Bartricks

What on earth are you on about? Ok, oh wise one. Is there some knowledge you would like us not to seek after, such as how on earth you afforded that h...

No, for knowledge itself involves reasons. That is, to 'know' something is to have reason to believe it (among other things). There is that which give...

Yes. They acuse him, falsely, of committing a fallacy.

Then you learn a trade

Er, no. Christ. Reason is not strong with this one! You start with self evident truths of reason. You don't start with any worldview at all.

So? I didn't say it, did I? I said that a dogmatist is someone who starts with a worldview and then rejects premises that conflict with it. Which is w...

Where did I say that if you reject b's premises you are a dogmatist?

Where did I say that if you reject b's premises you are a dogmatist?

Oh do pay attention. That is NOT what I said, is it?

All you've done there is assert materialism! You haven't challenged the premise. This is philosophy. In philosophy one uses reason to try and figure o...

It's not 'God', but a mind that could be God (or could not be). And it is not just consistent (unlike materialism) it is also demonstrably true. The s...

Read my earlier posts.

You don't know what idealism is, do you?

how was that an answer to my question? Do you think an idealist denies that covid exists?

christ all bloody mighty! I think there are- are - reasons to do things. I said only a fool or a scoundrel thinks there are no such things. When someo...

It's quite clear what I am doing. It just requires that one pay attention to what I actually argue. I think this premise is true: If a purely evolutio...

I am arguing that a purely evolutionary story about our development will not have to posit any actual reasons. That's why it's false. False. Not true....

What do you think an idealist will say about covid? That there is no covid?

Do you agree that if the correct explanation of why a person believes that p makes no mention of p's actual existence, then we should not posit p, oth...

I am still unclear why you think there's a problem here for the idealist. As I clearly said, the idealist believes the sensible world exists outside o...

Surely the reason it is often condemned as immoral is simply to discourage people from doing it? Death is a great harm to the one who undergoes it. Mo...

For an injustice to exist there needs to be someone who is not getting what they deserve. If you procreate then there is someone whom your act creates...

I cannot find the post from sushi that you are quoting from. It does not turn up in my mentions.

It puzzles me why you think idealism is challenged by the existence of any sensible thing or process. You must have failed properly to have grasped th...

Yes to the first part. That is, one does not have to posit any actual reasons in order to explain why creatures who believed in them would be selected...

I am not sure what you're disagreeing with, for I am not positing a different mind but an extra mind. The idealist takes the sensations constitutive o...

I have no confident views on the matter. But that'd be the default, given that one should not posit two minds to do the work that one can do.

There's a tension between materialism and normativity. That is, it is hard to make sense of how there could be 'shoulds' in a wholly material universe...

Idealism is not the view that there is one mind (yours). That's solipsism. I am an idealist and I believe in billions of minds. And so did Berkeley. N...

Well, first I haven't a clue what Kastrup is talking about. I take an idealist to be someone who believes that minds are immaterial objects and that r...

I understand 'Karma' to be the idea that if you do wrong, you'll get your just deserts. But importantly, not because a god or God will see to it that ...

One does not have the right to impose a lifetime of injustice on another person just because you want to have a little baby to look after. First, you'...

The mind is not a sense. Ideas are always the ideas of a mind. That seems undeniable. And minds seem able to be aware of their own mental states by me...

You said that to not procreate is to deny someone opportunities. Who? They don't exist. You can't deny opportunities to someone who does not yet exist...

That's a matter of debate among reductionist holists. Some would argue that you cannot make a hole smaller just by dividing it up,anymore than one can...

I know they are born ignorant. And they don't deserve to be. The ignorance is among the injustices. To create a person you know will be born ignorant ...

My meaning was clear.

There's an argument in the OP. You need to address that argument. Currently you are simply venting. You don't seem to know what the argument actually ...

By an 'intuition' I mean a representative mental state that is not an impression or belief. And it is by intuition that we are aware of reasons to do ...

Read the op carefully. Then address a premise. Say clearly which premise you believe to be false and provide some justification.

Dialectics is about dialing tactics. How does one dial? Does one creep up on the dial or boldly go towards it? Non kantian dialectics involves figurin...

Yes, that would involve making holes smaller.

Address it, Sound and Fury. The premises are clear. Deny one.

That's not how this works. If you've got nothing to say, then stop saying it. Address the op

Full of sound and fury. Address the argument

No it isn't. Read the OP and stop attacking dumb strawman arguments of your own invention. Argue. Read the OP. Identify the premises. Attack one. Don'...

I can't discern any kind of rational criticism in anything you've said. You seem to think the universe itself has desires and so on. First, even if it...

Focus. Address the argument in the OP. It makes no mention of knowledge or consciousness. So why are you mentioning them? It makes no mention of my mu...

So, you think that if a thinking thing is in the universe, then the universe also thinks? I am in my underpants. Therefore my underpants think. Let's,...

Holism is the view that there are holes, indeed that everything is a hole. Reductionism is the view that we ought to make things smaller.