Terrapin Station

The land that we called "Yogoslavia" didn't vanish. We just started calling it something else instead. We could do just the same thing with "salt." We...

I'm not sure what you're saying in any of that. It's very simple. "Better" is a judgment of preference, or a valuation of two or more different things...

There is no objective "better," but I don't have the opinion that that fact is better than the alternative. There would be many advantages to an objec...

Supposedly Aristotle uses "imitation" somewhere between contemporary (artistic) "representationalism" and (artistic) "realism"--trying to represent so...

"Essential qualities" are only determined by the way an individual thinks about his/her conceptual abstractions. A "good" versus a "bad" poem is deter...

I wasn't using "real estate" in a "technical" sense, which should have been clear by context.

I think that the person who would say that is very confused. Not the least reason for which is that "Actually exists" isn't a proposition.

:yum:

The "conventional wisdom" there is what's foolish. Try doing philosophy for once instead of just being an apologist for conventional wisdom. What's th...

So there isn't a whole versus parts when we're talking about physiology? Isn't the mereological fallacy a la Bennett & Hacker specifically about physi...

So "imagination" is "something, not necessarily visualization, that doesn't involve 'linguistically-mediated conceptual thought'." What's the "somethi...

"X weighs W" is a way of saying something about X's mass. You're trying to claim that it's not a property of X.

Of course that's Canada. We're naming that ground "Canada." Do you think we can smell, taste, etc. "salt"? That's the same thing. "Salt" is what we're...

"Infrared" is a way of saying it's the longer wavelength, lower frequency end of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum, below red, which is one end o...

Huh? It's definitely a property of a brick that it weighs 3kg on Earth, say (because of its mass).

So are you saying that imagination is only visualization? So you'd say that music involves no imagination? Does devising personality traits, dialogue,...

How about trying to answer the question rather than figuring that being ridiculously patronizing will get you anywhere?

Wow. You can't even handle the most rudimentary aspects of forwarding a position. You're forwarding an argument based on a putative distinction betwee...

So the distinction between imagination and thought that you're making is?

Can you cement the distinction you're making?

For many people, when they watch films, they do imagine descriptions of what they're shown. If you don't or cannot do this, perhaps you lack a vivid i...

No picturing of what's described in a book is required, either. Why would we be framing this in terms of requirements, by the way?

If it does, then how would we explain how you can produce bile just as well when you've had a toe removed, or both legs amputated, or both legs and bo...

Why aren't you answering my question. Let's do one thing at a time.

Well, definitely people can have an opinion that you have moral duties that you don't think of as duties. That doesn't make those folks right, though,...

(It was a joke, really--look up who Conor McGregor is if you're not familiar with him)

What's really interesting are Conor McGregor's talks on linear logic.

Too narcissistic. It's not all about us.

So, first off, one thing that "Canada" refers to is a particular range of real estate. And you can see and touch and smell and taste it--although I'd ...

I wouldn't say it's necessarily the case that any moral stance either is or isn't duty-oriented. It would just be a matter of how the individual in qu...

If a psychological predicate can be applied to animals, then we're referring to properties of either some part or the whole of the animal's body, no?

So there are moral stances that someone couldn't interpret as duty-oriented if they wanted to?

So if someone who wants to can easily interpret all moral stances as duties, then why would it be worth pointing out--under that interpretational umbr...

Re Bennett and Hacker and their mereological fallacy, they say: "it makes no sense to ascribe such psychological attributes to anything less than the ...

You could just frame it as "lightness" instead, or having the property of "weighing 3-4 kg" or whatever the case may be. (Just noticed that PossibleAa...

Seriously, though, wouldn't this be an issue of whether there are moral stances that someone couldn't frame as a "duty" (if they wanted to frame every...

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Here you're adding "transcendental." Are you also alluding to religious ideas? Otherwise what is the function of "transcendental" here? Maybe this is ...

Infra/ultra-orange??

For everything shown in a film, a description must be imagined.

You said: That would only follow if we all had the same moral preferences. Since you're pointing out something about babies, by the way, and you used ...

Because we're banking on them being convinced otherwise by something they initially take to be themselves?

Are you seeing that as controversial? If x is a state of affairs, then x isn't impossible. That seems fairly obvious, no? Sure, but then what we're de...

It seems as if you're reading your own ideas into it, unless you can point to someplace where he (at least contextually) defines the distinction he's ...

Scanning through the part of the book I can access online, it looks like he's using capital letters to allude to notions connected to God. I can't fin...

Hey, we agree on something.

You know that I'm asking you about a distinction signified by lower-case versus capital letters, right?

Having preferences is a way that our brains work. You can't avoid it unless you have a very, very different psychology that would be diagnosed as some...

Why would you believe that we all have the same preferences?

So give a couple examples of the distinction being used by others.