They don't need to agree. In this respect, they are ignorant of themselves. As for the point, it's about understandi the relationship of knowledge to ...
The fear arguments actually work in terms of describing a lot of human behaviour. In either case, they are arguments about someone's motivation to hol...
Faith doesn't even engage on that level. It's more or less a rhetorical device, an affirmation of a way of life, of practice, of value, in the face of...
I know. That's why it's not a temporal point. In terms of meaning or idenity, a human at a given point is no different. Banno as a waiter does not pre...
I know, but that's also the problem: he treats reference as if it has nothing to do with the actual world. As the only consideration was the formal re...
Well... on a formal basis, we can imagine an Obama as a mountain. For any Obama, we might pose that they turned into mountian or suggest they were alw...
More or less the predicate, I think. In this case there is X (a thing) which is a computer. How would one have the existence of this computer prior to...
It would be a contradiction because it would mean a thing was present without its meaning. My computer cannot exist prior to expressing the meaning of...
It has plenty to do with it-- this is what "bad faith" is about. People deny their responsibility by claiming to measure who people must be. The "meas...
The point is measurement problems are incohrent because one does not achieve knowledge by relying on a set of associated properties. To understand a s...
Sartre does focus on human and their decision making and relationships. My point was about the logical structure of what he's trying to say-- what "ex...
Such suggestions aren't exactly trival though, for many different idenities extend beyond a singular moment. One may, for example, suggest a possible ...
More like separate. Existential quantification (something exists, a meaning is used-- e.g. Banno is a waiter) is different to logical quantification (...
Not really. That reading is all too empirical, as if "existence before essence" was suggesting something existed before the use of its meaning-- an ob...
Sartre is on about a little bit more than just arbitrariness of meaning. He's pointing out that in our notions of "essence," we mistake an assigned me...
In an important sense, this is true. Each proper name refers to one specific thing in any possible world. By using a name, we can talk about a thing i...
The problem is Kripke approach confuses the rigidity of designator for the thing. The two Obamas are not the same thing at all. They are two different...
The trouble with these approaches is it gets logical backwards. Logic is viewed as a transcendent from which anything else springs. To be "logical," s...
I don't think so. The philosophy you are talking about is characterised by the intersection of both scholastic concern and the intelligible. For them ...
That's the problem though: the definition of "mental illness" is not practical. It a nebulous allusion to failure. What is the failure? Is what's call...
In terms of behaviour, there is no image to replace in this context. You were only ever talking about theory. With respect to mental illness (or rathe...
I think that very failure of the image of "mental illness" vs "mental strength" is the point. What practical relevance does saying have "mental streng...
MU is trying to allude to the contradiction in you definitions. If mental strength is defined in opposition to mental illness-- an absence of incapaci...
Which renders this supposed conundrum incoherent. Since the difference is known, there is no "what if the world was illusion?" question to ask. Then, ...
The experiment supposes it's impossible to distinguish between the machine and " real life," but for the question to have any force requires that very...
Metaphysically, they are still thinking in theist, religious or spiritual terms. The question supposes meaning, worth and ethics have to be placed the...
Oh no, I'm well aware that it assigns superiority. That's like post-structuralism 101. That's why I specified strongman oppression-- the oppression of...
That's what makes your position incoherent. Without a negative value to birth, it makes no sense to deny potential children existence, for any reason....
You are fond of the strongman oppression because it's that which you miss in Western values-- the ability to assign a person's superiority over other ...
Not quite, materialism and atheism are sometimes used as political challenges (e.g. Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, etc al. ), as some politics, culture an...
Agustino is most fond of oppression. What annoys him about modern culture is, above all, it's permissiveness. People get to act how they want without ...
The trouble is it's misleading. You make it sound like the child has acted to avoid suffering while also living. In truth, it's not that the child avo...
SX and Aaron R have given the answer to the question you were asking. I would add that all of the responses you list are, in some sense, true. 1. is c...
Not true, you've been railing against the "progressives' all over the place. You scoff at the notion of a world which is run on their principles. You ...
That's, well, pretty bigoted. You aren't wrong about people wishing not to be trans. Some trans people say exactly that. Sex/gender dysphoria is a hor...
Because it impacts on their lives. What you think defines actions and culture which has a negative impact on them. You do not respect them as people w...
This means you have a problem with their identity. Part of the point is other ought to recognise trans identity as legitimate (i.e. someone is not del...
Missing the point-- giving you the Queen's body and throne are acts of empirical possession. Souls are not such a possession. They are regardless of i...
The argument isn't about empirical form. A soul is more a logical expression, an understanding of who someone is and how they mean. More or less the p...
What do you think my point is? It's exactly that: disagreement; the mystic's understanding is incoherent. Of course I don't understand as the mystic d...
That's the issue. The mind is not so much an obstacle as an irrelevance. Quiet sanctuary is achived by many. Anyone can do it. All it takes is living ...
It's what the mystic attempts, yes. But they fail. They are left with the "unknowable" transcendent which partakes in making the self (being, nomoumen...
This is why I said you were only partially right. Nietzsche and PM don't deny the "spiritual," they just understand it's a fiction expressed by the wo...
So you say... yet by your own admission, a justification hasn't been found and is, by the plurality of truths of the living, impossible. (e.g it makes...
Not quite, order is just fictional, an expression of the finite world, which emerges and passes, rather than eternal. In this respect, John isn't enti...
I'm saying the very idea of purpose considers life unsatisfactory. The satisfied don't merely have no need to look for purpose, they don't live for a ...
The issue is, in a sense, about the abstractions. Conflict isn't playing out in terms of policy. What's at stake isn't, for example, the enacting of o...
For the Left, there is nothing to give. It’s description of society identifies values and identities which are defined by oppression of other groups. ...
I want to know how there can't be mathematical truths without a mind, yet it remains truth there is paper with symbols on it. The presence of paper an...
Your problem is asking the question in the first place. Like the person who equates life only with happiness, you view living as a question of living ...
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