Generally speaking, as far as I understand it, yes. I haven't actually read much of the actual phenomenologists myself. But I do call one of my core p...
Yes. I’m just speaking in the way Plantinga does to show that his sensus divinatus is different from ordinary senses in an important way even within h...
If modal realism is true, then the “innate potential for reality to exist” just consists of the trivial fact that there is no possible world at which ...
And then there is the point I made earlier, that didn't seem to strike a chord with anyone. When you see your hand and are prompted to believe that yo...
It occurs to me that if my system were in place, it might not even result in a significantly inflated Supreme Court; in fact it looks like said court ...
A solution to this problem that I’ve thought up before that would be easier to implement constitutionally and probably a lot easier to sell to the pol...
They both sound mostly correct and not in contradiction to me. The places I see them disagreeing are on whether Bernie's use of the term socialism is ...
He's a billionaire transparently trying to buy his way into the presidency, with no consistent ideological positions, with a known history of racist a...
I think there's two important things that need to be distinguished here: the place on the political spectrum one is pushing toward, and how hard one i...
The "those who differently are incorrect, relative to that group" part, the the treatment of different groups as each correct relative to themselves a...
Correct, and that's exactly why foundationalism is bullshit (not in the technical sense). "Everything needs a reason", except for these things that ob...
I thought I had explicitly said that, but apparently not. I explicitly meant it in any case. I should probably add a small bit explicitly saying it. N...
Based on feedback from these threads here, I have rearranged the first four essays of the Codex into a different order. This essay, Against Transcende...
Based on feedback from these threads here, I have rearranged the first four essays of the Codex into a different order. This essay, Against Cynicism, ...
Based on feedback from these threads here, I have rearranged the first four essays of the Codex into a different order. This essay, Against Fideism, i...
Based on feedback from these threads here, I have rearranged the first four essays of the Codex into a different order. This essay, Against Nihilism, ...
I discuss this phenomenon and its relationship to the origin of religion in my essay On Academics, Education, and the Institutes of Knowledge. On my v...
Bernie calls himself a "democratic socialist". The policies he promotes are what get called "socialist" in America. Those policies actually fit the te...
Of course they can. The worry is that they won't; that Biden or Bloomberg are closer to Trump than they are to Bernie (I think that that's actually tr...
To be clear, I still have abnormally high levels of passion. Aside from working my full-time job and generally keeping my life going ahead full steam,...
May I humbly suggest that a likely reason that people are like that is that life has beat them down too much. Children are naturally curious and love ...
The content of ordinary empirical beliefs is more or less an expectation of having those same empirical experiences in similar contexts; the expectati...
What is "the world"? The only idea of a world I have is from my senses. Sometimes what I think they're telling me doesn't line up with other things I ...
I skimmed it to see if he was actually going to argue against foundationalism or not, and from what I can see he does not, only arguing that it does n...
Thank you for that. Thank you for that too. As I said, that's getting way ahead of the game and will be answered in detail in later essays, some of wh...
Thanks for the feedback again. I don't follow how you say I reason and support this position well, but then also don't give a logical reason. The reas...
I make a very important distinction between intentions or desires, and appetites, in my ethics. It's analogous to the distinction between beliefs or p...
That's my take. The president alone doesn't, and shouldn't, have the power to make changes like this themselves. So legislative and judicial seats are...
It occurs to me, to make this a little more philosophically relevant, that this is essentially an issue of dealing with the Lockean proviso. The Locke...
Nothing so crude as that. I think the problem traces back to much deeper systemic problems involving rent and interest which create a pressure away fr...
Back on actual topic (maybe this housing stuff should be split into its own thread?), after this weekend's Nevada caucus FiveThirtyEight is showing Be...
I don't know where you got that 75% figure from. Maybe the bit where I said somewhere earlier about only spending a quarter of my income disposably? W...
Yeah, I do have it much better than a lot of other people, which is part of the point I’m making about the problem being systemic. And part of why I h...
The primary divide within normative ethics is between consequentialist (or teleological) models, which hold that acts are good or bad only on account ...
I have a full time job already making significantly more than most people in my area never mind the country as a whole, I only spend a quarter of my t...
Also... I’m not asking for a $500k house specifically, I’m asking for housing in California to be affordable to people who live and work in California...
It is. This is the land I was born and raised on and have already spend many many tens of thousands of dollars over decades to remain on, yet WITH NOT...
In my mind justice and morality cannot conflict in the same way that reason and truth cannot conflict. You can see a fuller explanation at my later es...
I think you misapprehend how absolutely trivial something like this is in comparison to the scales pf money we’re talking about. Earlier you mentioned...
It’s not about them winning or not, it’s about me not losing; and not in the sense of some social competitive kind of “losing” but in the sense of act...
Because they say the origin of all suffering is (inevitably unfulfilled) desires, so giving up trying to control things, giving up desires and just ac...
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