I think it's better to not just put everything indefinitely in limbo just because we don't love any of the choices. I've never loved anyone running fo...
I'm fine with that, but I don't agree with the consensus about what counts, or rather should count, as a violation. And I think that violators, once w...
What are my arguments with respect to what? "Everyone does anything they do for x reason(s)" (where the reason in question is mental content) is obvio...
Maybe it isn't, but I don't think we can know whether it is simply by sitting in a chair and thinking about it. I think that the mere possibility of i...
You think that it couldn't be for hardship's sake, even if they were to say that it was, to say that that's all it is. What supports the claim that it...
Not that I normally pay much attention to theology, but I had no idea prior to your post that anyone thought of the incarnation as being metaphysicall...
In that scenario, I can picture offices remaining empty for years on end, while meanwhile all sorts of economic, infrastructural, etc. disasters pile ...
I don't think that's universally the case, though. Claiming that it's universally the case doesn't seem to acknowledge the huge variety of ways that p...
No, that's wrong. Animals might believe that they're acting on a pleasure pain impulse, but that's not really what's going on subconsciously. Re "anim...
You could suggest that but you'd be wrong. What's really going on is only that you have a duty to suggest that. You just don't realize that that was y...
In a similar move, I could say something like, "Really, every person is motivated by a sense of duty and NOT by a pleasure/pain metric. No one really ...
Yeah, there is. I just gave you one example. You had to make up that, "Well, really they're motivated by hedonism, they just don't know it." I'm not f...
If you wanted to say something like "Many people are often motivated by consideration of a pleasure/pain metric" I don't think that it would get much ...
Again, the fact that there's one person who is motivated by something else on one occasion falsifies the theory. Also, "from a people who know this be...
Doesn't have anything to do with what I'm saying. "Every action is motivated by x" is an empirical claim, and "S was really motivated by x; S simply w...
Empirical claims are not provable. The fact that there's one person who is motivated by something else on one occasion falsifies the theory. The fact ...
Just wondering how we ended up with two of the same thread. Anyway, a different angle on this from me. Not that I agree with the categorical imperativ...
In this case, you're starting with the theory that you don't want to be wrong, and you're playing the game where you'll make whatever moves necessary ...
That amounts to "I'm going to make up an interpretation --I'll posit something 'behind the scenes' that the person isn't even aware of, and I'll insis...
That's not a "clarify your view for me so I can understand it better" question. It's a rhetorical question--you immediately afterward give your answer...
Sure. An example could be someone, say, voluntarily trimming the trees in some public park once a month, simply because they feel they have a duty to ...
That attempt failed obviously and only told us something about your personal vocabulary. If you want me to clarify something about my view to you, tho...
That section couldn't be more of a non-sequitur. And calling any computer activity "intelligent" at this point is simply a manner of speaking. What ma...
What you should do when you encounter something like the categorical imperative is not just assume that it's correct but challenge it. Why is Kant say...
Any argument that has everyone being motivated by the same thing, or claiming that everyone thinks about anything the same way, is going to be wrong. ...
When we're talking about people reacting to music, visual works, etc. any arbitrary person could have any arbitrary response to any arbitrary work. So...
All mental content is physical first off. But there isn't a Holmes who is six feet tall. Someone imagines him to be six feet tall, someone has written...
One name isn't more "real" than another. Rather than "real," some distinctions that make sense are whether it's your legal name, whether it's your bir...
I'd never use "transcendent" and especially not "authentic" to describe any artwork. I don't think there's anything inferior about jingles, production...
Kripke sucks, first off. No wonder you're confused. You said that proper names are direct referents. "Posty McPostface" is a proper name per the defin...
Just for fun, let's imagine that you're really Ned Block. In what way does "Ned Block" denote you and not just various people's interactions with you ...
Just for fun, let's imagine that you're really Ned Block. In what way does "Ned Block" denote you and not just various people's interactions with you ...
Two big problems a la you just talking bs. One, "Posty McPostface" is a proper name. Here's the definition of "proper name:" "a name used for an indiv...
Maybe try an example, because it seems you're forwarding pure nonsense on the face of it. What's an example of a "direct referent" that wouldn't be ju...
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