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:100: Yes, a being (even a nonbeing à la Meinong's "sosein") is whatever is not nothing.

"Insurrection? What Insurrection?!" :mask: Commentary by establishment conservative attorney George Conway on 4March24 SCOTUS' tr45h decision ... http...

No. The "belief" implies that "immaterial data" is indefinite or without sufficiently definite parameters with respect to material data, thereby, in e...

I'm a "moral naturalist" (i.e. aretaic disutilitarian) and, according to your presentation, Mark, "the science of morality" is, while somewhat informa...

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I did not claim or imply this. As I've stated in several of our exchanges, Gnomon, my metaphysical position more or less agrees with Spinoza's: there ...

Well, I got the date right but the decision wrong: (maga-wingnut) SCOTUS is in the effing tank for (former) SCROTUS aka "Insurrectionist/Criminal Defe...

Given that morality is an aspect of philosophy (i.e. ethics), a scientific "understanding of morality" seems, IMO, as useless to moral philosophers as...

I.e. mere possibilia :smirk: :up:

Like the Buddhist desire to overcome desire, I think an egoist might practice altruism (i.e. non-reciprocal help/care of others) in order to overcome ...

I think the attempt to reduce habits of normative non-reciprocal harm-reduction (i.e. morals) to "strategies for solving cooperation problems" (e.g. g...

:monkey: So that oldtime mythmaker Charlie D. got it wrong: "h. sapiens" is something other than an "evolved" animal species (i.e. we are more than di...

In broad terms, which of the following is closest to your own materialist position: (A) philosophical materialism (i.e. every concrete thing is "matte...

"Physical phenomena" and "the nature of reality" are tangental at best, different categories of being; IMO, it is fallacious to mistake them for one a...

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fyi – I'm pressed for time and the video "debate" is too long so I didn't bother with it: it's a very old topic, however, so I'm confident no new argu...

On p.1 of this thread back in 2022 (if you've missed it), I had posted very brief logical and physical objections to the OP's incoherent claim of "log...

We have no way of knowing what it feels like not to be alive – especially, whether 'not existing' is better than existing. It's as simple as that. Bes...

FWIW, from a 2019 thread Aesthetics – what is it? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/344963 Also a post from a 2023 thread Was Socrates...

Philosophy might be "an art" insofar as it creates (i.e. imagines), as Janus says, "novels ways of" clarifying, interpreting, reformulating, evaluatin...

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i.e. communicating (à la synchronizing), no? I didn't get that from your post. In any case socially "coordinating behavior" (i.e. communication^^) – s...

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Addendum to ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/603428 As far as analogue role playing games go, my jam is (still) *low/no prep, rul...

:brow: Yes disgracefully so.

29Feb24, Rafah: +30,000 Palestinian noncombatants killed (c70,000 injured) and +2 million Palestianians displaced (ethnically cleansed) by the state o...

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From 2021 ... :mask: ... even though the world has moved on, long covid still has me by the throat: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/br...

On what grounds would one ask that question (which is like asking whether or not a complete skeleton is "conscious")?

I don't see why we would need – why it would be useful – to do that.

I'd gladly trade this 'glitchy' 60 year old husk for my peak healthy-fittest 25 year old body :strong: but only if my 60 years of memories, learning, ...

What do you mean by "sentient" & "mind of its own"? Do you believe these properties are attributes of human beings? If so, why do you believe this? An...

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@"Pantagruel" What about New Zealand instead? That's my second choice (if I were to leave the US for good); British Columbia, Canada is my first choic...

28Mar24, NYC Will Putin bail out Fraudster/Loser-1? Maybe MBS? or Elon Musk? No bank or bond company will ... :rofl: https://youtu.be/7QLtZvn8n7w?si=j...

:up: (i.e. libertarian socialism)

I don't consider –semantics aside – "trusting people" synonymous with faith (e.g. "having faith in people") as I point out here: .

Chomsky is confused (à la Witty, Peirce-Dewey). I think thought is also a kind of communication (unless something other than 'coordinating with others...

In evidence we trust ... :smirk:

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true." ~Freddy Z I discern three "types of faith": (1) trusting the impossible was the case, (2) hoping the imposs...

$112,000 a day accrued interest ... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68407054 :clap: :mask:

It seems to me :nerd: the "non-interference" PD only makes statistical sense such that, if and when Terran civilization invents FTL "warp drive" so th...

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:chin: I can't imagine it would take anything less radical than sudden onset acute schizophrenia or dementia (or maybe undergoing a full lobotomy) for...

I edited the question in my previous post since "the God of Abraham" is apparently too specific (or triggering) to encourage broad speculation.

@"an-salad" @"AmadeusD" @"praxis" @"Agree-to-Disagree" @"Lionino" @"Vera Mont" @"Tom Storm" @"Jamal" What evidence or experience would convince you th...

For me, FDR is 2nd only to Lincoln.

Explain what you mean by "wrong" – how a philosophy is "wrong" about this or that and/or how a philosophy goes "wrong". Also, in reference to your OP,...