Agustino

Say person X is getting beaten up. Does the truth value of "X is getting beaten up" depend on who is assessing the proposition?

No wait a minute. You said if it's true under theory x. So "everything depends on who is assessing it" is true UNDER "everything depends on who is ass...

Okay, what exactly is theory x and what is theory y? Get down to specifics, I doubt you'd be able to pass one of your own introductory classes with su...

Well your view seems to have serious logical and conceptual difficulties. First of all, it can't even be true, because if it's true, then it really is...

Not to mention that you don't seem to see the very obvious logical incoherence in what you're saying. If "everything depends on who is assessing it" i...

So effectively you refuse to provide a reason why you take your statement as true?

The decades themselves aren't a reason for holding that it's true. What's the actual reason? What are the observations in question?

Okay so? What reason do you have to think that your view (that everything depends on who is assessing it) corresponds to reality for example?

Yes, that's what I'm saying. And no, it isn't an argument that just because others think their own views are right, therefore they also are right. Thi...

That's practically for all means and purposes an atheist - I am aware of that though.

However real talk now - philosophy is a search for truth, and truth is the opposite of opinion. There can be different opinions, but the truth has to ...

I didn't forget it, but I can still hear the TV you know...

Doesn't work mate, I left the TV open!

How quaint, that sounds like a good definition for truth no? :-*

Good! Then to the garbage can it goes! :D

Agreed.

Yes but to things which trouble you, you just have to respond you know ;)

And does this statement also depend on who is assessing it? >:)

Really I almost can't believe how easily people are fooled by sophistry. All you have to do to change perspectives is talk in percentages. Oh ain't th...

*facepalm* Nope. We have avoided it for centuries quite successfully.

No, the trend in absolute numbers is NOT in decline. So don't give me this bullshit. Who cares that 10% died in the past, and now only 1% die? The 1% ...

Yes but consumption isn't the essence of what an author should be doing. If he writes shit and everyone consumes it, then he's failing. If he writes t...

Ehmm yes he commits the sophistry of looking at it in terms of percentages. Ahh only 1% of the world's population died during the World Wars! Not a bi...

No. Non-fiction authors should intend to communicate the truth to others, not to be consumed.

Yeah sure, Hitler killing 6 million Jews! Not a big deal! Stalin murdering around 21 million! Eh, just another statistic! Nothing to fret about! Mao Z...

Yeah, give me a break. After the bloodiest century in all of history, we notice a reduction in violence. Yeah no doubt, if violence spiralled out of c...

The wrong direction clearly. The biggest problems we face are that we have to come to terms with several impossibilities: (1) The impossibility of glo...

But if you're an atheist it doesn't follow you'd necessarily skip that. There are reasons other than religion for practicing celibacy.

Does that go to show that Heidegger is weak as a philosopher, or that you're weak as a teacher of philosophy? :P

I've only watched a few videos of him with regards to morality. Well there's two different issues here. One is the morality of gay sex, which I view a...

And am I to take that for truth? Am I not to look at their writtings and confirm whether what you're telling me is the truth? And if so, then I have l...

It seems to me that some of you are aptly characterised by Benedict de Spinoza:

:-} Then why do they keep feeding their bodies, maintain hygiene and so forth? What happens in this phantasy realm is obviously of interest to them. W...

:-} I highly doubt Heisenberg would pass Philosophy 101. If his "philosophy" is like that essay he has no chance. As for Heidegger, he may pass Philos...

So? How does this imply that indivisibility is inconceivable? How does this imply that if the atom has spatial properties it must be divisible? There ...

Nah, it's basically the same, just more detailed. Democritus was basically right. The uncertainty principle and probability wave are the swerve. Inabi...

That makes absolutely no sense. What if it was round? Then there would be no "top", "bottom", etc. because these are relative to a frame of reference,...

Why not?

Not in the sense that I am an actor when I hit a billiard ball and it moves a certain way. As I said, God is a way of relating to the world. You put G...

No but it follows that if you're interested to talk about this, you should try to show why it isn't - or rather can't be - a science. Bullshit, addres...

This is still a metaphysical question. Ehm... in what sense can Kant be confirmed by others as self-evident? And what does that have to do with his me...

Because some of them are wrong? Because metaphysics has political ramifications, and thus certain truths can't be recognised without thereby recognisi...

That is nonsense. Metaphysics is the science of Being/Existence itself. If something is metaphysically impossible, then it is impossible and full stop...

Then the onus is on you, or any other metaphysician, to prove how it might be possible. It's absurd to claim "Hurr Hurr it might be possible you know!...

If they are logically incoherent, then they are impossible.

What Willow was thinking is simple. He (or she) believes that some things are not logically possible because, when one tries to work them out (work ou...

I think, by analogy, whether a leash is used or not depends on where one is walking the dog to ;)

I think it refers to one who loves walking children :B

Is the pedestrian mind given to pederasty? :-O