Agustino

Don't worry mate, this guy only knows one way to deal with those who disagree with him >:O A real prick!

I don't think they would, unless they're in some special philosophical mood such that they will even think about logical contradictions. When I tell s...

Compared to Plato/Aristotle? No, I don't think so.

God doing the healing is how one relates to the world though. It's a description of one's relationship with the world. For example, someone who has an...

I was about to order that, so after you get into it properly, let me know how good it is on a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is indispensable :P

Nope, because it's just a fact he didn't. You could value certain aspects of writing which are found in Russell over aspects of writing found in Nietz...

In terms of our tastes, we clearly have different tastes. But that comes merely because we value different things. So there is no question that for so...

It's missing a premise :P "a hand is an external object"

:D

Your first comment regarding Nietzsche: Seems to read like: It seems a very facile and uninvolved critique of Nietzsche. I mean Nietzsche wasn't like ...

Happy New Year! (Y) But it's a bit early still for the US no? :P Patience haha!

First, making your research public isn't, in most cases, bad for startups in niche fields. It stimulates thinking, generates new ideas, and gets peopl...

What I find much stranger is why the work Nietzsche is listed with is "Will to Power"? Shouldn't it be "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" or "Beyond Good and Ev...

:-! Much rather that your conclusion itself becomes a conditional, and hence a logical form couching the premise and adding "is true" to it.

But it's much easier to read, and a lot more concise. You can also ponder it for much longer. Tractatus is just dealing with the language of logic. PI...

Tractatus is better - pick it! Philosophical Investigations is merely a continuation of the same mission started in the Tractatus. The genius was the ...

The reason why you claim such arguments work unenlightened, is because you are inserting specifics in it, and therefore, in fact, adding premises to w...

You mean follows from the premises - that's not the same thing as being contained in the premises.

It's an almost unacceptable omission from such a poll I think. I voted Wittgenstein.

1. Any element of X is true 2. If B is an element of X, then B is true I think this is the case I specified above, where you're still doing: A Therefo...

There can't be a single premise argument which doesn't beg the question - that's my point. A Therefore A Begs the question regardless of what A is. Ma...

Who's your favorite philosopher? (apart from me please LOL)

It is a logical fallacy which is termed "informal fallacy", but applies to formally valid arguments as well, contrary to what mosesquine thinks. In fa...

Happy New Year! (Y)

Yes I have only started to insult him after he had done so on numerous ocassions without provocation. That's a strange question, why should I care wha...

Thanks for proving once more that you don't have an answer, and yet you think you know it all. Shameless. Has your mother not taught you how to behave...

For me, the fact that an argument is circular (ie begs the question) is sufficient for it to qualify as fallacious. I'm not going to listen nor bother...

I was about to tell you where there is a spy, but I think I will abstain >:O

I think you should be ashamed of yourself for supporting someone who repeatedly and without reason or provocation resorts to insults in multiple threa...

*facepalm* if begging the question is irrelevant to how many premises there are, then how come it can happen in valid multi-premise arguments, and it ...

I refute it thus: it begs the question ;) >:O

So I am asking you a very simple question, which your very big, intelligent brain should be able to answer, but I see instead that you're trying to be...

Yes, so is your argument. That's also formally valid (or it would have to be if you want to present it as formally valid).

And the argument Premise: A Conclusion: A does provide you with good reason to accept the conclusion? What's that good reason that exists in this latt...

No it's not. A tautology is something that logically cannot fail to be the case. A, therefore A can fail to be the case, if the premise, A, isn't the ...

You're a joke man >:O I can't be bothered so much with you, honestly.

I never claimed that begging the question can't occur in multi-premises arguments - only that it doesn't necessarily occur. You seem to have reading c...

Which is the point I made initially with regards to modal realism.

Ok so please explain to me, using your big head, what the difference is between a single premise argument which begs the question, and one which doesn...

:-* Another bookworm who likes to parrot books instead of think. Tell me, how does a single premise argument avoid begging the question? What is the d...

No they're not. I still say the same thing, and Wittgenstein would agree with me. In what sense is it an argument if it doesn't follow the structure o...

Because it took the world more than a thousand years to even touch the achievement the Greeks managed to perform in about less than 200 years.

Ancient Greek, there kind of isn't any competition.

Michael, you heard that! >:O

Yes but your expressions aren't adequate. Good writing - in a literary sense, in the sense which Nietzsche's writing is good - has nothing to do with ...

When he says this though, I think he means that everything that obeys the principle of non-contradiction is possible.

Yeah, with the here is a mental hand, and here is another mental hand - thus there are two mental hands, and therefore there is no external world! >:O

I'm not so sure - there's probably more good ideas in Nietzsche than in all the other 4 combined :P

(Y) >:O

I didn't say waiting around is what one should do. But there are other non-pharmaceutical treatments. And by the way - non-pharmaceutical treatments D...