That's not my argument. That's just a question. There's playing every note on the piano, and then there's a Chopin etude. If Chopin plays his etude no...
I am not entirely sure what you mean. I interpret you as saying that just because our reason tells us that it makes no sense to ask "what does your mi...
It is self-evident to virtually everybody. "Is your mind rough or smooth?" makes no sense. It's like asking "how loud is 3?" This radical apparent dis...
I don't know what you're talking about. Imagine materialism is true. Now imagine you're the only material object that has conscious states. Bingo, now...
Yes, well on your scheme no matter how many times I give an argument for immaterialism about the mind it will never constitute evidence in support of ...
No, that's just confused. Solipsism is a view about the number of minds that exist. It is 'not' a view about the nature of the mind. One can be a mate...
That's totally untrue. Most philosophers believe free will is both possible and actual. Only a minority believe we lack free will, and an even smaller...
Why are you surprised at this? Do you think philosophers have been labouring under the misguided belief that doing things to the brain has no affect o...
Er, what? I have just argued that the mind is not a sensible object. You have said 'why not solipsism?' That's not an alternative view - it's like say...
Presumably you think that mental states are brain states? What evidence do you have for this? Imagine I have a metal detector. It detects metal really...
I should say what, in more detail, is wrong with your case. First, there is no question in my mind that testimonial evidence can count, and can count ...
You are not addressing the objection. All of us have had dreams that we would say seemed robustly real. When we subsequently judge them to be dreams t...
That is not a convincing reply. Your case now rests entirely on the supposed hyper real quality that some testimonies report. Yet most of us have had ...
I think there is overwhelming evidence that our minds are immaterial, eternally existing objects. I know of no good evidence that the mind is a sensib...
Er, no. 3 does not follow from 1. As for your judgement that I am an idiot - well, that's the Dunning Kruger effect for you. Experts seem like idiots ...
It's not clear to me what you're asking in your OP. Nobody denies that prescriptions exist. "Shut the window!" There. That's one. And there can be des...
I think your view is very silly. If morality is a matter of opinion, then if I have the opinion that Xing is right, it is right, yes? I mean, unless t...
It's implicit. Try reading the article and thinking about what he's saying. And what you said was not written in plain English. It was gobbledygook. I...
Your assessment of Strawson's argument has nothing whatsoever to do with his argument. I mean, what on earth does this mean: It's complete gobbledygoo...
I don't know what you mean. The two claims of mine that you quoted were perfectly compatible with one another. Strawson thinks it is metaphysically im...
No I'm not. The views expressed in both of those passages are consistent. Having prima facie evidence that a proposition is true is consistent with th...
I was merely being helpful. I did not suggest they were the only valid argument forms (like you know what they are!) But just one valid argument would...
Yes, I can read. Is English your first language? What does 'a difference between an intuition and reality cannot be afforded' mean? It's gibberish. Ju...
Lay it out. I'm tired of trying to argue with someone who doesn't know how to argue. Lay it out. Pssst, premises can't be fallacious. Fallaciousness i...
Nope. You just can't construct a deductively valid argument that has the negation of one of my premises as a conclusion and has rationally compelling ...
Question begging. Refute my argument. You didn't. Do it. Deductively valid argument (you're going to have trouble there as your arguments have so far ...
Well, my theory about that would be because I'm debating with people who can't recognize an argument from their elbow. The main argument I made in the...
Yes it does. Christ. No parallel at all. Jesus. And you haven't shown that. You've just ineptly dismissed all rational intuitions, which is kinda sill...
Erm, yes there is. What. On. Earth. Are. You. On. About? Yes, like I say, you're just begging the question. And it doesn't seem to you that you are be...
You assume my view is false for the purposes of refuting it. That's begging the question. There's no empirical evidence that nothing that exists exist...
It's question begging, that's what. That's going to be self-defeating. The reason why is, frankly, above your intellectual pay grade, but I'll explain...
Baby steps. In the OP I expressed disagreement with one of Strawson's claims, namely the claim that it is impossible for us to satisfy his condition o...
Most of that was just question begging. The only point of note was your appeal to the possibility of an evolutionary discrediting account of our ratio...
Erm, Strawson thinks more than one thing. He thinks one thing - A - that I agree with. And he thinks another thing - B - that I do not. He thinks that...
And I don't have to. It is sufficient for the argument to go through that it is metaphysically possible for there to be such things. If it is metaphys...
They weren't remotely sincere. And no philosopher would say. So you're not scoring too highly on the sincerity scale. Well if you were a philosopher -...
It's 'moral' responsibility - of the desert variety - that Strawson is talking about and arguing is impossible. So other kinds are irrelevant. For ins...
The term 'moral responsibility' has at least two distinct meanings. Sometimes it is used to denote 'being a moral agent' - that is, being someone who ...
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