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Barry Etheridge

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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...
September 24, 2016 at 12:35
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...
September 24, 2016 at 12:27
Laughter is multi-faceted. Einstein clearly uses it in the sense of mocking laughter while Lanyon is clearly describing the laughter of delight. They ...
September 24, 2016 at 12:23
Really? Moses seems to have managed pretty well in fomenting a religious revolution 6000 years ago and Paul some 2000 years ago.
September 24, 2016 at 12:02
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...
September 24, 2016 at 11:55
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 ...
September 24, 2016 at 11:42
Balderdash, stuff and nonsense, propaganda and codswallop! You may find these things desirable but that is a very distant thing from what others need ...
September 24, 2016 at 11:38
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...
September 24, 2016 at 11:18
Pretty certain that this was blown out of the water by Deep Thought's answer to the question about Life, the Universe, and Everything.
September 23, 2016 at 12:38
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...
September 23, 2016 at 12:24
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...
September 22, 2016 at 23:11
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...
September 22, 2016 at 23:03
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...
September 22, 2016 at 21:29
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What in nature does 'Yoda' or 'Dalek' or 'sublime' or indeed 'philosophy' represent?
September 22, 2016 at 17:02
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...
September 22, 2016 at 16:54
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...
September 22, 2016 at 16:46
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...
September 22, 2016 at 16:35
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...
September 21, 2016 at 12:26
Not that we know of but what's that got to do with the price of bread?
September 21, 2016 at 12:13
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...
September 21, 2016 at 12:08
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...
September 21, 2016 at 12:01
Hundreds of attempts at constructing a biography of Jesus were written post-Enlightenment by Deists and mainstream theologians alike. The skewering gi...
September 21, 2016 at 11:45
You state that as a fact which it is not. The weight of modern scholarship is very much against you on this point.
September 21, 2016 at 11:36
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...
September 21, 2016 at 11:27
Someone's been watching too many post-apocalyptic movies!
September 21, 2016 at 11:19
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...
September 20, 2016 at 20:52
No they don't. It clearly says it's a new type of hydrophone.
September 20, 2016 at 20:49
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...
September 20, 2016 at 20:46
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...
September 20, 2016 at 20:23
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...
September 19, 2016 at 23:30
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...
September 19, 2016 at 22:54
You're really going to have to redefine your terms. The two options you present us with are not in any way mutually exclusive in their present form.
September 19, 2016 at 22:40
You worry too much and should definitely get out more! Other philosophers mostly!
September 19, 2016 at 22:11
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...
September 19, 2016 at 21:45
And? You obtain that information using standard research methods other than sight. In the most basic line length illusions for example you simply get ...
September 19, 2016 at 21:30
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...
September 19, 2016 at 21:17
Is it?
September 19, 2016 at 13:34
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 ...
September 19, 2016 at 13:28
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...
September 19, 2016 at 09:00
It most certainly does. The earth revolves around its axis. It orbits the sun!
September 18, 2016 at 18:15
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...
September 18, 2016 at 18:13
How can relativity, of which one consequence is time dilation, be time symmetric?
September 17, 2016 at 20:33
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...
September 17, 2016 at 20:23
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...
September 17, 2016 at 19:14
And just as I'm talking about this, I see ... The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality in Quanta
September 17, 2016 at 18:00
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...
September 17, 2016 at 16:48
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...
September 17, 2016 at 14:07
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 ...
September 17, 2016 at 13:15
Not necessarily. If you understand eternity quantitatively then it certainly does. If, however, you understand it qualitatively as Plato and Neo-Plato...
September 17, 2016 at 12:42
That's precisely the distinction that determinists argue is fallacious. Everything which occurs to make Sue late, including her 'choices', on this par...
September 17, 2016 at 12:35