unenlightened

Here's draft op I decided was too woo for you, and couldn't think of a title for, and felt needed more or less, but couldn't decide which. Untitled. A...

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An educated electorate.

Can we not say that this is objectively false, but was believed to be objectively true? IOW, there is an objective/subjective distinction that is orth...

Bye, then.

Yes that's exactly what I'm doing. Fantasy is real in the sense that we really fantasise, and fantasy is efficacious in that it makes possible teleolo...

Mercury, Pegasus, Daedalus, witches... to name but a few. And it's not equivocation; nature is blind to everything but the immediate, but human histor...

I disagree with Bergson. Flying was dreamed of while it was impossible; seven league boots were dreamed when a horse was the limit of travel. What you...

I propose a name for that realm outside the circle of possibility - 'the circle of the fantastic'. It seems to me that myth and fairytale have explore...

I actually read it, and I want my revenge on the world! I think it serves as an awful warning of the excesses of analysis. All that work, and then Wit...

The meaning of meaning. Before anyone uses the word 'meaning', they should have to read and at least summarise the above and stipulate which of the 16...

Sometimes another translation is illuminating by comparison. Legge is old-fashioned and clunky, but sticks more closely to what is there than some mor...

Yes. Just as the engineer is 'in the end' still a bricoleur, so adaptation is, if we remove all traces of teleology, always exaptation - a novel use f...

Isn't this what we used to call 'bricolage'?

Why make difficulties about this? I like to take a naive view that folks mean what is generally meant by the words they use, unless they go out of the...

The way driving is not immoral, but drunk driving is. Should we mandate third party insurance for casual sex?

So truth is objective. And 'objectively true' is a tautology, like 'truly true'.

I asked God about this, and He said it pisses Him off too.

Ok. Would you say that truth is a value?

I would have thought that the truth of 'X likes orange juice' was entirely dependent on X's preferences... So... 1. 'Orange juice is delicious', is su...

Of course it depends who you ask. Some people will say "I don't like orange juice." Whether or not you like orange juice depends on who I'm addressing...

There's an old trope about 'the experience of red'. We agree to call this apple 'red' and that one 'green', but we cannot compare our experiences, onl...

P1. I like orange juice. P2. I drink what I like if it is available. P3. Orange juice is available. C. I drink orange juice. Is this not a logical arg...

No sane man would think himself capable of, or harbour any desire to, run the country. Having said that, I generally agree that one should not diagnos...

I don't buy it. It is not mere fantasy or projection that we talk about a 'pecking order.'

Well they are related, but perhaps in some instances only as closely as a firedog is related to the canine species. I am inclined to take a grammatica...

I rather agree, but for different reasons. It's not that I want to refute what you or any of the others are saying, rather I want to draw attention to...

Again, you liking for orange juice is also separate from any concept and talk. Fruit flies like orange juice, though they do not say so.

Shoutbox. Patients have complaints, which are subjective (statements). Thus when Sam26 says "I like orange juice", it is a statement about the person ...

Well there is a sense at least in which all truths are dependent on minds, to the extent that truth is a property of propositions, and propositions ne...

If earths and moons ceased to exist, truths about earths and moons would cease to exist. If Sam did not exist, he would not have likes - what's the di...

Objects.

It is curious. One might ask, what sorts of things can be described as objective or subjective, and what sorts of things fall outside the scope of the...

Yes, He has revealed His true message to me, and to anyone who will listen: Lo, and God spake unto them saying, "Play nice, children." But some of the...

You disgusting voyeur! Get your paints out, if you like art. :scream:

[ I asked Him about this ages ago, and He explained it like this: "Life would be very dull if all the answers were given in advance, like a crossword ...

Something for everyone there: food sport animals and porn.

Sport should be like sex, permitted in private among consenting adults, but illegal performed for money, immoral to watch, and not talked about in pol...

Perhaps my religion tells me I should do my best to feed the hungry, heal the sick, comfort the suffering, abstain from greed, masturbation, abortion,...

Never trip with sexual predators, never trip with anyone who imagines they are part of an underground community of guides (that's the woo, right there...

I could. But I chose to respond here, because you used it as an example, and I think it is an example that plays against you. Arguing about what a veg...

I simply don't believe you are confused about the definition of 'animal' in relation to a vegan diet. And if you are, then your contribution to a deba...

Buggered if I know what y'all are on about. We are each other's environment, and yet we are only made of words as environment, but mainly made of emot...

Well without getting too woo about it, one can benefit from escaping from one's habits of mind, but there's no point in making a habit of it. I think ...

I would want my lawyer to present my case, not the truth, (unless they happened to be the same), but it is a poor lawyer that admits it is not the cas...

Me too. * sharpens knife and opens bag of salt* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opYiUmSFv24

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Back in the day, we always had someone on acid to mind us while we were straight, because while a tripper might leap of the roof thinking he can fly, ...

Another step towards a united Ireland.

Thinking about the peculiarities of the medium, I see straight away that it radically equates doctoral theses and bar-room banter; everything is prese...