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Yeah, I'm considering limitations on the government part of its laws, so a government that is (by its own laws) limited to only regulating a few thing...

That sound like “more permissive laws” to me.

If I can find time to read the article, sure. I was just replying to the snipped you quoted for now.

Obligation makes as much sense in absence of a moral lawgiver as alethic necessity makes in absence of a reality-maker: plenty. Obligations are just d...

That statistic is about continuously unoccupied homes, not just people on vacation. And I’m actually not for just redistributing homes like that, but ...

There are more unoccupied houses than homeless people in the US. Also, if the principle were that everyone were entitled to an equal-ish share of what...

FWIW, I never meant this to be an argument about the merits of small government, just about what exactly people mean by that, as illustrated by the ar...

I had initially intended this to take the first of those two routes, but I feel like I would learn more from the second one, since I know less about i...

I notice that “simpler/fewer laws” is leading in the poll, and I want to ask the people who picked that a question to make sure they understand it rig...

Hurray, we're finally up to where I began, and the first step past it that I said I wasn't able to do myself! Is it possible to write "1 + 1 = 2" enti...

I'm kind of going off-topic in my own thread / getting ahead of the game here, but for some reason this question just popped back into my head again a...

It sounds like you mean "more permissive laws" then. (That's my answer too, but I don't like to vote in my own polls until there are enough votes that...

Not sure if you're addressing me or BitconnectCarlos, but both of us mean it in that sense (CS Peirce is up there above James and Dewey among founders...

Good point. My passage you quoted does have the "of reality and morality" clause, limiting the scope of my claim to just those two types of speech-act...

So I keep hearing how Bernie has now pulled ahead of Biden, but FiveThirtyEight still shows Biden in the lead. I don't know enough about electoral pre...

My position that unenlightened quoted is specifically taking a stance against that kind of thing (cultural relativism, everything being just matters o...

I think "the arts and humanities" is a poorly constructed category of just "all the stuff that isn't STEM". I prefer to break down the fields like thi...

I personally don't ask questions that I think cannot be answered, and advise others not to either. The questions I do ask, I think have answers, other...

I take it that's offering a Wittgenstein quote that you think encapsulates the same thing that I'm saying? If so, thanks! I'll try to integrate that s...

America is actually weird in that we constitutionally have no concept of parties at all. The emergence of a "two-party system" is an inevitable conseq...

You said "only" before. I'm denying that "only". Here you don't say "only", so that's a completely different statement I'm not objecting to. Wealth ef...

The specific thing I had in mind there was something I've seen repeated in trans communities (I'm nonbinary myself), where someone philosophically-min...

There is a difference between "the thing that is beyond the universe is called 'nothing'" (what you hear) and "there is not any thing beyond the unive...

It sounds like you have a strange perception of what "left" and "right" are. For one, it seems focused entirely on economics, ignoring social liberali...

That's because religious morality is inherently a right-wing thing. Of course right-wing religious moralists think the existence of liberal left-wing ...

You need to work on some reading comprehension if you think what Wallows is on about isn't perfectly clear. You think it's not clear because the speci...

Do you have some problem with idle curiosity? You can still share your opinions on the other questions, even if you don't want to answer the last one....

Also curious to hear people's explanations of what gives rise to those perceptions. Me for instance, I generally expect most educated, academic people...

You're not worth responding to, especially on a day like today, but I understood the general gist of what Wallows was on about (why aren't we doing mo...

The price is the purchase price. "To have a right to use something" and "to own something" should be the same thing. The point is for the users of thi...

There are more reals than naturals though, so which kind of number do you mean?

Thank you :) I'm not sure. I guess a search for meaning? I want to understand what's important about everything, how it all fits together and relates,...

I'm counting myself as (barely) one of "the few people who are functional enough to work against the systemic dysfunction". I have very little power, ...

Because people are short-sighted. Mostly as a consequence of being lazy and greedy and stupid. Mostly as a consequence of being overworked, traumatize...

I gave you my impression of Bernie's aesthetics directly without mentioning anything prescriptive. Then you asked me which side of a divide about supp...

If there is a way to change it that you can learn, that makes it a kind of thing you can change. Learning how to make that change is just part of maki...

You're differentiating between prescriptive and descriptive activities. Those are not mutually exclusive: anyone can and should do both. You also aske...

There's some story in the comics where it turned out that Captain America was actually a Hydra operative all along, and therefore had been implicitly ...

What makes you say this? I have emotions, sure, but I'm aiming to do practical things to bring about the ends I think should be brought about. My actu...

That depends on exactly what they mean by that. I live in an extremely "safe" state where my personal vote is unlikely to influence the actual elector...

This is the solution. Well, half of it: the other half is learning and teaching. Let both goodness and truth flow into you and out of you, through you...

Very. The best kind of strength, the kind that's not afraid to stand up to bullies, but isn't going to become one either. That's exactly the kind of p...

I'm from the far opposite side of the country and Bernie definitely seems like "one of us" to me.

That is true, but that's not saying we do philosophy by experiment. "your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object." ...

I was originally going to refer to that exact quote, but when I pulled up the wiki to make sure I had it right, I saw that other even better quote and...

Thanks. I'm starting a beta read of the whole thing in another thread if you'd like to participate. Very little. I'm not particularly familiar with Co...

I spent most of last year trying to figure that out, and wrote my answers down here.

That doesn't sound much like pragmatism as I understand it; it doesn't really sound like philosophy per se at all, but rather some more special scienc...

This is getting way off topic, but I just want to address a couple of points you seem to misunderstand about me. I don't hate markets. I love markets....

This is probably better saved for the chapter on philosophy of language, but I don't see that view as being at odds with ordinary language philosophy ...