I don’t even know what any of this means and why I should try to understand what appears to be unfounded speculation using terminology that hasn’t bee...
I’m just curious about what the hypothetical infinite monkey scenario has to do with reality and DNA? It may be worth taking on board that ‘impossible...
You’d have to start off by defining ‘god’. It certain ways I’m willing to accept a broad definition of ‘god’ as legitimate - if say you mean some all ...
Yes we can. The ‘definite’ claim is probabilistic though. Mathematics operates within abstract hypotheticals it is not based experimentation. If we se...
@"creativesoul" @"Marchesk" @"Isaac" @"fdrake" @"Mww" What is there to say about ancient people’s assuming that our vision ‘shone outward’ rather than...
We could shift this into another area maybe? Essentially you’re doing highly speculative hermeneutics (in the true sense of ‘hermeneutics’). This then...
Mythos are clearly the expression of human psychology. I’m not sure exactly what in Genesis you think says this compared to the hundreds of other myth...
Pretty much all the ones not deleted? Take look and compare them. The one about populism has some thought behind it, the one about math and prob too. ...
It was a poorly thought out and poorly worded thread. I guess if a repeat thread was made asking about what does and doesn’t qualify as ‘sentient’ as ...
It’s ‘hypothetical’. There is no evidence, or consensus, that we all of a sudden developed language. There is hard evidence that shows certain languag...
I’d sooner vote for banning Tim Wood than preventing religious people fro discussing on a forum where some of their more ‘radical’ ideas may actually ...
If a square can only fit through a square hole and it passes over a circular hole, it may as well have passed over no hole at all. Or you could say wh...
You’ll have to provide evidence for this and counter evidence. I would certainly say things may have become more turbulent due to increased communicat...
That was a mistake of interpretation that hinged on ‘subscribing to worldview’ remark - which we went over. It doesn’t take a genius to see why I arri...
I’ve no idea what ‘this country’ is. I mostly try to view such questions as it plays out for humanity at large than focus only on this or that particu...
I think we naturally fear freedom too. We do at least have freedom to speak here. The site rules don’t allow for literally anything but it’s pretty li...
Resorting to accusations when the evidence is there is frankly petty. I cannot be lying by stating that your initial reaction to the hypothetical guy ...
I’ve seen this before with Chalmers on a forum. All that happened was people made themselves look silly by basically calling his ideas stupid when the...
Another point would be making the distinction between an ‘inductive’ argument and a ‘deductive’ argument. Again, this is a common enough problem of mi...
Assumption that there is ‘a point’. Pointless question as far as I can tell. What does i mean to ‘have a point’ or ‘be pointless’? We can ask what the...
I could actually say Humpty Dumpty is a story like this too. Originally we were unaware of all our problems and just mucked about on a wall. Then one ...
Maybe someone has mentioned this already? It makes sense writer not commit to strongly to their position. In a debate the purpose is to push home your...
I’d say the ‘innocent’ are naive, dangerous and/or irresponsible. I don’t quite see how that qualifies as ‘good’ in any context. Of course the problem...
I think it would be impolite of me not to respond even though I said I wouldn’t do so given the extend of your post. I was making the judgement from r...
Just to be clear. The ‘conventional’ use doesn’t fall outside of what I’ve said at all. A person ‘good’ at murdering is ‘good’ at murdering. It is a f...
That simply doesn’t ring true. Would you stand by and watch someone beat several children to death because causing harm is bad? Of course not. Context...
I never said they were prescriptive. I noted that ‘good’ character has nothing to do with societal views of ‘good and evil’ as an ‘evil’ person true t...
Look at the exchange made over the hypothetical latino hater. He called that person racist when they didn’t distinguish between any biological race, t...
”DON'T GIVE ME THAT, YOU SNOTTY-FACED HEAP OF PARROT DROPPINGS!” “SHUT YOUR FESTERING GOB, YOU TIT! YOUR TYPE MAKES ME PUKE! YOU VACUOUS TOFFEE-NOSED ...
Roughly speaking it was. Animals were/are divided into categories in much the same way as other more ‘scientific’ cultures would have recorded in writ...
I tried to outline in my initial post that the ‘self’ (moral) is essentially acting ‘morally’ in opposition to what is called ‘ethical’ when the need ...
Me neither. The problem I find repeatedly is ‘pointing out’ something without literally having a concept to reference. By that I am clawing at saying ...
Great to see our ideas set out like that. I imagine there’s a library of footnotes in your head too! I’ll be looking it over more closely when I get a...
I cannot speak with any universal authority on the matter. I am trying to express my understanding from the perspective of Husserlian phenomenology (T...
May I ask what it really means to ‘model experience’ - in terms of a subjective experience rather than some extended intersubjective experience. Also,...
What you seem to be doing quite consistently is plastering your impressions of people over their faces to the point that you can no longer see behind ...
And the phenomenological approach would be to investigate the subjective requirements we hold to in order to talk about this ‘thing’ called ‘size’. Th...
I have almost no idea what you were or are talking about. We don’t possess knowledge from an objective position - meaning like some omnipotent being -...
I was feeling around (guessing) what you were talking about with the while ice cream business. Clearly I got what you were trying to convey wrong if w...
We appear to be talking past each other probably due to a difference in terminology/view of the question of knowing ‘the-thing-in-itself’. We cannot k...
It’s not unclear. What is the case is that people don’t use the term in that manner sadly. I went into this kind of topic more vigorously on a predomi...
Phenomenology isn’t directly concerned with empirical sciences or the naturalistic attitude. Experience is subjective. You ‘know’ subjectively yet you...
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