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Not trolling at all. Entertainment here really equates to this sentiment: If you want to discuss the subtleties of will, the human restlessness at the...

My point earlier to StreetlightX was that a difference between math and philosophy on new insights or "illuminations" is that math must eventually acq...

I agree with this. To add, the burden is always present; as long as you are alive, it is placed on you. The goods do not negate the burden itself or i...

But you compared the problems of math to the problems of philosophy, so I am just taking your cue. And the point I am trying to make contra your compa...

Yes, then change what I said to the "problems of math", I don't see how this counters the argument. If a problem requires a new method in math to solv...

I would say there is a difference here between math and philosophy then based on what you present. Math dictates (by discovery) that a different metho...

Math-games, eh? But is there one math-game to rule them all?

I'll just point out places I agree and disagree. Actually, I agree with this "deflationary" approach. Indeed, the the major difference between romanti...

Good points :up:

At a restaurant recently, I said to the bartender, "I would like to sign out" and he got me the bill. I gave him my card and then signed the receipt. ...

This is very much perennial thinking there that most people can get on board with. Okay, but here you are really stretching the word "love" to such a ...

Ah, then this is the crux of our current disagreement. Your quote there, seems at odds with what you said earlier: "the only thing worth living for". ...

I am not sure why this is going down the gender politics route. I see what you are saying in terms of the fact that much of this authentic choice for ...

You'd have to explain the term "tragedy of consciousness" for me to comment on that. Are we compelled to act to find mates? I think it is not a matter...

I don't know, doesn't sound too good. Again, tragic. That right there is part of the tragedy. I agree with you about being authentic, but I think we m...

I honestly cannot make out some of what you are trying to convey here. I think you are saying something along the lines that people play some sort of ...

I think you are being a bit flippant with how relationships form. People aren't just self-actualized totally autonomous beings rolling around until th...

It's tied together- the point being that there is no principle behind cause-and-effect. Yes, we will probably always think in terms of cause-and-effec...

Again, his "custom or habit" belies a sort of a priori (cognitive feat) going on here: From: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-hume-causality/ S...

To me that is the question (in a nutshell, maybe not literally) to which Kant replied, but also leaving Hume open to the possibilities that Kant conce...

Hume stated: "At least, it must be acknowledged that there is here a consequence drawn by the mind; that there is a certain step taken; a process of t...

Good points.

Do you have any specific quotes on Hume's view of time and space? I think the point is more subtle than you suggest. Impressions are from sense data i...

Excellent restatement of the point I was trying to make :). Indeed, great point about not perceiving something called "a cause". I think there is more...

But romantic love also has something to do with attraction. It also has to do with signaling that attraction, and pursuing that attraction. It also ha...

This is metaphysics because we are discussing the nature of forces- what it "is". It is not simply predictions, experimentation, observation, modellin...

True. I don't know, he seemed pretty insightful on certain aspects. Mainly when I invoke Schopenhauer here, I don't mean his specific writings on love...

As BC explained, this really isn’t a good solution..if that wasn’t half joking :razz:. For whatever reason humans seem to desire having a significant ...

Well done

In my thread about work, I emphasized that the individual with his individual personality (created through a combination of experiential and biologica...

I'm interested in your take on this as well: The problem is people usually want significant others. This is where humans are utterly hopeless with poo...

Sure, and I just explicated that in my last post. However, I did not really see Ron Cram making any of these points. Rather, I just saw mixed up notio...

That was my take. I said earlier: The problem is people usually want significant others. This is where humans are utterly hopeless with poorly designe...

I don't see how this really diminishes the point I was making between Newton and Hume. Newton was answering questions about mathematical concepts as a...

This is the opposite of what he said. He WAS denying whether the ground for cause-and-effect was certain, due to the inability of induction to prove i...

I think you are fighting imagined arguments. Hume is not saying that observation itself is suspect, but rather that the ground for which cause-and-eff...

I don't get Ron Cram's concerns. Hume is simply stating that certainty can never be gained from matters of fact. Cause and effect, is just a habit we ...

I also thought this quote was good about science and math: Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because w...

True, but I mentioned Galileo in conjunction with science because it seemed with him to have been the start of connecting math with the natural world ...

Yes, people trip over the hard questions of consciousness. They assume the very thing they are explaining and often confuse the easy questions for the...

I think there are a couple things I can add here. This falls under the category of short story form. It may further be considered a "slice of life" sh...

Yep and yep.

I guess its not a view, its a reality. You are deprived and have needs and wants, whereas, colloquially speaking, "nothing needs anything". Really? On...

That is way more interesting than this particular story, I agree! I think this only works if you are interested in casual sex only, which perhaps woul...

Perhaps the meta meta point is that modern dating is its own kind of unhappiness. The ending kind of ruined this possible conclusion by trying to make...

Ok, what is the outcome of not starting the life for the child? There is no child to be deprived. Once the child is born, it is indeed deprived, needs...

What about life needs to be started for a new person in the first place? Is it some X experience you would like it to have? Is that the only experienc...

Yes, actually I do see antinatalism as a coping technique. I said one time here: I have never put emphasis on the final outcome of antinatalism. I don...

I'm sorry but the philosophical pessimist would not leave it that relationships and projects are all that needs to take place to keep one from seeing ...

We have discussed this at length in the messages. Can you post the follow-ups that we had so we can at least see how the discussion played out? No use...