Yeah I think abstract objects and universals are inescapable features of speech. There is a Russian political philosopher known as “Putin’s brain”, Al...
If every state is determined by its anterior state, It seems to me that a determinist “chain of causation” could not exist since there is no anterior ...
How is he confused? He hasn't evoked "weight", so no property called "weight" has suddenly vanished. The stone has not changed. Instead the nominalist...
When the nominalist weighs a stone he understands he’s measuring the stone, not something called “weight”. This can be observed: he is indeed putting ...
The liquid exists, the atmospheric conditions exist, but the boiling point is just a value produced by a human mind, as is temperature. You’re just de...
States of affairs are truth-makers. So a proposition in your sense is not a state of affairs. Yes, I don’t want to wade into these things, personally....
Propositions do not transcend space and time. I’ve quoted your propositions right here, the product of a particular mind. If it’s easy to demonstrate ...
For apples and other fruits it’s Anthocyanins. For blood it’s Heme. The color is similar because the light bouncing off of these compounds is similar ...
I believe abstract concepts and universals are necessary for language. I just can’t find them outside of it. Using a suffix to turn an adjective such ...
They are without a referent, or at the most co-referential. Wherever they appear they can only prove to exist as products of the mind. How can a reali...
Descriptions are full of abstract objects and universals, certainly, but the contention for the nominalist is that abstract objects and universals do ...
I don’t know. I’m not a physicist. I’m only saying that we’re speaking about electrons when defining their movements in mathematical terms, such as wi...
But we already describe what an electron is. We’re speaking about an electron when defining its movements in mathematical terms. So I do not see what ...
My mistake. How is it, then, that if you rule out the existence of the properties of an object, you'll soon find that you have no words at all to desc...
Debates usually involve two or more competing ideas, not a series of questions and answers. So if you believe in the existence of properties then sure...
They are useful for linguistic purposes, so one need not escape them. But in terms of metaphysics and ontology they are neither extant nor useful. I w...
To see from where an ethical behavior arises we can just follow it backwards to its beginning. Much of it is visceral, I believe, biological. After al...
Not everyone is a friend or family member, though. Treating someone as a means to an end is just as perilous in business as it is in any social contex...
Trade has been occurring throughout human history. So the “transactional culture” is inherently human. Transactional conduct, therefor, is not inheren...
Why is it that in a country of over 300 million people the same deep-state players keep appearing in seemingly disparate places? As reported by Matt T...
The market isn’t so free when governments pressure companies to adopt policies of censorship. French and German law, for example, demands social media...
I’m not sure how it is possible that you cannot be ultimately responsible for the way you are in any respect at all, given that so much of oneself (ge...
It’s Musk’s property, thus he has the freedom to determine what can and can’t be said in his platform. If the government steps in and tells him he can...
The problem is that any regime that takes upon itself the task of determining truth has failed. We’d probably all still believe in the Vegetable Lamb ...
You’re right; what Musk is doing is not free speech. It’s simply a revision of Twitter’s terms and conditions and standards of moderation, which invar...
I’m not so sure about that. Posterity tends to work out the truth even after efforts to censor it occurs. The Roman Inquisition did all it could to si...
Assuming that everything exists, and to discover the nature of a thing we must describe what it exists as, I wager there are some extant particulars t...
The language regarding Santa Clause exists but he is unable to manifest beyond it. That’s the difficulty with all abstract concepts and universals. Th...
Twitter has banned Ye for incitement to violence, which is the common death knell for free speech. So much for free speech absolutism. https://twitter...
Censoring someone certainly reduces his reach. That’s why it is a double evil because not only is his free speech violated but so is our right to hear...
It can be, and often is said, that people can “fuel” human activity with their expressions, but I find the analogy to be somewhat false. Personally I ...
Well, I’m sold. I can’t wait to see what he exposes. The researchers in your study find that “ social media usage alone appears incapable of promoting...
I started to look at Musk’s free speech claims on Twitter and remain sceptical (he won’t allow Alex Jones back, for example). But his new-found intere...
The idea that some sort of censorship might have or will stop Germany from destroying itself doesn’t really work. Legal philosopher Eric Heinze calls ...
I don’t know anything about Elon’s intentions and am skeptical of his dedication to free speech, but Twitter is interesting in that anyone with an int...
It appears that rather than “extract the good from free speech” you would prefer to extract the good from censorship. I say this because only through ...
It seems to me the argument that states are required in order to govern competing interests ought to apply to states themselves, but I’ve rarely seen ...
Governments are all guilty of the exact same, I’m afraid. There is no human right they have not violated; they engage in marauding and piracy; they ha...
I wonder if the idea of a “large society” would have came into consciousness if at any time anarchism had prevailed, because it assumes a community wh...
Statism also requires that everyone is on the same page in terms of ethical conduct. If anyone violates certain rules, for instance, he can be kidnapp...
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