Yes my stance is entirely about what to assume when you don’t actually know for sure whether anything will work. However I hold that since we never kn...
I think a lot of the disagreement here is getting mired in different senses of the words "optimism" and "pessimism", which is why I was looking for so...
Thanks for the sympathies. (@"creativesoul" too). The philosophizing I did a week ago didn't actually have anything to do with metaphysics really, but...
My take on this is that the feeling of “meaningfulness” (what I’ve coined as ontophilia in its most profound version) not only feels pleasant and alle...
Update: Thinking I had philosophized my way to happiness turned out to be wrong. I was just happy for a week, and coincidentally doing good philosophi...
Can anyone think of good terms for the “rest assured, success is guaranteed” kind of optimism and the “give up, success is impossible” kind of pessimi...
When I say all belief is incompletely justified, I’m referring to the problem of infinite regress, how you can keep asking for reasons to justify your...
As I elaborated immediately already, I take a pragmatist approach to mean that there is a POSSIBLE way but not a GUARANTEED way, in contrast to the ex...
With pragmatism: acting as though success is possible but not guaranteed, as only in that condition is there reason to try, and only if we try is succ...
Being clearly sufficiently supported and being excluded from all attempts at questioning are different things. There are lots of things that was for a...
for all x, p, and q, it is not obligatory that if x(p) then x(q) or equivalently for all x, p, and q, it is permissible that x(p) and not x(q) where o...
I don’t understand the sense of “contingency” people seem to be using here. As I know that word, it’s just the negation of necessity: something is con...
Do I understand correctly that your take is that the problem is not so much doing color-blindness, but talking color-blindness while not doing it? So ...
I had that impression when I first started studying it too, especially when I would be introduced to a new topic, form an opinion on it quickly, and s...
Enjoy! Also take a look at On Meaning And Language and On Intention, and On Practical Action, all of which cover in more detail the relationship betwe...
Who's complaining about his pronouns now? I thought you were against that kind of thing. (You know I'm just taking the piss out of you for fun and don...
Thanks! I'm not sure I understand the question, but maybe this will answer it: I think all of our actions are driven by a combination of beliefs and i...
Sisyphus doesn't have a choice. I doubt Swan is trapped here in his own personal afterlife unable to die because he's already dead yet unable to truly...
That sounds familiar, so maybe. I hadn't really thought before about where promises fit into this scheme, but on a bit of quick consideration my first...
Why are you here then? (That's not meant to be snide, I sincerely don't understand why you'd hang around a place on the internet that stresses you out...
It originates with Austin and was mostly developed by Searle in regard to Speech Act Theory, yes. I don't remember what name was associated with whate...
Yes, "what it's like-ness" and qualia are matters of phenomenal consciousness instead. Unless you're a panpsychist, like @"TheHorselessHeadman" and me...
I did worry that differences in educational systems would make this poll difficult to answer for some. In my American English dialect "college" and "u...
The terms originate from Ned Block, and were taught in my philosophy of mind class at university a little over a decade ago, and are mentioned in the ...
The mention of dualism was not meant to reject the distinction between "material consciousness" (access consciousness) and "experiential consciousness...
I actually explicitly include secular authoritarianism (including of the political variety) within my definition of fideism. Oh and (at others, not yo...
TL;DR: but just wanted to say "fuck yeah, panpsychism". Oh and also: "Phenomenal consciousness" (the experiential stuff everything has) and "access co...
Thank you for that hope spot. As to the OP, I agree completely that it's more useful for basically all space technologies besides the rockets to get t...
The "ought" part. It's what distinguishes the sentence from "One does not literally beat oneself up over their failures." Both of those sentences are ...
I don't really see how it could possibly be less useful than intuition, since intuition is where you start from and then try to improve upon it. (E.g....
That is a case of ongoing racial prejudice (on the part of the police), which can be solved by the police not discriminating between people on the bas...
Thing is, unless I'm reading the site interface wrong, there's no way to tell who voted for what, only how many people voted for each option, so unles...
I don't disagree, but we don't use that as a basis to say that nothing is actually real, just that we are bad at figuring out what is actually real. I...
Only if by "faith" you mean "believing something not conclusively proven", which I don't. I tried to explain this before, but maybe I can use a conver...
More or less. There is not a clear distinction on my account of prescriptive claims that are moral versus ones that are not moral, but sometimes in wr...
I'm not familiar with those phrases exactly, but reflexivity basically means self-reference, so "auto-referential" and "reflexive" are basically synon...
I haven't really been following this thread closely, but I'm seeing a lot of isolationism vs interventionism talk in here, and as a general matter of ...
That's true, but race in itself is neither an advantage or a disadvantage; to claim otherwise is to say that some races are better than others. Race c...
I suppose I misspoke; by "persuasion" I meant more specifically "reason". You're absolutely right that there are other influences between reason and p...
There are raw experiential feelings of “preferring”, hedonic experiences of something just seeming good or bad, that are not had for reasons; but then...
One thing I find odd about this talk of global debt is that whenever one party owes another something, that someone else is owed that same amount, so ...
Its prescriptivity, which can be elaborated upon in terms of direction of fit. A descriptive claim is like a detective's list of the things a man he's...
I could swear I saw a post in here I wanted to reply to later, and now it's gone. It was something to the effect of "even though there is no objective...
In a funny coincidence, while churning through my 300+ notes to myself I've accumulated over the past decade-plus on things to write about in my philo...
For exactly that reason (what makes something perfect depends on what it's supposed to be), there can't be such a thing as a general-purpose "perfect ...
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