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Yeah, I'd not argue that people don't more often get addicted. I don't know what the percentage would be, and I don't know if anyone knows that. It's ...

I don't see why it matters if you see how it's relevant.

Tell me something about your background with philosophy. I'm curious how this question can fit with the content and tenor of your other comments in th...

As I'm doing here, I highlighted your post and hit the "quote" button. It's not as if I retyped anything. You apparently edited your post after I quot...

Analysis of what meaning is isn't a field other than philosophy. What biology gets right about beetles and flowers is certainly important for philosop...

The philosophical significance is that it gets right what meaning is. The point of philosophy isn't to make shit up that has no resemblance to what th...

I don't buy that we're talking about some "special sense of the term 'meaning'" in philosophy. If Frege only cared about truth, then that apparently l...

Well, meaning is simply a mental association one makes with a term (for example). One can easily do that with a single term.

Why would anyone claim that?

Correct. A computer making a "decision" is only metaphorical--it's a way that we think about it, anthropomorphizing it, to make it easier for us to co...

Yes. Don't forget that I've been a professional musician for a long time. I've done a lot of drug experimentation.

Says me because that's what facts (states of affairs in the world) say. Just to clarify here, all that noting that it's subjective is saying is that m...

Yes, that's definitely possible.

When a response begins with "On my view, and this is no thought experiment, space isn't . . ." it should clue you in to the fact that I'm not talking ...

Yes, of course. That's what morality is.

Because it's just an example of fiction writing.

Right. so it's not a change on your view, because we specified that there is no third thing, that it's acausal, etc. I just want to confirm that on yo...

Whether one action or another is moral is a matter of preferences that individuals have. Moral dilemmas prod you into thinking about your preferences ...

The claim that it's bullshit is based on what?

On my view, and this is no thought experiment, space isn't something separate from particular existents. Space isn't something existents are "in." It'...

Right, so on your view, 9:31 obtains, it disappears and 9:32 obtains in its place--that's not a change?

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I wasn't saying anything about truth value either. And obviously plenty of folks think the concept makes sense. The slightest bit of critical analysis...

I consume plenty of porn, so yeah. You're thinking of more or less a caricatured stereotype.

You know that a huge percentage of porn is fetish porn, including chubby women, mature women, very average looking women, etc., right?

A lot of porn actors' kids probably have no idea what they do for a living. (At least when they're young kids.) A lot of porn actors aren't unusually ...

Well, or that it's a nonsensical concept even if you're not the only person fond of it. In other words, whether it's nonsense has nothing to do with h...

That's not why I don't have an issue with that. I don't reach any personal moral conclusions because of meta-ethical facts. I don't have a problem wit...

I dont buy that it's not the same thing under another name. "Self-evident" too.

An argument is valid or not. Not (interpersonal) behavior. I'm not of the view that any speech or expression is unacceptable.

Ideally, if you don't enjoy what you're doing, change it. You can change it radically. It's important to realize that you can make radical changes and...

Which means that among other things, you're assuming that: (a) kids are watching so much porn that they have a veritable mental catalog of porn actors...

We have to think in terms of universals in order to survive. There's too much information to deal with otherwise. We need abbreviations, generalizatio...

I don't agree with that claim, however.

I kind of have to translate what you're saying there. First, concepts are occurences in individuals' minds on my view. What it means to say that a con...

So realizing that the properties aren't numerically the same (which of course isn't saying something about a number we might be assigning to anything;...

I can empathize with your concerns there, but I don't think it's any better to say that everything must have a reason, either. And "everything must ha...

So we have to be careful when we say "they have the exact same property." If you agree that they each have their own charge, you're not saying that li...

Nope. Not at all. You're wrong that I'm wrong about that. Correct. And that it's not coincidence that large scale agreement occurs has absolutely no b...

That's not at all how I use the word "valid." That use of the word "valid" seems like a category error to me. But in any event, I'm fine with anyone f...

If there's one thing and then something else replaces it, that's not a change?

Well, so the issue is if, among two electrons, there's just one charge that they happen to both share somehow (how?--how does the charge get completel...

The idea of type realism is that there is one thing that's somehow shared between multiple things. The following isn't a direct analogy, but it helps ...

Nominalism doesn't deny similarities. It denies numerical identities (that are multiply instantiated, which is what types are). |..| is more simliar t...

I don't buy the notion of subconscious mental content. So I don't buy that subconscious mental content could be a factor in making a decision.

Okay, but I explained this above: "Indviduals do this non-arbitrarily. It's in response to things experienced." You're not thinking that either either...

I should probably note that I'm not of the opinion that someone shouldn't do something just because someone else finds it "degrading." Valuation is al...

Before we go further with this, we should probably cement just how you're using "arbitrary." Are you using it with a connotation of "random"?

Right--that's your view, but that's what I'm explciitly disagreeing with, and I'm showing you why your arguments for it so far do not work. In my opin...

Again, I'd agree that if you explicitly think something like "I can do this or do nothing" then you'd make that decision (well, as long as you do make...