You and @"Wayfarer" disagree on some matter. Are you suggesting that it's somehow impossible that you're wrong. Has your narcissism really gone that f...
Odd that you jump on this but not the wall-to-wall assessments of Russia's supposed immanent failure, incompetence, and collapse we've had since last ...
First, he doesn't need 'help'. You and he disagree. He's at the very least your epistemic peer, so if you disagree it is as likely you are wrong (and ...
The collection {things I like} is made up of anything I deem to be a member of it. It's nothing more than those things, it's not those things + the co...
@"Wayfarer"'s posts are always well supported by citations (to the point of being infamous for it!). If you're going to accuse someone of misrepresent...
Ha! Now that's an interesting question (fair warning - I'm about to dissect a perfectly innocent joke...). It would matter to me because I'd be bother...
... and what you're doing now, with me, is...? has already given you a plausible alternative interpretation. I've also explained my approach. Yet here...
Depends on the answer you want. Are you happy with the one I've given? Does that progress consciousness studies somehow? "What is it like to climb Eve...
I'm not suggesting you agree with dismissing images of suffering that way. I'm saying that the exact same arguments can be made against modern identit...
Why? I'm not seeing any incoherence. The imagined table is, in this context, a facon de parler. It's objectified by our language. The fact that we can...
It's alright. Got a bit more boring lately as I've finally had to give up work completely, but I live in a nice place, so I'm OK. Thanks for asking th...
I'm not seeing outcome making a difference in either example. In both it seems to be intention that matters. Yes. Does persuade mean something else to...
Different how? I imagine a table, that's different to the chair I imagine (one's smaller than the other). The 'I' is different in that sense. I'm refe...
I'm saved. If only I'd have had this when I was a teenager, I wouldn't have had to become a fucking psychology professor to get any social currency. I...
I've not heard you rate the two elements before (but I may be misremembering). Intention and effect are necessary but intention is 'first and foremost...
The question doesn't make sense. I don't 'picture that which I imagine' I just imagine. Imagining something involves a picture, it doesn't make sense ...
You responded to a several hundred word post fully citing each quote by declaring the whole thing 'word salad' and you have the audacity to complain a...
You said... Well then you don't see things 'as a percept' You see things. I see a table, I see a chair. I don't see them as percepts, I see them as ob...
I agree, but it clashes with your idea the morality is about intent plus effect. If the effect is to persuade then the action isn't moral. But then......
Possibly, but if so, then an argument about oppression isn't complete without an argument as to why this and not that form should be heard. Again, its...
Yes, but intent is not enough. You sell yourself short. You do persuade. and unless you've been living in a cave for your adult life, you'll know that...
And that experience isn't evidence because...? One does not 'see' percepts though. A percept is the result of seeing, you don't then 'see' it, otherwi...
Same for an argument here though, no? The argument... ... seems to be trying to persuade me of a position you think is right. Is that then unethical? ...
Perhaps we take two positions and see where they diverge... I think people ought give away their excess wealth to charity (assume for now some objecti...
What is it about these that you find 'non-kosher'? Yes, I agree this is different. I'd like to focus for the minute on persuasion, if that's OK. Genui...
Wouldn't the same be true for almost all moralising? Very rarely do the would-be moralisers herd people at gunpoint into rooms before speaking. Moral ...
But you've previously argued that morality is not solely about intent. If the result of your posting here is that I'm persuaded to act other than I wo...
I'm not seeing how morality alone 'meddles' in the affairs of others in this way. I can see a way in which strong social approbation might 'meddle', b...
But it just isn't. This whole site is clearly evidence of that. Scores (if not hundreds) of people failing to convince others of positions they believ...
Yes, exactly. My mind, your mind, his mind... I'm not at all seeing a problem with this "eye can't see itself" nonsense. As if we have trouble underst...
Minds are a facon de parler. We don't get hung up on where 'courage' is. We don't start invoking other worlds to locate 'hunger'. The act of 'forgetti...
Really? What does one look like then? You said So presumably, at least, you've never seen one (you think no-one has). So how do you know the image I'v...
Who said anything about minds being brains? I was asked for "that aspect of which visually perceives imagined phenomena". I presented it. Those areas ...
Very much so. Understandable, but speaks very much to the comment you made about cost. What is meant is the important part and if we're to make a reas...
Exactly. Both those arguments are about what we can be justified in believing. Absolutely nothing in this entire thread is about what we can/cannot be...
Where have I made such a claim? No - forget that, more importantly, what is it about my posting history on cognitive neuroscience, Bayesian inference ...
I honestly don't know how to reply. You seem to have placed a series of things-which-are-true, next to some unrelated quotes of mine. I'll do my best ...
Then is any claim to oppression deniable? On any grounds? I don't see any evidence of that. The working class seem more divided now than they've ever ...
What? Why would people have to be 'in' on anything? Are you honestly having this much trouble understanding the concept of disagreement among epistemi...
Right. Good start, so we need to do something about parenting? How do we get the next generation of children raised with "creativity and curiosity as ...
Yes. And I've countered that point several times now, but you're still stuck at the beginning. It's not the same because not all methods are so open, ...
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