That sounds like it's only considering the edge of the chart between "worst" and "nonexistence". Highlighting the other dimension besides that is the ...
Even in relativistic spacetime, two spatiotemporal coordinates (two events) are still clearly distinguishable as two events. This begins to raise very...
So if you don’t count some properties, then two objects with all the same properties (besides the ones you’re ignoring) can’t be told apart. That’s no...
:clap: :clap: :clap: :rofl: :party: :fire: :100: :sparkle: That's the kind of post I was hoping this whole thread would be. I didn't want to complain ...
I'm having trouble following you on this. I took your mention of how "the distinction between ideal and concrete vanishes" to be talking about the sam...
The different cars are discernible in that there are properties of them that they do not have in common: for example, one is here while another is the...
This is essentially what I am proposing. But... This sounds like the same thing to me. There is nothing more to being a “real thing” than being an abs...
Usually a physicalist, asked to choose between platonism and nominalism, would choose nominalism, because platonism is obviously anti-physicalist. OTO...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that Popper is socio-historically located within the stream of analytic philosophers. I know this has...
Someone else mentioned up thread, in a way better than I can recount from memory, how one of the founding principles of analytic philosophy was the re...
I think the thing that makes analytic philosophy as such as socially ineffectual as it is, is precisely its aversion to system-building. While pieceme...
In this view that I'm laying out in this thread, our concrete universe is just one of the infinitely many abstract mathematical structures. (We don't ...
I think the historical way to think about it is that philosophy divided, like a cell undergoing mitosis, rather than a human giving live birth. These ...
While that is a lovely idea, I think it would take a very rare personality to both do philosophy well and also survive a political race. Most people w...
Mostly because fdrake majorly upped the ante on the level of rigor I expected. I had hoped for a dozen or two posts about the size (and level of detai...
That seems like a strange way of putting it. I would agree that the definition of “common sense” is something like “something that has a broad consens...
I defined that right in the post you quoted: "the kind of view that I expect people who have given no thought at all to philosophical questions to fin...
This is just quibbling over phrasing now. When I speak of “experience” I mean something like Descartes probably means by “awareness”, including sensor...
In the way Descartes uses “thought”, it is entirely possible that all perceptions are merely thoughts: we could just be imagining, dreaming, hallucina...
I think you’re on the right track there, and my own thoughts on that same track show up in my names for my proposed versions of “existential” quantifi...
I'm reminded of something I wrote in the intro to my own philosophy book: "The general worldview I am going to lay out is one that seems to be a naive...
I'm not saying that anyone is doing anything wrong by criticizing religious errors. I'm saying that, for the most part, it's not worth the effort of e...
This argument is dumb. Analytic and Continental philosophy both tackle important questions. There is a continuous spectrum from mathematical, ideal, o...
I'm as anti-religious as they come and I think threads like this one are just as low-quality and (for lack of a better word) disruptive as the shallow...
Not quite. Instead of “I think, therefore I am”, you have “I experience something, therefore I and that something exist”. The having of some experienc...
The size of the Supreme Court is actually not fixed and has varied widely over time. It's a fairly recent tradition for it to have exactly 9 members a...
@"fdrake"@"Kenosha Kid"@"jgill" glad to see you all talking about collaborating on this! I feel like I have a very very superficial understanding of m...
Machine learning is fascinating, but kind of orthogonal to what I’m hoping yo accomplish in this thread. We have a black box example of all of this st...
Moral absolutism would necessitate that moral universalism be true, yes, but proving some moral principle is absolute is a bigger task than proving th...
Other way around: moral absolutism can only be true if moral universalism is true. But universalism can be true — every particular event can be non-re...
Lichtenburg, sort of. All that is truly indubitable is that thinking occurs, or at least, that some kind of cognitive or mental activity occurs. I pre...
Just a small point of clarification for now: The opposite of moral relativism is moral objectivism or universalism, not necessarily "absolutism". Mora...
I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. You can describe the same circle with different coordinates in a distorted coordinate system like that; ...
I think quietist philosophy is no different than any other topic done properly, in a critical rationalist way. Critical rationalism means all you’re e...
Ah but Banno put it in quotes, meaning he’s only MENTIONING the phrase, not USING it, and he’s only calling for the banning of people who use it, not ...
Think of it as analogous to how we treat behaviors in a liberal society; “doing something” is analogous to “believing something” here. If someone does...
Resurrecting this thread to get feedback on something I've written since, basically my own summary of what I hoped this thread would produce, and I'd ...
So for the case at hand, we don’t have to worry about the mere POSSIBILITY of solipsism being true; sure, it might be, but so might its negation. Both...
This is backwards. If you reject every possibility until it can be proven, then you reject everything by default and then have nothing with which to p...
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