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Is there a culture war in the west right now? Isn't this obvious?

I don't think you will succeed in showing an inconsistency in @"Metaphysician Undercover"'s mathematics that he will recognise. Rather, we have a choi...

Yep. Global scepticism is self-refuting. The philosophical method becomes just keeping an eye on what is being held certain in order to acheive doubt....

"Are there trees?" is closer to a metaphysical question. What is it that you are asking here... well, one interpretation would be that you are asking ...

A friend once asked me if jellyfish sleep. My reply was that you can't sleep if you are never quite awake.

...that is, you rely on not doubting them, or in other words you treat them as certain. Of course you might bring one or two into doubt; but in order ...

You are getting the idea. Doubt is embedded in certainty. We've been taught, erroneously, that we should doubt everything. It's a truism. But that's n...

OK, Harry. I'm somewhat loath to enter into a conversation with you, on past experience. But once more... I'll agree with you that "objective" can tak...

That you and I speak english, at least to the extent that we use "trees" in a sufficiently similar way for my answer to be applicable. That we will re...

Yep. The notion of consciousness is explained by opposing it to unconsciousness. We see the difference between a conscious and unconscious person. It ...

Thank Wittgenstein. But it's there in your OP -

But, no, it seems he didn't.

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Doubt can only take place against a background of certainty.

You wake up, don't you? From zero to conscious. Notice that you can loose consciousness while quarks cannot. I'm not going with this. It relies on a m...

I think they should be treated as part of a reductio ad absurdum. Hence, Panpsychism fails.

IF quarks are conscious, do they sleep? Can they be anaesthetised? Can they be knocked unconscious by a blow to the... string?

Using "fag" as a pejorative is offensive to the group of people to whom it apples - gay folk. In any case, it is the mods who decide who stays and who...

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Hmm. Fair call. Do you enjoy watching other contortionists? https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTTIbNE8VGV-Sg3xyERSPFJqrXkyJve5lhm...

Here's another thread for you not to read: Subject and Object

So... 12 has no relation to life, except when it does.

Damn; he's on to me.

Neither of those arguments is valid, let alone cogent.

Ah, so none of what you say is true. So be it.

Here's the problem. Think I pointed this out before. And I was not alone.

Oh, indeed. But the complexity is fascinating.

That thought struck me, too. I found this, but need a translation.

Only when there is some point to what is being said...

Not I.

Making 'merica great.

Well then, I'm in good company. Wittgenstein, Davidson... I could go on.

Doubt only makes sense against a background of certainty.

Cool. I'm happy to take the credit.

No. It's like you are in denial. The fact that we are having this conversation, over the internet, using English, demonstrates my point. The beliefs w...

Ah! So is Meta's contention simply that Presburger arithmetic is the whole of Mathematics?

No helping some folk.

Sigh. You and I are both looking at this post. That's sufficient, sans the "underlying thing", for all our purposes outside of philosophy. The funny t...

Sigh. What phenomenal experience do we compare "and" to? What about "why?", or "Hello", or "autocratic"? Indeed, it seems htat most words do not work ...

Heinlein noted that cats wander from door to door looking for the one that leads into summer.

While there are variations in logic which do not rely on bivalence - being true, or false, with nothing in between - standard bivalent logic has long ...

Surprisingly apt.

Ah, so you live in their future too? I was sleeping.

Just by way of a bump for this thread, has any one else noticed that the air seems clearer recently?

Throwing out both the baby and the bathtub with the bath water.

...showing how is wrong.

We could start by buying a dozen eggs.

Well, that's wrong for starters.

Take a look at the thread Objective truth matters. It will save me explaining again how objective truth is not a thing.

Who did that?