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Well, because the dialogue presented said nothing at all about that. I was presenting a more challenging comment from the non-believer for the context...

Which is a complete non-sequitur, hence the need for cleverer interlocutors in a dialogue like this.

The greatness of anything is never "more than" merely a subjective opinion. ("More than" is in quotation marks because there's always a connotation fr...

If only it weren't incorrect that what I said was incorrect. Some of us disagree that "Bob Dylan's music is great" doesn't amount to--"functionally" o...

Time is simply (the ontological process(es) of) change or motion. Its "speed" is simply a measurement of one change or motion against another change o...

Which I read as saying that something of Everest's stature hardly needs a medal to bolster it. The medal pales in comparison--it's more of an honor fo...

Nice one.

??? Bob Dylan sings, plays guitar and plays harmonica. He can also play bass and keyboards. That makes him a musician.

"Rigor"? Anyway, I like him just as much as a singer, frontman, etc. as I like Dylan, and I like him almost as much as a lyricist.. I don't think he w...

There's a difference between an entertainer who doesn't play an instrument and one who does, of course. There's no difference between an enterainer wh...

Which is basically a version of a "no true Scotsman" or "true metal/false metal" argument. One is saying that one is going to refuse to call a differe...

I was simply saying something lighthearted (though serious) about his "we." I don't feel that aesthetic judgments are not merely matters of taste. Cer...

Even if I were to agree with that, presenting it with attitude as if you're looking for a response to an exam probably isn't coextensive with presenti...

You've answered a couple yes, even though it was like pulling teeth. But it's not as if I have some minimum bar you need to pass and then I'll just ig...

Sure, but I'm not participating in a test or something like that. That's not a game I'm interested in playing. If you're interested in a good-faith, m...

You have a weird aversion to answering questions. It must be like a control thing for you or something, where you feel like you're being controlled or...

Can't in what sense?

Aesthetics was one of my areas of specialization, so yeah.

Right, so you believe that you know what I'm talking about contra what's in my mind?

Thanks for answering finally. Okay, so when I talk about idealism, I'm not talking about a sentence. Insofar as you see it as a sentence, we're talkin...

Kant should speak for himself. Well, and then we'll try to guess what he thinks as he continually revises it.

Given your inability or bad-attitude approach--whichever it is--to answer a simple yes or no question, why should I expend the time and effort to do a...

I like how everything devolves into a meta-discussion when you're involved, by the way.

It's just a question. It's not leading anywhere. Yes or no, are you saying that idealism is a sentence/statement? In my opinion, one is not capable of...

"Are you claiming that idealism is a sentence" is a yes or no question. Try typing less in response to a yes or no question.

Are you claiming that idealism is a sentence?

Gee, it's surprising that you'd believe that you know what I'm claiming better than I do. </facetiousness>

If only someone were claiming that the proposition "only mental phenomena exist" entailed the proposition "only my mental phenomena exist."

Great writer and singer and musician (and bandleader, producer, etc.) In my opinion.

And haha re reading my comment as implying an objection to the idea of anything following from sentences in general.

Haha re the idea of it being a matter of following from sentences.

Well, and the point isn't anything about logic anyway. It's about what it would take, based on what I've observed about Michael's personality, behavio...

Right. That sort of overconfidence in your abilities is just the problem though. There's no way to break through that via what's usually done on messa...

So you won't play along a la a Socratic dialogue because it's "doing my work for me" in your view. What if it turned out that you really would only be...

And the reason that you won't just play along is?

I can't explain it to you so that you'll understand it unless you play along. Why are you against playing along? is there some moral objection to it o...

In other words, you won't play along. Not surprising.

I just wrote "To demonstrate that, you need to play along, or you'll never understand it." I'm not saying that in idealists' views this is the case, b...

it's not separate to what I'm discussing at the moment, though. It's what I'm interested in. And it has to do with idealism entailing solipsism. To de...

I want to get into details though. Infer it how? Based on what?

So some non-solipsistic idealists believe that things (can) exist insofar as they know they don't experience them. How would they know this?

I didn't say it follows. I asked you a question. Would idealists then say "Things I experience don't exist FOR ME when I don't experience them"? So ye...

So they'd agree with "things I experience don't exist for me when I don't experience them"?

How do folks figure that they're experiencing other persons' experiences? (Whatever other folks are when they're just experiences)

I don't see why we shouldn't consider lyrics literature. We don't need a category for lyrics that separates them from literature, as if they're not li...

You need a more clever non-believer. For example, take this passage: What the non-believer should have said was this: Freedom could still be granted w...

Okay, but so then why is the human condition irreducibly, objectively unacceptable in your view? In other words, what is unacceptable about it?

I don't think that the idea of goals makes any sense outside of personal preference. (Cooperative goals are just a matter of people having the same pe...

I'm not following. Why would it be unacceptable that you can only perceive the human condition to be the case through personal experience?

Okay, but why is the human condition irreducibly, objectively unacceptable in your view? (And what do you do about it if that's the case?--It seems li...