Terrapin Station

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http://thephilosophyforum.com/uploads/files/3m/495j518fr9i3hdnc.jpg That's a handy illustration as it much more easily shows what I earlier labeled a ...

Actually, I regularly challenged both teachers and parents on various things, with the support of my parents. Did I challenge everything? No. That's n...

There's none of that stuff per those names, sure. It's important not to conflate the names (and concepts, and meanings, etc.) with the objective stuff...

It's going on with some people right now, sure.

Haha okay. I at least admire that you're admitting that you believe that. That would only be obvious to someone who places more value on "reasons" for...

So you do think that arguments are determined by word count then? The more words it has, the more of an argument it is?

We already know about your self-assessed superiority, don't we?

You asked me a clarification question. I answered it. If you want to try to support that the distinction isn't nonsense, you're welcome to attempt an ...

The distinction is nonsensical in my view, yes. Just like attempted high art/low art etc. distinctions.

Wait--that's not actually stated as an argument, so it can't be an example of petitio principii. An argument for this might be something like: If God ...

If one believes that God's existence is necessary for any possible world would think that a world that consists solely of a single simple that's not G...

Presumably you mean that possible worlds are "works of art" for God (not that works of art are possible worlds for God). That's fine, too, but it is i...

Yeah, that works fine, but works of art are not (possible) worlds.

Another way to ask it is, "Are there possible worlds where God doesn't exist?" And where we're contrasting that with the idea of whether God necessari...

Again, though, you don't believe that something is the case just because someone says it is, do you?

He means that if in any arbitrary possible world (or in other words, if in all possible worlds), God is a necessary entity (for that possible world), ...

Well, re "complete" it's not as if we're presenting a complete curriculum here or writing a textbook or something like that. (And I hope no one is und...

Right. So what does the fact that for practicalities' sake we have to do many things simply on the word of others have to do with my comment? That in ...

I wouldn't say there's anything wrong with eugenics as long as everyone participating in it is doing do voluntarily, per their own goals with it.

You're not thinking that I'm saying that things aren't the case just because someone says them, are you?

The simple use of "G" rather than "God" confused me at first. Anyway, someone who believed that God's existence is necessary would think that the firs...

So you'd teach to believe things just because someone says them? (At least with respect to some people?)

The answer to this is simply to teach kids, starting in elementary school, to not simply believe someting just because someone says it. That includes ...

The materials exist, just like marks on paper do (re what people think of as representations). There's no concept or meaning etc. of it as a house out...

Yeah, if there was a small difference among 3600 college students, that must reflect a general biological or gender-oriented difference.

As a relatively "lucky" person on the optimistic side of things, it's not that we revile you or your views. It's rather that we're wanting to help you...

Apparently my posts.

At first blush, at least, it looks to me like there is confusion over this distinction: (A) If we are to perfect the universe (or redeem humanity or w...

That should read, "who has a tendency to make a distinction between 'deep thought' and 'shallow thought' (and especially who sees 'deep thought' as no...

As I said, even the folks I agree with most I typically disagree with about 50% of the time (especially if we're talking about longer works, as the pr...

It can't exist as that outside of someone thinking about it that way, though. Yes it does. It doesn't matter what it was "made to be." Outside of some...

Actually, I don't assume that anyone will understand anything in particular, but I expect folks to express when they don't understand something. At an...

This is the crux of your view, but you're not presenting an argument for it.

I see the distinction as an expression of snobism oriented towards one's personal interests, which is the normative "deep" stuff to the snob in questi...

That's not true, actually . . . At least depending on how you're defining "suffering." But if you're defining it as something one wants to avoid, you'...

It's not a particular expression of a visual representation--that is, it's not a particular drawing, say. And after all, a drawing by itself can't be ...

Reading something, no matter who wrote it, doesn't mean agreeing with it. Hell, even the philosophers I like best are folks with whom I agree no bette...

Change or motion is necessarily changes in spatial position (of something with respect to the positions of other things). That's relative to particula...

Reference points are spatial and temporal locations. In this context, I was referring to just spatial locations.

The idea is that what you're considering a fallacy is stemming from a view that the idealist in question's epistemology can't support the ontological ...

It stems either from someone saying they can only know their own mental content or from not explaining how only mental phenomena exist yet nevertheles...

You have one in spatial location x at time T1, and then one in spatial location y (or x' etc.) at time T2, and so on. You know that others exist becau...

"Liar" is a another word for "politician," isn't it? We always elect liars, and we must always, since running for and/or holding office makes one a po...

Time is just change/motion, which is real/objective. From a particular reference point, the present is changes that are happening, the past is changes...

But why do you believe this?

The indexical would refer to Bitter Crank in that case.

As a physicalist, I actually agree with the vast majority of Feser's post. The primary aspects where I didn't agree with him were in his comments abou...

I didn't see the post in question--Maybe it was a ways back? But it sounds like dukkha (I'm guessing it was him) was merely giving his own view about ...

No, it wouldn't be me with a different body. I'd be Bitter Crank in that case instead. That doesn't mean that my body/me/my self, doesn't change--it's...