"What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon." ~F.N. Only in (that instance of) that domain. In terms of 'possible worlds semantics' (Kripke), a 'truth-c...
Maybe I should've kept things simple and replied with: Are rigid straight rulers useful? Are consistent precision clocks or scales useful? Are fair di...
:fire: No, the "motive" for pursuing truth is truth itself. One can use truth as a criterion, or priority, for judging between alternative paths; fals...
Aside from euthanasia (assisted suicide), killing people increases the suffering of kin, lovers & friends of the victim. Killing people also increases...
Eusociality (of a eusocial species like humans) comes first, religion is only a by-product. :eyes: The core of eusociality is empathy (reinforced by n...
If you are antinatalist because you want to reduce the amount of suffering in the world, then do not procreate AND cease your own suffering asap. The ...
Consciousness is complexity (re: Spinoza); "consciousness" doesn't "arise" from "complexity". There are an infinity of essences in substance (which ca...
https://youtu.be/pffX4oQ-OJg "Fire on the Mountain" (3:46) Shakedown Street, 1978 written by M. Hart & R. Hunter, 1977 The Greatful Dead * https://you...
Here's an informative SEP article titled "Sex and Sexuality": https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sex-sexuality/ Some philosophers who've engaged the t...
"Traditional philosophical concepts" are blind to, or uninformed by, "how our minds work"; thus, folk assumptions / biases distort much of philosophic...
Corollary: The only consistent-from-first-principles antinatalist is the successful suicide who has not procreated. Otherwise, it's just bullshit soph...
:100: :up: Art, I think, does the same with images and the sciences do this with unforeseen predictions or lacunae – estranging the familiar (though, ...
'The explanatory gap' is a scientific problem rather than a metaphysical aporia. Concepts and interpretations of their presuppositions or implications...
To be physically identical to a conscious person is to be a conscious person. "P-zombie" is, therefore, an incoherent concept (e.g. "identical to a tr...
Love always risks heartbreak; yet, it is written, 'hearts are made whole by breaking'. (Lost, after all, is the future tense of loved.) :death: :flowe...
:up: One asks "Why am I?" and then "Why anything at all?" And then one waits for an answer (Godot?). One listens with eyes and mouth shut (mú?), with ...
BOOM. :smirk: Saying something exists in fact which nonetheless cannot be even in principle scientifically observed simply says that that something do...
Usually truths are useful apropos their relevant domains. No. The only instance of a 'useful falsehood' of which I'm aware is a falsehood – fiction – ...
Early Bartók, before the mid-1920s, more romantic (not my favorite of his). Check out this article for a pretty good survey of his works (I'm by no me...
Not true. In fact, not even false. Hasty generalization fallacy at work. All of our observations to date merely "confirm" that we haven't yet detected...
Yeah: morality is performative, not propositional; though we reflect on what can be said about it – 'descriptions', 'definitions', 'heuristics', 'valu...
Interesting. I'll need to give the OP some more thought before I make a fool of myself needlessly. At this point all I can offer are my preferences: (...
On the contrary, my ethical concept does address "changes to the status quo" but implicitly in this formulation This provides an ethical motivation fo...
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