Thorongil

I was thinking in terms of the sentiment expressed in the Preamble.

Its purpose is to grant the people the right to keep and bear arms, just as it says. This isn't esoteric stuff.

False. False.

I find the distinction to be incoherent, for it amounts to saying that God is (otherwise, we couldn't attribute transcendence to him) but does not exi...

Your comment is a series of ad hominems and strawmen. If you want to discuss what I have actually said, I'll be here, but until then, I won't be furth...

An egregious fact that is unconstitutional in spirit if not in fact. Perhaps the sole legitimate reason for the existence of the state is so that the ...

In the classical sense, philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, namely, living the good life as informed by the truth. In the professional sense, as Anth...

I agree, but I don't see why it needs to be capitalized. We also need to figure out whether or not it should have the hyphen. That inconsistency drive...

I don't think they are real by definition, but they certainly exist, just as impossible things don't and can't exist. I don't think that what becomes ...

There may be degrees of reality, yes. I'm inclined to think so. But each of those degrees will exist in some manner or another. That's my point. A rea...

I don't see the relevance of this. In case you were unaware, Massachusettsians possess the individual right to keep and bear arms. The Second Amendmen...

What interpretation? I don't follow what exactly you're trying to attack now. Yes, and?

As a composer of both metal and lyrics, I often incorporate philosophical themes and ideas, though not always self-consciously. However, as song lyric...

Of the best introductions: Short: Will Durant. Middle length: Anthony Kenny. Long: F.C. Copleston.

Not sure to what purpose you gave those quotes.

I take your use of the word "as" here to indicate that they do still exist, but in a manner different from other things. That seems obvious to me. My ...

Yes, I can carry and own them. The Second Amendment reads, "... the right of the people to keep and bear arms...." Yes, that's why the argument is one...

I don't know what "the suggestion" is to which you refer. Some here have suggested an outright ban on all guns, while others want more gun control of ...

I am. The grammar of the Amendment makes it clear. As the majority opinion in Heller reads: "The Amendment's prefatory clause announced a purpose, but...

Perhaps. Maybe we should go for "scientisticists." Bit of a mouthful, though.

I would call them positivists.

Alright. It seems like one result of your distinction would be that something could be real and not exist or could be and not exist, which is surely a...

So tell us your plan to change the law so that sane, nonviolent gun owners are not stripped of their guns while mentally ill, violent individuals are....

You are misinformed. The Declaration of Independence, which does not hold the same legal status as the U.S. Constitution, lists three inalienable righ...

Fair enough. But I thought you were now a realist. Do you reject Kant's conclusion or only his premises? You seem to recognize here that a rejection o...

What I mean is that models can be empirically adequate, in that they can fit what we presently observe, but then by definition they can say nothing ab...

It's also ironically creating and abetting the very thing they most loathe: white identity politics.

I said this over two years ago: "Gun policy: Ban the private use of arms, or else abolish the second amendment, or else enforce stricter laws." I stil...

Well said. I agree.

Notice that this isn't a denial of the charge.

These are examples, not a definition.

You're missing the forest for the trees, or perhaps for what you regard as a few dead trees in the Kantian forest. Here is Schopenhauer, from which I ...

While I think space is a priori and that non-Euclidean geometry fails as an objection to its a priority, I might add, in line with my thoughts here, t...

Hi Freud, you're going to have to substantiate those claims, especially in light of this: http://www.newsweek.com/fear-death-atheists-religion-dying-a...

Slow down when typing, fellas. Do you not see the caps lock screwing up your messages?

In a multitude of PMs to Agustino and in the big thread he made a while back. My current thought is this, I suppose: there is no problem if non-Euclid...

In fact I have. On this very subject.

Quod gratis asseritur gratis negatur. So right back at ya, Banno the bullshitter.

It is arbitrary. And you're right that they're different, but different how? There are handguns more deadly than a semi-automatic rifle at the kind of...

This is the standard and, I might add, Schopenhauerian criticism of Kant: that he claimed the noumenon causes the phenomenon. But this is an error so ...

The facts are that anyone who disagrees with Banno on guns must love guns more than children? Find something better to do than such low quality trolli...

You'll notice I didn't deny said peculiarity. As I've said before, those numbers need contextualizing. Gun crime (notice also the pivot to this topic,...

Two can play at this game. That defensive gun use by private citizens won't stop all crime isn't that it won't stop some. Surely we ought not to ban t...

This is precisely the slide I mentioned. Are mass shootings peculiar to the U.S.? Perhaps, but not mass casualty attacks, which brings us back to the ...

They have. QED.

What do you mean by "this problem?" Mass shootings? The obvious response is that mass casualty attacks have continued to occur in countries with stric...

Virtually all the MSM. Wayfarer's post above smacked of it as well.

What will Mueller discover? It turns out it's exactly what I anticipated. I love how those who peddled hysteric charges about Trump and his campaign a...

Some problems can't be solved without creating or exacerbating others. Your question is hopelessly naive, as if it's easily in our (whoever this plura...

Yes it does, inasmuch as the claim I was responding to is false.