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In: Truthiness  — view comment
I've already answered this question. Yes. The rest of your post is – assumptions to the contrary are – incoherent. Read e.g. Peirce, Dewey, Popper, Ha...
October 09, 2021 at 04:06
In: Are We All Astronauts?  — view comment
Such as? The old man is only a passenger. "Astronauts" are crewmembers who operate and maintain the space craft. Think of airline flight crew (trained...
October 09, 2021 at 03:58
In: Are We All Astronauts?  — view comment
:nerd: To Boldy Go Where No Nonagenarian Has Gone Before (Stardate 12.10.21) https://deadline.com/2021/10/william-shatner-terrified-space-trip-jeff-be...
October 08, 2021 at 16:24
In: Truthiness  — view comment
:roll: Stop flatulating to move the goal posts. We're discussing "truth" and "logic", not knowledge (i.e. epistemology). Oh yeah and "truthiness" (dox...
October 08, 2021 at 15:55
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
(A brief selection ...) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L7-2ldzIbUQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuHOnvIhRF0 Passion 67:03 Peter Gabriel, 1989
October 08, 2021 at 14:35
In: Truthiness  — view comment
I have only given "good reasons" that show your claims are false.
October 08, 2021 at 14:14
In: Truthiness  — view comment
Sure I can, because it is not, Fool. Proof only obtains in logic or mathematics. Empirical claims, for instance, only require corroborative evidence (...
October 08, 2021 at 07:10
In: Why being anti-work is not wrong.  — view comment
Well, I'm an immanentist (re: Spinoza, Zapffe, Camus, Rosset ... ) :death: :flower:
October 08, 2021 at 07:00
In: Truthiness  — view comment
Truth =/= proof. "Truthiness" is, at best, redundant – merely an avowal or disposition, expectation or bias, or ... and not, in any non-subjective, co...
October 08, 2021 at 04:34
In: What is philosophy? What makes something philosophical?  — view comment
Thanks.
October 08, 2021 at 01:57
In: What Constitutes Power?  — view comment
Power, n. Nested, dynamic 'systems of control' constituted by controller-nodes and controlled-relations (like e.g. spider-webs with spiders and flies)...
October 07, 2021 at 20:19
In: Truthiness  — view comment
Making-shit-up-iness is a perfect synonym. :smirk:
October 07, 2021 at 20:05
In: Why being anti-work is not wrong.  — view comment
:smirk: Yep. The OP is just another stalking horse for antinatalism. Non sequitur. Stop trying to score points, schop1. You're position is already toa...
October 06, 2021 at 23:01
In: What is philosophy? What makes something philosophical?  — view comment
Maybe ... NB: "Spirituality", I think, falls liminally between religion and art (defined above) as a subjective, or wholly solitary, encounter with – ...
October 06, 2021 at 22:57
In: Why being anti-work is not wrong.  — view comment
Flourishing is biological-ecological, not "political".
October 06, 2021 at 20:10
In: Why being anti-work is not wrong.  — view comment
:shade: 1. A game is an abstraction, life is not. Maps =/= territory. (Taleb) 2. Persons coerced within or trapped by involuntary servitude diminish, ...
October 06, 2021 at 19:48
In: Why being anti-work is not wrong.  — view comment
:roll: 1. Life is not a game. 2. Slaves are not happy. 3. Making an argument with false or nonsensical premises (such as 1 & 2) necessarily reaches a ...
October 06, 2021 at 19:15
In: Why being anti-work is not wrong.  — view comment
Ludic fallacy. Read NN Taleb. An oxymoronic fiction like e.g. "noble savage", "p-zombie", "rational actor", "utility maximizer" which I call the "Old ...
October 06, 2021 at 18:31
In: How would you define 'reality'?  — view comment
We don't "define reality", we are defined by (foreseen and unforeseen) impacts with reality.
October 06, 2021 at 18:20
In: What is 'Belief'?  — view comment
:100:
October 06, 2021 at 18:15
In: Why being anti-work is not wrong.  — view comment
I'm anti-labor (servile drudgery) because I'm pro-work (applied creativity). We thrive from the latter and merely survive by the former. Homeostasis, ...
October 06, 2021 at 18:06
In: What is philosophy? What makes something philosophical?  — view comment
Exactly.
October 06, 2021 at 17:42
In: Why being anti-work is not wrong.  — view comment
:cool: I'm curious how you associate these quotes.
October 06, 2021 at 16:43
In: What is philosophy? What makes something philosophical?  — view comment
Why do you ask?
October 06, 2021 at 16:37
In: What is philosophy? What makes something philosophical?  — view comment
It's neither. Or asking whether or not I am the black cat I'm trying to find in a dark room?
October 06, 2021 at 16:30
In: Why being anti-work is not wrong.  — view comment
Amor fati (i.e. "amen").
October 06, 2021 at 16:27
In: The important question of what understanding is.  — view comment
FFS. I try not to waste words on the literal-minded. :yawn:
October 06, 2021 at 16:19
In: Abortion, consensual sex, judicial implications  — view comment
:100:
October 06, 2021 at 15:07
In: The important question of what understanding is.  — view comment
When you're literal-minded, metaphors can't be helpful to you.
October 06, 2021 at 14:52
In: The important question of what understanding is.  — view comment
I know, I'm just pointing out that it's you, not I, who misunderstands a metaphor for understandung to the point of taking it literally.
October 06, 2021 at 14:44
In: The important question of what understanding is.  — view comment
Someone ought to tell that to Wittgenstein.
October 06, 2021 at 14:36
In: The important question of what understanding is.  — view comment
In general, understanding consists in being able to effectively orient oneself – find critical paths – around or through complexities and uncertaintie...
October 06, 2021 at 03:51
In: What is philosophy? What makes something philosophical?  — view comment
:up:
October 06, 2021 at 03:02
In: Is global warming our thermodynamic destiny?  — view comment
More like 'relative' in an Einsteinian sense.
October 05, 2021 at 23:54
In: What is philosophy? What makes something philosophical?  — view comment
:up: He (or maybe Mark Twain) might have inspired (Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there. Theology is ...
October 05, 2021 at 23:47
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
She surely TCB (made this one all her own). :fire: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOUqQt3Kg0 "Respect" (2:29) I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, ...
October 05, 2021 at 23:35
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M4NzlcHa_tE "Shake" (2:35) Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul, 1965 writer Sam Cooke, 1964 (last song d. 1964) performer...
October 05, 2021 at 23:04
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
:up: 'Existential crisis' has never seemed so cheerful. Well maybe ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2kGyunJd1D8
October 05, 2021 at 16:37
In: Is global warming our thermodynamic destiny?  — view comment
Terraria, if they ever become practically possible, are my bet. :point: "A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in...
October 05, 2021 at 16:19
In: Realism  — view comment
:up: "Our choices:" ... (4) objective realism and declare that the world consists of ineluctable, interpretation/perspective-invariant features (e.g. ...
October 05, 2021 at 15:53
In: What is philosophy? What makes something philosophical?  — view comment
Others surely will offer different takes on "philosophy" according to their respective preoccupations (e.g. mine is 'human' agency), so here's how I d...
October 05, 2021 at 15:32
In: What would happen if the internet went offline for 24hrs  — view comment
Apparently yes.
October 05, 2021 at 14:30
In: What would happen if the internet went offline for 24hrs  — view comment
Yeah, but we won't default. No empire willingly dismantles its own hegemony. Besides, congressional leaders are just playing a game of chicken as a ne...
October 05, 2021 at 06:14
In: What would happen if the internet went offline for 24hrs  — view comment
:smirk: "Don't follow leaders, watch the parkin' meters" ~Subterranean Homesick Blues, 1965
October 05, 2021 at 05:15
In: Hobbies  — view comment
Sometimes I kick myself when I think of what others have done with their ttRPG experiences from the '70s & '80s – converting their game worlds / favor...
October 05, 2021 at 05:11
In: What would happen if the internet went offline for 24hrs  — view comment
I suspect there is (relics of the Cold War) EMP-hardened government and military infrastructure that will leave global urbanized masses in the dark, d...
October 05, 2021 at 04:17
In: Is anyone else concerned with the ubiquitous use of undefined terms in philosophical discourse?  — view comment
:up:
October 05, 2021 at 04:08
In: What would happen if the internet went offline for 24hrs  — view comment
:up: :mask:
October 05, 2021 at 02:56
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kneLw04C4qI "The Blues Walk" (6:53) Clifford Brown & Max Roach, 1955 The Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet * https://...
October 05, 2021 at 02:53
In: What would happen if the internet went offline for 24hrs  — view comment
I suppose the Earth is due for another Carrington Event. The globally disruptive after effects would go on for weeks or months at least, making "2020"...
October 05, 2021 at 02:07
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