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Be aware of biases though. Plantinga is very much laying out an apologetics, an attempt to philosophically justify religion. You'll also want to tempe...

No, quite the opposite. For example, the common folk concept of free will predates concerns about whether determinism would inhibit it. We had a notio...

It’s fairly common. See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_pump Like you say philosophy often starts with our intuitions about thing...

I think what Gettier is doing is appealing to our folk intuitions about knowledge, saying that we would normally not say that Smith knew. That then co...

There can possibly be morally intractable situations where every extant possibility is bad. Objectivism with regards to such situations just means tha...

Tell me how you justify empiricism without appeal to empiricism.

I don’t think the principles themselves can show that those who disagree with them are wrong. That would be nonsense and circular. I think that the pr...

That sounds like the kind of thing that my principles of objectivism and liberalism would imply: everybody‘s perspective matters equally, and differen...

You seem like an open-minded and reasonable person to me, so I don’t think you’re in the same category as those tiresome posters. You seem more intere...

You are still conflating two different things here. What you are asking for is like asking to empirically prove that empiricism is correct. I am not s...

It seems to me that you are still mistaking what I’m talking about in the way I already clarified here:

I think that a lot of people here are tired of poorly-done philosophy done by a constant stream of newcomers with primarily philosophy of religion int...

If something doesn’t feel bad, how can it be called pain? Pain, or suffering more generally, is a bad-feeling experience. Many people seem to expect t...

You get that when I say "seeming good or bad", I don't mean you look at some situation not involving you and "sense" its morality, right? We don't con...

There are plenty of cases of shared agreement about things "seeming good or bad" as in sharing the same hedonic experience of the same phenomenon. Man...

Appeal to common phenomenal experience to answer descriptive questions is (physical) science. But as I already said earlier,...and in that establish t...

I'm saying that my philosophical position is one that embraces the methods of science... for answering factual or descriptive questions, and analogous...

Do you not understand that what I am advocating there is just basically empiricism? Slightly more abstracted, as on normative questions I also advocat...

Which thing? Usual motion that we talk about, like a car driving down the street, is motion over time. Eternalism doesn't deny that: it just says that...

Perhaps just like we've now defined the meter and other standards of measure in terms of objectively observable things -- we can recreate a perfect me...

It's just as much nonsense to talk about a 3D object moving through time with no hypertime as it is a 4D object. Let's consider a variation of your ca...

It's exactly this, but time instead of space: A real car moves from spatial point A to spatial point B over time. It's not at both points at the same ...

Yes of course. But the same is in principle true of basically everything. The objects that we infer to exist from our experiences are all models, and ...

Also note that the very existence of rent increases the cost of real estate, because people who can afford to buy in cash (the rich) can then rent out...

This applies plenty to first world countries too. A “decent loan” has to be one with low enough interest that it can actually be paid off eventually. ...

I’d say that the non-coupling field is still actually a physical (better term than “material”) thing that we can indirectly detect, because it is an i...

@"Kenosha Kid" I think you’re confusing Luke by using his language of “change of temporal position”. It’s clear to me that you mean we the observers a...

This is your problem. 3D object move in three dimensions OVER a fourth (time). They’re not moving THROUGH a fourth, because that (hyper)motion would h...

I’m saying that the very question of whether time moves / things move through time is confused. Things change in space with respect to time. Some thin...

That’s not a problem. That’s just a free market, which is not the problem with capitalism. The problem is that some people have fantastically more lev...

In the strict sense, Jews and Romani are nations. I admit that that sounds kind of weird to the modern colloquial ear which has come to think of "nati...

That's what I mean by "there are some peoples who don’t have states that correspond to them". The Kurds are a people -- an ethnic group, a nationality...

How can anything move through time if there is only one time, the present? That sounds like getting taller in flat world.

I have wondered how to incorporate history in there, but since there is a history of everything on the chart, it seems like a literal other dimension ...

dt represents a duration: the difference between one temporal position and another. dx represents a normal spatial length: the difference between one ...

He probably lives on rented land or else is renting money to pay for it with, and effectively rents the capital he works (no longer land since we’re n...

You do bring up a better word than “nationality” to describe the thing it’s being used for here: citizenship. “Nationality” is traditionally a synonym...

I said in an earlier thread what it is I take philosophy to be, which underlies why I think it has this relationship to the science: To that end, phil...

I’m not, and so far as I can see here nobody else is either. They’re just asking for sympathy for the innocents wrongly caught up in that angry reacti...

Back on the topic of the OP, I think “ethnicity” is itself a complex topic, that other items on this list factor into. I like to think of ethnicity as...

Destroying someone’s workplace can leave them homeless and destitute almost as easily as destroying their home can, so if empathy prevents the latter ...

Thank you for that very thorough response! That all correlates with my own experience and expectations as well. I wonder, in light if all that, why at...

That doesn’t sum to 1, that sums to 1/9. You do know how to calculate a limit, don’t you?

Neither am I, but even without that there is a division like of software and hardware between mind and body. In the future that analogy might become l...

Those are all chemicals, made of molecules made of atoms made of other particles that are just excitations of energy fields.

Correct, but a consequence of that is that everyone is at least slightly “insane”, as we are all imperfectly rational, subject to cognitive biases, et...

I think that is perhaps because of what you take a property relation to be. People like me who say our bodies are our own property take ownership of p...

I have always thought this myself, but I have noticed on the internet a tendency for some people, seemingly younger than me and probably you, to assoc...

Only if by "motion" you mean some nonsense that couldn't possibly happen under any theory, because it's not even a coherent thing to wonder about happ...

No I'm pretty sure @"Kenosha Kid" will deny as much as I do that objects change their temporal position. Objects span durations, as in, they exist for...