You're missing mine: in suggesting a claim is wrong or worth rejecting, a person is taking on a responsibility themselves, to know and speak what is t...
I don't think the question makes sense. It strikes me, at it's heart, based upon a nihilistic supposition: that someone how our existence doesn't make...
Conceptual art is more about what is understood to be art than a change in the "mystery" of how anything is art. One of the striking aspects of respon...
Life and statements about it extend beyond whether anyone defends them. Indeed, whether someone choses to defend a statement or not has nothing to do ...
The problem with the Standard and Non-Standard dichotomy is it doesn't address particular questions of motivation and production. It's correct about t...
Science does not assume that some event is true just becasue it has not been falsified. If I claim there are mermen living at the bottom of some unexp...
There is quite a bit of irony in that. Some rationalists (e.g. Spinoza) reject PSR precisely because it amounts to doubting the logical structure of r...
Even this one displays the rejection of logical distinction I'm calling out. If P (the meaning of tree} is true, then there must be a sufficient expla...
I didn't appeal to PSR at all. My point was logical discintion are given in-themsleves, so need no force of PSR to make them so. The question: "What m...
PSR is incoherent. The idea is built out of ignoring logical distinctions. PSR posed as the glue which logically distinguishes one thing from another,...
The point is it's all a status play. In these arguments, people are using images of the "nature of" a particular group to, to ground a system of statu...
All of which is says nothing about God, the coherency of any notion of God or the existence of any God. I mean are our feelings we might talk about Go...
She's right. Her point is the finite expresses infinite significance (i.e. "...people are not mere things and therefore can transcend the material." )...
For sure, but notice the question you are leaving out: if there is a particular state in the future, how does it occur? Can the sun rise tomorrow with...
I would point out "laws of nature" are functioning no differently to the "god of gaps." Like when anyone takes an observation of the world then says: ...
My point wasn't that people think about others the same way. It was anytime someone is attracted, desires or intentionally acts towards a person, they...
People are always thinking about other in the context of sex and porn. The activity involves the direction of thoughts, desires and actions towards ot...
Those both relate to his metaphysics. Hume breaks with (religious) metaphysical tradition to basically deny necessity. He splits the existing world (f...
Systemic oppression isn't about what's "keeping someone down." It's about how a particular group of people is "down" in society, a description boat a ...
It's not a question of "blame" though, in the sense that any individual person caused it, but rather one of recognition that all these systematic elem...
It's more that they are picking about a significance that's the same across both intergenerational and contemporary forces: that a society is formed i...
180 Proof was here briefly (they're still in the members list), sometime ago, only made a few comments though. I think it was before PF collapsed. Per...
The thing about causality is it is really outside observation and NOT about prediction at all. We can see this in how a caused event is indistinguisha...
I don't think so. The system seems to be treating the it-in-itself not as a ground in the sense of PSR, but rather as just as something, beyond repres...
Timeline's argument seems to be going the other way to me. Not that Will is the thing-in-itself per se, but rather that Will is mediated through the t...
I think the point is the guide of the intellect is also the Will itself in action. Intellect cannot guide the Will, that is define a direction of the ...
That's a different causal relationship. If we are talking about the letters which appear on the screen as someone types, we aren't just talking about ...
Simple question: what do you think happens when Pneumenon doesn't press the keys? Will letters still appear on the screen? The question of causality d...
I like to think about it is: who or what is doing the causing? Is it just "fundamental particles?" Nothing in life is merely fundamental particles in ...
To the dogmatic religious believer, no doubt. In cultural and human terms, absolutely not. It means justice and worth of life are given without follow...
To repudiate the idea justice, worth or an afterlife is dependent upon following one belief, culture or deity. Not contentless, just a rejection of mo...
The problem is John is already imagining them. He knows the set of the unknown is not empty. In his mind, he knows not only there is a set of the unkn...
Immanence is the reason his "in God" is not literal. A causal state of the world is defined by seperation from everything else. The electron in my pho...
They're already isolated in Spinoza's distinction between Substance and modes. For modes to literally be in Substance, it would mean Substance was a m...
Yes. The "arbitrary" nature of any culture or human experience is sort of the point. Why does our culture exist the way it does? Obviously, there are ...
Not exactly, it means perspectives or things (e.g. identity, values, people, the thing-itself) lie outside the social construct of language or experie...
To an extent, they are linked. Postmodernism is more or less us grasping the metaphysical significance of our empirical being. It outlines the beginni...
The point isn't about what you think about from second to second watching actors. I'm not talking about setting down, watching pornography and thinkin...
It's more than that. We are only illusionary finite beings. Even when we see sub specie aeternitatis. We aren't a part of God at all and never will be...
He's actually pretty close to the modern way of interpreting nature. God is totality, the infinite, expressed in the workings of the world. Spinoza is...
Spinoza talking about how love is our understanding (idea) of an external cause (e.g. family) which brings us pleasure. This is a descriptive account ...
Objectification is ignoring that others are people whose well-being is important, in favour of understanding and using them as objects to achieve your...
My point was even the metaphysical use of "everything" is only the restricted "all of this context" usage. Just here, for example, you are not talking...
But the point is there is no coherent use in either actuality or possiblity. Either is defined be a distinction, by being NOT everything, by being a p...
I'm almost inclined to say metaphysics shouldn't use the word at all. As an expression of all things within a context, it makes sense-- "everything in...
That argument makes no sense. If coercion is wrong, it doesn't matter if your eighteen or thirty-five? or a hundred. You are treating coercion like it...
I wasn't saying getting off was an abstraction. My point was your understanding of sexual desire abstracts other people out. You take sexual desire ou...
Isn't his concern more about people only caring for experiences of the world? Most of the time Wayfarer comes back around to how deeply unsatisfying t...
A lot of the conflict, I think, has to do with the change of the significance of sex. Humans haven't really all changed that much in what they want ou...
You don’t recognise sex and porn are always about other people. Other people are actually what we think of first in any instance of pornography or sex...
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