unenlightened

You'd have my vote if I the Gerrymanderers hadn't excluded people from other countries for some ridiculous reason. I assume you'll fix that when elect...

As I said at the outset and @"Amalac"'s quote above confirms, Hume is not trying to deny causation any more than he is trying to deny morality. He is ...

Do you not see that he is talking exactly about the argument you are making? He agrees with you that he has no right to say such things, to the extent...

Kant was just trying to save the idea of rationality as an adequate response to the world. There is no problem for science at all. Science laws are re...

And there is no justification for it. That is what the man says. We do it, and reason cannot justify it.

Yes, the expectation is not justified. That's why it's just a habit and not a reason. That there is no rational justification is what Hume is saying. ...

Yes. It's nonsense though and an abuse of the notion of habit. Birds have a habit of singing in the morning. There may be a cause or many causes or no...

Habit is not a law at all. It is my habit to drink coffee for breakfast. But habit is not the cause of my drinking coffee, it is the mere fact that I ...

Well, all intelligible structures of experience. I suggest that A cat can wait by a mouse hole for a mouse by means of a structured experience that we...

Philosophy is like painting: there has been no progress since the cave painting of prehistory {as Picasso I think said}. In an age that is addicted to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8aCnmBVtQ4

Well no, knowing is not enough. Living is practice, not theory. I guess it's like riding a bike; there's a theory about how the steering can be manage...

When one gives up smoking, or the ghost, who does one give it to?

A guillotine hunts down and attacks a human on its own once the human is in place and the lever is pulled.

Some of us already are Europe, alas. That's when 'the bodies pile high', isn't it?

My reference was to Leprosy and the Black Death. Here's a thesis you can argue with if you like. When the stakes are cultural survival, individual rig...

I'm old fashioned; I think everyone has a perfect right to be unprotected and infectious, provided they give other folks a wide berth by ringing a bel...

... then you are not powerless. The power behind the throne is still power. I'm not sure I want to fall down the definitional rabbit hole, but I agree...

I am responding to you; you are not a machine. This is not a syndrome nor is it subjective. Analysis is mechanical, but scholars are not, and because ...

Well I'll press you a little there. Imagine the same social worker applies the same fallacious reasoning in choosing a life partner. It seems to me th...

I like the 'when' in the title. A stereotype is unacceptable when the (pre)judgement is acted on, and is directly proportional to the power and author...

The language is a bit obscure to this ancient white dinosaur. Nevertheless, I catch the general drift I think. They don't have to be, I wonder what de...

No they cannot. Psychology operates in the realm of statistical effects, and the power is undeniable. Nevertheless it is the psyche that designs and c...

Machines that want? But I don't think that. Do you?

The mountain teaches you how to climb. But it doesn't oblige you to climb. They don't talk to me, unfortunately. The apparatus of thought is in all ou...

Whereas most governments, or special god blessed governments at least, would be trusted by any rational person. (irony alert)

I think it is collective habit. perhaps even addiction. which is to say that the root is more or less "The Fall" if you can Adam and Eve it. Every stu...

Wanted to post this elsewhere, but the binmen beat me to it. Yup. This is the new racism. By and large it matters little what @"Zenny" or @"unenlighte...

Hush! The problem is too many people trying to solve too many problems.

Sport is inherently unfair, as cack-handed wimps like myself have to compete with people who give a fuck and try to win. Some of them even practice.

I met that dishwasher. But when the dishwasher breaks, Muggins can do the dishes in another rhythm. whereas when Muggins is off sick, the dishwasher s...

I hesitate, because it is a well misused argument; but indulge me in a crude consideration of evolution. It seems to me that a big brained tool-using ...

Well I question this automation idea. I question the mechanical metaphor. Consider a river that has a course, and we see that the course changes by th...

That's how I feel about the whole world. But some folks worship property, I think it's called "capitalism". To them the commons is a tragedy.

It always seems like a backwards kind of question to me. It just seems an obvious way to respond to the environment to animate it with the same kind o...

At last an ally! Down with the damn commie rainbow alliance! My calculations show that nighttime precipitation alone would halt global warming and end...

That was me. Less of that 'we' while you are denying the connectedness of this highly social species, though admittedly not as highly social as a jell...

Even the simplest decisions, such as 'fight or flight' even if they are in each instance entirely determined, can only be made under the assumption th...

The more things can be controlled, the more out of control things are. My position is that we live in an anarchy, and unfortunately there are no rules...

I hide under the bedclothes and pray God to make it stop.

It's obvious therefore that there are no competent brain surgeons, because all the smart people became stockbrokers.

I used to have a full sized cow Swiss/Charolais cross with 2ft horns. Used to live in the cellar at night. So one day I was picking rosehips in her fi...

He did. I have 20/20 hindsight and no idea what the next shout will be.

The natural course of history is that spiders eat flies. The problem for the spider is how to catch a fly, and the problem for the fly is how to avoid...

They are no other! https://www.diggers.org/digger_tracts.htm But there you go; as white and Christian and historical as you could possibly wish for, a...

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Homework for tonight. Is abortion human sacrifice? Compare and contrast the story of Abraham and Issac with that of an unmarried woman of small means ...

digits = fingers and toes. Sorry, English is a wretched language for non-native speakers. The human form develops in part through selective cell death...

I do not require justice to exist in order to believe in justice. Rather the inverse, it is the existence of injustice that demands that I believe in ...

What I don't understand is why you want to make a new interpretation and persuade us that you are telling a better story. It's not that I disagree wit...