Banno

Or he didn't exist, at least as depicted. A bit sick of inane theological threads.

The death of god seems only to have changed the excuses we use to justify our excesses.

Are you claiming to be unable to distinguish a hand waved by Shrek from one waived by Moore? Elsewhere, you appear to move between belief and knowledg...

You have to say it three times to make it true. So copy and paste it again. On re-reading our discussion, I don't see what it is, if anything, that yo...

Contrast? It might better assist the discussion if you pointed out what it is that you wish contrasted. So yes, 180 and I write with brevity. Tully th...

Indeed, getting out and doing stuff, especially with other folk, is an excellent antidepressant.

True; but I do some philosophical stuff, as it suits me. Besides, it would presumably ruin your day, were you to find something positive in the world.

There's nothing to face.

You are right - this thread has received much more attention than it deserves.

I could, and have, but Josh and Manuel have provided more interesting fodder.

See On Certainty.

Thank you for your consideration.

What do you mean by "physical phenomena"? If you mean the stuff physicists study, then yes, they are. Optics is a thing, as the lac-a-beards say.

How so?

It's a pretty good summary of any philosophy, in my opinion. There's a bit of a pile-on happening here. Bartricks has overstayed his welcome. His fail...

...but his reply to your accusation has me in stitches. Oh, the irony!

Oh, it'll be great fun to watch. See how the evil vampire who is actually a nerd living in his mother's basement reins in ontology to the needs of his...

So much the worse for phenomenology, then. It leads to things such as: ...as if colour could not be measured, mastered and mathematicised; and ...as i...

It's an excellent OP. What you will elicit is a list of philosophical errors. And so it begins.

No. Because what you are making up is nonsense.

I won.

Why not learn some physics, rather than just making shit up?

Well, no, they don't. So there's that for you to contend with.

Whatever that means.

What is depends on what you are doing. One makes bread by sifting flour and mixing it with yeast and heating the result. A cook who doubts the existen...

Treating these as if they were mutually exclusive will get you nowhere. Have a read of the Strawson article cited by and get back to me.

I won't disagree. Much of what I do involves showing children how to look after each other so that they look after themselves.

All the right bits are there, so well done. But they are not put together in an altogether coherent way. "Here is a hand" is true IFF here is a hand. ...

Obligation? No. That's a Kantian notion. I asked if you would grant that morality derives from respect. You're not behaving morally, nor immorally, if...

You're not in a position where your judgement on this is worth listening to.

Hmm. If there is something wrong with everyone you look at, perhaps you are looking in the wrong direction... That OP is distinctly misanthropic. The ...

If two people stand back to back, and do nothing, but the distance between them increases... then the space they are in is expanding. Space is not the...

You didn't understand it, therefore it is stupid? Nuh.

Yep. That's what the cosmic microwave background radiation is - well, almost, to within a few hundred thousand years. :up:

Surely you’d grant that morality derives from respect for others, not for oneself... But yes, I will agree with you that consistency - integrity - is ...

Well said. I prefer to use "sentence", in the main, or "assertion" for as needed. I think it was @"180 Proof"(?) who convinced me that "proposition" h...

Odd, that you use that rhetorical structure repeatedly, despite it never working. If you think you have a point to make, then make it. If you have not...

You work it out. Do some thinking for yourself for a change.

If there were no limit on resources, then nothing would have a cost. There would be no economy.

:up:

Why, by comparing one with the other. Buying apples is different to building with slabs.

Cheers.

OK. Well, that's boring.

The three questions.

Even should he choose one rule to rule them all - his precious - he is still making a choice, and hence remains subject to "the whim and whimsy of his...

Hence it becomes the application of heuristics - Muddling along, if you prefer. The best that can be done is to try to do better each time. Virtue eth...

I'll go along with that; although what to do depends intimately on the situation. "Haphazard" isn't right; one may choose to apply whatever rules one ...

What am I to conclude? This belief may never have been expressed; but it is not inexpressible. If all you mean by "prelinguistic" is "unexpressed" the...

"And one might almost say that these foundation-walls are carried by the whole house"; "...almost ...". So the metaphor is not quite right. Along side...

Pretty much. There is no "void" to escape into, since it's all more language games.