No, I said the implications of your position that thinking up an idea creates that idea would make that situation absurd. If thinking up an idea creat...
That was, more or less, sarcastic. If “socialism” meant wealth redistribution, not just from those with the greatest means to those with the greatest ...
No, I’m saying that moral objectivism isn’t the claim that everybody does value the same thing. It’s not the opposite of descriptive moral relativism,...
If you mean the "same chair design" scenario, that is totally possible, and I never said otherwise. What I mean is that that doesn't constitute two se...
I think the problem with arguments that stem from “human nature”, the objection to such arguments, is that the picture of “human nature” being put for...
It's not because they're different people, it's because they have made two different instantiations, so if the instantiation is the idea, as you seem ...
No, I mean if the “idea” is not its content but its instantiation, then two people who separately instantiate it, who separately invent it, have inven...
There is no algorithm that will eventually spit out every possible irrational number? I know they can’t be put into a linear order, but is there no wa...
If they both invented, created, their respective ideas by the act of instantiating them, such that the idea itself and the instantiations of it are no...
Tristan makes great arguments against the invention-only side. I wouldn’t say that that means ideas are discovered-only though, because the act of fin...
Thanks for sharing that, great find! I want to be hopeful that this candid testimony (the sister was unaware her remarks were being recorded) will cha...
He’s asking on what grounds can the independent inventions of two people be called “the same thing”, unless we’re talking about the abstract eternal i...
How Americans think income should be distributed, how they think it is distributed, and how it actually is distributed: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/st...
But as has already been shown in this thread, just being spontaneous doesn't produce something we would count as creative either. If Google Image sear...
You're looking at the "middle income class". Marx doesn't divide classes up by their income; he divides them up by whether or not they own the means o...
The casual English speaker in me wants to agree that they’re simply invented, but the philosopher in me thinking about what they actually are demands ...
Yes. These are cases where the distinction doesn't make sense; the possibility of steam power was always there, and inventing the steam engine consist...
Because states are not communist. Communism is definitionally stateless. The states you’re talking about called their system “state capitalism”, which...
The point is that what rightfully belongs to who may be questioned, and whatever answer is settled on is then enforced by violence, in any system. Com...
This isn’t about knowledge, so the Rationalist vs Empiricist debate you’re invoking here isn’t relevant. I’m not talking about an “idea that...” somet...
Like how the employees of a business can’t just keep the profits of it for themselves and not give any to the owners without the owners showing up wit...
No, I’m saying that in the case of abstract objects like ideas, it makes no sense to differentiate invention from discovery. Not that invention goes a...
I am broadly an empiricist, but I don’t know in what way you mean like Locke specifically. I don’t understand your second question. But no, this isn’t...
Only the distinction between that and the content of those ideas is not relevant. Of course any idea is had by someone, but bringing that up has nothi...
As I said before, I’m not saying that ideas are only discovered not invented, but that there is no sense to be made of any distinction between discove...
Sure, but what we're talking about is how the content of the ideas gets there. What you're talking about is trivially true and I'm not contesting it a...
I just said I'm not conflating them; one is like a picture of the other. ...and then after collapsing invention vs discovery into a distinction with n...
I'm using "idea" as something like "mental picture of a possibility". We can think of the "coming up with" process as something like nature photograph...
Yes, but the production of an idea in a concrete medium is not usually what we take to be the act of "creativity": it's the coming-up-with of ideas th...
I'm not sure what more I can say in response to this that wouldn't just be repeating something from the OP, but I'll try. Surely every possibility is ...
Surely then a situation where most people own practically nothing (because almost everything is owned by a very few) will be one in which hardly anyon...
I’m not saying anything at all about what they are meant to be. A map or model in the usual sense is useful precisely because it is a simplification. ...
Talking about a literal map of a city is probably a clearer illustration. You can walk down a real city street, but you can’t walk down a street on a ...
We can hold people responsible in the sense of demanding restitution: whether you had a choice to do so or not, you caused some harm, so now we’ll mak...
No, I’ve concluded (like many before me) that it’s not a problem. “You don’t have good enough reason to think that” cannot be good enough reason to th...
Even if we’re not brains in vats, all of our experiences could conceivably be hallucinations. It is always possible to be radically skeptical to the p...
You’re basically just saying “nuh uh” here. I am explicitly endorsing the equivalence of physical reality and a mathematical object, so pointing to th...
Structure is function; to be is to do. If you were to make a truly complete map or model of something, you could not help but replicate its function, ...
You know that famous prayer asking for the “serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to k...
I broadly agree, I think, which is why I wrote before that drama (comedy+tragedy) is “sort of mirror image of beauty”: you can still see something via...
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