Philosophy is very broad. Laws and constitutions are built on philosophical foundations. Philosophy includes questions of moral responsibility, human ...
I think you're implying that if Trump was eating taco with the crew then the statement that Trump was eating taco with the crew is true. Truth is to s...
Hume wrote something along the lines of thinking about scepticism all day and then going out to play billiards without the least doubt about the exist...
"Is there a way to describe various finite quantities without going right to numbers?" - answer, yes there is: we can talk about 'lots', 'few', 'big',...
It will become an everyday experience before very long. Then you will start to enjoy it. Then you will come to expect it. Then you will be a grumpy ol...
To the puzzlement of many men, women want fairness and justice and they also appreciate it when others are kind and considerate. They like to have equ...
Whenever someone talks cheerfully about colonising Mars, they are usually thinking about somebody else living there and not thinking what it would be ...
"I had an ineffable experience." "Wow, me too! I wonder if we both had the same experience." "I would think so. One ineffable experience is much like ...
Amalac Very interesting lecture. "There are no essences: things are just what they are." The knock-down slogan against essentialism. An essentialist m...
One thing we want to achieve is preservation of the phenomena. Is the sentence "Socrates wrote The Republic" using the name "Socrates" correctly to re...
I have to admit I do not really know what it means for words to have an essence and yet things not to have an essence. If the essence of "Socrates" is...
If there are no essences, then it's not essential for a chair to be made of a physical substance or to have more than two dimensions. This is one of t...
The scout master is a character in Catch 22. Anyone who works for long enough to become an Eagle will have grown too old to become an Eagle. You can o...
I only dropped in because I thought we'd done with Goebbels and had gone on to the general question. I've tried Moore. I've tried Swift. I've tried Pl...
That is a beautiful question. It is the one asked by Swift: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/829/829-h/829-h.htm Contrast Plato: “It is appropriate for...
You are right to object. I was quoting from wikipedia as an authority. That should have made me at least pause. On the general question, whether you c...
Goebbels probably never said that. But you have read in so many places that he said it that you now believe he did say it. Constant repetition will ma...
Since we and our acquaintances and credit companies know exactly who we are outside the philosophy lab, why do we struggle with the question when we s...
I'm sorry to break this news, Tom Storm, but that may be the first step on a road to becoming a stand-up comedian. The second step is wanting to share...
There was a really nice body I was going to choose to be in but someone else got it first and I had to settle for this second-rate body. If that sound...
Other related puzzles. Why is the time now? Why is my brother always in a place he can call 'here' and I am also in a place I can call 'here' and yet ...
Oh gosh, I've never seen that. I laughed from start to finish. Thank you. I guess you know Jonathan Miller as Bertrand Russell? https://www.youtube.co...
My feelings exactly until a new breed of stand-up appeared which consists of very witty treatment of serious subjects - basically, excellent lectures....
By the locked-in-the-library theory we can never know whether what's in each others' heads are sights and smells and sounds or something else or nothi...
That doesn't sound like naivety to me. I think the naive realist believes that, when she sees a chair, then, absent any good reason for thinking she's...
Two sayings from the 1970's - are they still current? "If voting changed anything, it would be illegal," and "Whoever you vote for, the government alw...
...except when two people agree, I guess. I mean, two people saying "Hey, I love avocados too just like you!" are not necessarily trying to have a fig...
I think that's a very good point For example, people get furious at anti-vax (or pro-vax) opinions, aware as we all are of uncertainties that could af...
True. And other people voted for it, organised it and went to fight in it. Other people thought that John Lennon and Bob Dylan were useless hippies or...
Another threat to democracy I hear about is people lumping together opinions they disagree with as conspiracy theories held by gullible, ill-informed ...
Ok, but it keeps coming back. Descartes has been dead a long time and we still worry about brains in vats. The flies get out of the bottle and then a ...
He is addressing the question whether all his experience might be a mere figment of his imagination, including his own hands. Well, here's one hand. I...
I mean the famous 'proof' of an external world. "Much of the lecture is devoted to working out what counts as an ‘external object’, and Moore claims t...
I think naive realism can cope with only certain changes in air pressure being perceived by us as trees falling. As I understand it, naive realism is ...
Forcing anything on anyone tends not to endear them to it. If creators do not bear responsibility for the harm caused by their creations then God's of...
Yet you invoked Erin Hunter in your example. If I had invoked Eric Hunter as the author you would have had good reason to correct me: ''No, it's Erin,...
Ok, I think my naivety can withstand this pressure. Yes, we can say that Potter exists in one way and Rowling in another. Existence is a predicate. Al...
`To be naive for moment, predicates tell us something about things. The apple is red. When I learn that J K Rowling exists and that Harry Potter doesn...
Thank you for your clear and patient explanation. Frankly, I had no idea. To me, this is a new aspect on Plato. Perhaps I have the wrong view - or an ...
That is a great detailed summary you wrote, very clear. I have to admit I don't see where the dialogue is going - Is it aiming to leave us in aporia, ...
I agree - but there is too wide a scope for disengenuity. I buy a top range brand new bike for £50 online. Turns out it was stolen. How could I possib...
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