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Morality is how one feels about interpersonal behavior that one considers to be more significant than mere etiquette. And specifically, it's feelings ...

For example, if your argument begins with something like "You have no right to give birth . . .," that premise is false, whether we're talking about (...

Sure. Give an example of an argument for it. I'll refute it, probably from the first premise.

"Synthesizing" is what creating something is.

I'm not advocating thinking, but doing. We have to actually make some major changes by doing something. One thing we can try is simply banning firearm...

What does that have to do with my comments? I wasn't saying anything about emotions.

As I just said, "sometimes people seem to have that, or something close to it, in mind with 'learning'." Re your second part, you then go on to treat ...

It is just a language game in my view. It's not that I'm unfamiliar with the conventional views. I think they're wrong, and they're sometimes incohere...

I'm in favor of whatever would work to significantly diminish gun violence. And I'm willing to try very radical things to attempt to diminish gun viol...

Well, if you didn't, you've at least got one thing right.

Nope. We're not moving on to something else until we sort this out, because I'm not going to keep going over the same thing again and again. You're as...

For me to agree or disagree we need to clarify just what learning amounts to. If learning is the idea of someone giving something to you wholesale, wh...

I don't read any philosophy by being submissive to it, and I think it's bizarre that anyone would--it's completely against the whole spirit of philoso...

What I aim to get out of it is to explain why Wittgenstein is wrong. Ideally that would help some other folks understand why he's wrong, but if people...

Shouldn't you have written "I can not even think of real processes not fully explainable via non deterministic causes, whether we know those causes or...

I'm a physicalist. Whether I'm a reductionist is a matter of debate, maybe--it depends on the exact definition, it depends on just what people are imp...

You're asserting "it's as likely to be right as it is wrong"

Right. Yet here you are forwarding a probability argument for which you don't have any idea just how you're doing a probability calculation. It's just...

You're concerned with certainty, right?

That's not at all an answer we should expect from someone obsessed with certainty, is it? Probability isn't going to have anything to do with what you...

There's a much easier answer: "Humans will never understand =>4D space because there is no such thing. It's just something we can construct theoretica...

Don't you want to be certain about your probability calculation?

I went through this with you already. What method of probability calculation are you using? I'm not going to let you just ignore that question, becaus...

I went through this with you already. They're not supposed to be certain. That's the whole point of the approach. The way around skepticism is to stop...

Not much need to worry about a good refutation of anti-natalism when there isn't even a good support of it in the first place. It's like asking if the...

I was talking about a clear difference a la the notion that one claim is about experience per se and the other isn't.

The disappearing beneficiaries argument has a number of problems. The biggest problem is that the second premise is simply nonsensical: "When differen...

I don't agree that it's at all clear that there's a difference there.

If there were certain ways that God really didn't want us to behave then he probably shouldn't have made that behavior an option.

Ah. I don't have depression and only rarely have anxiety. So I don't have much experience with how they work.

If thinking can make it so then just think that you're happy.

How about cognitive distortion re the idea that we should be seeking approval from moderators about how we can divide up topics?

What, exactly, is our distress, and why would you be trying to pinpoint a singular cause for it?

I don't think he was saying this conclusion. "Experience tells us" is another way of saying "per experience," or "phenomenally, if we're to go by expe...

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I'm not worrying about anything except perhaps people making universal proclamations that aren't right, that amount to telling other people that they'...

Re "meaning"? If so, yes, that's obviously the case, because it's not a text string or sound or anything like that. Meaning is something inherently me...

There's no "opposite" there. One of these days you'll say something I agree with. ;-) I'd explain why they're not opposite, but you'll end up basicall...

Oy vey. ;-)

One thing we'd know for sure is that if we're going to claim that our perceptions do not tell us what the world is like, we can't use perceptions abou...

Yeah, I'm definitely not exhausting all there is to be said about it, haha. Just noting that it's not something different than a way we feel about par...

Individual photons aren't colored, no. Light in wave form is colored. Again, that's what colors are.

Well, that's what color is, sure. So how are we coding that if things aren't colored?

Sure, so the premise is that we're not perceiving things as they are. So how do we know that one perception has things right? Namely, the perception t...

My comment in no way amounted to saying that that was impossible. Possibility isn't sufficient for belief. Although now that we mention whether it's i...

Do they perceive them as they are or not? It's a yes or no question, or you can explain why you can't answer yes or no a la "It's not possible to answ...

Sure, and when you make those observations, do you perceive things as they are?

As you plow along ignoring what I just explained. So let's try it where I walk you to what I just explained instead: How would we know that?

That's setting up a false dichotomy (and kind of a comically simplistic/confused one at that). The false dichotomy has it that either: (a) things are ...

The claim that you can know that it's not true presupposes that you can know the world as it is (via perceiving eyeballs, ears, nerves, brains, etc.) ...