiny and pre-destiny? There is no post destiny.

Are you suggesting that all must agree upon certain definitions of terms before the discussion can even begin? Who would decide what terms needed to b...

Tractatus is prior to Heidegger's Being and Time while the Investigations is post Being and Time. I suspect this is no coincidence.

Dude, your reduction of mind to brain and soul to body is the essence of materialism.

I, on the other hand, have always defined philosophy as an ongoing discussion over the nature of the real. As such, I do not subscribe to philosophy a...

I am always interested in the notion of what philosophy is and who or what is a philosopher. To some extent, I subscribe to the notion that a philosop...

And in distinguishing human from computer we grab onto things that are not uniquely human. For example, while it is true that I am flesh and blood and...

The deeper issue is why we continually seek some criterion for establishing a qualitative and normative ontological priority of human being.

In philosophy, see as a sense has always been given a priority. We never ask "hear" how that looks? Yet it is not unusual to hear someone ask "see how...