The girl kissed the boy who delivered what? The pizza? Her baby? It's not rocket-grammar is it? Just word order, mainly. Or: What did the boy whom the...
I regard philosophy more as a hole one falls into than an edifice one constructs. If one has facts and truth, there is no need to philosophise. It is ...
I think it has more to do with the nature of philosophy. Because one is dealing with root ideas, one paragraph can require one to rethink one's whole ...
Just playing with subtext by way of poetic demonstration - trying to add a virtual dimensionality to the string - handwaving. Should have added a myst...
Well your honour, sir, with all due respect to your moderatingness, and bearing in mind that some us maybe have more fluency in the social side than o...
I suspect that lions are not great talkers. But whales and dolphins are. And we do not understand them. It's all about fish, and water temperature, an...
Interesting that Hume comes up, as I see him as somewhat of a champion of sentiment, which the article identifies as one of the dimensions that does n...
1. Take a Spanish lover. The best place to learn a language is in bed. 2. Read translations of badly written English novels. Agatha Christie is ideal....
I quite agree. But moving on does not come with a guarantee either. Seems like there's nothing for it but to think things over and discuss them back a...
That's interesting. It does have some force against the comparisons some people have made with things they have made up on the spot and that have no m...
It's a great paper, and a really plausible account of the evolution of language. I particularly liked the ideas that certain functions, the expression...
No it wouldn't, because I am not a Catholic and do not believe in transubstantiation. You agree with what you quoted, you support it (your word) to th...
Oh, the irony! Let's spend a few pages wondering whether you agreed or endorsed, and whether one can declare an agreement that does not constitute an ...
I'm happy to let the whole post alone as a somewhat unpleasant irrelevance. It was only your endorsement of it that provoked me to respond to it at al...
So the cold hard truth is an ad hom pontification? In my roundabout way, I am disagreeing with you that what you quoted is cold, hard or true. Rather ...
And if there is, then the atheist's claim is false. I doubt we can resolve that question to everyone's satisfaction here. In which case, the best one ...
Ok. Now imagine being a moral realist. The marriage ceremony makes a real, literal, substantial, actual, change in the moral landscape. Likewise, just...
Yes, of course you do, but 'actual substance' doesn't 'actually' clarify what is meant. If the 'substance' of your claim is that 'substantial' means '...
I disagree. The substantial change is that sexual relations that were formerly sinful become a sacrament and duty. The legal aspects give a way to app...
In law, a verbal contract confers a substantial obligation. This cannot be reduced either to a physical change in the environment, or to the brain sta...
I'm not deep into the theology of this, but that doesn't seem right, though it may be MU's position. On the other hand, I don't think that transubstan...
If it's entirely subjective, it cannot be an error. To me it is bagel shaped, and you are in no position to even disagree, but merely to report what s...
Dude I think even flat-earthers know it's a bit lumpy. What's your point - that no one can ever say anything that completely captures the nature of th...
I don't know why you think anyone has been arguing that we don't have these concepts. But we have the concept of unicorns too. Where did that come fro...
Odd use of 'necessarily' there, to mean, 'as far as we know', or 'according to our best theory', or 'unless the rules change over the event horizon', ...
Dude, I was just suggesting that having your point of view confirmed by mumbo jumbo is not that great a recommendation, though highly appropriate to a...
Nobody thinks a passion is a concept. We have a passion for pattern, a passion to predict, we are creatures of habit. Cause is a handy concept that ap...
No, because it is not rational, but sentimental. 'Reason is and ought to be the servant of passion. ' That 'ought' is loose talk on Hume's part, which...
We can argue about it. In a sense you are right, because the centre would be postulated to exist in 'another (higher) dimension', outside the geometri...
Right there. I can perfectly well conceive of separate domains of any number of dimensions, euclidian and non-euclidian, such that one cannot draw any...
Yes, as far as I'm aware Hume never had wind of Kant at all. You can get a Kant from a Hume, but not vice versa. But as far as I can see "synthetic a ...
Why is it a problem? Hume confesses that he does it himself, and by no means demands that one does not. He points out the limits of logical deduction....
Well if you have had contact with the Open dialogue method, I'd be very interested in your experiences of it. I don't have any particular questions, e...
It also seems the most tortured. If enough people agree that the earth is flat, then they are all mistaken. In so far as 'objective' means anything at...
Words take their meaning by distinguishing - by carving the world into this and that. So this attempt to universalise ... ... has the effect of making...
No, it's an explanation of why I do it. Discussions have to end, and most people like to have the last word. So rather than continue with endless nons...
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