Terrapin Station

First, I'd say that you're bringing up at least nine different topics that we could talk about in depth there . . . well, and especially because it's ...

Sounds interesting, although typically I don't really care for first-person games. I might check it out, though. There are some first-person games I'v...

I'm not a big fan of enforcement for most things, though. (For some things, yes, but the list is pretty small for me.) I'm very laissez-faire, liberta...

A type of inherently mental linking, implication, and the like.

I don't know if you're understanding me. I wouldn't say something like that either. Again, it depends on the individual in question. Different people ...

Definitely. I think everything is dynamic. Dynamic things have locations. As associations that individuals make, and different individuals can do this...

I don't agree with that either as a universal generalization. What I'd say is that it depends on how a particular individual is thinking about it, and...

Okay, but you're taking it to be evidence of public/shared/etc. meaning. It's not, because the phenomena in question are consistent with a theory of p...

One thing I like to do is talk about the location of phenomena. In my view, the idea that there are any phenomena without a location is incoherent. Th...

Again, it would be a straw man to assume that I ever said anything like "it only works in cubes"

But my theory accounts for that, despite the fact that I'm stressing that meaning is strictly a brain phenomenon. That's like one of those Heideggeria...

Hmm. but the "entire community" isn't a bunch of Stepford Wives. People talk in different ways in a community. Do you mean something like an abstracte...

By the way, if we're talking about free will in the sense of simply making choices, the first premise, "When we act, we do what we do because of the w...

You seem to be thinking that things are beautiful independent of an individual's assessment. I don't agree with that. "Beautiful" is one of the terms ...

Is he even talking about making choices per se? That wasn't clear to me, which is why I said that "it's not clear what sort of free will he's even tal...

Frankly I find it embarrassing when philosophers forward arguments like this. It's embarrassing to have any association with philosophy if anyone is g...

I don't think that perception can be non-conscious. I'm not sure how to make sense of the idea that it can be. I'm not disagreeing that we can do thin...

When I read something like that, I don't think, "Okay, let's roll with that then and expect everything else to accomodate it." I think, "Hmm . . . it ...

We're talking about someone defining something though, right? What do you think they're labeling when they're forwarding a definition? Or are you sayi...

A problem with that is that on my view, you can't actually observe another persons' meanings, intentions, etc. Those things are mental phenomena. They...

Re not all thought being correlations, so for example I can think musically. I'm not correlating anything to anything else when I do that, but I am th...

I don't agree that we can say that as a universal generalization. Different people are going to think about language in different ways. Someone may ve...

What is "transparent" use of words?

Because that's what both wanting something and meaning are--mental phenomena. "At stake," sure. But the question was what wanting something consists o...

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Wait, "the form of life" is another way of saying "life-form," right? In other words, a synonym for some species or other. What would be a "deep immer...

Right, so the first thing I typed there was, ""If you're going to forward an argument hinging on explanations, you'd better have a theory of explanati...

Agree with all of that.

I agree with the concern about distancing people. That's seen most acutely with the contemporary addiction to smartphones--people walking around stari...

The PATH trains have so many problems that the town of Truth would have another system. Hence it's PATHless. https://cdn.abcotvs.com/dip/images/145805...

Just quoting a bit of the first line there so that you know what post I'm referring to. I appreciate the answer there--that helps give some insight in...

With music, for example, I'd have a difficult time being limited to picking one great album per week, from the pool of stuff coming out from week to w...

I think it's useful to understand the basic concept for music appreciation purposes (though surprisingly, a lot of music students don't even understan...

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But don't you listen to a lot of music, read a lot of literature, watch a lot of films, go to art museums, go to the theater (for live performances), ...

What would you say that you're trying to accomplish in all of that? What is/what are the end goal(s)?

I definitely think that "great" is necessarily subjective. I just find it sad that the answers give the impression of a bunch of people for whom, no m...

Man, it seems sad to me that apparently a lot of folks around here think there have been no great artworks in their own lifetime.

If you're claiming that everything is mentally mediated, it's a game you're playing, isn't it?

What definition of "objective" are you using?

How about if we "roll," via a random number generator, for the length of each day, number of days per week, number of weeks per month, number of month...

A claim that people constantly think about it?

I wouldn't be surprised re calendar changes in the U.S. if someone were to propose sponsorship of day, week, month, year names. On 9:00 a.m. on Staple...

If we're going to change the calendar, I want something that's going to be more fun and wacky, not something that's like an accountant designed it.

I take it that's all talking about the contemplation of death, and not death per se? The stuff that Streetlight wrote is a great example of the folly ...

I even think Russell sucks sometimes, and he's by far my favorite philosopher--or at least my favorite philosopher-as-author. The theory of descriptio...

All it's really saying is that you don't always have the distinction in mind. Well, duh! Who would have thought that anyone was saying that we did alw...

Heidegger thought that anyone was saying that humans weren't "being there," weren't "in the world"? He thought that anyone was saying that we were in ...

All of that post where you're quoting Encyclopedia Britannica and SEP about Dasein strikes me as Heidegger saying something both very trivial and very...

What would be evidence of that? (Rather than just being something like a straw man claim, a severe misunderstanding of what anyone is doing, etc.)