FYI I've compiled a couple of the clarifications I've made throughout this thread into the OP. I forgot to say thank you for your beginning of a set o...
Any kind. Whenever someone says "this should be this way", including "you should do this", what exactly are they saying (I would paraphrase that quest...
Thank you for that excellent reply! I mostly agree with your answers so far, and I look forward to the rest of them. :-) I have, and from what I've se...
That is a point, but homo sapiens didn't evolve from neanderthals, we were close relatives, that apparently interbred (and so were possibly subspecies...
Thank you for introducing me to this. It sounds more or less like how I've always interpreted MWI (which, more on topic, strikes me as very similar to...
My problem with Wittgenstein's account (at least as you tell it, corroborated by the bits of him I've seen elsewhere) is that even if the thesis of on...
A week at most. Last one I had was three weeks ago, started on a Saturday and gradually wound down by Wednesday or Thursday and was gone completely by...
For all of these questions, if I’m asking “what is...” whatever and you think there is no whatever, “nothing” is an acceptable answer. Otherwise I’d h...
Yes I’m quite familiar with (and generally aligned with) the linguistic turn generally, and I’m not outright rejecting everything about Wittgenstein (...
Sure thing. In brief, they’re experiences of a kind of emotional high, either caused by or causing a feeling of general OK-ness or acceptance, where I...
Glad you like the idea. :smile: I look forward to seeing your answers. Cool to have another local on here. :cool: I’m glad reading Wittgenstein was em...
I don’t have any professional research on hand to share, but for myself personally I have had sober experiences that match the descriptions I’ve read ...
I think perhaps he just means that a paradigm is defined by its unspoken assumptions, which is the way Kuhn coined the term. In which case yeah I pret...
I’m sure books could be and have been written on each, but I’m just looking for a brief summary answer on each, not even whole essays like I’m working...
Our actions do, the ideas by themselves don’t. You won’t find a number 3 somewhere out in the universe doing things on its own. You will find people d...
Would you like to do a summary of Wittgenstein’s answers to these questions for everyone’s edification? I’m not sure I’ve actually read much of him; I...
I never said I wasn’t a physicalist. And my view on abstract objects isn’t quite as simple as that (that would be nominalism, whereas my view is mathe...
To say that God exists only abstractly and not concretely is only to say that you have some definition of a thing you've named "God" that you can logi...
I think you mean to say "polytheism" when you say "pantheism". Pantheism is the belief that the universe itself is identifiable with God. Polytheism i...
Yes, the so-called "religious experience" or "mystical experience" is a neurochemical phenomenon that can be induced with drugs, and occurs (without d...
If you've seen anything I've commented in other threads, you know that I explicitly deny that religion is defined in terms of God. But theism and athe...
Theism/atheism and gnosticisism/agnosticism are orthogonal issues. Theists believe in at least one god Weak atheists don't believe in any gods Strong ...
“Degenerate” suggests we’ve gone backward somehow, when if anything we’ve haphazardly come forward slowly over time. There is still room for improveme...
"Nothing", together with "something", "everything", and "not everything" (or, if you will, "neverything"), is just part of one of many sets of four De...
It's not a matter of plurality or singularity. The point is that there isn't any special kind of thing(s) that has(/have) to exist at any possible wor...
Rationality is a tool, one that can be used toward many ends. Those who are trying to be ethical will be more successful if they use that tool well, b...
This question implicitly commits a logical error that predicate logic was invented to avoid. Consider the sentence "every mouse fears some cat". You m...
On a different topic, I have something else to say about nothing. Why is there something rather than nothing? Well, on a modal realist account, it's t...
I can see why you would think that, but that's how modern mathematicians do it. The natural numbers, for instance, meaning the counting numbers {0, 1,...
Once again it's important to point out the difference between "faith" as in believing something that isn't conclusively proven from the ground up, and...
I think something went wrong with your post. Below "I created this arrangement:" all I see is "dateposted-public" where I suspect was supposed to be s...
I'm just affirming the is-ought distinction, though not the cognitivist-noncognitivist implications often carried by it. I don't think that prescripti...
No, I'm interested to hear from "weak" or "negative" atheists too; people who simply don't hold a belief in God, rather than holding positive disbelie...
Mark, I didn't take you to be having a meltdown. I have meltdowns of my own (that's what I meant about work yesterday), and suspect I might be somewhe...
Not to denigrate truth or reality at all, but philosophy is about much more than just that. For starters it is equally much about goodness and moralit...
Mark, I hope it's clear from our private conversations that I generally like you, so I hope you take this from a friendly place: it seems to me like y...
Would you then argue that Analytic philosophy is an offshoot of Continental philosophy, if everything from Kant onward minus everything from Frege onw...
Yes, of course. More than that, I not only don't believe that unicorns or Santa Claus exist, I believe that they don't exist. (Where "believe X" simpl...
If I may offer an analogy: If we were going to write a history of the evolution of humans in particular, not the evolution of all life but just the sp...
I don't think Terrapin was saying that answering the question about your education was un-humble, but that your reaction to his joke seemed less than ...
I don’t think that’s accurate to say that mathematics says things are made of an infinity of zeros, but modern mathematics does construct all its obje...
Agnosticism isn’t listed as an option because that’s an answer to a different question. Agnosticism is orthogonal to theism/atheism. Whether or not yo...
That sounds like more or less what I said. Kant is the most recent common ancestor of both Analytic and Continental philosophers, and is studied exten...
Well, I'm attempting to write a work of philosophy bridging things "from the meaning of words to the meaning of life", and to quote the introduction o...
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