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I do, but I think of them as one should think of mental illnesses, which they are. If I have an infection or traumatic injury or genetic deformity in ...

It also occurs to me that I could be under a mistaken impression that Kant, Peirce, etc, even have general principles with myriad specific application...

NB that I'm not implying this is chronological; just logical. They maybe started chronologically with a bunch of conclusions that seemed correct, then...

I'm not so much looking for a complete account of it at this point, as a sketch of it. Where do they start (their general principles) and where does t...

Actually I stated my own principles implications incorrectly just then. Positions in all of those different fields are directly implicated by my princ...

I think I agree with you about the idea of a network of different relationships between various subfields, and that is the kind of thing that (as I sa...

No more so than notions of objective reality, which you support in your support of natural science. Objective reality doesn't depend on there being so...

I am enjoying reading your posts, but struggling to pull out of them the kind of thing I was wondering about in the OP. Since you seem to know much ab...

But you just said a moment ago: I said there are scientific theories that don’t rule it out. That doesn’t mean they say it is definite so.

That’s not an accurate historical account. Philosophy wasn’t and isn’t always just about speculating, and mathematics is older than the branching of s...

If you mean the quality of the forum, it has seemed both busier and less hostile in the parts that I’ve interacted with the past few days.

I think you're confused somehow about this conversation. I've only posted that link the one time. And I didn't say that science claims there definitel...

That doesn’t seem in disagreement with my point at all, which is that the naturals aren’t closed under subtraction. You have to invent additive invers...

Yes or course, but that relation there is subtraction, not addition. You have X and owe Y, so your net worth is Z = X - Y. So long as X > Y you can st...

If one did do a racism on the grounds of fashion, would that be... fashism? I’ll show myself to the door.

I just gave a bunch of examples. You can’t get -1 by adding natural numbers to each other. You have to do subtraction, and then that takes you out of ...

But why make an account for somewhere that that’s only required for posting, when you’re not going to post?

Thanks for that! This is the response most in line so far with the kind of thing I was looking for.

Yep. No amount of addition will result in the square root of negative one half.

Unfortunately this isn’t something Biden could personally make happen, unlike most of the rest of your list. That’s something that will take both hous...

That may be true of multiplication, exponentiation, tetration, etc, but the inverse operations break that closure. The numbers you can get by starting...

This doesn’t sound quite like what I mean, but I’m having difficulty explaining quite why. I think a good illustration would be the parable of the thr...

I was raised in a religious family, and so in my early childhood held unexamined and innocuous-seeming religious views. I never had a reactionary mome...

It means there is some standard, that is not itself simply one person or group's opinion, against which anyone's opinions on what is good or bad can b...

I thought that was a noble effort, but philosophical education seems to me more likely to happen in a conversation in which it is relevant, rather tha...

I think this is probably why you're missing out on what's new. The exciting advances in science and technology also come from a bunch of people behind...

I'm not seeing the implications of Ockham's Razor on a bunch of fields, but if you think there are some, I'd like to hear about them. For a smaller ex...

I'm not clear exactly what you mean by "specific to each discipline", but I think yes. I'm asking if you have some very general philosophical opinions...

There's not total consensus that questions of reality are to be settled by appeal to observation either: people disbelieve observable things and belie...

That is definitely something that needs to be accounted for, but I see no reason why both types of question can’t be treated separately but equally. B...

Try “pomo” instead. The zeroes are a mocking tone.

A process or practice can be a noun. “Democracy“ refers to some kind of political process or practice. Where is the problem?

Objectivity is just the absence of bias, as subjectivity is bias. If the two of you have shared experiences to refer to, then that is all you need for...

Check against observations?

I’m not talking about private language at all, but about how we can arbitrary publicly apply short easy-to-use labels to a big long descriptions of th...

I don’t completely follow you, and I get the sense that you also don’t follow me. I’m wondering, for example, what is your position on political philo...

Well, there’s at least two things to be addressed in philosophical conversations: do these ideas relate to each other in such-and-such way, and are th...

Two of these things are not like the others.

Say it again! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bX7V6FAoTLc

It sounds like you are familiar with their architectonics. Do you feel up to elucidating what their core principles are, and what stances on various p...

Thanks for that. Can you articulate how that principle gets applied on different philosophical topics? Like, for one example, what implications does “...

I think postmodernism is poorly defined in general, but the closest thing that fits the label is exactly this kind if “reverse scientism”, reducing ta...

Also, something I would be interested to hear more knowledgeable people than I elaborate on: I’ve heard both Kant and Peirce described as architectoni...

Something along those lines could make a core principle—something similar makes up a few of mine—but I’m thinking more of a few clear statements that ...

@"Isaac" I've repurposed this thread to be about discussion of my principles (since that's entirely what the conversation became about) and made anoth...

I voted "other", but I was tempted by both logic and phenomenology. On my account, logic is not properly a branch of philosophy, but a tool used by ph...

For that first quote: Given classical (bivalent) logic, the excluded middle and non-contradiction are equivalent by de Morgan's laws. But if you deny ...

Behavior is best when accounting for the past and the future. Learn from the past and plan for the future. Experience is best when in the present. Don...

Yeah, I looked her up when you asked, but nothing around here is named after her so I hadn’t heard of her before.

Eliminativism is much weirder than modal realism.