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That depends on your views of morality.
October 04, 2024 at 05:07
Yes. Obvious. If neither of us have anything other than the obvious say maybe we should just shut :D
October 03, 2024 at 06:53
If there is a choice between one or the other I choose change. My point being change weighs more in favour of exploration and development than standin...
October 03, 2024 at 04:56
I was talking about the constituents not the use. A car without an engine will not run, but it still possesses all the other constituents that would.
October 03, 2024 at 03:03
Change is good if you are able to change your mind about something. Understanding that what you once thought was correct is actually not as solid as y...
October 03, 2024 at 02:29
It was in a collection of papers published in 'Cognitive Neurosciences' by Gazzaniga (I believe it would have been Fourth Edition). They were talking ...
October 03, 2024 at 01:00
It is completely rational for different people to come to completely different conclusions. It is rational for someone religious to pray for their chi...
October 02, 2024 at 02:45
Okay, I see you are using 'rational' in a very particular way so I won't waste my time in a pointless back and forth. Have fun :)
October 01, 2024 at 16:05
So you are saying that people with no language do not act rationally? That seems like a stretch.
October 01, 2024 at 14:49
This is false. Chimps can cooperate and problem solve, as can chickens. The latter may be mere 'programming' but I would not say we can state one way ...
October 01, 2024 at 10:34
I think if you rephrase this as 'freedom to believe what you want' it sounds even more stupid in a way. We believe what we believe. You cannot expect ...
October 01, 2024 at 10:25
I think this is a poor argument in some ways. If someone chooses to become pregnant, and/or sees their pregnancy through to a certain point, then chan...
October 01, 2024 at 09:25
As a kind of loose defense against this thought I guess it could be argued that ethics is necessarily embedded in any system of values. I cannot imagi...
September 30, 2024 at 16:04
Nozick's frames this under patterning and states that the two 'principles of justice' do not require patterning. He does admit that where people view ...
September 30, 2024 at 09:55
If you are just going to put words into my mouth we will not get far here. Explain. I have no idea what you are talking about here. What is boils down...
September 29, 2024 at 07:44
Shame. The aesthetics part might have interested me :(
September 28, 2024 at 14:05
Freedom has its price, but few are willing to pay. I do not think finger pointing and blaming gets anyone anywhere good very quickly (the opposite usu...
September 28, 2024 at 07:25
But it does if employers act as you state here: I am sure some do. The problem is then about negative discrimination. I have heard of some people tryi...
September 28, 2024 at 07:18
There are various tiers of belief in this discussion. A lot of people who are lumped into the term 'Pro life' often just think the point of terminatio...
September 27, 2024 at 08:46
This assumes people have 'rights' - also a legal matter. True enough there is certainly a 'moral' factor involved here in regards to the establishment...
September 27, 2024 at 08:21
What bits were useful?
September 26, 2024 at 07:19
He is not saying that apparently but I would. PLUS the level of skill and the cost of materials. I would pay an incompetent potter less or rather not ...
September 26, 2024 at 03:59
I have no idea given I have no idea about the nuances of this specific situation. In general though, it depends on whether they felt like they made th...
September 26, 2024 at 03:52
I think it is pretty obvious that what is legal is not necessarily just. I have read Nozick's partially only atm so perhaps I will see what you are ta...
September 26, 2024 at 03:49
They can and do. No need to suggest this. I find the issue becomes more or less about what an individual can do and what others believe they should do...
September 25, 2024 at 16:07
Underneath are you suggesting that what is legal should be moral rather than just? Or that what is just is not moral? Or something else entirely?
September 25, 2024 at 15:54
Logic is mathematical not lingual. It is only applied to language in the same manner it is applied to numbers, but obviously language and mathematics ...
September 25, 2024 at 02:13
Mathematical
September 25, 2024 at 02:01
Logical is a mathematical field primarily. There are no pure mathematically logical truths in language. So, no. It helps to know where the limits of p...
September 24, 2024 at 08:03
My general advice would be to simply write what you read in the simplest form you understand it then go back and check what you just read and see how ...
September 24, 2024 at 06:37
Yeah, a long time ago. I thought it was utter garbage. Nothing but hermeneutical jargon under misrepresentation and twaddle. That said, I would not di...
September 23, 2024 at 02:39
Thoughts on Husserl? I personally believe Heidegger, for the most part, hijacked Husserl's line of investigation and fixated on one tiny aspect of it ...
September 22, 2024 at 15:04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnCToK4Jw7w
September 22, 2024 at 11:37
Language is the shadow cast by the mind into the world. People often mistaken the shadows for the light or simply think the shadows can tell them more...
September 21, 2024 at 15:41
Interesting. Never heard of these scrolls before.
September 21, 2024 at 10:11
I was looking for something a little more specific. I have a broad enough knowledge and wish to learn more about the development and evolution of Isla...
September 21, 2024 at 10:07
Do these cover the history from a secular perspective or are they laden with religious rhetoric? I am looking for more scholarly work that tries to be...
September 21, 2024 at 10:05
:grin: :up:
September 18, 2024 at 11:47
I do go on to suggest that is may be this kind of process that refined our reasoning too. Not sure if you got to that point or lost the will to live l...
September 18, 2024 at 11:30
This is me making a pig's ear of this topic and rambling on :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXj9cBTpVU&t=901s I tried! I will keep trying :D Not s...
September 18, 2024 at 10:51
I cannot really disagree here either. I probably am just more curious about it having a bigger effect than we would initially think. Before any search...
September 17, 2024 at 02:45
I am unsure what is controversial. We absolutely have an innate capacity for language. There are instances where individuals have no, or minimal, lang...
September 17, 2024 at 02:38
This doesn't go against what I am saying. Animism would not prevent people from having competing views and partaking in one-upmanship in term of items...
September 16, 2024 at 10:57
Really? Who disagrees? How so? Seems a strange thing to dispute, but likely it is the concept of 'language' they are using. Some linguists are quite h...
September 16, 2024 at 04:53
I am saying something more like the 'one-upmanship' led to progress in Reason. As you rightly point out both Western and Eastern traditions have a his...
September 16, 2024 at 04:51
Pretty much. But I am also saying this may be more than it sounds as it could have played a big part in developing logical reasoning.
September 16, 2024 at 04:01
Well, this is what I am saying you are doing ... so we are kind of stuck aren't we :D Yes. But you can agree they did not have demarcated logical prin...
September 15, 2024 at 16:50
First Question. No. Meaning certainly not like we do. Many animals can complete complex instinctual tasks and solve complex mathematical problems. The...
September 15, 2024 at 15:31
Because they didn't have analytics. I am not saying people couldn't think only that certain intellectual paradigms had not been reached (such as Evide...
September 15, 2024 at 15:25
Personally I have found throughout life that the areas I tend to dismiss end up being the very ones I need to look into at a later date. My initial in...
September 15, 2024 at 11:26