While Trump is making babies cry, here in Europe we have a more robust approach to the problem of immigration. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/...
I suppose I am saying that solipsism is the philosophy of the unborn; until the first contraction, there is no reason to distinguish self and world. T...
Hi Posty. What's the difference between 'nothing' and 'nothing more'? The way my arithmetic works, 0 + 0 = 0 As an aside: I normally frown heavily on ...
Do you mean like when I just chose to make coffee, the possibility of tea slipped away from the personal? I'm not clear what an existential choice is ...
Being reaches beyond the personal, not-being does not. The dreadful is the closing in. That is why the question is a reawakening of the trauma and not...
Well there's the necessary conditions for asking, the necessary conditions for sense, and the necessary conditions for imagining. All different. 'What...
But pity those nonsensical non-beings forever not asking, 'why is there nothing, rather than something?' Not asking, of course, because being is unima...
It's Srap's cartoon - he's tricked you with a quote from me above it. I always like this fella as a thoughtless trickster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
Trop Kantian pour vous? Are you saying that manipulation and deception are morally neutral? It does not seem possible that you think truth and falseho...
I know my wife and my dog knows my wife. I know which cupboard the dog-food is in, and so does the dog, and with the exact same justification, that th...
I think a belief can be justified without anyone actually justifying it. A cat is justified in believing there is a mouse in the mousehole by its sens...
It looks to me that the dog knows when the cat is angry sans a common language. And I think the dog knows the same kind of thing that the 'primitive' ...
There is a difference between trying your best in an exam, or a sport, and cheating. There is a difference between trying to look your best and puttin...
I think the answer is 'yes, much much worse'. I'm not confident that I can explain it in clear terms, but I'll have a go. Firstly, a small dispute: su...
Unfortunately, that question still isn't being put to current psychologists. https://medium.com/@richardnfreed/the-tech-industrys-psychological-war-on...
Here's one: But how could it not be the case that the psychology of the psychologist is what is most prominently revealed by his experiments? Zimbardo...
It isn't. And it does cause confusion, because people muddle 'true or false' with 'objective or subjective'. So philosophers sometimes avoid them and ...
That's right. It's a different distinction. Pain and pleasure are subjective. Legs and vaginas are objective. Nothing to do with truth and falsehood. ...
Well who is in a position to make the call for the pain in an amputated leg? We all agree that the amputee does not have the leg any more than you or ...
What entity is this assertion directed towards? I need to see if it is as asserted, before assenting to it. It is rather a problem for such theories o...
Truth(or falsehood) does not depend on assertion, it is a property of assertion. And subjective/objective is another property of assertions. And if th...
That's interesting, I haven't come across him before. But the exposition on wiki is a bit of a dog's breakfast. It's fun though that you can come up w...
Don't panic. Student doctors often think they have whatever illness they are studying. Presumably because we're all self-obsessed narcissists to a deg...
Narcissistic. Trying to parent itself, attending to itself, it becomes both hyper-sensitive and vacuous. Ever-demanding, and ever dissatisfied when it...
Oh it was just a stolen quote from facebook, not a philosophical thesis. It has already been alluded to, that what they want is largely a matter of st...
I think I can agree with the general sense of what you are saying here. Our dispute is more a matter of how to think about things, and how to name and...
Right, I see what you mean. There are physiological needs, food, air, water, shelter, required to sustain life, regardless of what anyone thinks. Real...
Of course it's legitimate, if he doesn't get water he will die. But there is no water in the desert, so he dies. The water that he needs is a fantasy ...
Yes they are. X needs A, when X does not have A. One does not say, while eating a sandwich, "I need a sandwich to eat." One's need is for something th...
No, fantasies can be shared. Let me tell you about this psychological theory I made up, for instance. (Hope you liked the Witty format). I was going t...
Anyone want to factcheck this timeline? 1985: North Korea signs Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty 1992: North Korea signs historic agreement to halt nuc...
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, a left-wing environmentalist sandal wearing namely-pamby thinks the Don is right about something else. https...
Exactly so. If I have cancer, then my not having cancer is a fantasy. It is not real, because really, I have cancer. Me and my oncologist have the sam...
Huh! The way women are supposed to enjoy wolf-whistles and cat-calls? And the administration throws up its hands helplessly while facilitating these p...
My first instinct was to say that that's not education in the relevant sense, but I have another theory, that actually spells out the relevant aspect ...
I think Hume's point is that you have to give a shit (or not) whether feelings can be formalised before you set about formalising them. Feelings are p...
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