Terrapin Station

Why would you think that I buy the principle of sufficient reason? I'm challenging the notion that there's any good justification for it.

I don't agree with this at all. In my view, there are no objective facts re whether something is the Ship of Theseus at time Tx or not. It's simply a ...

I'm calling foul there already. I don't think it's at all a consensus any longer that other animals do not have languages. Human language doesn't lite...

I don't believe that we have the faintest idea whether that's true. And if the dog is making a mental association, then the dog is capable of thinking...

I'm talking about this from more of a psychological angle though--whether one feels there's a need for a background reason for every x or not. Either ...

??? It's not that complicated. Either for every x you need a background reason or you do not. If you need a background reason for every x, you're out ...

Maybe it's more that things can be beautiful in different ways or for different reasons. For example, with musical harmony, there's beautiful consonan...

What do you find ugly about Ravel's Sonatine No. 3, for example?

To me, no. I don't know why it's so difficult to communicate this. For me, "ugly" and "beautiful" are opposites.

Guernica isn't one of my favorite Picasso paintings, but this is, for example: http://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/images/works/1472.jpg The point is th...

Whether something is ugly or beautiful or whatever is subjective. I'm saying that when I think something is beautiful, I don't think that parts of it ...

But I'm saying it wouldn't be ugly to me in that context.

Okay, so you're just telling us something about yourself and not beauty in general then? That's interesting for what it is, but it's difficult for me ...

The problem isn't that your zeal will be deflated. It's that you literally will run out of time. You, as an individual, are probably only going to be ...

?? I don't think about morality at all in connection with beauty.

That's way off re my reactions. I don't think that anything has a purpose--at least not an objective purpose. Purposes are simply a way that some peop...

I don't know if I'd agree with that . . . but just because the stuff that other folks are calling "ugly" I'm not going to think is ugly if the work ov...

You'd have to post it here or someplace that I don't have to sign up for.

I don't have any love for Democrats, either. I'd like to see the whole system trashed.

I'm still waiting for anything Trump has done along the lines of useful/practical things with respect to his constituency, things that positively affe...

You can hire someone to do all of that for you. The biggest barrier to running for president is monetary.

If you can't do anything in six months, I don't consider that effective.

What I consider effectiveness is him getting particular things done--useful/practical things with respect to his constituency, things that positively ...

I don't think it's a waste of time, but I think it's sorely misconceived to believe that there MUST be some "background" reason for natural law being ...

What in the world would some nonsensical guess about IQ have to do with anything?

Effective with regard to what? What has he done so far?

Sometimes this board seems like the philosophy equivalent of a physics board where people mostly present their "free energy" and "time cube" proposals...

Or, someone could simply say that a paradox is a statement that has alternating truth values in "layer logic." And then you've got the same problem yo...

You're writing this in a world where Donald Trump is president. I doubt many people believe that holding a leadership position denotes effectiveness, ...

I don't understand that sentence. What's "the reason that the association is not about any of the other elemental constituents"? And yes, I'm a physic...

It need not come from either. It can be a brute fact of the world. That's the whole point of it being natural law, really.

The false dichotomy was your "where order comes from" comment. You said it either comes from consciousness or chance. A third option, that's not consc...

Well, obviously human laws are created by us. But that's different than natural laws (assuming there are such things).

How would you find that "in our human nature"? Are you just saying that it's something that people uncritically assume?

Well, but did you see the description of my schooling?

What sort of school did you go to? Public/private? In what country?

Where in nature do you find that "if there's law, there must be a lawgiver"?

Per what?

Natural law.

Wait. First, people create concepts. They're mental events--namely, abstractions a la types/universals/natural kinds/categories/etc. You're usually go...

I'd have to basically write a book. I'm not going to do that on a message board. As it is it's a pet peeve of mine that people write such long posts o...

Yeah, I have my own, very idiosyncratic system I'd put in place instead, but it's not something I can detail very well in short message board posts. M...

It sounds like you had some poor teachers, unfortunately. I was taught from the beginning--well, or at least since Jr. High School, that (a) empirical...

Your first post begins this way: "Imagine, if you will, a cosmic leaver; on one end, the concept of zero, and on the other, the concept of everything....

No, it doesn't imply that false dichotomy, and I posted as much literally about ten times or so in this thread (although to that "Thinker" dude rather...

It's part of what the association is about. It's not itself the association qua the association. If I write the sentence "The cow jumped over the moon...

The issue was simply that I disagree with this claim: "Nothing organizes labor and resources as well as the market." I wasn't saying anything about "n...

Can't you read? It's difficult to have a conversation like this if someone can't read basic English. I wrote "All elements of the association, qua the...

I'd reply to you more quickly if you hit the "reply" button--that way I get a notification that you responded to me. We'd need to clarify exactly what...

My first comment was about not buying that "Nothing organizes labor and resources as well as the market." I pointed out a number of problems a la home...