You are still starting with the same set of conditions. Your development as a physical being relies on the initial template and the development that e...
I think "meaning of life" questions become unnecessarily rooted in these historic questions of religion and science. I think when answering this quest...
One of the things I hate in these debates is when people don’t acknowledge what was already acknowledged. Please look back to my posts above about sci...
No, twin studies don't negate necessity, but sufficiency (perhaps). That person would not be that person at some level without the gametes that they w...
So also like @"unenlightened" you (willfully?) ignored this: Especially please pay attention to the necessary but not sufficient part. And yeah I also...
:up: Yes, I think it's actually quite easy to do to say, "Oh wouldn't be weird if I grew up in this or that place, time, or otherwise." And it can be ...
:up: Indeed. But I suspect people who don't necessarily believe in a theory of a transposable "soul" into different physical bodies, STILL TALK AS IF ...
I realize one can go on a wacky crusade of exceptions and give me some interesting sci-fi scenarios along the lines of a Ship of Theseus whereby someo...
Why say it's nonsense? Why can't what I say achieve agreement? This is perplexing. And why the overall vitriolic response? This is poisoning the well,...
So all of this is not addressing my point which is that genetic identity (same sperm and egg made you who you are) is NECESSARY even if NOT sufficient...
You don't even need to speculate about that. Psychosomatic diseases can already impair someone this way so that at one point they are lucid and at ano...
Not quite sure what you are saying but if you are asking why this discounts a lot of counterfactuals about things like, "What if I was born a...".. Th...
Well, you are slightly moving the goal post. All I am establishing is that if the gametes are different than the one that was your set of gametes, wha...
Sure, if you’re getting caught on conception versus birth, we can say, is going to be a different person once born. That isn’t the substantive issue a...
Because you haven't seemed to grasp the main point of my argument which is that if a set of parents, even your own, had two gametes that were differen...
I actually think I'm in agreement. So, I think you are again misconstruing what this claim is saying. Can you explain exactly where the breakdown is? ...
I don't think you're quite getting my argument. I am saying that it is a sort of contradiction (as implied by Ryle as well I think), to talk about YOU...
How do minor variations not make a difference? Certainly if the event of your parents conceiving 5 minutes earlier or later happened, a different set ...
So my point is that "you" would not be "you" in any altered history of causation leading to "who" you are. You mentioned being born in a different cou...
I think it’s a huge issue and opens a can of worms but, I don’t see how you can defend a claim that if you were born in different “circumstances”, the...
Should be rejection OF understanding... The way I interpret his "Cartesian" rejection, is that he is rejecting that subjective experiences as somethin...
:lol: Yes, agreed with Dennett. I don't think it's totally disconnected from Ryle (perhaps in these lectures more so). Rather, if Ryle is against Cart...
@"Ludwig V" Ryle's idea of logical consequences and practical inescapability reminds me of other distinctions made in determining principles of suffic...
Why do some of these philosophers have a hard time with the idea of imaginary concepts? A bald king of France drives them crazy. There does not exist ...
Ryle influenced Dennett who is a part of the "eliminativist materialism" notion. According to IEP: So I guess, if you can't explain it, eliminate it. ...
That's my point! Paganism would have allowed for any number of pluralistic beliefs to flourish, just as the Germanic kingdoms of what became France, S...
The idea that mental activity is somehow behavioral dispositions seems incoherent to me. And somehow trying to save this view by pointing to how quali...
Look all you need to do is hold the view that sounds most common sensical, make a few quips showing your indignation at the silliness that doesn’t rep...
So it does bring up an interesting point. I think "higher cultures", meaning, "advanced technology, philosophical inquiry, etc." can indeed go with pa...
Eh, you did answer the question, but I think this is a slight cop-out. Arguably, Islam's mishmash of pagan Arabic culture fused with the Judeo-Christi...
True, but then you are ignoring that I acknowledged the basic independence and "late to the game" aspect of Viking society. By that time, feudalism di...
True, so this would more apply to the regions inside the Roman Empire like Italia, Hispaniola, Illyricum, Graecia, Byzantium, etc. As you stated well ...
Legitimate historical question that is quite complicated... When studying Germanic tribes during the late Roman Empire and early Middle Ages, the char...
For a brief period right after the American Revolution, there was an even more extreme "states rights" federal document called the Articles of Confede...
Antinatalism largely answers this dilemma of putting people into a world where they must subsist, often against what would be the conditions and range...
Well yeah, I didn't make a claim it is exactly the same as English, just that they are derived from the same set of ideas. Clearly, the USA is more de...
So I see "conceptual schemes" in Philosophy of Language, as applying Kuhn's theory meant for paradigms in the history of sciences (and science in gene...
I’m sorry but you haven’t established why the basis of the American political system is not specifically connected to English and broadly European his...
I'd also like to mention there is perhaps an inner tension already from analytic philosophy from the start, especially with "logical positivism". The ...
I think I largely agree with all you stated there. I just want to emphasize that indeed, if discussion circles around neologisms like "language games"...
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