The reason it's subjective is because it's a mental phenomenon, and the reason it's inaccessible is that the mental phenomenon is not identical to any...
Atheism is about one thing and one thing only, though: whether a god exists. So when someone claims that one does, and you think it doesn't--and espec...
This is the water that I'm trying to lead you, a horse, to. They didn't just pick any random philosopher, and there's a reason that the first section ...
What the hell are you talking about? The idea is clearly about someone feeling some way at an earlier time, where there was no behavioral clue that th...
Well, there would be no need of it without theism, sure. But when someone says, "Blah blah blah is the case" and you're aware of that, and you think t...
Holy moley. So why, in your view, was the entire first section of that continental philosophy companion about Kant/"The Kantian Legacy"? They just wan...
Right. I figured as much. I joke around a lot normally. But try to just not worry about it. I'm more interested in your response to the other thread (...
That particularly seems odd to say. Imagine that we take this table: https://b451c108ef7ce3b912eb-75c7695d67180639ae25fac6b37d4ead.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com...
Holy moley. Just take a breath and relax. Didn't you write this not too long ago? "Does anyone else feel like a fair number of individuals on this sit...
It was a joke. I said that people tend to ignore or be pissy about status/achievement claims, and then you endorsed that "they should be." (I know you...
I enjoy life/living. It's not pathetic in my opinion. And I like what I do for work . . . plus I don't t have to do it continuously. Do I have the fre...
I don't think that people should be pissy about it. ;-) Part of what I left out in quoting myself was that I think the background of the reactions is ...
??? Positive atheism is simply the belief that something--namely a god--doesn't exist. So it's no different than you saying "If something doesn't exis...
I didn't see this reply until now. First, "pure moral truth" wouldn't imply objectivism necessarily, either. At any rate, can you explain how in your ...
You can't use words correctly or incorrectly. If you're asking how do you know that you're using the word the "same way" as someone else (where we're ...
If it's just a matter of getting the categorization straight, I'd concentrate on showing the alien differences between humans and other species, espec...
Yeah, as I wrote earlier: "People have a tendency online, especially in anonymous contexts, to be skeptical of any claims of achievement or status . ....
So one way to know what "run" refers to is to use a dictionary; "Run," in one sense of the term, refers to "moving at a speed faster than a walk, whil...
Kant is considered the start of the division a la being the first continental-style philosopher, where other continental philosophy carried on in his ...
Verbs do not refer to anything in your view? (What did I say earlier about this being like interacting with children who are trying to find creative w...
There's no way to map third-person observable data to first-person subjective data to make a statement to the effect of "there is no area that could e...
Kant is commonly considered the start of the division. Here's a practical example reflecting that: see the first section of this anthology-- https://w...
It's weak to say that a property of nonphysicals, akin to a property like location for molecules, is that you "notice" them (at least when they're tho...
Again, note that we're NOT talking about perception in the sense of receiving data via your senses here (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch). Because...
How are they not noticeable? Note that we're not saying that we can't perceive them with our senses, because that's not what you're saying about thoug...
Your definition of analytic philosophy is much too narrow--you seem to basically be equating it with logical positivism/the Vienna Circle as a movemen...
So you're not using "perception" in the conventional sense, because that has a connotation of information obtained via our senses. You're just saying ...
Are you saying that you literally see thoughts with your eyes? As I said above: "They're properties of molecules/atoms in particular relations (struct...
So with molecules, for example, we can give their location at a particular time. What's an example of a property we can specify like that of a vague n...
Yes. Thoughts, desires, emotions, memories, etc. are physical. They're properties of molecules/atoms in particular relations (structures), undergoing ...
Yes, mental content is brain content. Just like dog behavior is animal behavior. It doesn't follow from this that all brain states are mental states. ...
I love big, sprawling sandbox games where you can spend a lot of time being entertained by just experimenting/dicking around to see what various thing...
"You can't square a circle" isn't simple about the shapes/definitions of the shapes of squares and circles. That saying is rather about the challenge ...
I don't think that anything has intrinsic value, of course, but I do value all human life, as well as most other animal life (although I'm not against...
There had better be a lot of ego in folks acting like children and trying to be "difficult," because the other option(s) is less attractive. Maybe, al...
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