:up: Indeed. We are all thrown into something given, not of our own. My interests lie in this intractable injustice of the unwanted given. No one’s in...
Sure, it's not mutually exclusive. It could be worth understanding, but my point is all systems are unfair to an extent that (unlike other animals) we...
The problem I see with any economic discussion is that we pretend like people have no agency. "I don't like capitalism" is a value. I am born into a s...
Ha, well, I was referring to his statement here: He is trying to invalidate the whole category of "debate" as simply "bending people to your will", th...
Well there is a difference between: carburetor is a device for mixing air and fuel and carburettor is a device No? Objects have properties seems prett...
I just saw this. Yes agree, compositionality (merge). But it brings up an interesting understanding of differences of concepts based not just on synta...
A lot of times the target is moved. I am not sure if that is Motte-and-Bailey but I think this is... "There are too many guns to try to get rid of any...
Another fallacy similar to the motte-and-bailey I've seen is "unreasonable request for proof". There are well-established facts let's say (the Earth e...
Ah, Hume is more Kantian at second glance here. Hume's argument was that concepts like causation are not inherent in the world but rather are products...
Why does socially constructed change the fact that there is a sensation any more than the rods and cones? Causation doesn’t equal ontological identity...
As an aside, do you think that a cultural moral norm (let's say a majority of people agree with something) means that something is thus a moral intuit...
Oh the irony. I am sure @"Tzeentch" can appreciate it. Also, this can be said about any ethical statement. If someone died but it wasn't a decision th...
Nice, really nice synthesis here! So what about Hume or Quine's extreme empiricism (the denial of innate mechanisms at all)? Where does that fit in, a...
It's not a reification that I am sensing things :roll:. That there is this persistent "experiential quality" is what is at question. You can call it "...
Nice article that lays out the ideas well! Or if Fodor is correct, we utilize some sort of epistemic a priori mechanism that isn't fully formed defini...
Is it ever okay to create situations of burdened persons when you don't have to create that situation at all. What makes burdened persons in and of it...
Someone might be doing it out of a good will. They could really feel that they are creating good states of affairs by creating burdens where there wer...
Sounds like you're stuck on analytic mode! Got it. That is true. I did express that agreement. Yes indeed. The phenomenological is not a methodologica...
Ok, so how is that answering the question of whether character or deontology is more important? I will condense it more for understanding's sake: Is c...
How is a series of this responding not some sort of Cartesian theater fallacy? How is "sensation red" that experience I have, the same as "A "red" con...
Your tendency to dismiss gets in the way of you legitimately answering the question as that answer is up for interpretation and I gave you what I thou...
So I'm not sure you are answering my main inquiry here. The main inquiry is thus: 1) If you create a burden for someone, presumably (in some circumsta...
Oh gotcha, you are referring to Example 2 in the OP and the "Spartan" burden. Yep, I'd agree there. But how about this idea that character building is...
You want to talk about vague and muddled notions, both: a) Chomsky's view on analyticity as described in your OP article is just that. b) The article ...
I don't see how that is contradicting rather than supporting what I am saying. Are you saying that the definition has thus changed because it is being...
And these were showing off some language games: But yes the concept can expand to whatever you want it to be if you keep moving goal posts of the defi...
Actually it does have much relation and bearing to Chomsky. A prioricity and organization of the world is very much akin to I-language and the whole n...
Banno, even if I don't know your position I see where you are going: 1) Consciousness means something like emergent properties that go off script from...
Put it this way, a slug might be less "intelligent" than ChatGPT or even an air conditioner if we define it as something that can take inputs and comp...
Why do you purport that I (would) think air conditioners have consciousness when I stated earlier the difference I saw between the notions of intellig...
Yes agreed. I guess bringing these two concepts together, the sky being blue is contingent on observation which accounts for its synthetic nature in b...
I don't agree with you if you are saying, "Consciousness is something other than some inner phenomenological experience". I do agree with you if you a...
As I said, it's simply a matter of caution. But I don't think that would be possible to setup the scenario I was thinking of. But either way, I was ju...
I know what you did. But you are obviously attributing consciousness to things that shouldn't be. Air conditioners aren't conscious multi-cellular ani...
Isn't that part of the reasoning behind child-having? The interplay between mentor and those to be mentored? I want to mentor someone, thus I need a r...
So you don’t think people feel they have a mandate to create “opportunities” of struggle for others? We can call this the “aggressive paternalism” sta...
:up: I added this little dialogue here: A: "Because suffering and struggle is good for people". B: And you want to bring that situation about for some...
Yes, and hence my point here: I am not disputing this in other words. Yes that is not the point of this thread. Similar misinterpretation of NOS as th...
I’m going to come back to your reply but I’d like to show this reply to start thinking about the differences between mitigation and wholly wanting to ...
Yes, building character and all that. But my question at the end there what about wanting to see other people struggle and maybe even suffer and to ov...
How about if it’s a friend who decides you need some burdens to overcome. You’re stuck on the contingencies and not the underling principle. This isn’...
If the wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum is of the red frequency, and this hits rods and cones, and this goes down the optic nerve and the co...
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