I understand the folk psychology of “experiences”, but I don’t actually imagine I carry a “set of experiences” with me wherever I go, so I never need ...
It’s a strange question because wages are decided and agreed upon before the worker makes a single product. These wages are determined by the market, ...
I don’t see it—that’s the problem. I’m aware of the arguments. I’ve just never found them in any way convincing. But I’m hindered from the get-go. I h...
I do not think he was a martyr for his beliefs as much he was a martyr for refusing to hold his tongue. He stood up to censorship, stood by his God-gi...
I am willing to change my mind upon further evidence, but there isn’t any. I can only observe and conceive of what it is that you are talking about, a...
For the simple reason that phenomenal consciousness is not equivalent to anything else. There is no other entity in the universe onto which we can aff...
The biological reality and the first person reality are one and the same thing. All we need do is answer the easy problems in order to answer the hard...
There are. It’s easy to describe someone as happy simply by looking at them. But how does one describe happiness, when we are no longer describing any...
It's best to untangle the language first, at least to figure out what we're trying to talk about. The word is an obvious nominalization, as evident by...
It looks like Biden stole some classified documents from the American people while Vice President. Hopefully there are no nuclear secrets in there. I ...
Defense is more acceptable than any other expenditure, and is arguably one of the few jobs of government worth paying for. Anything else would be much...
I always thought the materialist ought to take a stand, here. For so long philosophers and people in general have reduced the self to near nothing: to...
“Goodness” is itself a property, according to Moore. Excuse my stupidity, but how is it possible to give a property properties without first consideri...
The difficulty with “good”, I think, is that it describes someone desiring certain qualities or properties in another thing, but is not itself a quali...
The primary justification for retribution is that someone deserves it. On these grounds, if the initial punch was an act of cruelty or bullying or ran...
A pronoun is a word that is used in place of another noun. They serve grammatical functions, mainly, something like pointing to an object in the envir...
The doctor has the right to perform Vaginoplasty just as he does Rhinoplasty, only that the procedure ought to come at the customer’s expense like mos...
The symbol that has served us the greatest as an identity is the personal name. It has a referent that is found in nature, and is the object upon whic...
My belief that that man is a man ought not to prohibit his right to try to look like a woman, because I also believe that that man ought to decide wha...
He should granted the right on the grounds of self-ownership alone, but self-surgery is dangerous. So should he be provided with a professional to do ...
Full disclosure: I would welcome such a collapse. 1) guns and ammunition. When the monopoly on violence collapses it is in one’s best interest to see ...
The fact a man can relate to the “public world” says something about his identity, sure, but not much. Man can do many things, like digest food, but i...
I could glean more of your identity from your ID card than I could by having any relations with you. Personal identity is not relational; it’s actual....
A being who cannot see his own ears has less of an ability to determine his own identity, I’m afraid, than someone else. His vantage point and periphe...
It’s difficult to think of these questions in the context of two or more abstractions, for instance the voluntary and involuntary, the conscious and u...
I seem to think that there are two meanings to a given expression, but you seem to think there are two different uses of a given expression. Apparentl...
I would argue it is false. Meaning does not persist over time. Meaning is generated, so to speak, in an act of language, every time it is expressed or...
It all goes to show what Moravec's paradox implies. We can mimic tasks of the mind much easier than other tasks of the body, and as a corollary, tasks...
He is his brain and nervous system, though. So if his choice was determined by the specific activation weights and thresholds in his nerve cells as hi...
More often than not “extreme” is used to dismiss a philosophy on the premise that it is too far outside a certain consensus, which is mostly an appeal...
The only way democracy prevails is if there is no class of governing people. The rule of the people presupposes that the people can govern their own l...
In my own case, I imagine attaching one end of a string to a word and the other to the referent. Since a universal or abstract object would not string...
But the condition of the water is wet. It possesses a wet condition. The abjective “wet” describes the noun “condition”. The point is, the fact that w...
No, you cannot change the capabilities of a given liquid by thinking about it. But you can imagine different values in its properties and get a fairly...
In this case it’s the liquid at any given point and under any given conditions, what it looks like, what it’s doing, how cold it is, etc. We’re not ta...
An “indirect realist” I suppose, at least according to the philosophy of mind and perception. I myself am a “direct realist”. It’s fascinating that th...
I think you’re right and I like your take. I know in my own case that my politics is the inevitable conclusion of my metaphysics. I cannot put any val...
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