Banno

PN. It's closer to the style circuitously advocated in the OP, and yet its longest thread is less than a tenth of many of the threads here.

Pretty much. You have (I suspect) the background in philosophy to understand Wittgenstein's point. You will understand that it would be trite to attem...

Most members are from the USA. It's a self-centred culture. Take a look, in contrast, at the PN forum. What do you see?

It would be a mistake to think that this makes those political posts the core of the forum. They are the froth; there are also patterns of interlinked...

So... are we doing the call-and-answer thing? Marco!

Neophytes. This forum is run by and for curmudgeons. Get off my grass.

Cutting to the chase, if you do not like this forum, set up one you do like.

:grin:

Perhaps, and eventually, the Mods might oblige one to get fucked off...? As in, instead of one fucking off oneself, one might have them fuck one off w...

No mysteries here, just possibilities. The deluded cat believed the mouse went behind the tree. Here's a better argument for Creative's position; it's...

A reasonable summation. Creative is left with the absurdity that is not a proposition.

My argument: Read the Tractatus and associated material.

...did you mean right whingers?

The world is all that is the case. No sneakiness; this is pivotal, and in plain sight in my posts. It's Proposition 1.

You would remodel the whole forum because youa re unhappy with one small section of it. It ain't broke. Don't try to fix it. In any case, there is alr...

Banno's point, consistently over many years, is that fathoming how a word is used is often the task of philosophy; and hence commencing with definitio...

Paragraphs... What does their absence imply?

You're again avoiding the issue.

The point that I, @"Isaac" and @"TheMadFool" have made remains: You are not using Freedom in the same way as the rest of us. Your account is therefore...

Yep. Odd.

Posting an invisible video is not particularly helpful.

Indeed, the content of any belief is propositional. The entirety of that assertion is that, in mooting a belief, one must also moot a proposition that...

Good topic. A zombie of which I approve. I'm pretty disgusted with the Australian government's role here - or rather lack thereof. A British court has...

I'll not enter into this discussion until after the debate - if then.

Read the description of the block universe you provided. That's what it implies happens. Fuck. The only difference is that I object to the word "illus...

But that's not right. Time does not flow relative to an observer who can see the whole block. Time does flow from the point of view of an observer wit...

Nah. Better to get folk to read it in situ.

Again, how would you go about distinguishing one from the other? It's just a misuse of the notion of illusion. It's not an illusion in a way not dissi...

...then what is the difference between time flowing and time just appearing to flow?

Think we might leave this here. You've lost me. The point I'm making is a simple one, and one with which you appeared to agree. Edit: That's not right...

Not really. I'm saying that he notion that there is a world seperate from the world we talk about, and about which we cannot talk, is a bit of a non-s...

I've no clear notion of what point you are making in relation to what I have said.

...or forget this world-as-it-is talk and just get on with stuff.

Hu? Why would you think that?

You woudl still be talking about stuff of which you can say nothing...

My 'evidence' is simply that time appearing to flow and time flowing are exactly the same. Saying that the passing of time is an illusion makes for a ...

I can't see how what you are saying is any different from what I have said, except that you say that the passage of time would be an illusion, while I...

How could time appearing to pass differ from time passing? What would that difference look like? Yep. there is no difference in the observations made.

Same same. An illusion occurs when something looks like something else, but isn't. It would be an illusion if time appeared to pass, but didn't. The w...

Yep. The one you cite:

What do you want? Kant is not using the term "freedom" in the way it is usually used, hence his argument does not apply to what is usually called free...

Yes, I understand how the block universe works, thanks for the link. That link makes exactly the same point that I am making. It uses the term "illusi...

To a being inside a block universe, time passes.

Hm. You seem to have an image of poor Galileo working in secret. His persecution began after he published, not before.

Yep.

If this is mere exegesis, then fine. If you think you are saying something about freedom and duty, then we have an interesting disagreement. That is, ...

It's an axiom. Says so on the packet.

No.

All that means is that you are misusing the term "unfalsifiable". It can't be, nor has anyone claimed that it can be.