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Can you expand on your position more than that in order so we know WHY you disagree instead of merely knowing that you do disagree?

I like to think of myself as a nice guy and since I was a kid I think I have been taught that it is best to be nice whenever I can, and perhaps someti...

But even if the "explanatory power of an argument trumps someone's will power" that DOESN'T mean it is a GIVEN that it WILL be ENOUGH to overcome one'...

So we end up with your original question as to why nuclear weapons are built and why would we allow crazy leaders to have access to them when we alrea...

I definitely understand your reference to crazy cat lady since one of my sisters is in her 60's and has four cats of her own. To be honest, I'm not re...

I was so tired last night, I miss read your post and thought you were trying to call me 'happy', and didn't know what to make of it until I got a litt...

I'm kind of glad that none of what your saying really applies to me since their is nobody either on the forums or elsewhere who puts any effort into s...

I think the reason is that ANY country pursues nuclear weapons is that it makes it difficult for ANY other country to think that they can take them do...

In the area of that I spent over ten years studying/debating philosophy and know about it as much as anyone can the answer is "yes". However like Socr...

I think I can sort of agree, every person in their own way does what they think is right (criminals committing crimes to punish the weaker and/or stro...

That's a little too simplistic as well. If one has might that makes them right, right up to the point when when an angry lynch mob has MORE MIGHT and ...

That is of course assuming that there is a "God" as well as assuming that is his will in which neither one is really a given when one considers all th...

I think I more or less agree. :D I kind of both agnostic and atheist on certain things since I know I can't prove there is a is or isn't a "God", but ...

Agreed On the other forum account I had as one of my quotes on my footer the following “Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime ...

I believe that most plebs have agreed that justice should be equal for all, however this is not the case for those who have power and can use it in or...

Well I guess I agree that having an academic discussion with someone pointing a gun to your head will not work: unless perhaps you are someone like Sa...

There are two other concepts that deal with the same issue. The first is Dependent Arising and the other is Münchhausen trilemma Dependent Arising htt...

I think I agree with Socrates analysis in that "raw power/desire" isn't always the BEST way to resolve what should and shouldn't be done, but there ne...

But doesn't the term "I" require that it is a given that there be some OTHER thing that EXISTS in order for there to be an "I" in the first place. Eve...

It has been awhile since I read stuff about Kant's work on the subject you are talking about, but I remember liking what he wrote and his analyse on t...

Fair enough, I think our opinions on this are similar enough to not have to argue against you. One small nuance is that I think it is 'ok' for debatab...

Sorry ernestm, I didn't realize I was talking to you. :D We have butted heads enough on similar topics that you can disregard the last post I made. Th...

"whatever, I don't argue with informal opinions about standard philosophy based on people's own intuition, its a waste of time." —ernestm Then why did...

The problem with this is that 'cogito ergo sum' is only supposedly only valid in the present tense and with the person both saying it and evaluating i...

I sorry I'm late to this thread and hopefully my post won't be too redundant. I think if one goes about trying to get everyone to come to a common agr...

I agree with your OP but I believe you are only partly aware of what is going on. Capitalism and the golden rule isn't about ‘Do unto others as you wo...

"When tautology is another expression of identity, it doesn't seem like a tautology as such. As per Gassendi, really all that's determined (deductivel...

"It is, but it is a concealed tautology. To discover it we have to apply Nietzsche's critique in Beyond Good and Evil to it, and reduce all of the con...

The term comes from David Kaplan – LD means 'logic of demonstratives.' His classical example was 'I'm here now,' but that one seems not quite to be a ...

I think that there's an important sense in which the cogito is not inferential. You read Descartes, you follow his arguments closely, and you're suppo...

A circular argument still isn't a tautology. A tautology is a single sentence that's in some sense 'always true.' An argument relates premises to conc...

Thinking is always being, being is not always thinking —Cavacava And you know this how? While not living things 'think' as we do, it is a gray area as...

What if it someone's argument is using circular reasoning? Perhaps you can give an example of what you are saying is or is not an example of tautology...

Philosophy is a form of critical thinking, or perhaps critical thinking is a form of philosophy. Any time someone has to do some kind of intense think...

It is somewhat tautology. A bachelor is a man, but a man may not be a bachelor because he can be married making him not a bachelor. If I where to have...

I suggest you start by looking up the definition of axiom on the Wikipedia. — ernestm There is nothing in the definition of axiom on the Wikipedia tha...

"In talking with others, it appears I need to make a real clarification While it may be your opinion that the assumptions of the formal school of logi...

So i've found myself in a loop hole of questions , i've been trying to find out what is the purpose of life, but there are thousands of "purposes" som...

Sorry I'm late in my reply... Yes, I think you more or less have the idea I'm working from. My moral beliefs partly comes from the Jain's doctrine of ...

"Not sure about this. For example, it's clear that disease is bad; that's not something that is only accepted as a result of cultural indoctrination.....

"Whoever would be unaware of human fallibility?" —Wayfarer I don't know for sure, but I guess perhaps the people who claim to God, his will, what 'goo...

Close enough for me. :D

Umm, Ok Saying reality is 'real' is merely tautology or like saying a Cat is a Cat; you can say it but it doesn't show or really do anything. My perso...

"Truth is that thought which accords to reality whether we recognise it or not. Subjective opinion is only truth insofar as it is truly our opinion......

"No. However, I do believe people who have devoted their lives to furthering this subject, and who have studied the prior thought for centuries, and w...

"I think Ernestm was merely paying you a compliment." — Pierre-Normand Actually you are right, I misread the post and didn't see the part that he actu...

"Absolutely I am sure. In modern philosophy, truth is very clearly defined in formal terms. As I stated, I attempted to define it in a way compatible ...

"Well, without any education in formal logic, you clearly have ability in the subject, I hope you find time in your life to further your studies, and ...

"It would be helpful to me if you could state what school teaches the views you state. Mine are from Oxford University, and thus follow the standard f...

"That is a very common error in the post information age, so you cant be criticized for believing it. Data are neither true nor false; they are simply...