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So then why ask what you meant, as if it might be different than what you'd typed? (This isn't a rhetorical question by the way, I'm expecting you to ...

I figured that you "meant" just what you typed. If not, you should type what you have in mind instead. that's what I do. I don't type one thing and "m...

I stopped reading that one at "unconvicted sex criminal."

As I said about my views, "in lieu of something better to call myself . . . my views are a mixture of socialism and libertarianism, but my views are a...

You had claimed: Yet one of the sources was the SEP.

Talk about going over someone's head. my post wasn't at all about you calling a source into question.

if it's questionable that the subject matter of theology actually exists, what would it mean to say that it's not questionable that, say, the subject ...

As a nominalist, I don't believe that an identical brain state in someone else, or in the same person at a different time, is possible. Also, I wouldn...

One of the smartest things Trump did was to focus on Americans who have lost their jobs, and subsequently their homes, etc., because of companies sour...

Nope. That wouldn't achieve what I'm interested in. Again, it's not as if I'm unexperienced at this. Also, it should be obvious--if part of what I'm t...

I'm interesting in you thinking about particular things. That's my aim. I don't expect to be able to achieve my aim, because I've been interacting wit...

Most U.S. philosophy forum members probably voted for Clinton or Jill Stein? I voted for Trump. I actually consider myself a "socialist libertarian" a...

Haha, yet one of the sources I quoted was the SEP. And of course you're specifying examples of inconsistency rather than just making the accusation. E...

What does this have to do with personal identity? You're saying that you understood csalisbury to be asking me about personal identity by the term "id...

I'd like to read a post of yours to me without literally sighing and wondering what the fnck you're talking about, what the fnck you're reading, how y...

That's probably true. However, I'm not an "average person" in that regard. One of the repercussions of my view that I think is a big benefit is that w...

Yeah, I wouldn't say it will do me much good, although I always figure there's some value in refining how I'm expressing things with respect to my per...

I'm not doing either. What happened in the 16th century that has some importance in the history of science?

In your opinion you mean? You can do that if you want to. It's extremely unlikely that you're going to present anything I'm not already familiar with,...

Everything is "physical stuff" on my view, I'm a physicalist. So yes, personal identity is physical. Here are a couple definitions of "personal identi...

I'm not at all an eliminative materialist. I say that consciousness is identical to physical stuff--namely, to particular brain states. If you want to...

Yeah, I can see that your concern is sustaining philosophical discussions.

<eye roll>

Well, of course one can't sustain a discussion by just abandoning it when it's not going exactly how one would like it to go.

I explained this already. First, I'm talking about identity in the sense of logical identity, not personal identity. Again, these refer to two quite d...

And what did my comments have to do with supporting whether someone has a "good reason" for feeling some way?

I'd love to spend a few days hanging out with you, schopenhauer1, to see what your life is like.

There was an allusion to why I disagree in the rest of the comment. Why did I mention the date (range) that I did? Aside from that, by the way, my aim...

Apparently you misread my comment as implying that you're mistaken because others and I disagree. I said nothing like that.

Here are some of the practical things that were brought about or significantly advanced by the space program: https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/tec...

I sure don't agree with that, and I doubt many others would, either. That is, unless it's still the first half of the 1500s or earlier. <checks calend...

What they're calling "new atheism" isn't very different than Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her American Atheist organization, which became active in the 1...

Seems harsh, but I can see why you'd say that.

Those things are part of the physical world, though. (So is consciousness, of course, but he's writing something where he assumes that it's not.)

In all seriousness, LOL again. I didn't say anything about whether anyone had a good reason for anything. I said "That something is non-identical thro...

LOL Just to note, by the way, that this whole thing started because I had said, "That something is non-identical through time doesn't imply that there...

Did you stop talking about models, or are you suggesting that things are models of themselves or something like that?

Different people will feel that something counts or doesn't count as a good reason for feeling some way, but they could feel either way about any reas...

Again, there aren't any facts about whether someone has a "good reason" to feel any particular way.

I didn't say anything pro or con about "having a good reason"--there are no facts about whether one has a good reason to feel some way or other. There...

But that was what we were talking about! I brought up causal connection as an example of the non-identity connection of Alex @ T1 to Alex @ T2. That w...

I don't know how to figure that "recognizing" something like that wouldn't be a matter of interpretation.

Okay, and you're saying that has what to do with the causal connection between Alex at T1 and Alex at T2?

How is that not about my interpretation?

Yes, if you're claiming that it's the same sense of direct, causal connection.

What would that have to do with how the terms are conventionally used?

I just corrected my post two back (I'm on my kindle and I wasn't proofreading the auto-corrects very closely). You'd need to answer that post for me t...

That's a conflation of two different ideas.

If I'm going to directly answer questions when you ask them, then you need to do that too. Detail the causal connection you're referring to.

Also re this, sure, one might think that, and it's not that there's no relation, but the way the terms are used conventionally in philosophy is really...