Bartricks

I don't accept that premise- it is not a premise of any of my arguments. It is one you wrote. Copy and paste one of my premises - don't rewrite it, yo...

It is not clear to me which premise you are disputing, for you mention a premise but then address yourself to a different one. So, here is the argumen...

Try attacking a premise of my argument, rather than a premise that you wrote and that I didn't.

Nothing. The premise says "if the REASON of most people represents something to be the case, then that is good evidence that it is the case, other thi...

I do not understand why you are quoting the bible at me. I could not care less what the bible says about anything. It has no probative force. I am onl...

Yes, you can mean them metaphorically - and that's how a charitable person would interpret you if you said "how heavy is Beethoven's fifth" or "what d...

I suggest that you read my arguments and try and challenge one.

the ceteris paribus clause is in there because there are circumstances under which we have good reason to think a rational representation counts for n...

So you think that it is so obvious that procreation is ethical that any argument that leads to the contrary conclusion must have a false premise? Okay...

I do not follow what you are saying. I have said what I mean by the terms 'mind' 'soul' and 'conscious state'. Note, conscious states are not minds (a...

I addressed the stupid and fallacious argument that "what goes on in our minds is determined by what goes on in our brains, therefore our minds are ou...

I read a story recently about someone who was forced to rape members of his own family as he was told that unless he did that he, and they, would be k...

No, quite wrong. I just think that what's moral depends on the circumstances. What would be atrocious in some circumstances is perfectly reasonable in...

I don't have a definition of a conscious state apart from to say that there is something it is like to be in one. But occurrent thoughts, desires and ...

Admittedly the word doesn't have a stable meaning across time (as I understand it, in the 17th century it was synonymous with 'mind' and had no metaph...

I don't think you are interested in that, otherwise you'd address my arguments and tell me which of their premises are false (you need to do it with a...

That's certainly another possibility. Although if the god is half-way decent, you'd think she'd look out for us - unless, that is, we have done someth...

Physicists do not speak with one voice. Plus it wouldn't matter what they said on this topic as it is not a topic in physics, but metaphysics. What ne...

As you seem to prefer to talk about turtles, here is my question again: is it turtles all the way down, or does there have to be a bottom turtle who i...

Yes, in those sorts of scenario we'd have to weigh the importance of not imposing a life on another person versus the good of preventing someone who a...

Yes, so time is not a dimension, it is just that some treat it as such (mistakenly, but perhaps usefully).

And as you are more concerned with who defends a view rather than the defensibility of the view, perhaps it would interest you to know that defenders ...

oh, and I don't think those philosophers who defend rival views to me are stupid or insane. I never said that either. I think someone who thinks their...

Oh, and self-evident doesn't mean 'most popular' (and I never said it did - learn to read). Nor does it mean 'impossible to deny'.

I have read a lot about the topic. Tell me which premise you are disputing. Be clear.

I don't think time is a dimension. Dimensions are infinitely divisible. But nothing can be infinitely divisible. Therefore, no dimensions exist. Time ...

You are imposing on the person you bring into existence. They exist. Crikey, how can't you see this?

It can't be turtles all the way down - that's the point. My point, not yours. My word!

That's you - you're that lady. Don't you realize?

Now this means that our reason declares, loud and clear, that our minds are not sensible objects. That is, they are not our brains or any other sensib...

I am not denying that it is possible to wonder what a ball thinks like or what it is like to be a ball. it is entirely possible, for instance, to wond...

And if you create someone then they.....wait for it.....exist!

Again, slowly this time: you can only impose something on someone who exists at some point.

No, you can't impose existence on the non-existent.

Saying something doesn't make it so (well, sometimes it does, but not in this case). You assert that rising prosperity causes people to have fewer chi...

The less they know, the less they know it. You can impose existence on someone, because a necessary condition on an imposition - that the person who i...

Total and utter gibberish. All objects are either simple or complex. if you think not, then describe the third category. You won't because you can't. ...

Yes you are. If you procreate you are imposing life here on someone. They exist - you made them exist. by contrast, if you don't procreate, then you'r...

I don't think I misunderstand it at all. Which premise in which of my arguments are you disputing? As for panpyschism having lots of proponents - er, ...

No, I don't agree with that. But you can't answer a question with a question, so kindly answer mine.

You can't impose something on the non-existent. Think about it.

question begging. You're assuming - not showing - that the economy would tank if everyone stopped procreating. I've argued that the exact opposite is ...

You clearly don't understand the antinatalist arguments. it is wrong, other things being equal, to impose significant things on other people without t...

You haven't addressed anything I've argued. Do you deny that all objects that exist are either complex or simple? If so, what is this third kind of th...

Self-evident is synonymous with intuitively clear, if intuitively clear means 'clear to our rational intuitions'. 'Self-evident' does not mean what yo...

My 'mind' thinks, PoeticUniverse. My brain does not. Or at least, I see no evidence that it does and plenty that it doesn't. But by all means just con...

And I will be supported when I retire - I'll pay for support. And the people I pay will be people who've been unjustly burdened with the same problem ...

No, why would I be happy about it?

They're already around. I'm one of them. There are loads of them. Go to a city and look around - the people you see doing jobs, they're the workers. W...

It may not be self-evident to everyone (the insane, for example, are a notable exception - they often think extended objects are thinking things). But...