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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
You understand the distinction between that and realism ("Are they real?") in the "mind-independent" philosophical sense, though, right? Those are two...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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