Cuthbert

In the case of logical necessity, a set of premisses can necessitate some conclusion. The conclusion will be a 'necessary' consequence in the sense th...

This is the talk, hope the link works https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00168s3

Here is an asymmetry. 'Trans men are men' is not a slogan. Nobody feels threatened by a person who lacks a penis using the men's changing room or taki...

So you will ignore propaganda. But not just any propaganda. The particular kind that you intend to ignore is feminist propaganda. So the point of view...

I am wondering why you say you share a philosophy and then say that the philosophy you share is not your philosophy. It seemed like an announcement of...

You did propose to ignore a point of view with which you disagree. I wrote that this could be an effective strategy if you want to get a ..... The str...

That could be the answer in this thread and also in life. You can mix free love and family life very easily if you ignore other people's points of vie...

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves - Lewis Carroll

Birds of a feather.... Plus ca change.... Harry Frankfurt dug deeply into the motivations behind some kinds of cloudy vagueness - indifference to trut...

Distinguishing between analytical and continental philosophers “is like classifying cars as Japanese and front-wheel drive” - Bernard Williams You cou...

I avoid dead metaphors like the plague and never use them in any way, shape or form.

Well said. And listen out for this pre-amble to a politician's speech: "Let me be clear...." Up until now politicians have been giving in to public de...

Not substituting - adding. We need both.

:starstruck: Touche!

I think you have a reasonable complaint. After WWII there was frustration with moral philosophy. Philosophers had been spending their time dissecting ...

I don't mind. They are always jolly company.

It's because you're not mean and moody. You are merely disenchanted.

If we are not bothered whether our theory is true or not...... I prefer my theories to be true. So I'm giving necessetarianism a miss, despite its und...

Yes. The ball could have broken the window. Hailstones could have broken the window. OK, but it seems to be false and there seem to be knock-down coun...

I don't know which particular set of train tracks has bored you so quickly but there is a famous set of tracks that was designed to test our intuition...

Sometimes I think - in this world, if a person is not dejected, helpless and furious then they must be crazy. Other times I think - in any world, it's...

Necessitarianism is a lot neater and simper. Unfortunately, it seems to be false. It's partly due to a scope fallacy: Necessarily: what is, is; what w...

Go back to the text you found so irritating and try it again. Ask yourself : "Why is this person - apparently intelligent and articulate - a well-rega...

:up: Good diagnosis. What establishes him as a benchmark against which to judge others? ... or 'in addition'? I suggest reading more widely, more care...

Like you, I'm at the limit of my knowledge! I would have been taught that "I love you as crumpets love butter" was correct and "...like crumpets love ...

Like I care.

No. I was brung up in a house where the statement "I love you like crumpets love butter" would likely be met with the response "The word 'like' cannot...

"Have you read The Third Policeman?" Frank Muir asked me last night. Frank is one of those people who are very interesting to listen to but sound like...

Yes, it's the exact quote. My inner English teacher always ruins that song for me.

Especially the kind that corrects double negatives. "We don't need any education."

Inspired by @"praxis" I made a mash-up of some other silent sound effects. I posted it on youtube but I had to take it down after a copyright strike f...

Now that's what I call wit.

Unfortunately, this is a third problem. From the premiss that knowledge does not exist it does not follow that we can not know about anything. That is...

I see two problems: (1) From "X does not exist" it does not follow that "It is possible that X exists." Counterexample: A square circle does not exist...

Ha ha! And the horses agree. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=603739380886497

UK results may not be valid. When asked "How happy are you?" most people would say "Mustn't grumble" or "Could be worse". These responses are obligato...

OK player. Nah, you ain't funny yet.

Rather than insisting what you don't mean, can you explain what you do mean? It may turn out that you can't explain - not because of any lack of artic...

Thank you! I remembered another one - (Every online edition I can find has "chimed" but I remember it as "chined", after the chine of an animal)

I was going to leave it to someone else to point out that we are not in Kansas any more, then I thought heck just say it.

That's my entire stock of knowledge about chewing.

Another example https://verfassungsblog.de/the-stubborn-subversiveness-of-judaisms-matrilineal-principle/

Let it be that time is constituted by collective motions of particles. Let is also be that time can be understood in terms of before-and-after process...

I got almost the same as RussellA The first claim is: 1. For any point in time t, there exists a time t1 such that t1 is before t and there exists a t...

He assumed time and space were discrete and have minimal 'parts' which cannot be broken up any smaller. He also assumed they are continuous and are in...

I used to think exactly that but I have gradually become less convinced that extinction or even dwindling are anywhere near. That was 2016 - then Me T...

There are many, but I would also say 'leadership' includes a lot of roles that do not include political power. There was (perhaps still is) a view tha...

Yes. I wonder which way round the explanation goes. I mean, do men get the opportunity to be nasty because they have power or do they maintain power o...

A worthy tribloom to shame's choice which must even diddle us.

Zeno proposed four different paradoxes, permuting the possibilities: Time / Space vs Continuous / Discrete. He showed that he can create a paradox for...