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That's not a matter of wanting there to be purposes where there are none, though. It's an issue of not being satisfied with the fact that purposes are...

How do believe that concepts get started?

Not that I'm saying this as a way to telegraph a position on gun availability (see the end of the post for my position on that), but it seems to me th...

If you read that article, it would basically be a "review" website, where the reviews are focused on a particular, anti-SJW perspective.

Even the philosophers that I consider myself a big fan of say at least as many things that I think are misguided, misconceived, etc. as they say thing...

An example of the problem is this: "Scenarios 'prior to human observers' is an oxymoron because you the current speaker are the observer of such a sce...

Heck, I still lob critical challenges at Plato when I read him. ;-)

So re Kripke's views, my first thought is, "Wait--I don't recall Kripke saying anything like 'de re counterfactuals are impossible.'" Can we review wh...

Why isn't this simply confusing epistemology and ontology?

At the moment, I'm interested in your account of concepts. So that's why I'm asking questions about it. Your account of concepts is important for the ...

No problem. I was literally, straightforwardly asking the question I asked.

So re definitions, when it says "Pantheism is the belief that reality is identical with divinity, or that all-things compose an all-encompassing, imma...

You seem to have not understood that I was literally asking you to explain the phrase "projected context." So it's just another way of saying that the...

It's at least a view or agenda that someone shouldn't say what they said.

Experiencing a projected context? I have no idea what that refers to. How does anyone (or anything) project a context, and just what would it consist ...

So experiencing language that others utter?

Experiences of concepts? "Things-in-themselves"?

The first thing I'm confused about there is what people are expecting. Do you mean expecting experiences? Of what--concepts?

I'd overthrow the capitalist system for my own system, which isn't anarchist, but it certainly isn't capitalist, either. I don't have a problem with a...

Better to be silly than evil I'd say.

Which doesn't have to be governmental. It can just refer to control. It's definitely a reaction to speech. That doesn't make it not control.

An alternate view is that those are social evils.

"Oh dear" oh dear.

It's "sucking dry" things like racist speech, too. It's just words. Non-speech actions would be another issue.

Well, that's what "only speech" refers to, no?

The issue is controlling other people. That can easily happen outside of a governmental context. It's not as if it's okay to control people as long as...

Sure, as long as it's only someone saying that, yet they remain employed.

The consequences should be speech.

If it were just speech I'd be fine with it. But it's not just speech. It's other sorts of actions.

It's false that ostracization, blacklisting, jobs/careers lost, etc. are rare.

What do you figure the concepts are about? For example, the concept "dog." You don't think that's about "things in themselves" that we're calling "dog...

I'd say it's important to realize that making distinctions, noting differences, etc. doesn't equate to separation in the sense that it seems you're us...

How does that wind up making anything nonsubjective when it comes to judgments? We can note objective differences in the writing--for example, compari...

Jobs/careers lost, ostracization, black listing, etc.

Probably not much more than a handful--definitely less than 10. I don't know if any would remain/not be deleted. Usually if you're just insulting some...

I thought I was asking you a question.

So now we don't know whether they do or not?

What I was asking you was to explain the notion that models have nothing to do with what the actual world is like, yet they somehow enable predictions...

To whom? Good/bad have to be to someone. They're the way that someone feels about the situation in question. By the same token, re "absence of pleasur...

So now you're going to explain how it would enable a prediction of an event if it's just any arbitrary thing we're making up? That's what I asked beca...

How would it enable a prediction of an event if it's just any arbitrary thing we're making up?

?? How would understanding not be something dependent on mentality?

"One step above claim"--what in the world would that refer to? Aren't assertions or propositions claims about things?

That's not not an empirical claim for that. It's an empirical claim. You've got that disease where you can't keep your responses brief, by the way.

Also, if "model" is just "anything we make up," where it's not supposed to have any correspondence to anything else (which makes it curious as a "mode...

"Chaos and order emerged to fight with each other" is an empirical statement, isn't it?

If "complete" means "incorrect," okay.

Yeah, two anythings are not identical. I'm a nominalist. You're not denying cell division are you?

So you're using "meaning" strictly in the "(life's) purpose" sense. Don't you think that some individuals have purposes that they've assigned themselv...

How the "can't" is effectively enforced is what matters there, and it affects a whole lot more people than murders committed by terrorists.