Certainly. Here: You are simply assuming that materialism is true and then concluding that the appearance of presentness is illusion. That's to assume...
No. How? The sensible world appears to exist outside of our minds, yes? He concludes that it does. Not that it doesn't. That it does - it does exist o...
You haven't answered my question - if there's a giant ball and you're tiny by comparison and are stood on a tiny bit of it, how would things look from...
Look up 'default'. Also imagine how a huge ball would look if you were extremely tiny and on it. And finally, recognize that on Berkeley's view the wo...
The mind-independent material objects bit. That's a worldview. That's not an appearance. There appears to be an external sensible world, yes? Whether ...
Oh bloody hell, will you get with the programme!? I am arguing that 'if p, then q'. I am then arguing that not q. Not q here means I am arguing that o...
You are not reading him or me carefully. I did not claim that the external sensible world exists unpercieved, and nor does he. He argues, as would I, ...
I don't think you're following correctly. Do you agree that to assume a worldview right at the outset and then to interpret all appearances in light o...
No it doesn't. You're attacking a straw man. Berkeley concluded that the objects of experience exist outside of our own minds. And he concluded this p...
Really? What argument is that? So what? That's not how philosophy works. Incidentally, if there's no absolute present, there's no present. And those w...
if you want to define desert as a turnip and then conclude that my argument doesn't work because your ignorant definition turns it into nonsense, have...
No, it was to help you see that I was arguing 'not p' rather than 'p'. If someone is arguing that if p, then q - and then they proceed to explain why ...
That's not what you said. You implied that the idea that appearances are default justified 'is' idealism. No it isn't. It's an epistemological thesis ...
Again with the six second comprehension span! That's called 'individual subjectivism' about the present. It's a form of idealism about the present. It...
Yes, I know. The time lag argument is not decisive, for it is at least possible that our impressions of presentness are systematically inaccurate. I e...
Yes, that just serves to underline the point. Killing yourself to save others from a similar fate is - sometimes - rational because it is sometimes th...
If death ends your suffering, then it's hard to see how it would be so harmful that only extreme unending agony in this world could make it in one's i...
Look, to be honest I don't think you can hold onto a view for more than 6 seconds. When you say that x is present for me, what do you mean? Do you mea...
Toughen up, snowflake. Now, the present is not individually subjective. Let's say it is, though. That would then amount to a form of idealism about th...
Presentness is not individually subjective. You, like virtually everyone here, keep confusing 'appears to me to be' with 'is'. There is 'the' present....
And now explain to me how an event can occur at t1 and yet not be present at t1? Explain what 'occurs' means in this context without mentioning it bei...
No, if materialism is true, then our impressions of presentness are systematically inaccurate. So, if p, then q. The default is that our impressions a...
Er, no I haven't. You mean you can't explain to me how an event can occur at t1 and not be present at t1? What a surprise! If an event occurs at t1, t...
Refuse to acknowledge what you were saying?? Er, no. I acknowledged what you were saying and explained how it is incoherent nonsense. You think that i...
I explained in the OP. Look, if you just take materialism for granted and then interpret data in light of it, then you are not doing philosophy. That'...
That's a difference of degree, not kind. Remember: innocent people do not deserve any harm. Any. No, it's not an 'assertion'. It's a 'conclusion'. The...
That makes no difference - that's the point. It's like saying that my analogy is not a good one because you would have ordered a pepperoni pizza and n...
That's not the question. The argument in the OP does not assume that life is not worth living. You seem studiously to be ignoring the actual argument ...
That's NOT pessimism. Again, everything I am saying is entirely consistent with whatever rosy outlook you have. There isn't a shred of pessimism in th...
It doesn't have to be possible. That's not going to affect whether it is undeserved or not. Note too that none of the harms that will inevitable occur...
You're misusing the word incoherent. I am not claiming that a happy harm free life is possible. I don't think it is (not in a world like this, anyway)...
Again, what you're doing here is pointing out that the pizza is mainly delicious, despite having a poo on it. You ordered a cheese pizza and so that's...
I don't know what you're saying there. You straw manned me. You addressed an argument I did not make. There is no pessimistic premise in my argument. ...
That's question begging. You don't owe them a thing. They owe you. They owe you a happy harm free life - which is something they can't even come close...
Imagine you order a pizza and pay upfront. The pizza that is delivered has a shit on it. You phone up the restaurant to complain that what they delive...
They deserve much, much more than this. That's part of the point. They deserve no harm whatsoever. Not some harm and some benefit. No harm. Ziltch. Na...
Yes, an innocent person is born deserving no harm at all and positively deserving a happy life. So, they are born deserving a harm-free happy life. Th...
Why are you expressing it like that? It's not about you - the one who has been born. You don't have an obligation not to have been born - how would yo...
That's a premise that I take to be self-evident - indeed, it's a conceptual truth. Not when we're born, no. We can subsequently do things to make ours...
Relevance? You've CONFIRMED one of my premises. Which one are you challenging? That's invalid. 4 is not the conclusion that follows from 1,2 and 3. Wh...
I take the lack of reply to mean that you now accept that the time lag argument - my version of it - goes through? There is a sensation of presentness...
Yeah, clap clap clap - argument p is a shite argument for q, Bartricks holds that q is true, therefore Bartricks made the shite argument. I'm a good r...
What you've done is address a stupid argument that I did not make. The argument you've addressed is this one: Xtrix is unhappy and doesn't like his/he...
A little help for you - you need to argue that actual normative reasons can kill people or somehow render them infertile. Duck! Blimey - that was clos...
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