Hm. Perhaps Gregory has been mislead by talk of fundamental forces. "A force that is unique to gunpowder"; Perhaps such is the difficulty of reading p...
Hmmm. The difference is the presumption that physical strength is a male characteristic, emotional strength, feminine. Was that your intent? Suppose I...
Yeah. I think it's pretty settled that you have an - odd - notion of identity. So let's keep it strict and clear. You said that "The law of identity s...
Well, see Causality, Determination and such stuff. "Everything in the universe has a cause" is another example of a notion taken from one area of thou...
Yep. Philosophy is like that damn chipped tooth that you can't help but explore with your tongue. Some folk do cryptic crosswords for much the same re...
Poor old Russell lived long enough to see his professional contribution to philosophy pretty much completely overturned. It's not a surprise that he w...
Then how is it that we happen to have these two distinct words? There is a difference between being hit by a truck and having the illusion of being hi...
Like the difference between analytic and continental philosophy, although expressed in geographical terms, the difference is more one of style and met...
I once met a group of ten-year-olds who's greatest concern was what it is to be a Man - they called it the "Real Man Test". They seem to have grown up...
I'd suggest making a close reading of PI at around §48, the criticism of the notion of simples, and having a go at applying that to Meta's theorising....
A good question. Meta is so off centre in his critique of Wittgenstein that it's hard to know where to begin. It is ironic, but he and Wittgenstein mi...
That seems to me to be exactly wrong. Take a read of Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle: Thought Style and Thought Collective. Just the abstract shoul...
I'm not keen on that approach. Purloining ideas form other areas of philosophy - in this case ontology - is fraught. Where you see it as drawing atten...
Sure. So am I. If we are going to do this well, we should keep one eye on what it is we are doing with the terms we use- like substance. So where does...
Oh, indeed; and here is the odd thing about the what-it-is-like conversation: if the bat argument is to reach its conclusion, we cannot know what it i...
But there's more here, since there are those who would distinguish between actually eating an apple and having the experience of eating an apple; pres...
No, you are a derailer who prefers to address me than anything in the Blues. So, try again without- without - expressing your view about me. See if yo...
Is 'Chicago Blues' just a misleading term for 'Blues'? I mean, what does 'Chicago' Blues mean? Does it mean Blues 'as practiced' in Chicago? But that'...
You keep making a pretence to arguing. But you have made the point that these arguments are all "merely an utterance without meaning". SO there re no ...
It's not clear what is going on here. What does it mean to say a bat has an identity? That the bat knows who it is? That Baker knows it is a bat? What...
SO you are proposing a transcendental argument along the lines of "we need a moral compass, therefore there must be something it is like to be a bat"?...
There is a performative contradiction in what you are saying that undermines your account. If you are right, then it is true that in a deterministic u...
OK, so it it true that: The Universe is what it is. It is me making sounds and you making sounds. Just shuffling along on the block time. Hence, there...
...so that's the latter; you do not wish to find a coherent account, and will settle for a contradiction: the universe is determined, and that hence t...
That's a profoundly muddled post. So it's true that the universe is determined, and that hence there can be no truths. Do you desire a coherent unders...
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