We could call this a premise, okay. Followed by two questions . . . Which is fine, but of course questions are not logical entailments. That doesn't f...
Per the online etymology dictionary, the "literal" definition of "unnatural" is "not in accord with physical nature," where the etymology of "nature" ...
I consider any organized control by (at least threat of) force to be sufficient for government. Given that, I don't believe that anarchy is possible. ...
it's irrelevant how many people something is compelling to. Appealing to that is the argumentum ad populum fallacy. And the person who is claiming som...
Here's a simple formalization of a reductio ad absurdum: Assume P is true. From this assumption, deduce that Q is true. Also, deduce that Q is false. ...
If god exists and then the rest of everything does (your options are either that, or god existed and everything else did, too, or everything else exis...
You set forth your view in a number of claims. The claims weren't an argument (nothing followed from anything else). You didn't state a reductio ad ab...
And particularly phrases like "and that's that" aren't going to do anything in an argument. You might as well say, "My view is that P. I'm right, and ...
They're only contradicting the realist view. Which of couse they'll be the first to admit. And the realist account isn't compelling to idealists--or t...
So you were talking about your initial post in this thread. What, exactly, is supposed to be absurd about the idealist stance in (1)? The first part t...
If anyone ever didn't seem to understand something, ever asked for an explanation, clarification, etc I explained things again, and in other words, tr...
Yeah, I basically have an endless amount of patience, which was beneficial when I taught, which I did for a number of years. Thinking of conversations...
What happened to this subthread, by the way: "Employs it in any manner. However you want to think of it. "Do you think that people do not use meaning ...
You might be reading that into it, but I can only keep repeating that I don't at all believe that there's anything "special" about it or anything to s...
I've had to tell Harry what my definitions are about 50 times, and I'm still not sure he gets it. I'll gladly tell him again, in as many different way...
"We think them up"--okay, so you're not saying that meanings don't occur in minds. So what am I supposed to be "proving." You already agree that meani...
No, I'm explicitly NOT saying this. It's nothing about "deserving" anything. And I didn't invent the terms. There's nothing special about it. It's jus...
All it teaches me is that you don't care enough to not do the same stupid thing everyone does in conversations like this. You don't care about actuall...
I'm not making the case that anything is "special" . . . the distinction comes up often especially in philosophy, though. We could make a distinction ...
Re the things that I'm an antirealist on, re the stupid "burden of proof" convention, you're not arguing that we don't think things like meanings, are...
Right, I didn't answer because I wanted you to just address that first part and not skip it. Re "Why would it matter how many brains?" I don't underst...
Again, I use the word "subjective" to refer to brains functioning in mental ways. (Well, or anything functioning in a mental way, but so far there's o...
Still no idea. You could spell it out (or at least reference what you're talking about so I can look at it again), or I can just not worry about it. L...
"Meaning depends on understanding" is not a view I hold. No idea what you're talking about there. So I guess you can't point to the objective properit...
Right, and meaning is another one of those things. We simply disagree on whether meaning is one of those things. So your challenge would be to point t...
There can't be anything to cause the universe, because that necessarily implies that something exists prior to the universe. But that can't be, becaus...
If you think that it doesn't have a location, then you think that it's located nowhere. The only way to think that it's not located nowhere is to thin...
That's a definition, not a meaning. They're not the same thing. Objectively, the definition is just marks on paper, or activated pixels on a computer ...
"Quantum fluctuations" can't be both quantum fluctuations and nothing. Quantum fluctuations are something. If they exist, then they're part of the uni...
What it is for anything to be better or worse is for an individual to come to that judgment about the thing in question, a judgment based on their pre...
That fact that you're alive is located wherever you are, as (long as) you continue to breathe, metabolize, undergo cell division, etc. How in the worl...
Us evaluating something and us valuing something, our personal perspectives, our perceptions, etc. aren't properties of the action itself. If the mora...
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