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We're talking about land in this case. Nobody creates land. I don't know enough about the specifics in the case in question, but it can still be just ...

One could say the same thing about asserting "this is my private land". Unless you think the guy putting up fences around a public park just suddenly ...

You said that, but it's not true, and I just gave a counter-example. There's a public park, an open field where anyone can play. Someone goes out ther...

Similarly, a left-libertarian would say that defending their access to public property is a natural right, and if one party for instance tries to encl...

You know that the peer review process of publishing is exactly the author of a paper having to defend it against criticism from other people, right? I...

Private property generally requires government enforcement as well (governments are not necessarily states, NB), unless you want to go back to what Ma...

When studying philosophy in college, it was emphasized that reading, writing, lecture, and discussion all serve their own distinct purposes for honing...

To own property is to have rights in it. For something to be private property is for someone to have those rights exclusively. For something to be pri...

Okay, then I think this whole conversation has been mislead somehow, because everything I've been asking is trying to reconcile something you said ear...

Thanks, looking forward to it. :-)

I started another thread earlier this month with a bunch of metaphilosophical questions, and I can quote some of the answers people gave for you here:...

The Marathon trilogy by Bungie (whence my name), which is now free to play BTW. Story discussion about this was actually an early introduction to some...

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I am against all licensing. I don't admire the gall of drunk drivers or anyone else engaging in activities that put others at risk, but I think that t...

The only effect licensing anything has, compared to just punishing harm when it happens, is to punish people who did something harmlessly without firs...

So you are rejecting the might-makes-right principle that ownership = power? This subthread is challenging Harry about his acceptance of that. (Also, ...

The point of thought experiments it to tease out what you're really saying or thinking. Regardless of whether or not something would happen, I want to...

So if I can convince the state to help me keep you out of the house you live in, and keep anyone else besides me from living there, then it's my house...

I agree, and I think that this is analogous to the situation with incompatibilist free will. Incompatibilists insist that free will means being undete...

Who owns them, or who has them? Maybe someone forgot to lock the door. Maybe someone else picked the lock. Picking a lock isn't always wrong, such as ...

There is some house that Alice is living in. Bob walks into it and starts living there too. Alice says "no, get out, this is my house". Bob doesn't ob...

I call this task, the inspiration of the mind to actively pursue the truth, the real, the knowable, or the state of the mind being (or the process it ...

Mathematicism like Tegmark's does differentiate the sensory from the (merely) intelligible ("merely" because we can also reason about the things we al...

Yep. It is not uncommon for physicists today to think of all of reality as an informational structure. People like Max Tegmark argue (and I agree) tha...

It occurs to me that this is perfectly analogous to the Euthyphro Dilemma: "God commands it" : "It is good" :: "The State defends your possession of i...

But where do those others get those rights to it? Initially you said by being able to defend it. Then you’re saying that that defense is by the state....

Information is basically the modern equivalent of “Form” as the ancients would call it. Everything bears it. Information is the difference between a 2...

But what determines what others own, if “ability to defend it” determines ownership and all defense is done collectively through the state? If the sta...

I read it yeah. It sounded like you were saying that defending your acquisitions is what makes them yours, and that a state is needed to make sure you...

If those others could not defend their rights to the property in question, then how is it that they had any such rights to begin with, on this account...

Thanks for finishing off the questions! I can’t respond at length now but I hope that you enjoyed the answering and that others can give you some feed...

To own something just is to have rights over it. What qualifies you for rights to something is your undisputed habitual use and possession of it.

Okay, so am I, but then that is prior to any kind of processing of the experiences.

On my account there isn’t any “stuff” that would need to be observed or empirically analyzed, and there isn’t anything more for science to understand ...

That’s worth exploring yes, but that’s a question of access consciousness, not phenomenal consciousness. I heavily elaborated my last response while y...

The point is not to solve the problem but to dissolve it. Saying phenomenal consciousness, not just access consciousness, arises from computation stil...

I think the Principle of Charity is the most important starting point. I always try to make the most sense out of what someone else is saying, and the...

Perception is something more than just raw phenomenal experience. To truly perceive, in the way that humans do, requires quite a bit of processing, su...

I dunno, banning yourself for being crazy sounds like a pretty crazy thing to do.

I think it is useful to distinguish between two senses of "pride". Both bear a kind of opposite relationship to the concept of "shame", but a differen...

"Positivist" seems to fit, thanks. (I remember the teacher of the class asking something like what's my philosophy, and I started to explain string th...

Your account of the differences between 180 Proof and I sounds pretty accurate to me, except I'm not really arguing that there is anything substantial...

And yet it is still true that no geometric figure is a five-sided triangle, and so that all geometric figures have the property (consistency of sides ...

I'm not saying that first-person experience is something like mass or charge, so if you think that's what I'm talking about when arguing against my po...

I gave my definition of what a physical thing is in the bit that you quoted. But yes, when it comes down to it, saying that something is or isn't phys...

That's not what I was saying there, though I do agree with something more-or-less similar to that. (To fully agree with that, all of the internal beha...

I think the confusion here might be about what this quoted bit means. I suspect you are trying to say: [](two names refer to the same individual -> th...

Not quite. The necessity isn't about what the names refer to. The necessity is the identity of "two" individuals, who are actually one individual unde...

What exactly was it you were applauding in this post that is different from anything I've said that you've been arguing against since? I've just been ...

I was just saying that that kind of thing, not what OmniscientNihilist was calling "omniscience", is what analytic a posteriori knowledge is about. Bu...