Terrapin Station

What in the world would be the definition of "argument" you'd be using? "Saying something contrary to"?

Philosophy isn't about pretending to be ignorant. You don't do good work in philosophy by feigning ignorance, or feigning an inability to reason, etc.

The short bus is here to pick you all up.

That's your thesis. And you're telling me it as if it's some revelation, as if I either pay as little attention to what you say as you pay to what I s...

Well, objects are matter, but at least unless they're subatomic particles, they have "parts," if that's all you're basically saying there. Weird, So h...

You're not using "radical, brute separation of all things from one another" to simply refer to the idea of there not being literal physical laws that ...

If it's a logical conclusion, then there's a chain of logical inferences, logical implication for it, right? Otherwise, what is the word "logic" refer...

Can you show your work re the claim that that is the logical conclusion?

So it just doesn't need any explaining then?

The problem is that I don't know if it coheres very well with anyone's view about physical stuff.

Why is the "mind" alternative simply left unexplained?

Where are you getting that idea from?

What are you basing this likelihood on? By the way, if that's the problem, then what he and other folks in the same boat need to dos pause for a momen...

Matter--substances consisting of subatomic particles, which combine to make atoms, which combine to make molecules, etc. in various structures of gase...

But idealists are saying that the book of gibberish IS itself the decryption key, that it was essentially just an illusion that it was something else;...

Sure, but why not just systematically tackle one thing at a time? I don't know how many pages you can feasibly do in a day, but even if it's just 5, s...

That's a good point. My perspective is pretty skewed because I was born in 1962, and I have very libertarian/libertine/hippieish parents who treated m...

Good reason to start 20 different reading groups at the same time.

First off, this means that you weren't really paying attention. All you'd have to do is repeat back what I said, even if you think it's contradictory ...

It might be worth talking to someone who isn't as trollish, confused or insane as Metaphysician Undercover. What I said above about this was: "How do ...

lol. You are really off your rocker.

Shouldn't we maybe do less than 20 books at a time?

Do we violate the law of identity when we say that the song "Kashmir" is music? "You can sense a song, you can't sense music" "What's the difference?"...

Sure.

If you don't look inside then you have to claim things such as the sentence I quoted above literally contain or are doing meaning. How could that be, ...

What were some of the alternatives to that?

"You can sense trees but not matter. Trees and matter are different. What's the difference? You can sense (the existence of) one but not the other." T...

If trees are matter, then you sense matter all the time, right? (Well, assuming you often encounter trees.)

First, memories do not refer to anything if they're not present-to-mind. When they're present-to-mind, they only refer to a "where" when the individua...

A tree is something you can sense while matter is not only if it's the case that there's a difference between the tree and matter. I'm asking what tha...

I don't think that's true though. The only reason to think that would be to think there's a good reason to believe that future people will be radicall...

Unless you're saying something about the calling per se, that just restates that you think there's a difference between trees and matter. It doesn't s...

I would think that to agree with antintalism, someone would have to think that either: (A) preventing harm/suffering/lack etc. is good and warranted r...

So the distinction you're making is about what we call things?

Well,. no moral stance is true/false or objective. Morality is noncognitive/subjective. I'm pretty sure I pointed out before that antinatalism doesn't...

I would agree that inuition is what people rely on, but we have differen intuitions, and really, there's nothing to get correct or incorrect. It's onl...

What would make one moral consideration primary over other moral considerations? In other words, what makes "whether we're creating (the opportunity f...

This, for example: Is not a fact. If it's a foundational moral stance for you, no rational justification of it is possible. Someone could just as easi...

There is no rational justification possible of foundational moral stances.

I don't think it's at all clear that most people have adversity as their dominant experience or to extent/to an interpretation that makes them miserab...

Just curious what the image source is.

The problem re the sexual stuff is that we've been going pretty backwards for the last few decades re "loosening the grip of restrictive morality." I'...

Gorilla, chimp, etc. sure, if we're simply talking about food. I wouldn't kill species that are endangered, but not because I have a problem with eati...

Yes.

Couldn't what results in the emergence of ideas into our conscious minds be something that's quite different than the ideas that emerge in your consci...

You're assuming that they're "cogitations" prior to you being aware of them, right? Why are you assuming that?

A couple different questions here, but I'll start with this one: what's the difference between the tree and matter?

How do we get to the point of saying that matter is an idea? You know, so phenomenally, there's a tree say (not as a tree--that is, the concept, etc.-...

Doesn't have to do with "mental normalcy" but species membership.

I don't live in the UK, but I'm in favor of there eventually being world unification/a one-world government, and I'm not in favor of restricting how p...