It's not a term I invented, but "weak conception" was your characterization, so presumably you had some idea of a non-weak conception of ontological f...
You're barking up the wrong tree re asking me who I'd take to be a "proper authority" re something so broadly discussed. I'm simply referring to the c...
I don't see the point as trying to "salvage" anything. We're simply wondering whether ontological freedom obtains in relation to "will phenomena," so ...
But that's just changing what we're referring to in the conversation. No one in the debate was using "free" to refer to whether a choice is a product ...
If I just wrote, and you just quoted "no moral utterance can be true or false, objectively correct or incorrect," do you think that I'm going to say "...
Since we're only getting loose direction in proceeding and folks have moved on a bit past what I commented on before, I'll do my comments on the next ...
In my view our exploitation of other species is no more of an ethical problem than other species' exploitation of our bodies for food and housing (bac...
I'm a physicalist/materialist, but my view isn't a "belief in physics" per se. Among the big problems for me with the "God" side of things is that in ...
Based on data re people who have attempted or committed suicide, including from health care professionals/psych professionals I know personally, and i...
Okay, but I think all of that has problems. Being able to conceive something simply means being able to imagine it, at least "kinda"--often those imag...
You never even got to supporting your thesis that democracy is dying. You started off fine, giving a definition of democracy, but then you got sidetra...
I don't agree with that, though. And there are benefits, because under the scenario I wrote "In fact, the vast majority of people enjoy it a lot." Tha...
Well, I'm a physicalist/materialist. I don't believe that mind is anything other than matter/processes and relations of matter--just like everything e...
Re this, by the way, re Aristotle: So In Aristotle, there is passive and active intellect (which someone could easily parse as mind in a nonphysical s...
So we're saying, without proof, that maybe it could be otherwise--maybe when A happens, B wouldn't have to happen, right? Or if that's not right, we c...
How are you seeing those as incompatible? Let's say we divide the world into matter and mind. Why can't there be actual and potential with respect to ...
Are you going to answer my question after I answer yours? (And in a way that I consider an answer to it, unless you're fine considering this question ...
Well, we didn't dismiss it in "folk metaphysics," If you mean outside of that, who are we talking about, where was the dismissal, what exactly was it,...
And knowledge-wise, what prohibits us from knowing necessary connection? A billard ball hits another at a particular velocity, etc., and the struck ba...
I'm fine with parsing some things as contractual fraud, and I think there should be prohibitions against contractual fraud. Contractual fraud doesn't ...
Honestly, my one response would be to call the authorities so that we can get you treatment. In my view it's not something that you're goint to talk s...
That doesn't avoid Cartesian dualism (in folk metaphysics especially), though. Re an actual/potential distinction somehow solving how mind interacts w...
Yeah, I don't agree that ontological freedom/determinism has any necessary implication for anyone's view of culpability (aside from "if determinism is...
If we assume that the agent's decisions necessarily have some rational connection to the cognitive processes the agent engages in (I don't think this ...
The analogy would have to be that they don't mind the kidnapping when it happens either (at least the vast majority of babies, toddlers aren't complai...
Are you simply focusing on the Humean comments that amount to us not being able to be certain re causation? You should make that explicit if so. The f...
First, we shouldn't assume that there is a "primary substance." Among other things, that (exact term) is linked to ideas that are pretty incoherent a ...
Which suggests that the whole idea of Platonic forms is so arbitrary that it's hardly worth bothering with whether Plato would say that clouds have fo...
If we're talking about materialism, the mind is material stuff. That's not "another kind of stuff" in that regard. "Both mind and matter are processes...
I think it's reasonable to say that one broad stroke of "folk metaphysics" is that it's dualist re mind/matter, but I don't think it's at all reasonab...
Not that that's what I did above. But again, we'd need demarcation criteria re just what counts or doesn't count as an explanation for you and why. I ...
It seems to me that saying "There are hypothetical abstract implications" is claiming existence of them. So either I don't understand what you mean by...
A causal explanation given in words? The reason I'm asking is because it's important when that's what we're talking about to realize that no explanati...
Well, first, don't equate physicalism or materialism with being a Dennettian. Dennett and that ilk (the Churchlands, for example) are often considered...
Well, it didn't appear to be about materialism, for example. It appears to primarily be about certainty. And as far as I can tell the quote doesn't ha...
Just briefly skimming some of that, it doesn't look like it addresses anything in the vein of "Materialism is self-contradictory to that which apprais...
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