Who said anything about 'just' preserving the struggles of the disadvantaged for the sake of diversity. That too would have to be weighed against othe...
But I've already explained that in what I thought were fairly straightforward terms. Did you read my initial response to you? Equality is never a goal...
I wasn't talking about ZBT, specifically. You were the one that raised the issue first, as if it were some kind of reductio argument against the left'...
Either. It depends on whether they know the answer to the first. A neuroscientist or a psychologist might answer the first. A student would certainly ...
These are not the principles of libertarianism. That's the point here on this thread as this thread is about the political affiliations of philosopher...
No. I'm saying that you are displaying an example of a pattern in which one ideology is presented as the source of proscription when in fact another i...
My comment has nothing to do with claiming victory on anyone's part, so I'm not sure what the relevance is. Nor am I proposing any requirement to proc...
I did, as did fdrake far more substantially, here. I was interested to hear your response to both. As I said above, it's telling that the ideology is ...
All true, and thanks, but my post was actually just a bad joke. Had way too much wine last night and no excuse for anything I wrote during the entire ...
And yet when pressed on the matter of... ... in an earlier thread, you just walk away. The issue here with many of these ideologies is that suspicion ...
Exactly as @"ZhouBoTong" has already said really. The trouble with thought experiments like this is that they presume our rational thinking methods ar...
For which collections of objects does a unified now make sense? What exactly does (relative) speed change? Is anything worse (like there being more th...
It doesn't. People also strive for equality of opportunity, that people should not be denied some opportunity they might otherwise autonomously take b...
There's no implication beyond the simple fact that one option must be chosen. Being born requires you to chose to continue to live or not. If you pref...
Well, if you like. I don't think you don't understand Quine, I'm not even sure yet what your understanding of Quine is. You said he rejects analycity ...
Then, yes. That is the scenario, you're correct. You have two choices; don't play the game, or change the way you feel about the game (which you could...
Right, which is why I asked why you're writing posts. You want something, some result which is not the one you currently have. If you're satisfied wit...
Crikey, is that all! You know entire textbooks have been written just on the subject of how language is processed? Just distinguishing speech from non...
You might assert as much, but the evidence is against you. What evidence we have (and it's reasonably compelling) is that what you like and dislike, y...
That's a very big topic. Have you read The Web of Belief? It has a really good section on how Quine treats observations as observations sentences and ...
I didn't mean to. I intended to treat it as an argument supporting the reasonableness of positing their existence. That's why I talked about liklihood...
I doubt that. Some would disobey on principle, some would absentmindedly point elsewhere because they weren't paying attention (not weren't listening,...
That seems monumentally unlikely on the face of it. If you look at the other items on your list of recent additions to the set of {things that physica...
This is a statement though, not a question. The request for clarity was (or should be) over what the question means "What if you don't like the premis...
Ahh, I see. I'm sorry if this confusion was caused by any lack of clarity on my part. You're talking about Quine's rejection of analycity whilst I'm t...
Since when were we determining what Two Dogmas is "about"? I merely made the claim that Quine makes a distinction betweenpphilosophy and science and t...
Maybe, but if the deterministic natural forces are expressed through a stochastic system then there's no reason at all to suppose a deterministic meth...
I don't think so. There's numerous other places, some of which I've given above, where Quine talks about differences between science and philosophy. A...
The brain almost certainly isn't a strict singular mechanically deterministic system. Neural signals are rapid stocatto outputs and trace complex rout...
But its right there in the introduction "One effect of abandoning them is, as we: shall see, a blurring of the supposed boundary between speculative m...
Why? A soldier at war demonstrably thinks differently to a mathematician working on a problem. People even think differently depending on whether or n...
I can see how you might have that interpretation in isolation, but in the context of Two Dogmas and Epistemology Naturalised, I think it's clear he's ...
Well, yes. Depends on the purpose of the categorisation. Some psychologists distinguish between intuitive and reasoned thinking, others between emotiv...
What makes you think that? They obviously seem quite clear to me, so I'd be interested to hear how you're reading them differently. No, the point I wa...
Nor did I make that claim. Only that physics would be at one end (although I think Quine uses engineering as his example, which is better really in te...
The position I attributed to Quine was "there's a scale, based on intersubjectivity, and physics is at one end of it (or near the end)". The position ...
Exactly. That's the point I'm making. If people are not even sufficiently motivated about the accumulation of wealth in a minority of of companies to ...
I don't accept that excuse for one minute. People spend on average nearly an hour a day just on Facebook. The idea that they haven't time to check out...
As I said earlier, if it were about this realisation, then why wouldn't those doing the realising do what was within their power to curb such excessiv...
Any scientist worth their salt would have followed established principles of scientific investigation and looked for the simplest explanation provided...
Reason is simply a method of thinking. One which has proven remarkably successful for understanding the world. One key tenet in this method is not inv...
I'm no expert on this sort of thing, but isn't SETI listening out for radio signals and the like? Presumably other civilisations would be doing simila...
The paracingulate sulcus differentially marks reports of sensory stimulation from the specific brain regions responsible for sensory processing depend...
(5) contradicts the conclusion. Civilisations can't be both aggressively looking to expand and remaining silent only pre-emptively striking targets wh...
"Science is a continuum extending from History and Engineering at one end, to the more abstract pursuits like mathematics and philosophy at the other"...
Let's have the correct interpretation of Quine then... Yes. Which is most certainlynnot the location of metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, political phi...
Yes, and, just in my personal experience, it's not been a random trend, sub-fields seem to want to work up the Quinean scale. Clinical psychologists l...
Not following you. What prevents maintaining both these positions? I'm saying there's a scale, based on intersubjectivity, and physics is at one end o...
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