This is much more congenial to my own view, though the abstract language I'm not so familiar with. Let me see If I'm getting it right ... My relation ...
No, never. I get dispirited, despairing, discouraged, mightily pissed off, sometimes uncaring for self or other, hatred of self and/or other, as well ...
I wish I could be more help, you don't sound to be in a good place. All I can say is that if you do nothing, nothing much will happen. Look for any wa...
Yes, I think so. It's bad, but not as bad as what it's coping with, kind of like heroin. And suicide is a great cure for depression as it is for heroi...
I don't agree - surprise! I might au contraire suggest that the only significant difference between a cliff and a retaining wall is how it got there. ...
I don't think accepting or rejecting makes much difference, and certainly not complacency. It's not like a rucksack you can take off. But understandin...
Well the belief is that blacks should be equal to whites, because the difference is no more than skin deep. But the fact is that it is better to be wh...
To which a perfectly intelligible reply would be, "The university relocated to Inverness during the war, and never came back", or even, "the universit...
Well I don't have any problem with that, because a sentence's feelings are not hurt by being called false. And in the same way, I don't have any probl...
And therefore Ryle's exemplar of a category error turns out not to be one, by his own criteria, and the distinction between the inanimate construction...
I think that simply is how it is generally used, and yes, we ought to use it that way too. It is you that wants to suggest that it ought to mean sedim...
You said I was biocentric. As if there were another place to be; another viewpoint to take. I must surely be on the right lines here, as I just had th...
Yes, I think it is reasonable to deny non-life a centre, where a centre is a point of view. The distinction between life and non-life I would say is i...
If peace of mind were an achievement, it would have to be the achievement of an unpeaceful, striving mind. But it is not an achievement at all, but si...
Some interesting comments there. I'm going to have a go at reformulating in a way that avoids some of the objections about human exceptionalism, and a...
Well yes and no. I think I have reached a bit more clarity for my own part on the nature of the distinction between social constructs and - well I sti...
Yes, that's a useful clarification. So the Declaration of Human rights is a fiction, or a pious hope, until it is practiced, and only to the extent th...
Yes, I've no argument with that, really. I'm fumbling for the right language a bit. But then there's this: I find this a bit too broad. What would it ...
I don't know, maybe I'm too stupid. But the only way I can reconcile them is to conclude that everything is a fabrication and we are forever lost in t...
Are they? Human nature is claimed as a construct, but it is one founded on something real that is elaborated. Human rights might have the same foundat...
I thought it might be interesting to see how things play out in a particular case, and I have chosen one where it might be possible to see social cons...
Yes, it is not simple, and 'found' is simply a placeholder for 'not-constructed', that you are very welcome to replace if there is a better term. Ther...
That's why I put property as the example of a social construct. It's universal and unquestionable, and gets treated as 'natural'. Yes, I agree it must...
When I say things like: The kettle is boiling. The cup is in the cupboard, There is no third person point of view. I am using the third person form. I...
Where is that popular argument made? I have referenced some arguments that have been made that relate somewhat to what you propose. But it is time to ...
So it ain't a point of view, but an abstraction. I'm not arguing for idealism here, merely against the reification of grammar, I agree shit can be tru...
Not my POV, and not yours. If the cup is in the cupboard, then it is true that the cup is in the cupboard, but only God sees it. Is God the third pers...
There is no problem as long as you stick firmly to the old-fashioned medical notion of a complaint, rather than disease. Very often, it is a parent or...
Sure, it's not a necessary connection, but a contingent, historical one. Existentialism has its right wing as well as its left. I suspect Sartre would...
Laing was an avowed Existentialist, and i think there was a connection with Sartre, who was also somewhat critical of the traditional family. I think ...
One could start with Civilisation and its Discontents, but the beginning of an overt moral attack, not on monogamy as such, but on the institution of ...
I haven't figured it out either, but if it's problematic, it's logic that has a problem, not existence. If existence declares that particles are waves...
If I was that someone, I'd believe you, because my facial recognition is not great, but if it was a policeman investigating you as a suspect, they mig...
I read your post. Did you post though? If you put logic before the world, then you are in trouble. Amend your logic to follow the world. Perhaps someo...
Did you answer my question, but I'm too stupid to understand it? Or was the question not clear enough? Can 'existence is not a predicate' be formalise...
How would you formalise the title? There does not exist a predicate (x) in language (S) which has the meaning, 'exists' (?). I don't know, but there i...
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