Read again. I never mentioned "technical terms." I said: The question is, can an intelligent lay person who consults an encyclopaedia article hoping t...
Yes, they do vary considerably. But not to worry: if you keep using it you'll come across one of the abominations soon enough. The link I already prov...
I realize I'm practicing thread necromancy here, but for whatever reason the side-bar suggested this thread to me under "More Discussions," and I want...
You know, I've always said that the reason I decided to study metaphysics in the first place was because I wanted to make telepathic contact with the ...
When one takes into account the amount of intelligence that has been invested in attempts to prove the existence of God, it is hard to answer entirely...
I might as well come clean as to the limits of my own understanding. While I did a couple of philosophy units in my undergraduate degree way back when...
But then, dear schopenhauer1, you're plunging directly into the unseemly waters of... utilitarianism! :gasp: :gasp: :gasp: ...or at least paddling at ...
I can't deny that we have the kind of experience we do because, at least in part, our minds are constructed a certain way. But I also don't think that...
Okay, I'm about to nod off, so this will be my last post for a bit. And somehow, I feel I'm playing Euthyphro to your Socrates, and my answer to this ...
You know, a former lecturer of mine, who was himself a former student of Noam Chomsky's, once told me that Chomsky "Played academic hardball, in which...
Hmm... Okay. Allow me to speak with equal candor. Deep in your own nonsense (I shan't speculate on whether it's willful or not), you do actually have ...
While I'm going off on tangents, I think there's another serious problem with Kant's solution to the murderer at the door scenario that hasn't been po...
You know, having poured out all the above, I can now see another problem. And it's a problem both for me and for Kant. What I said above is fine just ...
Great... I just spent the last three hours putting the finishing touches on a 1,300 word attack on Kantian deontology. To say nothing of the time spen...
@"Wittgenstein"@"Mww" Anyone who’s ever tried to “do” philosophy, to examine, take apart, or, dare I suggest, contribute to philosophical arguments, i...
@"Wittgenstein" I can't speak for Wittgenstein, but I would suggest that it means that a rule can't be contingently universal. There's a contradiction...
I'd gone away for a bit because I wanted to consult the primary and secondary literature carefully and see if I still thought what I thought when I OP...
On a completely different note, I am afraid I don't know what the facts are that would demolish what Maw said here. Could you expand on this point a b...
I have mixed feelings about Chomsky. But I was very unimpressed by the description he gave of Skinner as a "Nazi." Which he bravely did after Skinner ...
As for the "son" part, I may be a little older than... ...may have lead you to believe! :wink: What I said is, true, but I never said I hadn't done an...
Thank you, Bitter Crank. That's pretty much where I'm coming from. The practical reality, I think, for all of us, is that if we limit ourselves only t...
Reading this, I can't help but think of two quotes: one from Bill Gates, the other from The Buddha. "640k ought to be enough for anyone." ~Bill "Like ...
I've only been seriously studying philosophy for a little over a year. There are some hard choices I need to make as to which of the many dense tomes ...
I realize that quoting out of context can be dangerous, and I don't claim to have done any more than a bit of searching online. But that said... https...
Aye. It's important not to forget that it was advanced by Marx as a scientific theory. I can't recall Popper's exact line off the top of my head, but ...
On the face of it this position has serious logical flaws. But... it would be wrong to pre-judge without reading their argument. Can you give us a ref...
Ooh, good point! In a way, you could even say that the illusion theory is just pushing consciousness away one step. What then is experiencing the illu...
Well then! I'm just going to take the lazy way out and post something I wrote for an assessment task a little while back. It's on point... *** Power t...
...or perhaps a Finn? I hadn't considered that. I guess your answer and mine to the OP deal with completely different issues. PS... ...although perhap...
From this paragraph in particular, I take it that you intend to start a thread looking at the problem from the perspective of political philosophy. In...
I am not completely convinced that this is a circular contradiction. Let me run three arguments by you. 1. Assume an eternalist view of time, in which...
I can see similarities, but I can also see non-trivial differences. One is that a slave can be freed. A child can only be "freed" by being killed. So ...
Two things to add to my previous post... 1. I'm not sure you're on entirely solid deontological grounds asserting that having children is using people...
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