Terrapin Station

I'd solve this issue by completely overhauling our economic and social structure. Of course, that's not easy to do, it's not likely to happen any time...

But what you experience includes things like other people.

Ah--that would make sense. That might explain why he paid the amount he did for the site, too., which seemed to be more than was expected. Maybe it wa...

What I don't get is why someone would pay $20k for a site and then just let it completely go down the tubes. There are a lot better/more fun ways to b...

Haven't you been able to experience people who are older than yourself? History books or documentaries? Historic sites? Fossils? Explanations and/or d...

Re help, all three things you mentioned are regularly available--clarification from your professor, either during or after class or during a meeting o...

It would just be a matter of whether you were implying that it "suggests that potential/possible variations are in fact finite and quite possibly do n...

Also, as Metaphysician Undercover pointed out, what you're reading and writing about isn't usually going to be your own choice, especially as an under...

Not really. Well, you'll have to do a lot of reading and writing, where you're reading a lot of specific/required literature. You also have to attend ...

Cool. So you agree that there's no way to tell that it's not simply because of social influence.

There's no way to tell that that's not simply because of social influence. No society emerged in isolation from others. Some became cut off from other...

My dreams have a very different phenomenal quality to them than my waking experience. They're like daydreams I have while asleep, although like "drugg...

The Libertarian Party in the U.S., at least, is not against taxation, by the way, and by extension neither are most U.S. Libertarian Party members. Th...

Which, of course, makes it mind-dependent. If they're mind-dependent, and we're defining "real" as "not mind dependent," then they wouldn't be real. T...

This sounds simply to me like you're coming from a perspective of seeing, or having previously seen, at least aspects of ethics/morality as objective,...

What would you be basing this on, though? What empirical evidence?Again, what are you basing that on? I don't at all agree that quantity means a lack ...

There's no way that you can know this. And yes they could be deviant relative to the norm. Well, monogamy for one. ;-) I'd say that's worth giving up....

For some anti-realists, such as me, they aren't truth-apt. I'm a noncognitivist on ethics (and aesthetics and some other things, too). It depends on t...

Anti-realists aren't saying that there aren't real states of affairs that moral judgments are about. We're just saying that the moral judgments themse...

I'm a moral antirealist, as I'm sure you know, and I'm also a physicalist, as I'm also sure you know. Mind is identical to particular brain states. Mi...

Yeah, it's not as if it's an Aspie characteristic to need to insert "one of my"(/"one of yours") in that sentence.

Any evaluative assessment you make, so aesthetic, moral, etc. assessments, are made based on how you feel about things, so whether you want to do that...

That response is strongly consistent with one of the other primary options, so it seems figuring things out is a strong suit.

I'd suggest first following my lead by practicing reasonable reading comprehension and not forwarding straw man arguments. Want to give it a shot?

So if there were someone who would say, "I don't desire to have friends," etc., (I'm not saying that I would say this, by the way) you'd say that eith...

That it's not literally talking about a father. "Universal moral law" is not a literal definition of "father." What led you to believe that there woul...

From your other comments I've seen of yours you don't seem to only believe that God amounts to a particular set of moral stances. So you take things l...

How the heck did you go from being an atheist to having the religious views you have?

The reason you're against divorce is that you have very conservative religious views.

You could say the same thing about anyone. Different people choose to spend their time differently. They have different concerns, engage in different ...

I wasn't asking, and you've demonstrated yourself not qualified to judge re "actually not."

There are no facts about what (objectively) counts as perfection.

Via implication, yes. And if you don't realize that, it's just further evidence of your deficiency.

Unfortunately, Agustino, you have nowhere near the intelligence it would take to realize that moral stances are in no way indicative of intelligence.

While I wouldn't disallow monogamy, I'm not in favor of it, and I think it's horrible that the vast majority of cultures are still so oriented towards...

Well, it's much better than the alternative options I was figuring. No, of course not.

Sapientia, have you ever been diagnosed as an Aspie?

It's just a matter of whether it's a fact or not. It's a fact that a lack of bias isn't possible. I'm not going to adopt some position that's factuall...

But what was he saying? (Or in other words, I think there's a problem with the idea of taking sentences like that to refer to themselves.)

Especially in the sense you're using that term, I agree with you. I don't believe that a lack of bias is possible. That's an upshot of my ontological ...

I agree with that.

Sure, for work that I feel is good. Obviously I don't feel that all philosophy is good just because it's philosophy. Acquiring a degree is no guarante...

Yes. The idea of nonphysical existents is incoherent in general. There's never been any shortage of people believing absurdities, nonsense, etc. Not i...

Intersubjectivity doesn't amount to anything more than the fact that you can agree with and cooperate with other people on a behavioral level.

Well, waking up logically requires that we were asleep first, though. I don't buy that there's nothing like consciousness or sleep prior to birth, and...

Re the practical outlook, really the only job specific to the degree that the degree will help you acquire is a teaching gig. Note that it's basically...

Right. Again, it seems as if you're not comfortable accepting difference. Interestingly, you're not quite explicitly denying that difference is possib...

I don't think I get it. Re babies, yeah, the idea that there would be something clearly like conscious experience prior to ever having slept is extrem...

I mean "so that it doesn't seem like a completely random reaction." Knowing that it's an emotional reaction some people have doesn't help it not seem ...

What I'd expect is that if an offended response to something like that makes sense to you, you try to explain it to someone for whom it doesn't make s...