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Physics hasn't been determinist in over 100 years.

Earth to Andrew4Handel. You'd have to set out demarcation criteria as I outlined above if you want me to have an explanation discussion.

Yes, and that's indeed the case. Everything you imagine is a state of your brain. Saying that the nonphysical is the "reality of our mental life" is j...

Should be clear from the context of the discussion: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/ The definition I use of subjective/objective is ...

I wasn't saying anything unique about moral utterances re meaning. My comments about meaning applied to all meaning, in general. Meaning is subjective...

There might be something that fits better, but it's basically a variation on the gambler's fallacy--using irrelevant factors to determine the likeliho...

I'm a physicalist/identity theorist. One of the things that's incoherent about a lot of supernatural stuff is that it posits nonphysical existents. Th...

Whether you desire anarchy or not, you can't have it anyway, so you may as well settle on something you could have.

Since only people have purposes, per however they think about the same, teleology, the belief in purpose in a much broader, objective sense, is useles...

Not that I'm arguing for extant infinities, but why would whether there's an infinity of anything hinge on observation?

We've already done a bunch of threads on meaning. At any rate, so your interpretation of what people are doing with language--your beliefs about what ...

I understand your view, but you're arguing based on something that's wrong and very misconceived. (And it's also very simplistic, really.) I don't agr...

That part is wrong. Again, meaning is determined by what an individual has in mind.

Yeah, but those people are wrong. Teleology is nonsense by the way. Just dump the Aristotle, really. He said a lot of stuff that was severely in error...

Even if you're doing that and you don't care about what's really going on ontologically, you can't just ignore meaning. Meaning is determined by how a...

I'm not clear re what "comes through a subject" would refer to, so we'd have to clarify that. I use "subjective" to refer to something occurring menta...

That's false. Maybe you try should understand my views, then, before trying to criticize or even paraphrase them.

Under the definition I use, how are thought and belief not subjective? Not that the term matters, by the way. What matters are the upshots of what it'...

What definition of "subjective" would you be using there? (Well, what definition of both terms I should ask)

I haven't the faintest idea what that bit is saying.

So a convention re language-usage somehow determines what's the case ontologically? How?

. . .and given that there is no "supernatural realm" (unfortunately, because I like the idea of things like ghosts), then there is no objective proper...

I don't think you understood my comment, which is partially my fault for using the word "merit." What I mean is that you're suggesting that just becau...

Say what?

Oy vey re that paper. They say, "To get at people’s agreement with moral relativism, they told participants about two characters — John and Fred — who...

One good thing about all of these comments from Andrew M lately is that it's clear that he's an objectivist (not in the Randian sense) on ethics, whic...

"Analyzes existing concepts," "creates concepts," and the word "only" in application to either claim about concepts makes no sense when in the same se...

It seems like not many places accept Bitcoin as payment yet, which doesn't help make the whole thing any less ridiculous. Supposedly a local (to me) p...

The details of the experiment sound ridiculous. They based the results on the speed with which the test subjects pushed buttons (what sort of speed di...

Yes. Quality in this sense, any judgment whatsoever that anything is better or worse than something else, is about persons' preferences. The world out...

Which doesn't tell you anything about whether in their view they're claiming something objective or not.

On your view, you have no grounds for believing there's anything but a map. You're backing (at least epistemological) idealism via representationalism...

I have no idea. We'd need to do the empirical research and do pretty extensive polls. Only via saying things like "Joe considers x well-being," "Betty...

So if a system can work so that its thermal energy can be converted into mechanical work, then in what sense is the entropy "going backwards"--wouldn'...

No, it can't. There is no objective quality (in that sense of the word "quality," I'm not saying there are no objective properties.)

The reason I brought it up is because you said this: That's saying that the maps are the maps. So we need to check if you think there are only maps. Y...

I asked you "I'm not claiming that the map is (necessarily) the territory. Are you?" You didn't give a straight yes or no answer. So yes, you are clai...

I'm not saying anything like this, though. My system has competition for scarce(r) resources as a major feature of the system. You said that my system...

Sure, so how, exactly is this built into Marx's communism?

Just in case you don't know where I'm coming from, I'm a pretty hardcore atheist who isn't at all fond of the influence of mainstream religious belief...

Sure. So for one, you'd say that Marx's system has competition for scarce resources as a major motivator?

Yes, I know about thermodynamics and entropy. If you're saying something specifically about thermodynamics and entropy, you'd need to characterize it ...

You're saying that my system is communism a la Karl Marx? (and I'm just not aware of this?)

If the water starts to heat itself up when the energy is coming back into the water, how is that not adding energy to the water to heat it up again?

It might sound like communism but what I'm proposing is quite different. "Need to get something in return"--I specified that my system would be compet...

Are you saying that the text answers "If we can't conceive of an unexperienced or objective world, then what would we even be talking about in this di...

But how would we "travel back to when it was hot" rather than just heating it up again?

What does that amount to in practical terms, exactly? "Different points of energy distribution"?

I'd replace it with a socialist system, not centered on money per se, geared towards providing both the essentials for everyone--food, housing, health...

Also, it's important not to conflate truth and ontology in general. For example, I'm a subjectivist on truth--in short, truth is a relation between pr...