Committing murder is behavior, for example. It's not like it's not behavior just because we're talking about it in general rather than a particular in...
No. What I'm referring to is such as "One shouldn't murder," or "It is wrong to murder." That is a judgment about behavior. At any rate, whether you c...
Then you're not talking about ethics. You don't have ethics if you don't have judgments about behavior. If you're just saying that, say, someone stabb...
Well that would certainly be wrong. We'd have to examine his argument for this to specify where he's going off the rails, though. Identity is differen...
There are many different definitions of "information," yes. That's the case with many terms. There are many different conventional definitions of many...
So I'm taking it that you were linking to Harry Hindu's post? What definition of "information" are you using so that you think that the idea of "infor...
On my kindle, that aligns as if you're linking to Harry Hindu's post, but I'm guessing you're instead linking to my post above it. I just don't know w...
Yes, insofar as we're talking about anything other than a brain functioning in a mental way, we're talking about something objective. So, for example,...
Subjective = mental phenomena, that is, brains functioning in mental ways. Objective = the complement of mental phenomena, or in other words--"everyth...
I've brought this point up again and again. Who is saying that perception, window panes, transparent glasses, etc. LITERALLY contain the objects that ...
Yes--my different view is that words like "brain," "rock," stereo speaker," etc. aren't that confusing. I don't have to wonder what they could possibl...
What terms referring to "everyday objects in the world"/"natural kinds" are not "fuzzy patterns with undefined boundaries" in your view? Give an examp...
Actually, I'd say that the part I put in italics is wrong unless there's some reason to believe that what we're receiving on the TV screen isn't accur...
"I don't buy," in other words equals, "That's wrong" People do not want to explicitly want to not be hit by a car when they look both ways before cros...
I don't think that there's anything that remains literally the same. I think that it's simply a matter of being connected to and developing out of pre...
I commented a number times earlier in the thread, but I didn't comment much and there are so many pages . . . it kind of got buried. Anyway, "objectiv...
But I don't buy implicit valuations. Valuing something is explicit. If you've never considered the question of "whether life is worth living," you don...
It has no objective value, but "objective value" is a category error anyway. It has subjective value to me, and that's the nature of value. It's a sub...
I don't agree with that. Let's say that you've never at all considered whether life was worth living, but you engage in/with philosophy and you value ...
I hadn't been following the conversation for a number of posts. I just saw the comment about Africa. Yeah, the "these folks are worse off than you" th...
This is certainly an aside, but just fyi, Africa is actually as complexly varied as the rest of the world. We're talking about 54 different countries,...
And on the other hand, I'd say that the most important set of philosophical questions, at least for philosophy majors, would be this: "Why am I majori...
If you look at the low side of the estimate it's not a "vast majority" for this single reason, but it's not all the reasons he listed: That site also ...
Really, the first question that the vast majority of people (and maybe everyone) deals with re philosophy is one of these two: (1) Just what is "philo...
It probably seems to be one of the most important problems for people with severe depression. I'd actually say that the most important problem for the...
The difference between the two is that representationalists think that, in addition to the perceptual processes that naive/direct realists acknowledge...
In my ontology, there's mattter in the "traditional sense"--chunks of "stuff," basically, and then there are structures of matter--that is the relatio...
Which is a misunderstanding of the debate. No one is saying that perception isn't involved in perception (of course), no one is saying that perception...
That and a couple other comments you make imply that you believe that folks must accept received view interpretations of the sciences, but that's not ...
I don't see how that's related to the question you're asking in the subject line of the thread. Anyway, it would only be unexplainable to one why some...
Oy vey, hahaha. It's like you're not quite able to understand anything I write. I wonder what you'd think I'm saying if I were to write, "My user name...
Actually, in able to aid your understanding of my comments, I'd have to get at whatever rudimentary issues are causing you to not even be able to pars...
In my opinion it wouldn't be worth my time at this point. My judgment is that you wouldn't be capable of understanding, at least without a monumental ...
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