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You mean there's nothing intrinsically neurotic about looking a certain way? I agree: there isn't. That's why I used the qualifier 'neurotic'.
March 24, 2019 at 23:16
You're right. I went for the most obvious diagnosis of the bodybuilder's impulse. But it is true that one can be interested in this type of competitio...
March 24, 2019 at 23:12
It's an interesting question. I take it you're asking whether the sport of bodybuilding is in some way intrinsically pathological, rather than whether...
March 24, 2019 at 09:40
I guess it's a matter of degree. I just thought you could say something more illuminating than is 'logical' or 'is believed on a solid basis', which s...
November 11, 2018 at 19:51
No individual word or phrase in the definition is synonymous with 'bald', no. But I see your point now. Of course, if a definition or analysis is good...
November 11, 2018 at 19:44
If a word can only be defined with synonyms (or a tight circle of cognate words), then it is a so-called 'primitive' word. Not all words are primitive...
November 11, 2018 at 19:34
My (provisional) answer to the OP: We can think about it either way. We can say that philosophers are interested in words, or that philosophers are in...
November 11, 2018 at 08:58
Seems like a nearly-circular definition. In effect, you seem to be saying: The rational thing to do is the logical thing to do. The rational thing to ...
November 11, 2018 at 07:54
Intoxication indirectly promotes mental clarity? That's debatable. One problem is that it is unclear what you mean by 'acting for the sake of one's su...
November 11, 2018 at 07:39
The less I think about it, and the more attached I become to life, the more appalling the prospect of my own death becomes. But the more I think about...
November 09, 2018 at 04:35
It's generally also thought that a definition or conceptual analysis needs to make the right predictions for imagined as well as actual cases. So even...
November 08, 2018 at 00:59
Lots of behaviours of animals aren't obviously connected to their individual survival or the survival of their species. Consider Elephants and other c...
November 08, 2018 at 00:48
No, it doesn't. I pointed out two general sorts of counterexample.
November 07, 2018 at 21:31
In such cases, I think parties will need to carefully translate each other's utterances, and try to see what sorts of questions their interlocuters ar...
November 07, 2018 at 07:40
Counterexample: a dumbass creature or species that modifies its environment in a way inimical to its survival and without the aim of promoting its own...
November 07, 2018 at 07:07
You seem to be making the observation that words have all sorts of functions, appear in different discourses, have various connotations depending on c...
November 07, 2018 at 02:03
Could I rephrase this thought in terms of Kuhnian paradigms? Philosophy as a "precise science" is philosophy as prosecuted by 'technicians' within a g...
November 07, 2018 at 01:16
Yes I bet people do throw around the accusation that some dispute is terminological quite loosely. But that's pretty lazy. It seems to me that there a...
November 06, 2018 at 03:35
I'd have to look into this a lot more in order to follow what you are saying here. Is 'thing' just the ordinary sense of 'thing' here? What does it ad...
November 06, 2018 at 03:32
It does seem like the language-first view entails that philosophical disagreements are terminological. If we are investigating the rules of use of var...
November 05, 2018 at 22:28
I think I agree. Maybe, for many philosophical problems at least, it is the job of science and experience more generally to give us information about ...
November 05, 2018 at 21:41
That's probably more text than I needed to ask my question. Don't feel like you have to read it all to respond. I am interested in your thoughts.
November 05, 2018 at 08:08
Teaching would be great in theory. Guess I'd have to do it to see if I was any good at it. I sort of want to be a student forever, and teaching would ...
October 10, 2016 at 05:30
I'm glad I reached out. You all have given me much to think about. Thank you. Just a few replies. I like the sentiment. I think you're right that the ...
October 10, 2016 at 05:04