Death solves all problems. It is the way out when there is no way out. In particular it solves problems of the form 'wherever I go, there I am'. We ha...
In the past month, Covid-19 has killed more Britons than died in The Blitz. https://appeasement.org/?fbclid=IwAR0FgnPPk_u8TVeZInqm_lAtLQ42UWwsIbgP8SzT...
You have to be careful which version of the principle it denies; not the one you quoted. I think as soon as you introduce the term 'indiscernable' the...
It's quite hard to get your head round this, because the universe is being described as if from the outside. One tends to imagine a box or a sphere wi...
That's an excellent principle, but I would add "...and don't assume that people who don't clap are lazy stupid or mean." In particular, there is the r...
Why doesn't it exemplify the care and clarity it recommends instead of this sensationalist macho hyperbolic tone? No, i think it betrays a real attitu...
It explains why social sciences are in such an appalling state. It is an inherently authoritarian dogmatic attitude to take that might be appropriate ...
I wasn't taught that mnemonic. It doesn't look to me to be a good recipe for communication (because communication is a two way process), and thus a re...
When I dig the garden, I am not considering my happiness at the garden being dug I am not calculating that the effort will be compensated by the produ...
No I don't. I don't need convincing that people can and do find motivation in anticipation of rewards. I need convincing that there can be no other mo...
Ok, but what are we doing here? It looks like anthropology or psychology. But the philosophy is that it is impossible to be unselfish, that it is impo...
Again you confuse the imagined reward with the reward. When you are shivering on the bank having just rescued the damsel in distress from the icy lake...
There is a knot here. first, I think it is useful to distinguish the imagined reward which gets one out of the chair, with the actual reward, that com...
I don't feel it that way. I feel that it is an ugly situation and it would be ugly to find any beauty in either the torture or the imprisonment. And W...
Thats a really attractive slogan. What of the protection of minorities? What you have there is the tyranny of the majority, the dictatorship of the pr...
I think there's a time lag. Of about 50 years. Which has to be added to the 50 years for, say, Wittgenstein to become the orthodox philosophy. So expe...
Well we disagree. I agree with this, but philosophy percolates through social science that again most people ignore, and from there into think tanks, ...
No. 'Sugar is sweet' is not analytic. 'Sweetener is sweet' is more or less analytic. 'These apples are sweet' is actually worth knowing, because 'thes...
No apologies required. This is exactly where I want to end up. Lies, propaganda and the manipulation of beliefs are destructive of meaning and destruc...
What this means is that 'hedonistic act' becomes an oxymoron. All sugar is sweet. So no-one bothers to advertise "sweet sugar", because there is no ot...
If you make this a universal truth, and you certainly can do that, you are not saying very much. The masochist wants the pleasure of pain; the altruis...
Ah, sorry. A colloquialism, Irish I think. "Your man" = 'the aforementioned person' or thereabouts. He who advocated rage; a Welshman, but honorary Ir...
Who? People who die quietly? People who keep the rage inside? People who are afraid of death? Do be careful that the they in my quotation is the same ...
That was a reference to Wittgenstein who used to talk about the book he did not write, and whereof one cannot speak and reserved a large space for the...
That is a slightly different question. Do you find yourself meaningless because you are not infinitely big? The daffodils have finished, and the tulip...
"Those who know, do not take the piss; those who take the piss do not know." Un Tzu. I am more brave. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/6287/t...
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must waffle. So do you want to talk about 'whatever ideologies' or 'self-surrender,' or 'the practice of ecstasi...
Indeed. And circularity results from conflating the imagined effect as cause of action with the actual effect as result of action. I act to realise an...
Talking of infinite loops. Have a chat with a compulsive gambler, who may be a close friend of the compulsive arguer. Why do you gamble? Because I lik...
It's crude measure. Consider that the highlands of Scotland Mid Wales, and the Pennine hills have a density of maybe 1/km2. And France has the Alps, t...
Indeed so. Annoying, but i completely agree with this. So could we say that the Klansman is reliably untrustworthy, whereas the shamefaced racist is u...
That is a heck of a big question. But I'm happy to move on to it, as we seem to have reached the point where the disagreement is more about terminolog...
It's bevvies dear boy, short for beverages. Enough of this parade of working-class credentials already. We're gently mocking your sensibilities; there...
Ok. I don't know if it will rain or be fine so I take a coat. Ok. I know he's thieving bastard, so I lock the door when I go out. (You can trust Mr Th...
I think he invented the term mainly to explain religion to himself. I should have said 'superstition', rather than propaganda, as a better contrast wi...
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