Pneumenon

So a room can't be from your perspective. But, vis a vis your earlier argument, everything is from your perspective. Ergo, rooms don't exist.

Things from my perspective can be thoughts, sensations, or the room I'm sitting in. The latter two are not things that I think. Of course, I'm guessin...

An argument that does not have at least one non-tautological premise fails to yield a non-trivial conclusion.

Take some random object in your hand, throw it up in the air, and then catch it. A computer, I understand, has to do some pretty fancy math to get a r...

And your perspective is all there is. But now I foresee a retreat to "But my perspective is all there is from my perspective!" which is just a tautolo...

You can't make a claim from my perspective, only from your own. Therefore, anything in my perspective that isn't in yours (including my sensations and...

In that case, my perspective doesn't exist. Only yours does.

That would seem to imply solipsism, not idealism. Additionally, I don't think we ought to give ultimate primacy to individual perspective.

Why is "what exists from my perspective" equated with "what exists?"

I'm sorry to shit up your thread, dude. I like to irritate people 'cause I'm kinda ornery. A character fault. ;)

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I love talking to you. It's like schadenfreude on tap.

What is it that's so amusing about watching you nail yourself to a cross?

Keep suffering. It's amusing as hell.

Your anguish is adorable. :)

Baleeted.

To be honest, I am really confused when people complain that philosophy is too abstract and needs to get back to "concrete lived experience" (whatever...

This is where the error is. Credibility may be archaic in the world of modern politics, but I'm talking about your audience on this board.

There is a question of tone. I can say something batshit insane and, if I say it the right way, it will sound reasonable. Conversely, one can say reas...

I can say something true in a manner, or use a conversational tone, that makes me sound hysterical. You can fight memes with memes, sure, and propagan...

Possible complication: couldn't you damage your side's credibility by talking that way? There is a fine line, after all, between "impassioned" and "ra...

Maybe all of those theories are true or false, depending on the person and the period in that person's life. Or maybe you were implying exactly that. ...

I see what you're saying. There certainly is a melodramatic teen-angst sort of feel to the idea of Weltschmerz. Romanticism has that problem a lot. Ad...

The first verse of Ecclesiastes and the First Noble Truth. Life is suffering, dissatisfaction, craving, desire, what have you. I have dealt with plent...

This is your problematic assumption right here. American society is not represented by the Houses of Congress. A very small, elite portion of American...

Well, we can insist that transcendental meaning has been handed to us on a silver platter. We can also throw a bitch fit because it hasn't. I think th...

I know you weren't. I was. O:)

I believe you. O:)

What don't you understand?

And what does pessimism recommend they do about it?

Person 1: "There is stuff you can't conceive of, but I can." Person 2: "Well, then, there's stuff I can't conceive of, but you can." Person 1: "Wrong!...

I can see how pessimism could be used to convince people that it's no use trying to even be content, because everything sucks anyway. Potential for ab...

This realist is interested in the idea that this stuff would all be here even if we weren't. The argument against this seems to be that we cannot conc...

Of course. For example, I am male. Therefore, if we don't make a distinction between conception simpliciter and conception ex hypothesi, then I can't ...

Do you think that being conceived is the same as being conceived ex hypothesi? Can a painter ever paint someone alone?

Baleeted.

I am always baffled by the hostility I see toward Stoicism from some people. "Self control is fascist" seems to be the implicit (but never directly st...

They both involve existence. You said, If you know what an abstraction is, and you know what the word "exist" means, then you understand the phrase "a...

Of course, I'm nitpicking here, but I see all of your points. People who become tenure-track professors imagine that they have some special merit that...

You might be surprised. Right now I work at a factory, doing the same thing over and over. When your work is so menial that it requires literally no a...

I wasn't talking about Marxism, just communal living. Really my thinking was something along the lines of "secular monastery." It's fashionable to tal...

I gave you an example. That's when you point to an instance of something so your interlocutor can tell what you're talking about. Superman does not ex...

Try reading the post.

I dunno. I guess it depends on why you think the internet is generally less serious. Maybe it's anonymity? At any rate, I think that humanities depart...

I think that there are enough people who come home from work every day and immediately get on the computer for such things to begin popping up, given ...

1) The humanities have a very strong current of ostensibly egalitarian sentiment. 2) There is a great deal of elitism in academia. I don't think eithe...

I'm flattered.

I did not say or imply that it was.

I've had philosophical conversations with people over the internet that were just as good as the ones I've had in academia. As to having consistently ...

Superman doesn't exist. My computer does exist. If abstractions exist, they are more like my computer in that regard than like Superman.