Yeah, that's probably where you went wrong. :wink: One says things like 'I am a graduate', 'I am a philosopher', 'I am married', as if one is the ritu...
I'm just going to put this here as well. https://neurosciencenews.com/meaningless-psychiatric-diagnosis-14434/?fbclid=IwAR2rie8n4NjQxVZax21o6XMQ_e2pKG...
Given that ritual is something that is done, it kind of follows that a new ritual arises by just doing something. Have you really said anything? Look ...
The gods just showed me this, so I'm showing you: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/jul/06/are-you-really-the-real-you-and-how-can-we-best-becom...
P K Dick, Castenada and Leary would disagree, but I won't for the moment, beyond noting that for them, it is ritual that breaks those constraints and ...
Yes, the question makes one look at what a ritual is. Consider OCD, not stepping on the cracks... One view, commonplace, is that it is a failed manipu...
Because that is a ritualised obstructive response. Suppose you came back with something more interesting than 'why'. Suppose you cooperated with the p...
Thus spake the hard-man of philosophy, prepared to face any truth except his own inadequacy. No, exactly not so. Many people need to escape to the col...
You have it exactly! Wishes and interest have priority over understanding. How hurt I would be if you were to say, "I understand what you are talking ...
What I should better have said is that they are the same thing - as in there is a ritual of desensitising and disembodiment prevalent and resisted tha...
Hmm, I was hoping for some help to reach clarity... So my best understanding is that to the extent that information is ordered, it is compressible, an...
Hume is the man. But left and right are distinct enough, but not independent. Does one say that the architect is the slave of the builder? It is the o...
Other fictions are available. But I'm pointing towards a loss of meaning that results from the philosophical project of rationality. The objectivity a...
Indeed. Just where we tend to think we are most certain, most pragmatic, most rational. there is not even an abstraction, but a complete fiction by wh...
So I am a loser if I am not as big as a whale, or cannot fly faster than a speeding bullet? Where is the line between capacities that I don't have the...
Sure, and a broken glass has no capacity. Glad we agree. What is what? I'm really struggling to make any sense of this at all. There are winners and l...
Also, a capacity that is invariably actualised is not a capacity. Whales do not have the capacity to be big, they just are big. A pint glass has a cap...
Right, you weren't addressing my point at all which was about capacities being grounded in physics, the way potential energy is. Instead you seem to b...
I'm not sure how one might compete over sleep. Trying to Imagine 'America's got Shuteye' or 'The Great British Sleepover'. I suppose we could cooperat...
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/technophobia-victorian-style-a7097761.html Let's not get too paranoid about them noo-fangled...
Nice paper. It's nice that a multivalent approach like this looks like the complex system we actually have as a legal system, where one thing has to b...
If one seriously considered playing the role of the ball, or the grass, the rules of football would be very different. Does it not fall into the same/...
Let me try this out and see if it floats anyone's boat. Let's say that emotions are the substance of subjectivity. So if someone steals your rattle or...
I reject both of these as being far too pragmatic, too realistic, too thoughtful. That has the ring of true fakery to it. Like the terrible plight of ...
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/06/18/most-conservative-members-would-see-party-destroye It really is rather difficult for ...
'Can't take a joke' is the eternal cry of the bully. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1139855/Jo-brand-bbc-radio-4-brexit-news-milkshake-battery-acid...
Sure, totally invalid - unless you add the premise that 'goes without saying' -"The church should emulate Jesus." But of course Jesus so didn't stay o...
Logic does not concern itself with the meaning of the terms, and classical logic can perfectly well operate with moral premises and conclusions. All t...
It seems weird to me that any educated person could imagine that a society built on lies could long survive. Wikipedia Shows How to Handle Political P...
If I have it right, that's around 48 octaves, but it's late and the bottle is empty. Anyway, the music of the spheres is a very old idea, and it turns...
I would be; in the circumstance as is, of relying on media hysteria, my inclination would be to trust the judgement of those closer to the scene as my...
Then you are not paying attention. My response varies between children and adults, it varies between forcible treatment and euthanasia, it varies betw...
When the patient is under age, it is normally the parent-or-guardian's decision, as being in the best position to represent the child's interests. Ver...
Of course. It happens all the time, and it's for the patient to decide and nobody else. Patients refuse treatment for various reasons, religious, or w...
Lest the extravagance of this likening strains the imagination, consider this case: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/23/acid-attack-partne...
Let's say I've been gently boiling you in oil for a few years - for your own good mind - and not enough to do more than make your life unbearable. And...
Perhaps you can see that childhood does though. Perhaps you might see, if you think about if "this young lady were ALIVE and being TREATED and given t...
This is unfair on two counts; firstly, it begs the whole question of whether one can or should 'think for' another in the case where your thoughts con...
This reminded me of the following: from here. That is to say, we are not always in the sphere of meaning, but one cannot help thinking one is, one fin...
Well it ends with death, in the sense that it is completed, or it continues as long as death is postponed. Don't be pedantically literal. Or perhaps o...
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