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What's at issue in this tangent with Metaphysician Undercover, though, is whether "illegal" necessarily implies "immoral" or "morally wrong."
November 16, 2016 at 18:45
It's just that in many if not most locales, you're unfortunately not going to get very far as an openly gay politician. A lot of folks would still ref...
November 16, 2016 at 18:40
There can be, sure. "Unobservable" is sometimes used to denote that something is unobservable in principle. But it's also often used to simply denote ...
November 16, 2016 at 18:26
Just the "small" difference that in the one case you're a racist and in the other you're not (at least not necessarily; we'd need explicit statements ...
November 16, 2016 at 18:21
Yeah, it's most common there to just stop at (A) . . . which is something I brought up just today in the recent MWI thread. Most physicists (as well a...
November 16, 2016 at 16:18
I'm blah blah blahing about some of them here all the time. Just follow my posts, or just look at my post ("comment") history. For example, in the pas...
November 16, 2016 at 16:14
Well, yeah, depending on the specific example and context, you might want to not just settle on stage (1) or (2) of that. I'm just noting that the que...
November 16, 2016 at 16:10
You understand the distinction between that and realism ("Are they real?") in the "mind-independent" philosophical sense, though, right? Those are two...
November 16, 2016 at 15:58
Yeah, that's what I meant by "I first realized that that was what it was considered." I naturally thought that way, but I hadn't realized that it had ...
November 16, 2016 at 15:40
I first realized that that was what it was considered when I was 11, in 1973. I wound up browsing the philosophy section of a bookstore for the first ...
November 16, 2016 at 15:25
That's the "unobservable" part.
November 16, 2016 at 15:19
See, we knew you could be more patronizing, haha.
November 16, 2016 at 15:18
it's just a natural disposition, similar to loving desert landscapes or pizza or whatever. Ultimately, it's "because that's the way my brain is/the wa...
November 16, 2016 at 15:16
I love philosophy, and I have an academic background in it, but not many in my current social milieu have much of a grounding in it or are very intere...
November 16, 2016 at 13:40
What would you call phenomena that we're not even aware of, so that there's no concept of it, etc.? (Maybe you're implying that you're an idealist and...
November 16, 2016 at 12:34
What I'm asking you about is your analysis of "law." Are you claiming that you're appealing to some common way in academic philosophy of defining "law...
November 16, 2016 at 12:28
If we were to survey physicists, what percetage do you think would say that they buy MWI instrumentally versus buying it as making a realist ontologic...
November 16, 2016 at 12:20
Are you claiming that people think about law and morality that way, or are you doing a functional analysis of what law is (per how I described this ea...
November 16, 2016 at 11:58
The problem with this objection is that you're rather mistaken that there is anything for which it's identical from reference point x, where x is a re...
November 16, 2016 at 09:46
I'm in the gray zone where you could say I arrived at the tail end of the Baby Boom generation or at the beginning of Generation X. I wouldn't say tha...
November 16, 2016 at 09:32
Which is both saying that he's racist--the comment speculating what his opinion of Jews would be is pretty explicit about that, and it's positing guil...
November 16, 2016 at 09:23
Haha, no, but I see he said almost the same thing that I did. So would you say that it's morally wrong to park on a particular side of the street for ...
November 16, 2016 at 03:23
ALL that the phrase "brain state," qua "brain state" says is the exact same thing that "foot state" says, just about another body part. Hence why I fi...
November 16, 2016 at 01:00
Okay, but I don't know why. Is it a language issue? Is English not your first language and some things in English thus aren't clear to you? I try to w...
November 16, 2016 at 00:54
Well, keep in mind that I'm a realist first off, and with respect to philosophy of perception, I'm a naive or "direct" realist. I thought I mentioned ...
November 16, 2016 at 00:37
50s.
November 16, 2016 at 00:16
"Unlawful" simply implies that something is against the law; it's illegal; it's been officially declared that if one does the action in question, one ...
November 16, 2016 at 00:12
Meaning is not objective, it's subjective, correct. That doesn't imply that the definition he gave of "objective" is meaningless, of course. But it's ...
November 15, 2016 at 23:56
That's not quite as unfathomable for you to say, as you obviously disagree with the view that they're identical. I can at least "intellectually" under...
November 15, 2016 at 23:53
Why did you drop the previous discussion? It's worth figuring out why you'd say something so ridiculous as claiming that you don't know what "brain st...
November 15, 2016 at 22:31
This is a philosophy forum, not a neuroscience forum. I don't know why you'd try to read comments as necessarily being about the sciences per se. What...
November 15, 2016 at 22:15
Why "something scientific"? You know what brains are, right? And you know what activity is. You should be able to put the two together. No one is clai...
November 15, 2016 at 22:04
You must be saying something other than that you don't know what terms like "brain states" and "brain activities" refer to or what they're saying, bec...
November 15, 2016 at 21:37
As if I didn't read what you wrote. You could try to be more patronizing in your next reply to me, though. Maybe you'd succeed. What part of what I wr...
November 15, 2016 at 21:20
So you're going to declare that he's racist whether he's actually said anything racist? Guilt by association in your view (and per your assessment of ...
November 15, 2016 at 20:53
Geez, if you think I'm young I'm guessing you're maybe in your 70s? How is that at all racist? (I'm just doing one at a time. If you don't feel that o...
November 15, 2016 at 19:50
That could be that most folks think of it that way, but "at a given moment" in that sense is just an abstraction, and I think it's important to correc...
November 15, 2016 at 17:53
Maybe it's the case that white nationalists talk to each other in code in public, and maybe one of the code words they use is "law and order," but tha...
November 15, 2016 at 17:06
What I was looking for was anything he said that was racist or sexist, etc. If that's it re what people are upset with, it just underscores what moron...
November 15, 2016 at 16:48
x=x IS certainly an identity, but yeah, it's also trivial in both the formal and colloquial sense; it's true of everything (although sometimes people ...
November 15, 2016 at 16:27
Where are the actual Bannon quotes there that are at all racist, sexist, etc.?
November 15, 2016 at 16:20
I just briefly searched for it in the last couple days, but I couldn't find anything: can anyone give some sources for Bannon expressing any of the vi...
November 15, 2016 at 14:24
The easiest objection to this is the following: Why couldn't idealism posit ideas that aren't explicit/made manifest? Or are you simply asking whether...
November 15, 2016 at 13:22
For something golden-rule-like, I think you're on the right track, but I'd make it instead something like "do unto others what you can reasonably esti...
November 15, 2016 at 13:08
Okay, but then if you are ignorant enough to not even know what behavior "murder" refers to, you are not qualified to have a conversation such as this...
November 15, 2016 at 12:29
It's not just that, it's that the very idea that some of the phenomena one experiences is mind and some is not mind is realist in nature, and solipsis...
November 15, 2016 at 12:23
I'm not saying anything like that. What I'm saying I'll explain again in the context of a response to: They make sense to me, too, but because they we...
November 15, 2016 at 03:51
Why would you be pretending that you don't know what murder refers to as a behavior and be pretending that we're just saying something about a name pe...
November 15, 2016 at 03:21
What would that have to do with "oughts"? Is it some kind of joke about "oughters" ("oughtas")? ;-)
November 15, 2016 at 02:53
I also didn't define "one" in "one shouldn't murder." Do I need to because you're going to pretend to not know what "one" refers to? I mean what the h...
November 15, 2016 at 02:38