Again, what I'm requesting, if I'm not making sense to you, is for you to quote something I'm saying--just quote a short bit that doesn't make sense, ...
"Personal" is a feature of quality period. Quality (of anything, in the value sense that we're talking about) is an assessment that individual people ...
That. That's an empirical claim, and even with data, which you don't have--you're just making it up, basically--it still wouldn't be generalizable to ...
Then specify something I'm saying and point out exactly what part(s) you don't understand. I'll explain those bits in other words so you can understan...
Okay, so you do think it's the same thing. Why would how the person feels about their spouse cheating on them be irrelevant to their quality of life? ...
if you imagine Pegasus, whatever you imagine exists as something you imagine. No one said what you imagine has to have wings. And it's like a learning...
With Pegasus, for example, definitions almost always mention that it's from mythology. I'm not sure why you're seeing it matter if a definition specif...
I cut you off here, because that's a lot of very drawn out, mundane rambling on for I don't know what purpose. Is there some "puzzle" or "mystery" you...
Because you're stuck in the standard, misconceived academic phil notion that fictions don't exist as fictions. If you'd just drop that crap, a lot of ...
That would have to involve reifying time in an odd way (that's completely without justification in my view). Yeah, they are, because the idea is incoh...
Not possible in my opinion. It's important not to conflate beliefs, speech, and other actions. Beliefs and speech can't cause harm. Other things are c...
I don't see how this is even a question really. Consciousness is obviously a bunch of different things, different processes working in different ways,...
It's a mental activity. Aboutness/reference are a way that we think. So in other words it's something that brains can do. It's a set of processual pro...
Yeah, obviously what people tend to have in mind with something like "God doesn't exist" is that he doesn't exist as anything other than a fiction. Fo...
I mentioned this earlier re wanting to avoid psychologism, etc. It's a big mistake that philosophy makes. Hence it turns very simple things like this ...
We actually agree on all of that, but we're coming to completely different conclusions about it with respect to quality of life assessments and whethe...
So for example, if the person has a belief that their son or daughter died in a car accident, the belief is made true or false/right or wrong by the o...
Why would we say that imagined things do not exist? They exist as imagined things. Saying that imagined things do not exist as imagined things is a bi...
You're not answering the question I asked. I don't know if you're doing that intentionally or not. You said that you thought that "quality of life" wa...
You mean why say that both are "existence"? It doesn't really matter what word you use. But why would there be a requirement to have the same arbitrar...
Presumably you wouldn't say that it's a belief about how someone feels or what their assessment of their life is, otherwise it wouldn't be any differe...
Per the definition of "world" above that, it seems like existence of the world (qua the world) should be defined as appearing as the domain (that cont...
Sure. But again, what does that have to do with the idea of objective preferences? Again, they're not right or wrong. Right and wrong are category err...
Sure, and objectively, there's no preference for keeping human bodies alive. That only arrives via individual people desiring it. Sure. But that doesn...
Sure. Again, I'm not at all denying that. The point is that "This is a benefit," "This is my quality of life," etc. are not objective circumstances. T...
Yes it is. There is no objective "benefit." There are different physical states. No state is objectively preferred to any other state. It's individual...
First, I'm not interested in philosophy in that sense of the term. That's the sense of the term in which you're looking for some overarching guiding s...
So now it's a point about, what--the notion that we can subdivide time further, or the idea that we can subdivide it into units that are quicker than ...
Which has to be about how they feel about things, otherwise the very idea of it doesn't make any sense. Yeah, I think it's clear that you don't and wo...
It only runs into a problem with correspondence theory if we're trying to exclude "How we normally imagine Sherlock Holmes" or "How A. Conan Doyle ima...
It's only indeterminate if you're looking for an overaching time perspective, which is why I brought that up first. Since there is no overarching time...
But they dont have false beliefs about their quality of life assessment. You're trying to claim that the quality of life assessment can be objective. ...
There's not an infinity of possibilities with respect to the frames of reference in question. There are different possibilities in different frames of...
So, one thing you said was, "You can call something a different name, but that doesn't change what it actually is." Sure. And "A" and "B" can represen...
You'd have to believe that people should feel the same way, should make the same assessments, as most other people. But what would be the argument for...
I think that, too, given what likelihood is--that is, given how statistics work, etc. The problem is this: what does that fact have to do with whether...
?? This makes no sense to me. If the one reads 500 hours on the nose and the other reads 499 hours, 58 minutes and 30 seconds, then the amount of time...
But that's not true. Again, we can know that on the ground, clocks are going to read, say, 500 hours on the nose, while on the space station, clocks r...
Okay, but wait. It seems like we're brushing over this too quickly. If we're talking about there being a standard as measured against other things of ...
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