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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 ...
December 23, 2016 at 23:03
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...
December 23, 2016 at 22:57
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...
December 23, 2016 at 22:48
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...
December 21, 2016 at 01:14
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...
December 21, 2016 at 00:34
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...
December 20, 2016 at 23:59
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...
December 20, 2016 at 23:40
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...
December 20, 2016 at 23:19
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...
December 20, 2016 at 23:10
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...
December 20, 2016 at 22:57
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...
December 20, 2016 at 22:52
Such suggestions aren't exactly trival though, for many different idenities extend beyond a singular moment. One may, for example, suggest a possible ...
December 20, 2016 at 22:30
More like separate. Existential quantification (something exists, a meaning is used-- e.g. Banno is a waiter) is different to logical quantification (...
December 20, 2016 at 02:39
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...
December 20, 2016 at 02:21
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...
December 20, 2016 at 02:02
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...
December 19, 2016 at 22:17
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...
December 19, 2016 at 21:58
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...
December 18, 2016 at 23:49
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 ...
December 18, 2016 at 23:29
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...
December 10, 2016 at 00:03
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...
December 09, 2016 at 23:35
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...
December 09, 2016 at 22:33
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...
December 09, 2016 at 22:04
Which renders this supposed conundrum incoherent. Since the difference is known, there is no "what if the world was illusion?" question to ask. Then, ...
December 05, 2016 at 21:30
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...
December 05, 2016 at 04:56
Metaphysically, they are still thinking in theist, religious or spiritual terms. The question supposes meaning, worth and ethics have to be placed the...
December 05, 2016 at 00:23
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...
December 05, 2016 at 00:09
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....
December 04, 2016 at 23:42
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 ...
December 04, 2016 at 23:16
Not quite, materialism and atheism are sometimes used as political challenges (e.g. Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, etc al. ), as some politics, culture an...
December 04, 2016 at 22:48
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 ...
December 04, 2016 at 22:08
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...
December 04, 2016 at 21:21
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...
November 29, 2016 at 01:19
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 ...
November 29, 2016 at 01:02
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...
November 28, 2016 at 23:50
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...
November 28, 2016 at 23:38
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...
November 28, 2016 at 23:25
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...
November 28, 2016 at 22:44
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...
November 28, 2016 at 22:09
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...
November 22, 2016 at 22:42
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 ...
November 22, 2016 at 21:21
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...
November 21, 2016 at 22:41
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...
November 21, 2016 at 22:05
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...
November 21, 2016 at 02:37
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...
November 21, 2016 at 02:28
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 ...
November 21, 2016 at 02:15
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...
November 20, 2016 at 00:10
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. ...
November 19, 2016 at 22:06
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...
November 18, 2016 at 23:05
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 ...
November 18, 2016 at 22:44