I'm not sure. It seems more like faith is its own action. To be faithful to an idea of what someone ought to be is something a person does. Yet, it is...
Nothing. The point is not that it can solved. Rather the point is: the expectation it will be solved is nonsensical and only makes us needlessly anxio...
The problem is an effect is never given without its cause. In an instance of a pleasure causing action, there is no way to separate performing that ac...
I know that. The stuff about anxiety about future events was directed at your argument about impingement on lives resulting from the mental, physical,...
My point is that such an argument makes faith empty as an account of action. You didn't live your life because of faith, you just lived it. You acted....
And that's the ignorance of the argument. We are not always deprived. More critically, we are not necessarily deprived. It is counter to the world. A ...
@unenlightened I think that's what they are taking issue with. How can the action someone takes be or not be? It's a contradiction. To me "faith," at ...
I don't think it is a question of thinking as life absent suffering. What strikes me about many people is not that they actively proclaim nobody suffe...
And that's what Schopenhauer gets so wrong. Such a condition only applies to those with a restless nature, to those who fear "becoming," who get riddl...
At this point I feel like saying: "It's art Jam, but not as you know it." The comparison to life through reference is apt. When we seek to define art,...
Well, that sounds like you are agreeing with my distinction. When I say "immediate," I mean that there is no transport to the "realm of ideas" via rep...
We weren't talking about such a situation though. My point is why discovering the inevitability of suffering in life is upsetting for those who unders...
To my mind "love" is the problem there. It is always an after-the-moment abstraction used to assert that something is important. People don't "love" l...
Isn't that a reflection of how much people love life? For those to whom life does not matter, then the end is of no consequence - wholly beneficial ev...
I think you are most concerned about the lack of representation in art more than anything. Seems to me you want you art to say something, to look like...
That makes no sense. The "realist"position is incoherent because the truth of "the tree exists" is both defined independently of language (what is req...
But that makes no sense because, if we are talking about an existing tree, there is no "anti-realist" or "realist" option. An existing tree is the sam...
If it is about definitions, then there is more than language going on. If definitions are involve, then there is a question of logic. Someone doesn't ...
That a thing is defined on its own terms, rather than whether it is spoken or thought about, IS realist metaphysics. It is not semantics at all. What ...
Indeed, but the question here is not merely whether you make such a distinction, but whether the dependence claim of anti-realism is tenable. To make ...
And yet you accuse me of mistakenly holding this "independence" from the distinction, as if "independence" meant something other than language and thi...
You are making the same mistake as Michael: thinking that "independence" means "outside language." It doesn't. Rather it specifies that, as language i...
The ontological status of a thing (e.g. Frodo) and language (e.g. "Frodo" ) IS the logical distinction between subject and sentence. It is pointing ou...
From the point of view of philosophy, ethics will always look like a dictatorship or reason because we, in the act of philosophising about ethics, tur...
You think it does, but it doesn't. The logical distinction between language and what language talks about IS the distinction between "Frodo" (language...
Realism is the position that things are not dependent on experience. States of the world (e.g. an existing chair) are defined independently of experie...
Indeed. Or rather an account of what exists rather than of "truth." Disquotationalism points out a logical relationship between statements and the wor...
The actual problem with TGW's argument is asking entirely the wrong question. Language isn't a question of validation. It's a question of existence. U...
We may actually say nothing outside the car and petrol is required. That's true. Such a description merely doesn't tell you anything more about how th...
Your reasoning on this is backwards again. The "mind independent" things aren't language independent. That's how we talk about them. What matters to r...
Hello all. Good job everyone. I'm trying to think of posters who haven't been mentioned yet and the only one I've come-up with is The Great Whatever. ...
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