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It doesn’t have to be that exact sentence (I actually had in mind a slightly different one), but it’s the “this” that sells it, yeah. The idea is that...

If it helps clear things up, I’m pretty sure Syamsu means more or less “preference” when he says “opinion”. This “fact-opinion” divide is thus basical...

Yes.

That’s a matter of definition, not the kind of thing that calls for empirical verification. We simply do not usually use the words that way.

If the question could reasonably be interpreted as asking for an interrogative word them sure, “what” would be a good answer, but I don’t see how it c...

@"Syamsu" Can you share with us that thing you have with the two columns, and on one side is things like "subjective", "choice", "opinion", "creator",...

Not if it makes the child, or anyone else, feel bad. Empiricism doesn't mean every hallucination or illusion someone sees is definitively real, it jus...

I feel like I should have warn you guys about this guy, who has been going on about creationism and free will and the relationship of them to “facts” ...

See just above.

To elaborate: “What is the answer to X?” “Y is the answer.” X = “What is the answer to X?” Y = “Y is the answer.” So X = “What is the answer to “What ...

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That is the older version. “What is the answer to this question?” “‘What’ is the answer to that question.” That’s not how language works though.

No, that’s the answer to the even dumber old version of the joke that I hate and invented this one to replace.

You might want to link to the particular comic, not just the site: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/342 Also http://static.existentialcomics.com/com...

Hedonism as about all kinds of experiences of pleasure, pain, enjoyment, suffering, etc. Hurting means inflicting pain or suffering: making someone fe...

Very, very close.

I am not saying that. I am saying hedonic experiences, broadly construed, are the only public criteria by which we could judge things good or bad with...

I've hidden it now, just in case.

I think you're conflating different threads of this conversation.

Besides there being philosophical allusions, no. As for hints, hmm... Whom? You, or them. When? Now, or then. Where? Here, or there.

I think the thing that you get is the old joke riddle that was told to me, where the answer to the question was "what". This isn't that riddle. I don'...

Yeah shooting someone is already illegal. Taking away someone's right to bear arms by shooting them doesn't need to be more illegal than it already wa...

Is that that new pandemic spreading between ravens and crows and some jays and the like?

An answer has to be a statement, but the statement you gave as an example is not an answer, it's just a response. The whole "contextless" thing is rea...

Because they won't let me in if I'm not / will hassle me and throw me out if I don't. (Seen people thrown out for not doing it right in front of me).

“The” answer to a question is the correct answer to it.

Nope, that’s not it.

If the first person is actually mad, yet still sane enough to recognize himself as mad, then he is sane enough to recognize the second person as sane,...

Energy is whatever it is that makes something do something. That’s even in its etymology. To say that matter is made of energy is more or less to say ...

Thank you. One more thing that was going to be the last post in that series: Philosophy is not just Literature Similarly, philosophy has many similari...

Yes, with the additional differentiation from math already discussed earlier.

The “evidence” part was just distinguishing it from religion. I said “reasons or evidence” then. Distinguishing it from science further narrows that d...

So, latest news from my employer suggests (can't get an answer out of him directly) that he is not looking into a PPP loan. I don't understand why tha...

It depends of the variety of socialism. Most of them will distinguish between “private property” and “personal property”, where “private property” is ...

In my view those tiny landlords who can’t afford to miss a month of rent (because they’re still paying a mortgage) and tiny businesses and so on are i...

They say what they think is good, in a way that you either accept or don’t, like a religion. But they don’t provide a way of telling what is good for ...

As not actually philosophy at all, in the end, because they ultimately end up saying there is no way to tell what is good or bad. Leaving room only fo...

You keep giving me perfect segues to introduce the next would-have-been-OP-of-that-thread-series-I-was-going-to-do, so I may as well quote you and mak...

My own personal take is that there isn't so much a problem with the mechanics of that arrangement of one person putting in all the money and then hiri...

Nobody is saying that the players get paid the same as the janitors. The idea is that instead of some non-working owner deciding how much to pay the p...

Thank you.

They are a team, but jamalrob owns the site. I asked him for admin consensus, so presumably he spoke to the others.

Pretty sure @"jamalrob" outranks him and he’s the one who okayed everything. Your username does not accurately reflect your content.

What is that a warning sign of from whom? The use of that phrase that I’m familiar with is in contrast to “minimum wage”, i.e. not just the least pay ...

Fourth post that was going to be in that series: Philosophy is not just Ethics Given the previous account of how philosophy is neither religion, sophi...

If we define “supernatural” differently like that, then that all works out as you describe, sure. That has the consequence, however, that “supernatura...

Every philosophical idea I’ve ever had, I have incorporated into my book, so every original thought I have to talk about is related to it in some way....

Only to stop the goons from committing assault.

A priori argument. I am firmly against scientism. No, in the context of whether all philosophy starts with assumed axioms. We’re not talking about an ...

Say you own a factory under the current regime. Then a revolution happens and the law says you don't anymore, that whoever works there owns it now. Th...