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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Lots of behaviours of animals aren't obviously connected to their individual survival or the survival of their species. Consider Elephants and other c...
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...
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...
You seem to be making the observation that words have all sorts of functions, appear in different discourses, have various connotations depending on c...
Could I rephrase this thought in terms of Kuhnian paradigms? Philosophy as a "precise science" is philosophy as prosecuted by 'technicians' within a g...
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...
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...
It does seem like the language-first view entails that philosophical disagreements are terminological. If we are investigating the rules of use of var...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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