The turn is quite Cartesian in that it is about securing the world we know. One of Descartes major moves is to arrive at a conclusion our understandin...
This would seem confused becasue it's basically stating realism. The realist poses there is an existing states itself (the object "independent" form e...
I don't know Wheeler's self-identification on such a metaphysical issues, but going on the content given, the best kind: some sort non-reductive physi...
We are a patch of the universe coming to know itself. No-one is disagreeing with Wheeler there. It in being that minute patch of the universe which ki...
To turn the tables here, I'm more or less against humanity and its power here. How arrogant to we have to be to be to say that the presnece of our own...
Yes, consciousness just isn't interesting because it ignores the logical definition of whatever we might be talking about in concepts. The consciousne...
You misunderstand. There is no question of "essences," just a defitnions of a particular instance social relation and significance. The a priori defin...
Oppression isn't falsifiable in a relevant sense. The definition of a social reaction is a logical definition a priori definition which must be known ...
Privilege isn't an action done to someone by another, it's an aspect of social being, a meaning of states or actions present in society. In the contex...
More or less agreed, which he does. My point was the quiz seemed misunderstood this aspect, and confused it with truth or values. So the quiz is simul...
That actually leads to refutation of creation ex nihilo (in the sense of saying there was nothing present form which the universe came) because God is...
It's all implied by the way you are using "the sort of woman" in question as some sort of rule which defines what an individual woman thinks. You are ...
It's not about asking for consent. It's about respecting women and whether they consent. Rather than about what a man might say, it is about whether a...
Not wrong to have preferences, but you are using interest in pick-up lines as a measure of social standing, competence and slut-shaming-- i.e. those w...
The point is you are using a myth of generalisation to relate to a context of an individual women. If a woman is attracted to decisiveness, then it is...
And Nietzsche was right. It was Christianity that first brought the scientific attitude into the world and justified it as understanding God's laws. I...
Correct. This puts you in illustrious company of yourself: in almost ten years using the name on the internet, I don't think I've had a single person ...
I'll probably be hunted down by some gang of funk clowns for stealing their theme song. Let that be a lesson to you kids: don't be curious about seein...
Only the narcissism of recognising a localish place I knew about or had visited. Alas, I am a disappointing villain. Still, I'm sure some true crime s...
I was hoping to recognise a landmark. The trees look familiar to me, but they could be in a garden or park in at least half Australia-- the mystery re...
Kant's point is to centre human knowledge back to human experiences. If we are affected by something, a phenomena, it is necessarily knowable to us, f...
That sounds like knowledge to me, someone knows the meaning of something, not "faith." In this respect, people might well ought to call you Metaphysic...
...but you haven't been arguing the opposite to me. When I responded about the issue with treating it as a matter of evidence, you insisted a claim to...
I understood you position perfectly. You keep saying the Catholic has made a dubious/falsified claim claim about the blood and wine: My point is an ac...
All I'm doing is pointing out what would be required to have a testable claim of Jesus's flesh and blood appearing. Since the Catholic doesn't make th...
I'm not exaggerating. My example was what would have to be true if people believed bread and wine were "literally" flesh and blood, under the definiti...
I mean there are different meanings of "literal." Catholics don't literally expect to see their bread turn into Jesus' flesh or wine run into blood. T...
The trouble is Hume has an implicit and unstated a priori notion of things: that's how he indexes bundles in the first place. Hume didn't begin with u...
I think there is a problem with this account of causality: the role of the states themselves is eliminated. We walk away saying causally is only in ou...
Which makes "miracles" nothing more than unexpected events, whether by that's by present scientific theory or common experience. None of them were eve...
I mean it's taken to be a meaning of the bread and wine in question, rather than to be literally what the states in question are-- just as we might sa...
This is silliness. Transubstantiation is not an empirical state. It's symbolic, metaphorical, a necessary logical expression given by particular state...
Kant is mistaken because in making the argument causality must be equivalent to our thinking, he forgets causality is not our thinking. Our thinking o...
What is the "concept of causality" exactly? It seems to this sort of objection hasn't given it much thought. If it is our concept, then it is our expe...
For sure: that's the issue. In both cases, "causality" is viewed as some sort of logical force, with Hume noting it's not apparent in empirical observ...
Right... but that's the problem: the "causality" Kant is talking about is not an empirical state. We don't, as Hume was at pains to point out, observe...
That's an issue for Kant because his position ascribes the universal quality to it. Supposedly, it is the necessary connection lost between casual sta...
This is a red-herring. It misses people may know there intentions of wishes without specifically naming then. People can general kiss their SO not bec...
No. "Sexist" is used to refer to someone how has engaged in sexist actions. You're under the false impression I was using "sexist" to refer to some so...
That misunderstands how sexism works. It's individual actions which is sexist, not a sum total which is used to determined whether someone is sexist o...
The server does that for me; I just look up the relevant post when required. Little point trying to show you're not sexist as accused? Indeed. One can...
I've already got many examples showing the opposite. There is no falsehood and nothing to apologise for on my part. For you to show otherwise is impos...
Maybe in some situations, if you were taking a class, for example, and went around taking questions from everyone, leaving the women only two question...
They are similar. In both cases, you are missing a wider context of how your actions have a particular impact on women and an understanding which deva...
The first part if great. The second part is nonsense. Feminists taking issue with sexism and the abuse of women doesn't create some victim narrative w...
This is exactly the sort of thing that recognising the irredeemability of sin seeks to avoid. When sin is redeemed, it becomes cheap in exactly this w...
I agree with him a bit and disagree with him a lot. My position takes unenlightened's second half further: in immorality, we are toxic and there is no...
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