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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 ...
January 14, 2023 at 01:15
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, ...
January 13, 2023 at 19:29
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...
January 13, 2023 at 18:04
“ For if I tell you that to do as you say would be a disobedience to the God, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue…”
January 13, 2023 at 17:02
I think you don’t have any evidence and are holding out for some odd reason.
January 13, 2023 at 16:57
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...
January 13, 2023 at 09:02
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...
January 13, 2023 at 07:53
We’ve looked. Do you find p-zombies convincing? I don’t even find them conceivable. I can’t even think about how such a being could be possible.
January 13, 2023 at 04:17
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...
January 12, 2023 at 23:34
Take a look. That which is giving its first-person account is the exact same being to which we give a biological account.
January 12, 2023 at 22:44
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...
January 12, 2023 at 20:28
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...
January 12, 2023 at 20:19
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...
January 12, 2023 at 20:06
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And spending never slows…
January 10, 2023 at 18:15
It looks like Biden stole some classified documents from the American people while Vice President. Hopefully there are no nuclear secrets in there. I ...
January 10, 2023 at 17:55
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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...
January 10, 2023 at 17:45
In: Taxes  — view comment
The ease with which a government can squeeze money from the citizen’s wealth is profound. You just tack it on and you’re 1 trillion yen richer.
January 10, 2023 at 17:17
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...
January 05, 2023 at 18:22
“Goodness” is itself a property, according to Moore. Excuse my stupidity, but how is it possible to give a property properties without first consideri...
January 04, 2023 at 21:27
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...
January 04, 2023 at 17:20
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...
January 03, 2023 at 16:45
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...
December 31, 2022 at 23:33
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...
December 31, 2022 at 23:06
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...
December 31, 2022 at 19:39
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...
December 31, 2022 at 19:35
It sounds like an impossible world. Are impossible worlds also possible worlds?
December 31, 2022 at 19:03
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 ...
December 31, 2022 at 18:47
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 ...
December 30, 2022 at 18:41
Anything to do with motherhood ought to be cherished and celebrated as activity befitting of a woman.
December 28, 2022 at 16:54
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...
December 26, 2022 at 17:27
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....
December 25, 2022 at 16:14
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...
December 25, 2022 at 08:18
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...
December 24, 2022 at 01:01
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...
December 23, 2022 at 08:04
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...
December 23, 2022 at 01:46
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...
December 21, 2022 at 17:26
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...
December 21, 2022 at 17:08
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...
December 20, 2022 at 19:00
Organize so that you can beg for scraps from another organization’s table.
December 20, 2022 at 17:50
“Organizing”…it’s worked so well up until now.
December 20, 2022 at 14:55
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...
December 20, 2022 at 08:32
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...
December 19, 2022 at 22:21
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...
December 19, 2022 at 17:24
Loaded questions, double-barrelled questions, complex questions—all could be considered fallacious.
December 17, 2022 at 17:15
It’s healthy to hold one’s philosophy to the grindstone of contrary ideas.
December 17, 2022 at 00:38
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...
December 15, 2022 at 12:07
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...
December 15, 2022 at 09:19
Very cool.
December 14, 2022 at 22:24
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...
December 14, 2022 at 22:14
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...
December 14, 2022 at 20:33