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Thank you, that’s very good to hear! In what sense do you mean? I mean it in the sense of the philosophy called “pragmatism”, focusing on philosophica...

And it's edited now. Thanks again.

The first ordinal bigger than any real ordinal is called omega, and there are infinitely many others.

Don't forget that just because a person flees the country, doesn't mean their wealth flees the country. A lot of wealth can't be moved like that (land...

I think you misunderstood what I meant by justificationism. It's not any of the particular things we've been talking about, but something quietly unde...

And this kind of thing is why I'm against a wealth tax in principle, but on my list of high-priority problems in the world, the struggles of people wh...

Thanks so much! I'll try to edit that soon.

Thanks! That's actually one of the things in particular I was wondering about, because I don't actually know Latin very well at all and cobbled this t...

Any part of it in particular?

I know we've had some arguments here before, but I just want to express my sympathy for you Wallows, and wish you the best of luck. I spent most of th...

I keep seeing this thread and misreading it as "A Philosophy of Orgasm", and wondering for a moment what that would even be. (Are orgasms actually the...

The kind of people employing radical doubt like Descartes does tend to be justificationists, without even knowing what that word means: they think tha...

I guess I'm not seeing the need for that then. If they're not using their wealth to extract wealth from others (which would thus count as income), the...

Are not "your thoughts" definitionally "the thoughts you experience"? So if others were all able to experience each others' thoughts, they would all e...

Dissecting a joke kills it. Like with frogs.

“I’m living in the future” as in technology has advanced to a point that in my formative years would have been called “futuristic”. We are now in the ...

It was a joke.

I dunno about y’all but I’m livin’ in the future. I can pull a computer out of my pocket and wireless watch a live feed of Earth from space from prett...

So tax people highly on their unearned income (rent, interest, etc) and you should be covered on accounting for people gaining wealth by having wealth...

How is it that “making money” doesn’t count as “income”? Proceeds from rent, lending, etc, are income (unearned income, but still). Proceed from sales...

As a libertarian socialist I agree that wealth taxes are a horrible idea. Any taxes should be at time of sale, so the market can reveal the actual val...

Yes.

As one of the people usually reverting people who fuck things up badly, I welcome anyone here to risk it. It’s literally one click to fix anything you...

I think rather it’s the other way around: Continental philosophy is all contemporary philosophy not closely aligned with the Analytic tradition. Anywa...

Oh, I left out one thing I’ve anecdotally seen people take philosophy to be: psychology. Those people seem to think that philosophers/psychologists “m...

I have the impression that most people don’t even know what philosophy is about. The traditional religious majority seem to think it more or less theo...

When Descartes doubt that everything but his mind exists, he is also doubting that you exist to be doubting that he exists: he does not experience you...

This is the problem. The Cogito doesn't establish that there are other someones for whom I am an other mind. I'm only certain that I exist. If there a...

Maybe the problem isn't with the phrasing but with other wikipedians' reading comprehension. If I have the time and inclination I might comment on the...

That may be so, but that doesn't make it socialism. States protecting the welfare of the wealthy is the opposite of socialist. (And the commonness of ...

Because it’s not at all socialist? Where in any of this corporatism is ownership of the means of the production, or even the proceeds from it, being d...

Descartes thought he proved the "I" part, and that's the usual interpretation. Others have disputed that since then. I think that to the extent that h...

That's a kind of capitalism, it's just state capitalism, which is the worst of both worlds. And it seems like he should have even worse odds than Clin...

Doubt and certainty are epistemic, and so relative to each thinker. Each thinker has certainty about their own mind's existence and doubt about all ot...

Given that Sanders and Biden are the top two Democratic candidates, and my expectations that Biden would lose against Trump while Sanders would win, I...

The cogito only claims to establish the existence of the mind of the one doing the thinking. It has nothing at all to say about the existence of other...

Surprised to see that even three months later there's not a single person with an associate's degree here.

I'm surprised that most of the options have received no votes at all so far. I especially expected that "religious stuff" and "political stuff" would ...

I think you misunderstood. I'm saying to add the "if it is false" to the definition in the OP: "An hypothesis is falsifiable if, if it is false, some ...

Besides the indefinite article, it sounds straightforwardly correct to me, but if people are being so dense as to not understand it, maybe couch it in...

More or less. It's certain that thinking is happening, and that something is thinking, and something is being thought about. That last bit seems to be...

Wikipedia is not really the place to go for the latest breakthroughs, because it's meant to be a tertiary source, which means a secondary source needs...

My take is to abstract even more from thinking, to experiencing (thinking is a kind of experience), and say that "experience is happening" is the grea...

I was also thinking of recommending that in addition to the rest.

To get a broad acquaintance with the history of the field and its range of thoughts, I think these are probably the most important authors to read: So...

I get what you mean, but I don't think it's so simple as that. A year ago I was so fraught with existential dread and angst that I found myself search...

Activity-passivity is basically one of the dimensions of that spectrum, and hate and fear are on opposite ends of it, but the same end of the positivi...

I've been noticing that (it's on my watchlist) and wondering if it was just a coincidence that that was happening there right as these conversations w...

How so? Pursuing some question may be ridiculous, but philosophy is just about finding ways to pursue questions, not about picking which questions to ...

NB that I’m not trying to argue for falsificationism here (though I do support it), just clarifying what it is and how it’s related to Hempel’s parado...