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How could one decide if a proffered definition were correct, apart from comparing it to experience? Yes, the meaning of "good" is shown, not said; fou...

Yes. This is an excellent analysis.

I want to work Roland the headless Thompson gunner into a clever post, but this will have to do.

Folk appear to have missed this constraint you placed on the topic. There's also some overgeneralisation. "Being alive" isn't the purpose of a worker ...

Well, yes, I think that is what I said. There might be a need to guard against having a private purpose; one not apparent in any action. "Boot strappe...

I marked them for you.

Fuck off.

Nice. i think you are right that this is a sort of "default" analysis of purpose. The trouble is that it encourages hypostatization by treating "x" as...

Australia consistently outperforms the US, however our results are in decline. We've had the answer before us for decades - our private school system ...

I don't see how it does. Dunning-Kruger may be explicable in terms of regression to the mean, or at least reducible to the better-than-average effect.

So let's take it as an example. Here's a graph of Singapore's GDP since 1960 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339771950/figure/fig1/AS:8664253...

So I guess the rollerskating didn't work out for you? Bummer. Why do you care? Maybe go do what you want anyway. I'm guessing that "civilisation" will...

How should this be understood - "Is there someone such that without them there would be no philosophy in any possible world?" Well, no, there isn't. P...

Ok. I'll indulge in a little flow of consciousness, if that is alright. I spent a few hours yesterday looking at Classics undergrad courses. They are ...

Sorry - I was distractedly spinning apples in my mind. Granny Smith, but I changed its colour to blue, just to be different. Then I went off on a side...

That's just what they want you tho think... :wink:

Take a look at these ngrams. There does appear to be a significant increase in mention.

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Following through on my previous post. Then on what basis can you be sure it was an idea, and not a sensation, a sentiment or an emotion? If the idea ...

You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment. :wink:

Moreover, it's not so clear what "propaganda" is, either. But we would not want to make this a discussion about the use of "words..." Am I right in th...

My "attitude" is entirely down to me. I'm pleased that others are not saying the same stuff I do; I might therefore claim some small originality, alth...

Meh. The stuff I study is fifty years out of date.

Oh, yes, indeed. Parochialism one of the things education is supposed to guard against - education, and travel. I doubtless need to get out more.

It might be worth pointing out how parochial that post is.

I'm borderline, with a couple of degrees and actually having been paid many years ago to teach philosophy at Uni. There might be a half-dozen folk on ...

Yep.

Keep in mind that the folk hereabouts are not philosophers.

The social model of disability.

Supose this were to occur, so that you had an idea that was inexpressible. Call that idea "X". You now have an expression for X. Hence, X is expressib...

Well, yes. Now you are starting to think. Typical of this place, I provide the answer and no one listens. :roll: Alternately, done well, the cheese wi...

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A Breville sandwich toaster. Neat little sealed pockets.

Your posing this reinforces the view that you haven't understood the misfire in your approach. It's not science against ethics. Sure, anthropology can...

Apparently Daniel Dennett's sailboat was named Xanthippe.

You really can't see the incongruity in that? None of those are views I advocate.

There's the bit where you give, and the bit where you take back. You offer a "moral science" that tells us all about our social actions, then you say ...

I don't. But "ethics" is working out what we should do. Now that is a difficult question, quite different to the simple one of what we have done. Trou...

Trouble is, you don't know what you will do next. That's the case, even if what you do is already determined. So the question remains, what will you d...

We can never see shoes unless we have already seen shoes: a Transcendental Argument that leads to an infinite regress such that we never see shoes. An...

The problem remains, as has long been pointed out, that a description of what is the case does not tell us what ought be the case. Excluding "ought" c...

Nice slide. Is pain a unique percept, distinct from salience? Pain differs from mere touch in forcing itself on one's attention. Special case; or at l...

Sure. Agree entirely. And what is seen is the shoe; what is heard is the phone - not the percept. If it were the percept that is seen or heard, then w...

Just to be clear, the decision here is not between indirect realism and direct realism. Since at least Austin it has been about rejecting that framing...

Of course, for you it can't be, because the argument just presented undermines the mystique of "scientific method" And then, yet again, the Authoritar...

That's fine - My belief that I have a hand is much the same. Going back over it again, your belief that you have a hand, rather than that you are dece...

How is it an inference, then, and not a sentiment, or a mere prejudice? And how is that "scientific"?

Why? On what basis did you decide that it is "more reasonable" that there is a hand before you than that an evil Damon is tricking you? What did you u...

"Best explanation". Statistical, then. Bayesian inference? You compared a set of other explanations, and decided that "here is a hand" is the best one...

Ah. SO you induce the existence of the world by application of "scientific method"? SO does this method involve falsification, or is it statistical? T...