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For the past while I've been interested in how schemes are generated rather than thinking about how changes shake already formed ones up. But I imagin...

How objects present themselves is a hobby horse of mine. I think worldly constituents are construed as "presenting themselves" as they're already part...

Crab innit.

Don't worry! None of us know what we're doing.

No.

I don't know. Anyone with papers published in Kant, or the SEP article. Or Kant.

I mean something a little different. What I'm saying is that the question of whether God exists might resemble: "Does wishmalawia amble the anglomogri...

@"AmadeusD" @"Corvus" SEP has a good summation of whether Kant posited the existence of God as an entity "in" the noumenon. It does not seem he did so...

I think discussing the claim that the next moment supervenes upon this moment could branch in a lot of directions. It doesn't make sense at face value...

Me too. I think of it, paradigmatically, in terms of classes of properties which apply to objects. So... Plate class macroscopic properties supervene ...

Aye. I don't think it's possible to make red not imply coloured when you interpret those symbols with their everyday use. But ultimately, as you say, ...

You wanna bring up Aristotelian vs Galilean physics, do it in the OP!

I think it's been a few years. They'd crop up every week on the old forum. So I have a stubborn belief that they happen all the time.

It isn't philosophy or philosophy adjacent, and is a lazy OP. As for comparisons. Discussion about Donald Trump often veers into the territory about w...

This is mostly rambling. Do you think you can articulate a physicalism without a cause concept? I'd like to think it's possible, since I don't like ca...

Red things are coloured things, right? This is logically possible: something red which isn't coloured. They're different predicate symbols. Is it phys...

Lots of work. Most posts aren't standalone, too. This post would be nonsensical, except as a reply. F for me. C if the grading mod read your post too.

:up:

I agree that there aren't bridge laws between brains and propositional attitudes. I'm not convinced the latter exist in the way they're purported to.

I'm not really trying to imply any of that. We can just leave the reduction issue for later, I think. What I'm saying is that you can establish that t...

I suppose that's a nonstandard use then.

AFAIK Ratcliffe's rejection of a folk theory of intention is much different than trying to replace it with neural network behaviour. But that takes us...

Aye. Though I don't think this is required for physicalism to be true. There existing a reduction to the physical is a much different claim than the e...

I don't see it in mod/admin settings. Unless it's something Jamal has access to as the owner I don't think we have it.

There is wiggle room on what a reduction consists in. EG, from the linked SEP article, one version of reductionism is: If you could provide a theoreti...

Maybe. I think a supervenience relationship of A upon B is a bit weaker than being able to talk about some A phenomenon/property in terms of some dist...

It does.

I imagine most of our regulars are anti-philosophy in a technical sense. By and large regulars seem against system building and metanarrative spinning...

I think it was more a case of boo-hooing the deaths of children highlighting a long history of mostly very aggro posts. Very aggro posts in contentiou...

Moar argument please. Justify your "if, then".

From the game Disco Elysium, an insect says this to a human.

@"Joshs" Finished Rethinking Commonsense Psychology by Ratcliffe in addition to a couple of his papers that exemplify the method he champions in that ...

Love it.

This is such a neat anti-dualist observation:

Feels different. Like Karens aren't the protagonists in trashy multiple suitor romance novels.

Spoiled feels like it has different connotations to me. It's usually applied to kids and is gender neutral. A doting lover wouldn't "spoil" their fema...

I'll be reading Rethinking Commonsense Psychology the next couple of months. I may rant about it at you.

They aren't made of anything. In the sense that walking isn't made of legs. You'd probably get a lot out of "How Emotions Are Made" by Lisa Feldman-Ba...

This is my third year off nicotine entirely. It's only gotten easier.

That one was awful. Unhinged had no right to be as good as it was (it was still bad).

Yes. I would recommend Unhinged by Vera Valentine, which is smut starring a lady and her apartment's front door. Followed by Plowed By The Pumpkin Kin...

The Scotch always call whiskey the wrong word.

That is the dynamic between you two that I'm modding, yes. Keep your chat to the state of Israel. Keep inferences about the Jewish people out of it.

I'm not speaking as a partisan in this debate, I'm just modding it in the forum. There's a sense in which Israel can be accused of being a Jewish supr...

@"Hanover"@"frank" @"BitconnectCarlos" Please stop equating the state of Israel with the Jewish people. All that pattern of argument does is invite pr...

There isn't anything in principle wrong with discussing whether an institution should be considered intelligent. What's at issue is the way you're goi...

I'm going to close this thread. It's not philosophy, an argument, adjacent to philosophy or well written. Please see this thread for the site guidelin...

I miss him too. And I don't know much more about his death, I'm afraid.

I must regretfully inform you all that @"Isaac" is dead, he is no longer with us.