Indeed nobody has the right. That's why it's a contract requiring the agreement of both parties. And in the vast majority of cases these days that con...
Well, as you are apparently unwilling to reveal the identity of this strange 'plase' I suppose I'll have to take your word for it while retaining my r...
Laughter is multi-faceted. Einstein clearly uses it in the sense of mocking laughter while Lanyon is clearly describing the laughter of delight. They ...
I'm really not sure that that's what Heidegger is advocating. Constant anxiety does not strike me as in the least bit compatible with an 'authentic' l...
Of course it's a crime! Speeding is an offence under statute (the Road Traffic Act here in UK). You can't be fined for a civil offence, you'd have to ...
Balderdash, stuff and nonsense, propaganda and codswallop! You may find these things desirable but that is a very distant thing from what others need ...
You seem to have completely missed the fact that marriage is a civil contract and that breach of said contract is therefore a tort and not a crime. No...
This is only true for a particular definition of sentience which you have carefully kept hidden. There simply is no evidence that any species other th...
Yes indeed but you are not arguing that we can, you are arguing that we must and in certain ways prescribed by your particular understanding of the wo...
Well firstly, it's not for no reason if it's either to eat or protect ourselves. And secondly it cannot be murder. Murder is and always has been a for...
If one says "truth" it cannot have a capital letter, Shirley! Anyway, fascinating as this orthographical diversion may be, I think the real point is t...
Huh? How can a statement forming part of the exposition of the argument of a notional third party (in this case an extreme determinist) be a suppositi...
Do it because you love it and for no other reason. Do it because you'll regret it if you don't. Don't do it with some future aim in mind. Nothing coul...
That doesn't follow at all. Intelligence does not equate to morality. Indeed one could reasonably argue that they are utterly opposed in this case. In...
But you don't need 'imaginary' friends (unlike pianos and cars) to be moral surely? Not thinking bad things about them, not planning elaborate methods...
An odd reference since the incapacity has nothing to do with the isolation and everything to do with the absence of physical objects. In reality, of c...
No, really it's not. It's not altruistic in that it is designed to provide protection for both patient and physician and you might very well argue tha...
Hundreds of attempts at constructing a biography of Jesus were written post-Enlightenment by Deists and mainstream theologians alike. The skewering gi...
I think it obvious that life is basically impossible without faith. Every time you go into a shop, for example, you demonstrate faith that staff won't...
The great thing about having done a class in child-psychology is that you learn to trust absolutely nothing said by child psychologists! This, I would...
Just because two wars have been given the official designation 'World' doesn't mean that they are so in fact. One could just as easily argue that ther...
I think I'm not saying that. The problem with the resurrection is exactly the same as with every other event in the life of Jesus, namely that we simp...
Well, here's the thing. That there was a string of events that convinced the immediate disciples beyond any doubt that the man they had seen crucified...
Your conclusion it seems to me holds good only for the most extreme version of representational theories, ie. those which posit that our perceptions a...
Oooh, sneaky! Liking your work! But actually, probably not if we're being that analytical about it. For pragmatic purposes, however, one has to assume...
And? You obtain that information using standard research methods other than sight. In the most basic line length illusions for example you simply get ...
I knew you'd say that but it is of course you that don't get it. If we see things directly there are no illusions. The only reason that optical illusi...
Tough crowd. I would have thought that as a member of a philosophy forum you would have to admit that it is far enough to be a pretty big gulf. There ...
Except that is exactly what happens in one of the most famous optical illusions. We simply do not see an exact map of the photons received at the reti...
I didn't. You apparently have. I'll let you sort it out. We do of course know that the visual cortex can and does operate without photons because we h...
I'll believe it when they give their first Powerpoint presentation! (The dolphins, that is. I assume the scientists have been doing it since they were...
Depends what you mean by 'see', doesn't it? In so far as it receives enough information via computational analysis of the input to make informed decis...
Which part of receptor (eye) in combination with signal interpreter (in this case the cerebrum) did I fail to clarify? You would be just as blind if t...
Which of course is completely impossible. You don't see light. You respond to an electrical signal transmitted from a receptor in your eye which obvio...
You've started with the premise that inside and outside are sets which they clearly are not. They are descriptions of the areas which become distinct ...
Not necessarily. If you understand eternity quantitatively then it certainly does. If, however, you understand it qualitatively as Plato and Neo-Plato...
That's precisely the distinction that determinists argue is fallacious. Everything which occurs to make Sue late, including her 'choices', on this par...
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