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What does that argue? That becasue this hand is only recognised as such by someone, that therefore there is no real hand? That the rock is not real ex...

Then set out what a causal process is. When we talk about things being real, the paradigmatic cases are chairs and rocks and the screen on which you a...

As if causal processes were clearer than the chair on which I sit. The Eleatic Principle looks pretty useless.

So if you happen across something worthwhile in a PeterBot chat, copy and paste it elsewhere before it evanesces.

There's apparently no capacity to link to chats. I had two discussions, one in which I had the bot develop a virtue-based response to the trolly probl...

Cheers. I've added the generic link to PhilPapers, whcih should be stable and from which folk should be able to find other versions.

The Housing debate was pretty unedifying stuff, but Michael Sukkar showed himself to be a bit of a cunt. He begins by refusing to answer the simple qu...

Fine. Can there be a necessary being? The answer turns on whether you’re working within S4 or S5. Let’s map this out carefully and then draw a reasone...

Why? There are possible worlds in which there is no life. Why not possible worlds in which life is not possible? Pretty clear this does not follow. is...

Perhaps he was away from school the day "tangent" was taught.

Well put. Note that those who take themselves as having access to the One Truth might well treat rationality as a means to the end of justifying or ev...

He extends the same argument to other areas of mathematics, were he has repeatedly been shown not to understand the concepts. A waste of time.

:rofl: Folk can Google it, Meta. Cheers.

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Here's the rub: What's the alternative?

Fair enough—maybe I came across too categorical. I don’t wish to shut down the search for meaning, despite my view that meaning is made, not found. I’...

I'm not assuming it is. I'm not assuming anything about a shared vision, but asking - who decides what our shared vision is to be? And what happens to...

I do rather like the developing argumentum ad peanutem. https://schulzmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/pe19740113.gif

Right, and this is where the disagreement runs deep. The idea that we need a shared vision of the good to live together—that’s exactly what liberalism...

Second election debate tonight, on ABC. Might tune in. I doubt it will be better than Hard Quiz, which it replaces.

Yep. That’s what’s so compelling in Lefebvre—he rescues liberalism from the charge of moral emptiness not by denying it, but by reframing it. Liberali...

There's a previous thread that takes this argument and applies it to the ethics of believers: The moral character of Christians

You showed little understanding of modal logic. Your contribution here is pretty much on a par with your rejection of instantaneous velocity - an ecce...

collapses liberalism into capitalism, but that’s a mistake—one Lefebvre might help us avoid. For Lefebvre, liberalism isn’t an economic theory, but a ...

It's not just that it is not in syllogistic form - which it still isn't. The terms you use are odd, to the point of nonsense. I don't know how to unde...

As said, it's very much a supply-side deficit. The Libs blaming immigration and foreign investment is bullshit.

Sure, you can buy into the elitism if you like. But let’s be honest—who exactly counts as “the wise”? I was at a VAD (Voluntary Assisted Dying) forum ...

:wink: As should we all be. But babes and bathwater. Liberalism is in the end a solution to the problem of how we get on without hitting each other. A...

It pays for more trees, as I understand it. Not claiming to be carbon neutral here.

Sure, yet there are differences. I came across this: https://i.ibb.co/1Gq85cV2/image.png From https://grattan.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/How-to...

I specified the administration. However, in practical terms it amounts to the same thing. If I do an deal with some individual in the USA, I can no lo...

:chin: My response is the one immediately after Franks... As it turns out, a piece of art we purchased from the States arrived an hour or so ago. Very...

See https://www.productivity.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-11/20241114_NSW-PEC-report-Review-of-housing-supply-challenges-and-policy-options-for...

You seem to think that all you need do is present a proposal for it to be agreed. Presenting statements is not presenting an argument. Must be a Chris...

A simple response, here, would be removal of capital gains and negative gearing.

The style of that OP is not one I could take seriously.

Sure, many critiques see liberalism as spiritually thin. But Tim doesn’t respond so much as revel in that thinness. In contrast, we have the example o...

Tim's piece doesn't much differentiate liberalism from capitalism. Outside the USA socialist policy has a greater standing and liberalism can be consi...

Australia's problems are to a large part the result of a policy introduced in the nineties that allows rent to be negatively geared. If an investor bu...

Alan Kohler.

The OP offers a broad indictment of liberalism. But there is no clear argument. You've written a mood piece. The dissatisfaction is real, but the reas...

Your understanding of modal logic is on a par with your grasp of physics.

Right. I'll leave you to it, again. Enjoy.

On your logic, if someone goes looking for the Loch Ness Monster, then there must be a Loch Ness Monster. Very good.

Meh. It remains that the OP does not present anything like the "demonstration" indicated in the title.

Is this a philosophy forum or a bible study?

What twaddle. "Laws" of nature are just ways of talking about the way things are, ways that have been shown to work. They are not "enforced" - as if o...

SO both major parties have policies that will drive up house prices. And this is how they fix housing affordability. Fucksake.

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