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As a form of mental representation, no. But I certainly accept qualia as a mental phenomenon.

lol -- classic

You really should consider fleshing out your replies a bit more.

Is it a coincidence? No. Here's why a penny is considered one cent: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cent

I think maybe you're using the term "logic" in a fairly non-philosophical way. In philosophy, logic has to do with the formal relationship of statemen...

Not all the time, in all respects if we're talking about persons. It's viable some of the time in all respects, and all of the time in some respects.

I think that perception is non-conceptual at times, or rather, all the time to some extent (but not all the time in every aspect). It's simply a matte...

That would only follow if (a) determinists necessarily believe that there was a starting point of the universe, and (b) determinists necessarily belie...

It would help if you'd explain what you're talking about here.

That would be every example of causality per most interpretations of conditionals.

That supposed distinction doesn't make any more sense in my view--what's the difference between "open to the possibility" and "could have been." I can...

You're claiming that every woman you have a relationship with says this?

That was already explained to you by others earlier in the thread.

Not true. That's just an excuse. If you're having problems getting a relationship started, you need to keep working on yourself, keep trying different...

And what I'm asking is how there could have been a different past or different laws under determinism? What is the answer to that? Simply claiming tha...

"Fate" has connotations aside from "not having complete control of one's existence"

You're not "in a body" you are a body.

Your reply seemed to completely blow by what I was interested in. You're considering lack of consent, pain and opinions to be very different things ap...

No one said that no one has those views. What I and others have pointed out is that not everyone has those views, not everyone values things the same ...

I wouldn't phrase it that way, at least. I'm not denying value or saying that it's arbitrary. I'm just denying the category error of seeing value as s...

That would be a waste of money, in my opinion, because value is subjective.

Here's the problem I have with your argument: in my view there is no intrinsic value. There is no real, objective value. Value is subjective. It's sim...

Saying that the distinction is that fatalism doesn't involve causality, and that under it, everything is simply set in stone as a brute, more or less ...

No I don't buy fate.

But how, exactly, could the causes have been different? Didn't they have causes that determined them?

You had said: "A can be true even if B is false (Caesar could've died without being murdered)" That's correct. That's a possibility. "therefore it can...

Wait--aside from switching "event" out for "entity," you're arguing that that it can't be the case that x just in case it was possible that not-x.

Do many people have a life full of pain and suffering? Even if someone has a physical condition that would normally cause pain, doesn't the human brai...

Pleasure, I suppose.

It should be obvious that atheists see religious folks as believing myths, superstitions, etc.; believing things that atheists take to be clearly fals...

We really have no idea if things like constants could even be other than they are, we really have no idea if the world would or wouldn't work anything...

Morality doesn't have to be focused on harm, suffering, etc. Those need not be hinges or criteria for any moral stances. Many people <waves hand> find...

This doesn't make any sense to me. It seems like either you'd consider lack of consent, pain, AND opinions real things, or you'd not consider any of t...

The expression rather makes me think that he's saying something like, "Damn--now how am I going to get both a G# and a C natural on top of this F# cho...

Not surprised that you can't answer.

Right. We know that. How about we analyze what it would amount to for it to make sense to you? Or is that a problem because you haven't read anything ...

So how about actually answering the question re what making sense amounts to for you in a case like this?

What does making sense of it amount to for you in a case like this? Surely not having the same opinon, right? How would any arbitrary opinion about ei...

We can also have an option that's realist but that admits ignorance: Namely, particles are something real, but we don't really know their nature very ...

Yeah, I agree with that. It's not obvious that buying both (a) and (b) would be a problem, and the paradox, especially in light of buying (a) and (b) ...

You wrote: " so it follows that the conjunction of a. and b. cannot obtain." That's false. The conjunction of a and b can obtain. The conjunction of K...

I'm skeptical of the last two, at least as something that would necessarily be the case. The first two are probably sufficient. It seems unclear in ma...

What you need help understanding is that there are no facts re whether something is a (strict) liability or not.

Re this: "you cannot know that P and also know that nobody knows that P (since you do know it), so it follows that the conjunction of a. and b. cannot...

The problem with that approach is that it seems to completely ignore the ontological issues re causality (in the physics sense).

My user name is a Grateful Dead tune. My avatar is artwork from the box set version of the Dead's Europe 72: The Complete Recordings.

Re option 2, I don't see your cons as cons. We simply have to have theories of communication, understanding, etc. that reflect what's really going on ...

You don't seem to be getting, or you don't agree with yet you're not presenting any arguments about it, that there are no facts re whether something i...

Yes. It's my body, after all. it's not someone else's.

Again, I didn't say anything like that, and I'm clarifying that I'm not saying that there's anything special about sneezing versus other involuntary b...