In the first sentence you use 'experience' as the measure, in the second 'facts'. I am to take it from this that the answer to my question is 'yes'? Y...
So do you universally trust your experience to give you an accurate account of your neurological processes, or is it just in this matter that you do? ...
Yeah, I can't really stand "...therefore X doesn't exist" conclusions (where X is some common feature of our language). I think, 'well what on earth h...
I can't at all see how you got from rejecting certain theoretical neurological mechanisms by which we make choices to rejecting the entire idea of ran...
How does it 'demonstrably' happen? We're talking about the mental processes preceding a choice, how do you propose to demonstrate them? Nearest to the...
Fair enough, that's kind of where I'd got to. This I struggle with. It seems to 'define away' responsibility. Once one assumes determinism, as Strawso...
You've still not provided any argument that either of these things are the case, only that you believe them to be (which I'm already well aware of). T...
The donkey is irrelevant. It's the circumstances you're placing it in that I'm claiming is impossible. If your not going to respond to what I actually...
At the risk of sounding pedantic, the answer to your first question really does depend on what you mean by 'we' and what you mean by 'the world'. I th...
Yes, which is where the similarity to Stove's Gem lies. If his 'self', his 'one', just is some mental state, then to say it cannot be responsible for ...
No. If my theory is correct it would be impossible to set up. It would be impossible to create two bags of barley so equal in every way that there wou...
Well then we would indeed need to add some other mechanism of choice to our model. I just just don't see that we need to, or even ought to. Is the evi...
It was the explanatory need I was trying to establish. It would not be at all difficult (let alone necessarily impossible), to model the choice betwee...
None. But neither is there (yet) any reason not to. Hence my comment about the inadequacy of the model. But what I was actually interested in was how ...
OK, but the theory goes that if the phobia makes you want to behave a certain way (and you consider yourself not responsible for it), then we have a m...
Seems in opposition to Haven't you just asserted the exact thing you said was yet to be demonstrated? Your phobia of spiders is a 'dislike', which you...
Just catching up on reading through this thread (haven't time to actually analyse the paper itself, much as I'd like to, so just a bystander here), bu...
The main issue with Strawson's argument is that he separates 'how one is mentally' from 'one'. Such that there is this 'self' which is other than 'how...
Absolutey right, and for good reason. People can suffer loss of volition in various forms, and woe betide the clinician who then announces that they n...
Although at its most mundane, a gotcha is often just an overly self-important pedant pointing out an error or omission in an otherwise perfectly salie...
I didn't ask what it is, I asked where the sides are in my use of the term. I imagine three people, co-involved, one of whom is the subject of my expr...
I'm not sure what you're trying to show here. I'm in no doubt that it is possible to draw three imaginary line between the actors. I'm asking about th...
If I say to someone "She's involved in a love-triangle" and do not bring to mind your 'each person represents a point. The shortest distance between t...
Yeah. To be fair I was expecting an initial response like "Fair enough, what I meant to say was..." followed by a more coherent definition, such that ...
Since you said... ... were examples of 'meanings' and since in all other cases we can succesfully replace specific examples with general cases in any ...
As I wrote previously, if I was referring to the word 'pain' I would have quoted it or otherwise indicated by context. I wasn't replacing the word 'pa...
Only when quoted. A cup is a type of drinking vessel and Tea is a drink made from dried leaves. 'Cup' is a word and 'tea' is a word. They were not thu...
I asked what the membership criteria was for the category {meaning}. You answered that it was any mental structure or event. Generic names can indeed ...
This is not a use of 'meaning' I've ever heard. I think if, on hurting my leg, I said "I have a meaning in my knee" I should not be very well understo...
Only if 'meaning' is understood as 'that which language conveys', and so the proposition is tautological. Otherwise what determines members of the cla...
What they agree or disagree to is the entirety of human belief, it's the most relevant, and arguably, the only, subject matter in philosophy. As I sai...
Your assertion was that they wouldn't disagree as to the facts, not that neither of them would be wrong. A would indeed be wrong, but only by virtue o...
Only if they've been previously apprised of relativity theory. Otherwise A is more likely to consider B to be lying, mistaken, defective and vice vers...
Well said. Philosophical versions of invariate truth are inevitably introduced as "There is an invariate truth", and equally inevitably appended later...
My dictionary has 'privilege' meaning I'm struggling to see how it is so obvious that its use in 'white privilege' is "just not what word means". Its ...
In this context, yes. Are you really only just getting this? I didn't say it was a question of ignorance for you to not share mine. I said it was a qu...
There exists a definition of racism which is a) the most common definition, and b) extremely offensive if one is accused of it. You're either ignorant...
Yes, of course. As I thought I'd made clear in my previous post, no one cares about trivial attribution errors. Racism is about the oppression of peop...
Why on earth would you premiss judgement of any act of discrimination with "besides the whole oppressor/victim narrative"? The oppression is literally...
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