It's like if someone said (first), (A) "This dress can either be all blue--'dreblue'--or it can be all orange--'dreorange,' but not both." But then so...
Nope. What I'm talking about is what the terms referred to. That was the debate. I'm saying that changing what we're talking about isn't actually sayi...
No, I'm not. I'm saying that there's not the possibility in any sense. If you say that the possibility obtained, you're not a determinist. Hence not a...
Which is redefining the libertarian side, and thus one isn't a compatibilist on the traditional senses of the terms. One has merely changed the topic,...
As if I'd rather read a ton of other things. ;-) But yeah, it's obviously poetic, so it's quite silly to insist that it has to be interpreted "literal...
Speculative opinions on sports are a dime a dozen. That someone is an active or former player doesn't really help, as active and former players utter ...
In other words--"We could change the topic and thus be compatibilists." Sure, they could do that, but then they're simply not determinists (too). An a...
That's fine, but determinism, if we're indeed talking about determinism, DOES imply that the powers in question are not available. Otherwise we're not...
The free will side was never saying that nothing is predictable, that causality never obtains, etc. The debate is between what you're calling "absolut...
If they had the ability to do something else then the world in question isn't deterministic. You can't simply rename the ideas and say "There, compati...
If detereminism is the case, how do you have that opportunity? It would merely be a matter that you don't know which course of action you MUST take. (...
Because some understandings of free will, such as my own, have it that free will only makes sense if more than one course of events is possible, and w...
For a number of those I had to give "the closest wrong answer" . . . And doing that, the quIz has me as being an epicurean. I wouldn't normally descri...
This seems like a bizarre thing to say. Plenty of patients are either cured or have their mental illnesses ameliorated via psychological and psychiatr...
I completely missed out on that. So it's possible to be raised in the U.S. (and surely elsewhere) so that you have just about zero exposure to religio...
That would simply be a fact about natural language semantics, at least per semantic interpretations amenable to it. It would be important to not confl...
A number of people have attempted to point out that you're jumping from agnosticism in a narrow sense to comments about a wholesale epistemic skeptici...
Dreaming/daydreaming are qualitatively different than waking experience. Daydreaming always occurs parallel to waking experience. Sleep-dreaming does ...
If I'm trying to interpret that so that it has things right, I'd take it to simply be a map/territory distinction. The map is not the territory, but w...
I almost always know that I'm dreaming when I am. Dreams to me seem very similar to daydreams, imaginings when awake, etc. only I'm sleeping instead. ...
My dreams are qualitatively different than my perception when I'm awake, and I believe that is true for the vast majority of people, otherwise they'd ...
It's extremely difficult to communicate with you, and that's not at all helped by your arrogance, so I'm going to stick with one thing at a time. On m...
It's the same in the respect that there's an intent to deceive. You're both using "yellow" and "blue" to refer to the same colors. You're not actually...
Synonymy is not sameness of meaning on a view that has meaning as synonymous with causality. My view isn't that meaning is synonymous with causality. ...
I don't know why that changes anything. The idea with the scenario with the kid that I presented would be an intent to mislead (at least as a joke for...
Explanation isn't the same this as persuasion or "attempt to prove." That's certainly the case logically once one realizes the identity (or assumes it...
It's not that either you try to prove things or you believe that you are infallible, haha. Talk about a false dichotomy. Your views will evolve simply...
Right. But in a case like this, it's not the same sign, and you certainly hadn't considered the view of meaning being synonymous with causality before...
Personally, I participate on forums to share my views, not to persuade other people--which I think is a pointless, futile thing to do on message board...
Right, so it's a trivial thing and it doesn't prove anything. Well, so what? Why would you be taking anyone to be trying to prove anything anyway? Wel...
Sure you can say that meaning is synonymous with causality, and that's what I believe it's saying. That's not saying that "causality means causality."...
I get what you're doing now. You're thinking of meaning in the way that you usually think of meaning--so that representation counts, for example, and ...
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