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Does all this then mean you approve of the political correctness which societally, though not legally, mitigates hate speech as previously defined, th...

Why not? As I and others have pointed out in previous posts, ontological truths occur, i.e, ontological correspondence/conformity to that which is, wa...

If you haven’t yet caught on to what I’ve been saying in my posts, I agree that making laws against hate speech in the US can easily become utterly dy...

Well, I agree with this. I also so far take it we're in agreement on the other two points I previously presented: that hate speech is ill defined and ...

Not that I'm in full agreement with the quoted remark, but my take on the issue of "Is there a purpose to philosophy": Yes: improved eudemonia … obtai...

@"Banno" kindly already replied. But to make it maybe less tricky an issue, I’ll change the example to knowledge of a future event that is not mostly ...

I so far take it that justifications always come in degrees of strength. And that this corresponds to the strength of knowledge had. For knowledge tha...

There was a lot said in reply with a good deal of it very well received. A question though: Can the issue of hate speech be addressed without embarkin...

Your tonality to what I've said in my previous posts makes me presume you have a good deal of resentment toward everything that is not conservative. S...

First off, because I’ve talked to more than one person who affirms he wasn’t. And, with them being national socialists, they quite stringently affirm ...

I agree. Stalin is not a meme in USA culture, but was far worse in many a way, at least when it comes to sheer number of deaths. And the gulags weren'...

Since we are experiencing planetary cooling—well, not according to most scientists and other learned fork, but what the hell do they know—as long as w...

You didn’t address the majority of what I asked you to address. So here’s a simpler philosophical question: Do you hold Hitler morally culpable for an...

This then stipulates that laws should indeed be moral: hence, supporting the good and protecting against the bad. Thereby entailing that morality and ...

Almost sounds as an advocacy for the separation of morality and politics. As though politics ought to be amoral. Is this in keeping with your sentimen...

Infants and nonhuman lifeforms do not have the conceptual power to articulate “I am in pain”. Yet, I so far presume, we’d both agree that they can yet...

Although “the mind’s eye” is indeed metaphorical, that doesn’t seem right to me. As one very common example, visual experiences that occur during REM ...

If the pink elephant happens to be a hallucination or mirage*, then hallucinations and mirages are not introspections (aka, self-examinations of one’s...

Yes, and, again, that was the entire point of the example given. One can intellectually acknowledge the possibility (not the plausibility) of being mi...

Finished what I had to do early, so I'll reply now. The issue I posed had nothing to do with the Law of the Excluded Middle but with contradiction and...

Here is a different approach to the same conclusion: Can it be in any way validly justified that no ontologically occurring truths occur? If one belie...

Not as far as I know. To be clear, I'm not here writing a formal philosophical thesis but a forum post intended to address a specific issue. That ment...

A prime example of this (and it does regard what can well be considered hinge propositions) are those who take dialetheism to be true. We thereby now ...

You make repeated mention of skepticism. Of a Cartesian or of a Ciceronian variety? (the latter being a good example of an Ancient Skeptic—in both his...

I’m very glad to hear it was helpful at least to some. I know (in the JTB sense) that some out there are quite uncomfortable with the implications of ...

I did provide some justification for the claim in my previous post. That justification can either be infallible or fallible presents two alternatives ...

I find that it helps out a lot to differentiate between the ontological and the epistemological in these matters: Whether or not a belief is in fact t...

I don't deal well with dishonest people - for I don't in any way respect them. This is not what you originally posted and what I replied to. You might...

I'm exceedingly serious. As for real arguments ... wake up some. The unmoved mover is the only ultimate telos that there can rationally be - beyond wh...

OK, you. The fully grown acorn become tree is in and of itself a/the unmoved mover of all that exists. You got me.

Dude - or your royal highness, whichever title you prefer going by - acorns becoming trees is NOT an ultimate telos/end. News flash though this might ...

And here I thought you favored rational discourse. It looks otherwise. So be it.

I already spelled out the argument here: Since its you who does not find this argument valid, I would ask you to express which part(s) of it you, in f...

Yes, the main part: ... With all four objections to eternal punishment being if not refuted then denounced - with many offerings of certain portions o...

Interesting. So, in respect to the topic of the OP, this being eternal hell/damnation - rather than any transient period of hell or purgatory, irrespe...

To me one very interesting semi-exception to this is Michelangelo’s depiction of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel – this being an aspect of the...

Right. Nothing to look forward to and strive for on the horizon ... because its all nihilism. He, he, and a ha, ha. I'm not laughing, though. After al...

Yes, very much so. From my scattered readings, Peirce equated God to necessary being - such that God thereby occurs throughout all of existence and ti...

Cool, but no need to be sorry. Even a broken clock can be right twice a day, as the saying goes.

Dude, I'm not gonna argue with you as to whether you should be reasonable. Be as unreasonable as you want. To each their own, and their own consequenc...

The OP does not evidence this claim. For instance, try to evidence that natural laws are not in fact the global result of all cooccurring existents ac...

You're living the grand illusion, I see. Corporeal you, here, being utterly unreal to begin with, this physically, as equally applies to everything an...

I'll ... um ... endeavor to more strictly communicate which those who are reason-able and thereby give importance to rational thought, this from here ...

This, its now worse than rubbish, its bullshit. Reason provided here. Unanswered question to justify the point is as follows: I can't, and won't, spoo...

Is what your reply is. You all of a sudden conflate ontology and epistemology as thought there would be no difference whatsoever between them. And the...

This very question - the act of asking and expecting a cogent answer or else refusing the offered premise - entails and screams out the underlying pre...

A reason is an “aitia”: an account of why, irrespective of the type of account it would be: e.g., causal, teleological, constitutional, or else formal...

I've acknowledged the importance of tradition previously via the Crane quote. But this then can raise the question of whether - for one example curren...

One can only hope. But it is certain not to happen devoid of involvement, and maybe even commitment, on the part of most members of humanity in sharin...

I of course grant a good portion of what you say. Yet to my knowledge there are many variants of Judaism, with Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform bran...