i've read it (unlike the mindless up thumbers). As you would know if you had (you haven't read it have you!?). And it is shite. Now, locate for me an ...
Where is there any evidence that questions about the mind are of this sort? You either think there's reason to think that's true, or you think there's...
Where in that book does Ryle present a single argument against the idea that the mind is a single, indivisible, thing? All he does is describe cases w...
Extended space makes no sense for the same reason objects extended in it make no sense. See above for an explanation. Oh, sorry, you lack all understa...
There's no fallacy committed by my argument, Dingy. That's valid. And the great Hugh, that master of logic, thinks that premise 2 is true and that 1 i...
I think they do - if you claim that God is unable to do some things and that God is also able to do anything, then that's a contradiction. If you main...
No, minds do not occupy space. If they did, they'd be divisible. But they're indivisible. Thus they do not occupy space. If you think everything that ...
It is indeed a waste of time to replace my argument with stupid ones that I didn't make and that don't make sense. Here's my argument: That's valid an...
Er, what? Is it feeding time in the fishtank? Shall I remind you of the argument? Here it is: You think 2 is true. Here you are thinking it is true: S...
It's not a bunch of faculties. Faculties are had by a thing. Things are not made of faculties. Same mistake, Hugh. It can't be divided into faculties....
No, it is 'death' not 'being dead' that I am talking about. Christ, I just don't think you're mentally capable of following an argument. You need to d...
You're all very confused. The mind is a thing. Thoughts are states of mind. They're not things . They're states. Likewise, consciousness is a 'state'....
So, just to be clear, your view is now that death does harm the one who dies? It's just that earlier you said the precise opposite. Here was my argume...
It's indivisible. Half a mind makes no sense. Half a banana, yes. Half a sandwich, yes. Half a mind, no - incoherent As all extended things are divisi...
No, we see it as harmful because our reason represents it to be. That's why there's a big debate about the harmfulness of death in philosophy. And to ...
Not a straight answer. I assume you agree that the warning on the bleach implies that drinking it will harm the drinker? I mean the answer is so obvio...
Again, the evidence that death is harmful is that our reason represents it to be. Why do you think that philosophers try and explain the harmfulness o...
Sigh. Yes, most contemporary philosophers do not believe in an afterlife. Which is why they think there is a puzzle about why death is harmful. They t...
My advice is to not give advice, unless sought. It's rather pompous. So again, my bottle of bleach has this written on it: danger! Do not drink. What ...
Eh? It's not about fear. If Tom - who has no fear of dying for he's just watching a bird eat a fly and isn't thinking about anything in particular - i...
Here is another: 1. My mind is indivisible 2. My body is divisible 3. If something is divisible it is not also indivisible 4. Therefore my mind is not...
This is one argument: 1. If the annihilation of my body will be harmful to me, then I will exist when it happens 2. If I exist at the same time as my ...
And my advice to you is to engage with the arguments and stop giving advice. Now, tell me, what do you make of the advice on my bleach? It says "do no...
And my advice to you is not to give advice, but to engage with arguments in good faith and not, as you did, by simply asking inane questions that you ...
Yes Hugh. There's a vast literature on the topic. Books and books and books. It's all to do with a puzzle presented to us by Epicurus. He thought deat...
My advice is that you should stick to buttering thoughts and stop dispensing advice to people who can make their own minds up about what to do with th...
You have not answered my question about the bleach. The bottle says "danger! Do not drink" What conclusion should I draw - that drinking it will benef...
Descartes had a dream in which someone gave him a melon and then he had another one about a big book. He decided that it was a message from God that h...
No, it's just you seem to understand how a dictionary can make representations but not how our reason can. I suggest understanding our reason to be a ...
No, on the contrary, I am now very much with you, or at least earlier you. You seem to have changed sides and now have no trouble with a dictionary ma...
I think I was very clear. And I am surprised you are having difficulty understanding me when you yourself had trouble understanding how our reason can...
If you exist yet your body does not, then you are not your body, yes? A stopped clock only tells the right time twice a day, so let's go for the doubl...
That's a link to a dictionary, not an explanation of how you can apply relish to an activity. And how can a dictionary tell me anything - how can it m...
Well, a relish is a kind of pickle. And to relish something is to apply that pickle to it. Yet to read a post is an activity. And so what I am confuse...
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