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Thanks for the idea, but that doesn't really seem the right fit. Analytic philosophy is juxtaposed to speculative philosophy, for instance, and the me...

Tonight I made a pretty major reorganization of the start of this whole project. I moved the Metaphilosophy essay to be first, and then the essay on m...

A right to eat meat and a right to kill animals aren’t the same thing. If you can’t do the former without doing the latter, tough. Likewise practicing...

That would make perfect sense to me. There’s nothing wrong with eating an animal that’s already dead. There’s only anything wrong with killing living ...

Do you know the term “force multiplier” in general?

Oh, I didn’t think you were. I expected you would be on the opposite side of that if someone did make a stink of it.

It sure seems like a borderline case to me, for its endorsement of theism at least (in exclusion of atheism), but since it is voluntary and non-exclus...

The false dichotomy of fideism and nihilism, coupled with the exposed weakness of fideistic (e.g. authoritarian) worldviews, is what's lead to a rise ...

No need to apologize. My shitty day was not because of you, it just left me without the mental capacity to respond to you appropriately.

that’s not a larger category its a smaller one and what words we use doesn’t make any difference to the underlying thing in question so i don’t care i...

I'm having a ridiculously shitty day so I'm just gonna be curt here. I feel like there's something you're really missing somehow. If "wrong" was just ...

You evidently have no knowledge of philosophy whatsoever. "Justified true belief" has been the standard definition of "knowledge" (only recently chall...

“exactly” is ideomatic here, the point is that “wrong” doesn’t bring to mind any specific descriptive indication, but rather a more general imperative...

Knowledge is a kind of belief. A guess is also a kind of belief. A belief is a kind of opinion. An intention is also a kind of opinion. Beliefs and in...

What exactly is being described of an action when one decides that "wrong" is an applicable word to it, though? Whatever answer you may give to that, ...

Thinking or believing is broader than speculating/supposing/guessing. You are trying to pigeonhole every opinion into a blind guess. They aren't, and ...

Haven't read any of this thread so far, but when I see it I keep thinking: Trying to be more godlike is a good thing, if by a god you mean someone all...

Whose meaning is correct is just a matter of whose meaning corresponds to the history of usage. It makes no difference as to whether the opinions unde...

Thanks again!

Correct. Glad we finally understand.

No, but I find it’s not just (or even mostly) poor people hoarding it. Because they barely have money to buy it with if they can find it.

I had heard talk about that but then this morning when I searched for news of progress there all I saw were plans to bail out large employers rather t...

So apparently the big US financial relief package being worked on this weekend focuses on... bailing out the largest businesses, and I guess hoping so...

Because there can be.

Thanks for the typo catches. I’m not sure I follow the rest of your post, but I’m not meaning at all to demean descriptive speech-acts, or to say that...

I guess you didn’t understand my disambiguation at all earlier. Consider, for analogy, thoughts about colors. You can have thoughts about red colors, ...

No? Honestly I can’t really understand you here. Having any opinion about the existence status of anything constitutes a belief. You can believe that ...

You seemed to be considering “thinking that something does not exist” as a different category from “thinking that something exists”. I’m considering t...

I think you misunderstand what I’m saying in two ways. One is that I am just reporting the function the word “belief” as I understand it as a native E...

It occurs to me that the litigious society of ancient Athens was a byproduct of their democracy: because nobody can just pass down unilateral judgemen...

The one that I replied to. You can click your own name at the start of my reply and it will take you back to the post I'm replying to. I'll quote the ...

Thanks for that feedback! I'm glad you mostly agree. That is an interesting point of view that I haven't heard before. A kind of quietism about philos...

Knowledge is a subset of belief. Everything you know, you believe.

Because... that’s what a belief is? A thought to the effect that the world is such-and-such way. I have no idea what you’re on about here.

Should I just give up on this whole project? Now that the boring low-hanging phil 101 fruit is done with, right as we’re finally start to do some more...

That is good, but only postpones the problems, because it doesn’t get people out of the obligation to pay those months’ rent/mortgage eventually, so w...

I never denied the existence of non-empirical truths, I said an implication of those first principles is that one’s ontology should be empirical reali...

Those aren't just statements concerning epistemology. The "no unanswerable questions" one is more ontological than epistemological: a full half of tha...

I'm not sure if you're saying "so what" as in "whatever, no big deal", or if you're asking me what should be done to help in those cases. Your punctua...

A first principle by its nature is supposed to be a necessary truth. So whatever a given philosophy takes to be first principles, it takes those to be...

What I heard was that massive companies aren’t getting reimbursed for the sick leave because they should be offering it anyway and they didn’t want to...

What does any of that have to do with cronies? Housing is most people’s biggest expense and there isn’t suddenly a dearth of that. People can keep liv...

There are more than enough resources, the question is as always who is allowed to access them.

So apparently the US has passed a bill requiring paid sick leave to people who have or are caring for people who have COVID19, except for large busine...

Once enough people in an area have already had and recovered from the disease, then they have immunity to it, and can't catch it from or pass it on to...

From what I understand, China is already over the hump locally, and it's only been like three months, and they didn't take the drastic measures we are...

The process of actually doing the inquiry involves a lot of stuff that is not just conversation, yes, but the process of setting up that process is ve...

From what I understand, it's not to stop the spread but to slow the spread. The big difference between COVDI19 and usual flu-like diseases is how quic...

While my first inclination is to agree, checking myself I ask: how would I feel if Trump cancelled an election for the same reason? Suspicious. So dam...

I really wonder what effect this will have on both the election and the future of our political parties in general, if republicans of all people end u...