It depends on what you're referring to with "a television drama" exactly--are you referring to something with meaning applied? Are you referring to th...
That would explain why someone who thought that experience was (necessarily) veridical could come to think otherwise. That's not what I'm addressing h...
Right. As I noted above, this is an issue where truth value is a moot point. That's a category error for moral issues. "Desire being immortal" isn't a...
That's symptomatic of the psychological issues I brought up: Your basis for action is your feelings, your preferences, your desires/goals, etc. Whethe...
Well, and I'd finally be comfortable spending time in India . . . unless that remaining 0.1% decides that they still all need to board the same train ...
Even if the robots are going to be the ones mass producing other robots and 3D printers, I don't think we're anywhere near being able to have robots r...
If there's not an effective mechanical procedure for some mental phenomena, then presumably at least some mental phenomena are obtained via some sort ...
Re the initial post in the thread, I also don't see where you're getting the materialistic/non-materialistic idea from re Nietzsche's noble/slave mora...
You can't. There are no facts about what ought to be the case. That is, there are no facts about that beyond how people feel about it, what various in...
What they're learning is just what you say: that society deems these actions immoral. That is, most people in that society--at least per what they've ...
We just had a big discussion about this in the thread about whether we can be mistaken about any experiences . . . let me find it to give you a link: ...
It does apply to numbers, laws, concepts, grammar and the like. "7" is located in our brains just as truth is. If you're thinking of it as something l...
It seems to me as if he's just having a problem grasping mental phenomena in general as possibly being physical. He naturally thinks of mental phenome...
The problem with "declining results" seems to have stemmed from two concerns: one, alarming failure rates, where pressure about this was exacerbated b...
Well, in my case, it helps that when I was a kid, concerts were like $5 or so. Even in the mid to late 70s--1976-1977, say, concert tickets were still...
Haha Geez, it's difficult for me to imagine having never been to a concert. I've not only been to many hundreds, going all the way back to 1968, but I...
You learn that a hot stove causes pain/causes undesirable sensations, sure. You don't learn pain. That's rather a reaction that your body has to certa...
I'm a fan, too. They're maybe top 30ish for me . . . at least in my top 50. (I'm a fan of hundreds and hundreds of artists.) I've actually seen Rush a...
My first sentence: "Moral judgments are ways that individuals feel about sentient behavioral relations with regards to right/wrong, permissibility, ob...
Moral judgments are ways that individuals feel about sentient behavioral relations with regards to right/wrong, permissibility, obligatoriness, etc. M...
I'm a physicalist. I'm not an eliminative materialist. In my view, intentional content, and all other mental content, is rather clearly physical. It s...
"Connected" and "landed" were going to be my first two suggestions, too. Both are very common. "Made contact" is another, though it's more formal/stil...
Certainly I can see what I'd analyze as aesthetic tension as being stressful for some people, especially in the case of something like extreme horror,...
Right, so no Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Saw marathons for you probably. I'm a big horror fan, and in general, a big fan of stuff that's aesthetically ...
No, not at all, unless they're negative emotions. Yeah, it throws off kind of an apathetic balance, but when they're positive emotions, that's a good,...
I don't buy that. I think that would only work if one thought that veridicality were necessarily the case. One could believe that veridicality is cont...
My opinion of the essay so far is that it's horribly written, but then I again, I hate Hegel. He's not quite as garbage as Heidegger, but he's not far...
The sports example makes sense to me, especially as someone who is a fan of teams who can be awful for years on end. But the entertainment part sounds...
Probably not, if only to be an ass. I could quote probably tens of examples for you, though, just from that one thread where we were talking about tru...
Also re part III, this is not at all a necessary truth: "x is red .<--> . x looks red to standard observers in standard conditions" The left-hand side...
I don't know when we're moving on to part III, "The Logic of 'Looks'" . . . one big problem with that section is that Sellars explains the difference ...
Hahaha--just reword your interpretation as if that's what he said, and then have the balls to lecture someone else on reading comprehension. Nice. Als...
Good point about bills being paid, by the way. Specific diagnoses are very important for that. I didn't mean to imply that it's (all) an overt scam. A...
Well, aside from the problem that we don't have good comparable data from 75-100+ years ago for mental illnesses and general happiness/unhappiness, I'...
Well, it's not as if science can change this situation without simply no longer being science--it would have to become something quite different, beca...
In order for it to be a science, given the conventions that make something a science in the first place (such as observation, theoretically replicable...
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