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bongo fury

['Member', 'Subscriber']Joined: June 26, 2019 at 17:37Last active: February 25, 2026 at 22:294 discussions1807 comments

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Discussions (4)

Assertion

July 12, 2025 at 22:11 184 comments General Philosophy

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In: TPF is moving: please register on the new forum  — view comment
Can we disable the AI summary butt... Actually, can we disable AI?
February 23, 2026 at 09:04
In: TPF is moving: please register on the new forum  — view comment
Ah yes, remember now. Cool, might try it :pray:
February 21, 2026 at 21:57
In: TPF is moving: please register on the new forum  — view comment
Yes, and on a web page via a browser as usual? I guess that haven thing was just a previous experiment? I am now scrolling the new page on chrome, and...
February 21, 2026 at 21:50
In: TPF is moving: please register on the new forum  — view comment
Pardon the confusion, it's the discord app and it's "haven" /uploads/resized/files/a9/pg9r0wf1u42qk5jw.png Anyway the new site is just a web page as u...
February 21, 2026 at 21:45
In: TPF is moving: please register on the new forum  — view comment
The text size is weirdly large on my phone? Compared to other pages on the same chrome browser. Not in the discord app though. So perhaps it's moot. A...
February 21, 2026 at 21:15
In: The real problem of consciousness  — view comment
I'm trying to grasp your central doctrine, I don't buy it. Like I said, I don't see the size analogy avoiding the usual Zeno rabbit holes. Whereas I'm...
February 06, 2026 at 23:23
In: The real problem of consciousness  — view comment
I'm not sure how helpful that debate is. I say violet is a class (or kind or type or category or set) of illumination events, which an object may or m...
February 06, 2026 at 13:20
In: The real problem of consciousness  — view comment
You put that as though it ought to be obvious? It seems questionable to me. Doesn't it lead (inexorably or not) down one or more of Zeno's rabbit hole...
February 05, 2026 at 13:49
In: Direct realism about perception  — view comment
Don't you see how anyone can sensibly reject the existence of fictional characters in a story? Must such supposed entities be either reducible to neur...
January 05, 2026 at 21:58
In: A new home for TPF  — view comment
This is current internet dogma, yes, but it misses the point that a human may earn (and forfeit) a special kind of trust: authority, even. Dependent o...
January 02, 2026 at 23:06
In: Reference Magnetism: Can It Help Explain Non-Substantive Disputes?  — view comment
True, but there was definitely a paper with the more striking opening.
December 18, 2025 at 07:31
In: Reference Magnetism: Can It Help Explain Non-Substantive Disputes?  — view comment
I could have sworn that Ian Hacking had opened a paper somewhere with the conclusion: "Nelson Goodman was right: there are no natural kinds." Google d...
December 14, 2025 at 23:13
In: A new home for TPF  — view comment
3, 7, 8 and 10 I love. 2 and 9 I wonder if they're on a vague but useful borderline? Dunno. No clear objection, anyway. 1, 4, 5 and 6, though? I can't...
December 03, 2025 at 09:12
In: A new home for TPF  — view comment
got it :up:
November 22, 2025 at 17:57
In: A new home for TPF  — view comment
@"Jamal" thanks for this website and the next :up: :strong: I don't suppose there's any chance of uploaded images being rehabilitated, on the archive ...
November 22, 2025 at 16:36
In: A new home for TPF  — view comment
Sorry to not develop an argument. Casting a vote, though.
November 19, 2025 at 16:54
In: A new home for TPF  — view comment
Please :pray:
November 19, 2025 at 16:36
In: "Ought" and "Is" Are Not Two Types of Propositions  — view comment
Sure. But both of those separated things are how things are. Causal knowledge of the world is in the state it's in, and the agent's subjective prefere...
October 28, 2025 at 22:45
In: "Ought" and "Is" Are Not Two Types of Propositions  — view comment
What is the institutional argument? In what sense did you complete it? Which translations? Is this your own observation? Which theory? (Your OP's titl...
October 28, 2025 at 19:48
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
Exactly my point about Google search vs the AI summary that presumes to identify ideas instead of authored texts? When I made the point (badly) I near...
October 22, 2025 at 15:01
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
No. Just the plagiarism.
October 19, 2025 at 16:00
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
... if and only if "plagiarised" stops being a meaningful category, for corresponding reasons? And yet, it seems entirely plausible to many of us that...
October 19, 2025 at 12:46
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
For editing, as in spell and (in the limit) grammar checking, yes? Or, I guess not, as these aren't LLM tasks? @"praxis" Did you get clarification on ...
October 19, 2025 at 09:53
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
Yep :100: And it's not like it's a rocket science distinction? Not a line that's hard to draw? (Some of us draw it further back... I prefer not to int...
October 18, 2025 at 20:58
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
Due as in obligatory?
October 18, 2025 at 14:17
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
It hadn't occurred to me that I was ranting, until you showed that to be a plausible reading. I humbly (well, I hope not smugly) ask you to consider t...
October 18, 2025 at 13:46
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
I'm seeing the opposite. Google search is an unprepossessing but epistemically valuable (e.g. falsifiable) tool for connecting physically real and ide...
October 18, 2025 at 07:49
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
Not quite. I reject the headlong conflation of a text, identifiable word for word, with the host of arguments, meanings, ideas, intentions, speech act...
October 17, 2025 at 18:40
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
Good, thanks. Even better if you could retain: Failing that, a clear statement of, ? Also helpful, perhaps, some routine and visible indication, one w...
October 17, 2025 at 12:05
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
Does TPF now disparage as vanity or prejudice or laziness the preference of some posters to decline to engage with chatbots at all? Which parts of "re...
October 17, 2025 at 10:18
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
This is why I was shocked that philosophers, of all people, wouldn't be ignoring the "AI summary" invitation at the top of the search results? I'd hav...
October 13, 2025 at 17:23
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
Impractical. But, how about, its use should be discouraged altogether? I mean, its use in composition or editing of English text in a post.
October 12, 2025 at 10:38
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
That's a cute dismissal. I just can't help hoping you are its author.
October 11, 2025 at 15:39
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
Not even like that. But indulging instead the fantasy that AI has dissolved the accountability of sources and authors, for what they say.
October 11, 2025 at 15:17
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
Yes. Very unlike handing your fully formed prose to a human proof reader, for correction before its honest submission as your own work. Or handing ful...
October 11, 2025 at 15:13
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
I really hope. :grimace: Sorry for ranting.
October 11, 2025 at 08:31
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
I would think handing your half-formed prose to a bot for it to improve it is plagiarism, regardless of the number of words changed or inserted. It's ...
October 11, 2025 at 08:12
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
This is obviously missing the point. We knew the order of listing was biased and constantly under attack from bots. It was our job to filter and find ...
October 11, 2025 at 07:42
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
Yes.
October 11, 2025 at 06:51
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
I'm mystified that percipient philosophers can't see a gaping difference between (A) using a search engine to produce a list of texts containing a giv...
October 11, 2025 at 06:40
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Thanks :up:
October 05, 2025 at 13:35
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Need and need... I was glad to refer to it. Could draw it myself of course. But yes please :pray:
October 05, 2025 at 13:11
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Ok thanks. It wasn't in my post, and it was a useful diagram, and the poster is banned... nvm :cool:
October 05, 2025 at 13:04
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
https://ballooncalculus.org/heap/draw/Screenshot_20251005-133822.png Not a biggie. A newie, though. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/...
October 05, 2025 at 12:51
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
yikes?! The sporadic image disappearances were disconcerting enough, but now still others, with new message "not viewable in your region"?
October 05, 2025 at 09:26
In: Identification of properties with sets  — view comment
I wonder at what stage in the process of this post's creation you found it appropriate to research the exact years of birth and death for each philoso...
September 03, 2025 at 11:24
In: Identification of properties with sets  — view comment
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
August 30, 2025 at 15:44
In: Identification of properties with sets  — view comment
Noted. I think you mentioned the choice: extension/intension? I suppose the latter is a proposed solution to Which isn't a problem (requiring a soluti...
August 30, 2025 at 11:24
In: Identification of properties with sets  — view comment
Well, they are, a bit. :wink:
August 30, 2025 at 01:33
In: Identification of properties with sets  — view comment
That's why nominalists (e.g. Quine) didn't like taking it for granted in logic.
August 30, 2025 at 01:26
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