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Eventually the absurdity of a loving god who tortures people, not just in hell, but in the actual world, becomes overwhelming. Christianity is incoher...

:roll: Astonishing.

So your point seem to be that if you claim that being coherent means being understood, that you cannot say something is both incoherent and understood...

Why would you do that? https://www.etymonline.com/word/incoherent#etymonline_v_30010

I think I answered your question, but you seem not to agree. Yet you understand "square" and "circle" but think "square circle" incoherent.

To understand some puzzle is at least to some extent to place it within a context. You understand circles, and you understand squares, in that you can...

Well, The G is the one, and F is another property. So, "G is not F and not con-F" says that G is a different from F. The purpose is to bring out the s...

:grin: Yep.

Is this the article?

You might learn much about being human by hanging around with disabled folk. There's a thread of nastiness running through this topic. It derives from...

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Cheers.

Well it's a standard paradox, the sort that @"TonesInDeepFreeze" showed how to deal with earlier. It posits a set and then asks if the set is a member...

SO can you explain why it must be true - what that means? Wouldn't it be simpler to just say that "heterological" is neither heterological nor autolog...

Can you explain the Grelling-Nelson paradox, in your own terms, in order to demonstrate that you have understood it? And also then show what it means ...

Ok, have it your way. Twit.

That's unhelpful. You can't learn if you can't see your errors. Ok, try this then. Can you set out exactly wha the Grelling-Nelson paradox is, and why...

Honestly, it doesn't seem to me to even be an argument. You seem simply to have misunderstood quite a bit of what is going on in talking about logic. ...

This thread isn't going well.

Hana Arendt's essay on the banality of evil would be a good start.

Whatever. This all kinda missed the point.

I have pointed out that "How does it feel to be...?" depends on resemblance as much as "what is it like to be...or do...?". "Exhilarating" has its use...

Yep. Not private.

One learns the grammar of "I" and "me".

:brow: It was your interjection that now appears to have been without purpose. it's not clear to me what you had to add to the discussion.

We can, and indeed do, talk about what it is like; the adrenaline, the free-fall, the stomach in your mouth. Hence, the notion that "you would know on...

So this thread has retreated to the shallow water of biblical exegesis, trivialising the issue, reducing the conversation from being about humanity to...

You are saying what it is like to skydive by naming experiences had elsewhere, and in skydiving.

What?

He won't be on the AEC list if he is continuing... ABC site has him as continuing.

Roberts appears to be continuing...?

By chance or design, in this month's Philosophy Now: Paradox Lost

Well, folk insist on making the same errors. But I note that you are still here. What's good for the goose... Any thread is what you make of it.

Is that all you have to offer? Be interesting.

~~ Cheers.

Read the Midgley article cited above.

I think it is illegal. It is plain that there are things that are true regardless of how we represent them. Claiming that this is not so is an error.

Better to think of Wittgenstein as having provided a set of tools to help undo metaphysical knots. So long as folk keep tying them, there will be a ne...

Nagel is quite brilliant, and I've learned much by trying to work out what he has said. it might be worth starting with a look at his suggestion that ...

:wink: Indeed, one can't put one's hand on what is being claimed.

Sure. Now answer the question - what is skydiving like? What would that answer look like? What more would one expect or eccept in answer, except what ...

If someone makes a wrong move in Chess, it is not inappropriate for one to point it out to them. The line I am taking here is more akin to Austin than...

Ridding oneself of nausea by listening to jazz is not at all unreasonable, although I find blues and folk rock more agreeable.

Yes. Because it is associated with an idealist or anti-realist metaphysics that I reject. That's the point.

The big deal is that folk are mislead by misused language. In this case, how exactly is "experiencing a red qual" different from "seeing red"? I'm not...

Rein forcing my conviction that subjective and objective mark a lack of conceptual clarity. That, as explanations go, is not the best. Made me laugh, ...

Isn't this so indicative of the conceptual confusion around subject and object; when the subject is the object? As it stands, I'm immediately turned o...

It's like other times you have eaten an apple, which is like other times you have eaten fruit, which is like eating sausages, which is like drinking, ...

So Hegel took mind as fundamental, Marx took mater as fundamental. Hence the term "dialectic materialism" serves to differentiate Marx's dialectic not...

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