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In: Dialectical materialism  — view comment
I've read Hegel's works, especially those I've referenced. Clearly you have not and so I have previously offered a few wiki & SEP summaries to counter...
May 27, 2022 at 02:28
In: Dialectical materialism  — view comment
You mean like e.g. "the Absolute" (re: Introduction, Phenomenology of Mind) or "Thought", "Being", "Nothingness", "Becoming", "Essence", etc (re: Scie...
May 27, 2022 at 01:54
In: This Existence Entails Being Morally Disqualifying  — view comment
And the alternative 'morally qualifying world' is? :roll:
May 26, 2022 at 22:41
In: What Capitalism is Not (specifically, it is not markets)  — view comment
https://youtu.be/Jp3Bg7ecE9k Paul Krugman Guy Standing Joseph Stiglitz Diedre McCloskey Shoshana Duboff Yanis Varoufakis Mariana Mazzucato Slavoj Žiže...
May 26, 2022 at 22:18
In: If I say "I understand X" can I at the same time say "X is incoherent"?  — view comment
:up:
May 26, 2022 at 20:52
In: The Supernatural and plausibility  — view comment
Thus, they are indistinguishable from fictions.
May 26, 2022 at 20:50
In: Anniversary  — view comment
:clap: :party: :lol:
May 26, 2022 at 20:38
In: How to answer the "because evolution" response to hard problem?  — view comment
What do you mean by "qualitative aspects"? :roll:
May 26, 2022 at 20:37
In: Post Your Personal Mystical or Neurotic-Psychotic Experiences Here  — view comment
:100: :fire:
May 26, 2022 at 20:34
In: Do animals have morality?  — view comment
Fuck "convincing" – exposing you is all I'm after.
May 26, 2022 at 07:38
In: Do animals have morality?  — view comment
:roll: Arbitrary (anthropic) criterion – "the universal" – that's just "flapping ass-cheeks" to me. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/...
May 26, 2022 at 07:32
In: The Death of Roe v Wade? The birth of a new Liberalism?  — view comment
"The true essence of abortion" (historically in the US +98% occur before foetal viability) is elective lumpectomy. Not "murder". Roasting an acorn is ...
May 26, 2022 at 06:09
In: The Death of Roe v Wade? The birth of a new Liberalism?  — view comment
A picture of a hanging is not a hanging.
May 26, 2022 at 06:01
In: How to answer the "because evolution" response to hard problem?  — view comment
I do not "deny" incoherent notions, I only question why you persist in woo-of-the-gaps nonsense (e.g. cartesian / kantian dualism, pan-woo-woo-ism, et...
May 26, 2022 at 05:58
In: This Existence Entails Being Morally Disqualifying  — view comment
It's clear now that I don't know what you're whinging about, man, because you don't know what you're whinging about either.
May 26, 2022 at 05:48
In: How to answer the "because evolution" response to hard problem?  — view comment
Nice try. "Inner aspects" is all you, schop1.
May 26, 2022 at 05:45
In: What Are You Watching Right Now?  — view comment
:clap: :nerd:
May 26, 2022 at 05:42
In: The Supernatural and plausibility  — view comment
Well, as formulated, your question is unanswerable. :up:
May 26, 2022 at 03:37
In: The Death of Roe v Wade? The birth of a new Liberalism?  — view comment
Yeah, and one way to do better species-wide is to stop having unwanted offspring by all methods which are safe and healthy for sexually active or preg...
May 26, 2022 at 03:35
In: The Death of Roe v Wade? The birth of a new Liberalism?  — view comment
Better the rest of their adult lives than the entirety of their children's lives.
May 26, 2022 at 03:13
In: Action at a distance is realized. Quantum computer.  — view comment
:cool: :up:
May 26, 2022 at 03:09
In: Dialectical materialism  — view comment
:cool:
May 26, 2022 at 03:08
In: The Supernatural and plausibility  — view comment
Wrong question. Nature is the given, "supernatural" is the extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence. If we are 'conscious', it's a giv...
May 26, 2022 at 02:57
In: Dialectical materialism  — view comment
:cool:
May 26, 2022 at 01:03
In: Post Your Personal Mystical or Neurotic-Psychotic Experiences Here  — view comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UbkqE4fpvdI :fire:
May 26, 2022 at 00:26
In: The Death of Roe v Wade? The birth of a new Liberalism?  — view comment
I do. The fewer unwanted offspring / less-than-enthusiastic mothers, the better. :up:
May 26, 2022 at 00:18
In: The Supernatural and plausibility  — view comment
I observe other people's behaviors which are mostly consistent with the predictions derived from early childhood developed 'theory of mind'. In other ...
May 26, 2022 at 00:09
In: This Existence Entails Being Morally Disqualifying  — view comment
@"schopenhauer1" is trying to convince everyone they should refuse to go on breathing or to breed any more little mouth-breathers because there's "too...
May 25, 2022 at 23:48
In: The Supernatural and plausibility  — view comment
You seem to make the case for me, javra. Any "X" which completely lacks (directly / indirectly) observable properties is indistinguishable from "X" wh...
May 25, 2022 at 23:40
In: Dialectical materialism  — view comment
But (an/the) antithesis of a thesis X is its complement – whatever completes X (e.g. Y) – not merely Xs "negation" (~X or absence of X), right? Or am ...
May 25, 2022 at 23:32
In: Dialectical materialism  — view comment
What Hegel means by dialectic is that every idea also contains (the dynamic basis of) its own complement (like e.g. yinyang).
May 25, 2022 at 22:35
In: The Supernatural and plausibility  — view comment
And what would those "grounds" be?
May 25, 2022 at 22:20
In: The Supernatural and plausibility  — view comment
"Justified"? Who said anything about "justifying" anything? No I. Care to show how your question is not a non sequitur?
May 25, 2022 at 18:49
In: This Existence Entails Being Morally Disqualifying  — view comment
Yeah, well, it's never too late for "some people" to abruptly end their "encounter". :smirk: "Moral" (or not) belongs to existents, not "existence". A...
May 25, 2022 at 18:47
In: The Supernatural and plausibility  — view comment
Notice: I refer to impossible, not "implausible"; also, I do not trivialize imaginary, except where what is imagined (e.g. "the supernatural") is also...
May 25, 2022 at 18:23
In: Ernst Bloch and the philosophy of hope  — view comment
Interesting. Clarification appreciated. But wasn't Das Tausendjährige Reich also an "utopian" project? :brow:
May 25, 2022 at 18:16
In: How to answer the "because evolution" response to hard problem?  — view comment
I did not introduce the notion of "inner aspects" – whether or not entities have "inner aspects" – you did, schop1, and thereby the "oddly presupposed...
May 25, 2022 at 18:12
In: Do animals have morality?  — view comment
No speculation needed. :point: (Read links summarizing the science.)
May 25, 2022 at 08:17
In: Do animals have morality?  — view comment
Animals have mirror neurons ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
May 25, 2022 at 06:27
In: "What is it like." Nagel. What does "like" mean?  — view comment
You'll have to ask someone who makes the mistake of placing them "in separate categories". Like "vapor" & "ice", they are different properties of wate...
May 25, 2022 at 06:24
In: Ernst Bloch and the philosophy of hope  — view comment
"Trust, but verify." ~Ronald Reagan
May 25, 2022 at 06:03
In: The Limitations of Philosophy and Argumentation  — view comment
I've found that the most fruitful discussions on TPF circle around one or more of this quartet A. suppose idea X ... B. presuppositions for idea X ......
May 25, 2022 at 05:59
In: Do animals have morality?  — view comment
Which shows the relative non-efficacy of "rules" ...
May 25, 2022 at 05:21
In: The American Gun Control Debate  — view comment
:grimace: In Gun We Rust. Fuck. :shade:
May 25, 2022 at 05:12
In: The Supernatural and plausibility  — view comment
By "supernatural" I understand imaginary and impossible; e.g. Woo-of-the-gaps ...
May 25, 2022 at 05:07
In: Ernst Bloch and the philosophy of hope  — view comment
"There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us." ~Franz Kafka Hope is an absurd (imaginary) response to fear. Courage is the ...
May 25, 2022 at 04:53
In: The Death of Roe v Wade? The birth of a new Liberalism?  — view comment
:fire:
May 25, 2022 at 04:16
In: How to answer the "because evolution" response to hard problem?  — view comment
As pointed out I don't understand the question. As a pseudo-problem it fails as a "critique". What do you understand "material" means in "materialism"...
May 25, 2022 at 03:40
In: Are values dominant behaviours of a society, or are they personal?  — view comment
'Priorities are always preferences (re: social norms) but preferences are not always priorities (re: personal decisions).' Perhaps your lecturer means...
May 25, 2022 at 03:29
In: The Churchlands  — view comment
Casinos must love you, Rogue. :smirk:
May 23, 2022 at 21:17
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