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Your arguments seemed to suggest that people are mistaken for arguing racism only applies to white people. You have sympathy for the alt-right because...
November 10, 2016 at 05:33
See... that's political, not comedy. Supposedly, there is this grave double standard in how racism is treated. How unjust you cry. What could be funni...
November 10, 2016 at 05:21
I know, but I think that's wrong. The significance is disruption, not in being the (political) underdog. (Political) underdogs make rote and unfunny s...
November 10, 2016 at 05:07
Watching it, I thought it could work either as a sincere expression of white supremacy or a satire criticising it, which is probably a good sign. I th...
November 10, 2016 at 04:44
That video is hilarious... but not because of Trump's politics or policy. It's funny because being right doesn't matter. He contradicts himself, speak...
November 10, 2016 at 04:22
I did not dissolve the distinction. My claim was not that the causal was a a casual, but that the casual expressed the acausal. Extension (casual) exp...
November 10, 2016 at 03:37
This is an attempt to bring laws into the possibility of the caused world. You want to say that, when a casual relationship occurs, it happened becaus...
November 10, 2016 at 00:03
Following from my earlier response on ethics, Hume's is ought/is problem is a call to moral knowledge. An understanding of ethics which discards the i...
November 09, 2016 at 22:49
That's the exact problem. If God is going to be coherent as a force or presence, they must make a difference. The world of God must be different than ...
November 09, 2016 at 21:22
I know. My point is that's incoherent. Any cause is, by definition, a part of nature, a state of the world which results in another. The "supernatural...
November 09, 2016 at 20:50
My point is you are now (as of the post I initially responded to) rejecting the idea of physical minds a priori. You immediately read the concept of p...
November 09, 2016 at 20:28
Only if you (as I suspect he would argue) make the mistake of considering this concept of personal identity as non-physical. For the non-eliminative m...
November 09, 2016 at 09:20
The negative reactions to this are a pretty good example of how advocates of "subjective" ethics can be frequently misread as nihilists. What is Sapie...
November 08, 2016 at 03:54
It's worse. "God did it" is a "natural" explanation. If (unobserved or not) God changed the world, then God is causal. Causality cannot function outsi...
November 08, 2016 at 03:30
The same as we always had: knowledge of ethics, expressed in particular cultural discourses (e.g. various religious traditions, social movements, ethi...
November 08, 2016 at 03:13
The discursive isn't only a question of spoken language. It's experience. Any understanding or awareness is a discourse, a representation of meaning, ...
November 07, 2016 at 09:47
My comment wasn't so much on the nature of wisdom as it was the emptiness of the transcendent once things are known to be understandable. Wisdom is a ...
November 07, 2016 at 09:22
My position is there is no non-discursive knowledge. Our experiences (feelings, thoughts, intuition, etc.,etc.) are non-discursive (states of existenc...
November 07, 2016 at 03:35
I'd didn't deny there was knowledge by intuition, feeling or experience. Indeed, that is the only means of knowledge: all instances of awareness are o...
November 07, 2016 at 02:45
I meant in the sense that what was at stake wasn't just science, but a whole logic of metaphysics. What's at stake isn't the practice of science (plen...
November 06, 2016 at 22:51
I'd say more than that. It goes deeper. Rather than just a empirical approach, it is a metaphysical one: materialism. When it is recognised anything m...
November 06, 2016 at 22:30
You are forgetting that the knower also as an experience beyond words. The sort of emotion and nuance you are talking about isn't just reserved for th...
November 06, 2016 at 20:50
No, it's not. It's objective for all subjectivities. If I am upset, for example, then it's true I'm upset for any subjectivity, not just my own. For e...
November 06, 2016 at 07:57
That's doesn't go far enough though, for each subjective states is also universal. No matter what what anyone thinks, my experiences are mine, for exa...
November 06, 2016 at 07:31
We don't need to go to clones to know ownership is reproducible. Ownership of experiences have been reproduces for many thousands of years, many milli...
November 06, 2016 at 07:09
Well see, you are denying knowledge there. You claim that experiences cannot be modelled, as if it were impossible to have a map of what someone was t...
November 06, 2016 at 04:33
For sure, but that's why it's a strawman. In arguing we know or understand what others are feeling (sometimes said in the form: "knowing what it's lik...
November 06, 2016 at 03:57
I've never said there were thing without identity. To speak about difference or selection is not to speak about any thing. We are talking about logica...
November 06, 2016 at 03:52
A strawman. There was no claim of exhausting your experience at all. Indeed, I outright said the opposite: what shown in experiences is only a map; it...
November 06, 2016 at 03:38
How logical distinctions are defined. How is it there is difference between myself and the computer screen? Why is one me and the other one not? I'd s...
November 06, 2016 at 03:33
Isn't that identifying why free will is irrelevant to selection? What could be further from free will than the non-voluntary? Something we cannot cont...
November 06, 2016 at 03:12
I know that's your point. Mine is that that doesn't make sense. Selection, as spoken about in this thread, cannot be an action. It's incoherent. Witho...
November 06, 2016 at 03:04
For sure, but what does that have to do with the knowledge is question? If I know you're upset by the suffering in the world, the fact that your exper...
November 06, 2016 at 02:54
The self is an expression of an existing difference-- the meaning of a individual subject who is distinct from all other things. It cannot be reduced ...
November 06, 2016 at 00:43
I find this question to be a little be strange. Is not the point of the map that it is secondary, only a representation of a territory which is some o...
November 05, 2016 at 23:04
Hence the illusion of transcendence-- that's just immanence. Sometimes people call or think this immanence is "transcendence." The thinking of the con...
November 05, 2016 at 22:54
For selection to be an action of something is a contradiction. For someone to take some action, difference needs to be already defined, else there is ...
November 05, 2016 at 22:09
For sure, the point is to think about the transcendent concept to the exclusion of everything else. Pray think and value God (the transcendent in this...
November 05, 2016 at 21:59
That's they very illusion I'm talking about. Prayer is lived. It is not transcendent at all. I'm not talking about the allure of a conceptual saviour....
November 04, 2016 at 23:45
My impression is that it speaks about selection in similar terms as the transcendentalists, as some sort of force acting to create, to show what imman...
November 04, 2016 at 03:04
No, that's the argument of those who desire the simple structure. Yours. The position unwilling to see, for example, harm and suffering inflicted upon...
November 04, 2016 at 02:47
Postmodernism isn't vague. Just needlessly obscure sometimes. The lack of structure is its insight. Things stand on their own rather than being pre-de...
November 04, 2016 at 01:51
I don't know if I call it persecution per se, but the do take a strong stance against participating in religion. They form a cultural force which woul...
November 04, 2016 at 00:47
Strikes me to be a feature of immanence. When selection is transcendent, it's a form which makes selection, which sets the limit of the world or state...
November 04, 2016 at 00:24
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I'd say the point of this distinction between existence and facts is to avoid the confusion of that very distinction. What exactly is the difference b...
November 03, 2016 at 00:09
More like that which is beyond particular description. God clearly is a concept in that sense, an infinite which cannot be reduced to any description....
November 02, 2016 at 22:38
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By the definition ("something known or proven") of a fact given earlier, the question doesn't make sense. Since no-one knew about the state in questio...
November 02, 2016 at 21:16
The problem is it is that which renders your quest incoherent. To seek knowledge of noumenon is to consider in conceptual terms, to seek to reduce int...
November 02, 2016 at 01:50
The distinction is between knowing (representation) and existing (presence, living). Knowledge of the noumenon is not impossible because of some hidde...
October 31, 2016 at 23:40
In: Qualia  — view comment
The truth of logic doesn't take an existing mind. God is non-existent. A realm outside space-time, outside existence, which remains true no matter wha...
October 31, 2016 at 23:23