And yeast wants sugar. But there is a difference between the wants that are cellular urges towards needs, and wants that are ideas of the mind created...
You are holding now to the standard of necessary truth, not objective truth. If I take my keys out of my pocket in front of you, then I have demonstra...
It's a metaphor, Jim, but not as we know it. Even the blind are aware of the business of day, and the quiet of night. Looking inward, one sees nothing...
If only the thread could have been closed after the op. But now we have to confront the very real possibility that a dick can be excellent when it fee...
I agree with you. but I do not believe in the flourishing society of liars. You would have to show me a real example, that is not a sub-culture exploi...
That's fine with me, I'm not much enamoured of the objective/subjective distinction in the first place. I tried to explain myself in your conceptual l...
Well if we're playing top trumps, Ogden and Richards managed 295 pages on a single word. And here is a snippet to function as trailer:— It might help ...
What I generally do at about this point in the discussion, is bring out the weapon of mass destruction that is The Meaning of Meaning, by Ogden and Ri...
I've said this before, so get ready to yawn. It's the little words that create all the difficulty in philosophy:– words like "I" and "if" and "when", ...
I've stolen this link from @Wayfarer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhYw-VlkXTU&t=380s One of the things it talks about is the possibility of social...
Oh, sorry, I was hoping you had some insight from otherness. Now I'm not sure you are saying anything very definite about language as such, but more a...
Right. The way everyone pretends that Father Christmas exists. But that's not deceiving anyone is it? I don't think it's a very good foundation for a ...
That is the ring of approximate truth you have there, from what I hear. But it ain't going to happen, because the EU is well rid, and DeGaulle has bee...
Point of order. There is a distinction without a difference, between a sock-puppet and a glove-puppet. a sock puppet being a glove puppet made from a ...
Every living cell is sensitive to environmental conditions and makes nuanced responses of absorption or ejection of different chemicals. Even my compu...
Need more information. If places are being allocated by the town on the basis of importance, how come my friends and relations are also important, and...
QUasi-Autonomous Non Government Organisation. Much used by irresponsible politicians for stealth privatisation, jobs for the boys, and for implementin...
Dude, psychologising Plato is a big ask, but philosophy is obsessed with the mind, thinking and ideas, and seemingly always has been. This obsession i...
They do not care — at all, about anything or anyone. Any more than a car cares about pedestrians. They have been given the appearance of agreeableness...
When i lived in France I found it easier to understand the formal language of the bureaucracy than the idiomatic argot of the streets, but conversely,...
I'm sorry you feel attacked all the time. I am not trying to attack you, I am trying to get you to understand something about the way you come across ...
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. An indication of respect is the attempt to charitably understand your interlocutor and then, if one disagrees, to politely explain wher...
English is a dog's dinner of bits of all sorts of languages, and it's a complete mess. You have my admiration and sympathy using it as a second langua...
There's a lot of them about. Teaching, as currently practiced is very much a one way authoritarian affair. Decades of teaching is a poor qualification...
I'm sorry you feel attacked all the time. But you really aren't very good at engaging with people constructively, or putting together an argument. A s...
Yes. I was raised by wolves and taught to walk on all fours. Unfortunately, it looks like bullshit actually undermines critical thinking skills, becau...
This does not work, unfortunately. If decent folk abandon politics, it only makes it even easier for the scum to float to the top. It is a pleasant wa...
Yes. it is possible occasionally that dishonesty can have good consequences, but not that it is 'a good thing'. It is possible that murdering Hitler w...
the sort of objectivity I am claiming is the objective inequality I mentioned way back – honesty is moral and dishonesty is immoral; similarly killing...
Yes, you have found an exception..If one were to pretend to believe something that was true, though one believed it false... one would be telling the ...
Indeed so. there is advantage in immorality. Cheats prosper, but always at the expense of the honest. That is why I call it immoral realism as much as...
When the boy cries wolf when there is no wolf, he teaches the world to ignore what he says. When we all ignore what each other says, there is no meani...
I'm only attacking myself, so there's no need to complain. And even then, it's descriptive – a solipsist has no one with whom to empathise; it's not a...
It's more than that. We are discussing together; we are using language. This means we are already in a social relationship and already necessarily com...
Solipsism is merely a myopic failure of empathy. I am @"Darkneos" failing to be me. The third person is me beyond the horizon of self. As him I run fr...
Hello, and welcome to our little community. Thank you for your fulsome introduction. I feel we might be friends, but I am old and bound for recycling ...
No. I am saying, (reluctantly because I prefer to avoid 'isms' as being ways not to listen to what is being said), that moral conflict arises from a p...
Bunge wrote in2001. Here's the Guardian in 2018. There has been an attack on philosophy from the right for more than 20 years, and another from the le...
The same experiment triggers conflicting conclusions. It is clear evidence of direct realism. The dress is a duck-rabbit. Everyone can see the same du...
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