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You don’t believe a sensory receptor causes the transduction of the mechanical energy of a soundwave into electrical impulses? Then what converts the ...
June 06, 2025 at 16:50
Well, you set the bomb, put it in a place that would kill people, wired the whole thing up, flicked the switch, and so on. You didn’t just flick a swi...
June 06, 2025 at 15:47
Because I think you’re wrong. And your false analogies with machines and computers only illustrate the lengths you will go to continue it. Bombs don’t...
June 06, 2025 at 00:39
I just don’t see it. Even if I assume your description, I don't see how we can get from this to "words causally influence behavior", or "words incite ...
June 04, 2025 at 22:37
So nothing is in the sound wave itself that makes it meaningful. Meaning isn't transferred from one person to another. Do they all equally play a part...
June 04, 2025 at 16:29
How can a meaningful expression causally influence you differently than a meaningless expression? What is it in the word itself, and what besides surf...
June 04, 2025 at 16:12
We’re talking about speech. How does speech produce a different causal affect and response than any other sound? Does none of you, your body, your edu...
June 04, 2025 at 15:40
The fact is you read the words. You scanned your eyes over them, considered them, and formulated your response. You understand the language, know how ...
June 04, 2025 at 15:05
Nice post again, Count. You’re an enjoyable read. At the outset I am inclined to believe that these “sensibles”, too, are not sensible, but the abstra...
June 04, 2025 at 05:18
I thought I’ve addressed most if not all of the arguments but I’ll be happy to address any that if I’ve missed them. Preventing crime? I’m speaking ab...
June 04, 2025 at 05:02
It is not a coincidence or magical thinking you read my words and respond to them. That’s entirely up to you whether you do or not. It’s magical think...
June 03, 2025 at 23:01
For my own tastes it's because of principle. Namely, I do not think any person nor group of people should have the power to pick and choose what the r...
June 03, 2025 at 20:27
Charles Pierce claimed that the term “real” was invented by scholastic philosophers to signify “that which is not a figment”, in order to close the de...
May 30, 2025 at 08:16
When I was younger I used visit a remote beach to surf with some squatters, some of whom were old homesteaders and anarchists. They had a little commu...
May 29, 2025 at 20:26
A minor setback. There are plenty ways around it.
May 29, 2025 at 18:08
There are some good writers who tend towards anarchism. Less philosophical, systematic, more poetic, but enjoyable to read at least. Oscar Wilde, Perc...
May 29, 2025 at 16:25
You don’t mention that these forces were more often than not managed, armed, and employed by states. Political scientist Rudolph Rummel estimated that...
May 29, 2025 at 00:19
That’s another distinction between the statist and the anarchist: they’re assumptions of human nature. Hobbes’ bellum omnium contra omnes rings true o...
May 28, 2025 at 16:18
The issues become much clearer and easier to settle in one’s mind when one abandons the concept of gender entirely, or at least relegate it to a gramm...
May 28, 2025 at 15:32
If you look at the dispute between Marx and Bakunin, both of whom admired the Paris Commune, the schism was about the trust in and usefulness of autho...
May 28, 2025 at 14:32
The FBI is reopening up an investigation into the cocaine found in the whitehouse a year or two back, the pipe bomb on Jan 6th, and the leakers of the...
May 27, 2025 at 14:13
Your metaphorical slogan about killing the Boers turned into a real killing of a farmer, by the admission of the killer. https://www.justice.gov.za/tr...
May 26, 2025 at 23:41
Good read, Count, thank you for that. I’m reading Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism by Paul Forster, but I imagine the themes are exactly the same, ...
May 26, 2025 at 15:10
Nope. Looks like he’s calling out your anti-American team on Memorial Day. I love that kind of stuff.
May 26, 2025 at 14:24
A socialist and race-nationalist party in the SA government chants “Kill the boer! Kill the farmer” and those who question the racism and the possibil...
May 26, 2025 at 14:11
The stories from survivors of attempted murder, rape, torture, and robbery are anecdotal evidence. Do you say that about all victims of crimes or just...
May 25, 2025 at 02:14
It’s true, I do not need a non-physical mind to explain how a human being listens to his environment, or otherwise uses the environment in various way...
May 24, 2025 at 17:23
You should try listening to victim’s stories. They’re horrific, and I don’t believe they’re lying because they happen to be white.
May 24, 2025 at 17:04
No one really cares about any of that, apparently, or actively dismisses it.
May 24, 2025 at 15:43
It’s not an isolated system but it is a different system. Humans don’t use photosynthesis, for example. I still don’t know how eliminative materialism...
May 24, 2025 at 15:23
They are false analogies. Human beings are unfathomably different than venus fly traps, sunflowers, and computers. Different physical systems means di...
May 23, 2025 at 16:54
It's not like saying that. Venus fly-traps, sunflowers and computers. See if you can stick to human beings for once instead of evading the arguments w...
May 23, 2025 at 16:23
What I mean is nothing else in the universe is source of a human being's actions. The electrochemical signals sent by your brain to your arm, for exam...
May 23, 2025 at 16:03
“Ambush”? Clearly you’ve been following the corporate press like a little lapdog. To me it was a much-needed exposure. Though the crosses were not gra...
May 23, 2025 at 15:25
How is that the case? You’ve simply made that assertion, sure. I am not a determinist, however. Unlike you I need neither non-physical minds nor dista...
May 23, 2025 at 15:01
Uh oh the Trump family is getting rich off of crypto? How dare they! The Biden family hasn’t produced a goddamn thing in their lives but a bunch of sh...
May 23, 2025 at 00:05
Right, and we can create a causal chain back to the Big Bang and say the Big Bang causally affects my behavior. I’m not interested. Subject is a philo...
May 22, 2025 at 23:52
Sorry I missed it. We ought not to treat listeners as passive objects, like a window. You have to switch the position of the subject, with him at the ...
May 22, 2025 at 15:48
Are you saying I should approach the issue like Joyce? I’m not so interested in how Joyce would approach the issue. What I am interested in is how Pie...
May 22, 2025 at 14:57
I enjoy arguing about it. What is illogical about it?
May 22, 2025 at 14:28
I wonder if when Queen Victoria gifted President Hayes the Resolute Desk the anti-Hayes crowd were chirping about it. Probably. But history has proven...
May 22, 2025 at 14:26
I suppose your words couldn’t move much, then. Tells me all I need.
May 22, 2025 at 03:46
It seems palatable to me. But there are many positions in regards to nominalism. It’s an ancient argument. Hobbes was a “bonafide nominalist”, or Hume...
May 22, 2025 at 03:44
No such evidence was put in front of me. I’m not surprised when people evade simple arguments, especially when they have none of their own.
May 22, 2025 at 03:13
It does matter, in my opinion, because I know I’m not loving the concept of someone, or my own feelings, but the person. So one intuitively has its ow...
May 21, 2025 at 17:30
It looks like those other human beings we've come across our whole lives. Could I be wrong? Sure, it could be an android, but that can only be discove...
May 21, 2025 at 17:13
Actions are important. But do you not act according to any principle? Society is not a thing, though, complex or otherwise. It's just a name for a con...
May 21, 2025 at 16:42
No, the fact that something looks like a human being makes something a "human being". It means that everything we know about human beings is derived f...
May 21, 2025 at 16:23
Senate passes one of a Trump’s promises, a No Tax On Tips bill! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/senate-passes-no-tax-on-tips-bill
May 21, 2025 at 15:45
Sure it does. One’s metaphysics ought to inform how he approaches the other branches of philosophy, including politics and ethics. If one believes the...
May 21, 2025 at 15:40