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I think that's what a lot of Marxist literature does, no? Filling in the gaps and using the same categories to analyse other issues. Did you have a pa...

What blocks: 9. (Li) is not true (8, truth conditions of conjunction). ? Why can't it just be false?

I don't think that's possible without filling in/inventing lots of extra-textual details. Some of his arguments are relatively easy to put into a theo...

\forall x \forall y: \forall P ( P(x) \leftrightarrow P(y)) \rightarrow x=y isn't \forall x \forall y: \forall P (K(P(x)) \leftrightarrow K(P(y))) \ri...

Political enemies? (Drunk manifesto) If you think a person is your enemy, like you really hate them for personal reasons. That means you've met them, ...

He does interpret it, but he doesn't Interpret it. :wink:

Last few books and essays and stuff: Mindfuck - Christopher Wylie Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez Fucking Trans Women - Mira Bellweather Capit...

Philosophy has a metagame? S: Kant and Hume are clear S tiers, budding entrants to The Argument are either skewered by their arguments or defined by h...

Statistics with fdrake (readers may or may not receive a free car upon reading the post). These categories aren't mutually exclusive or exhaustive. If...

(Paging @"Baden" to the thread).

Considering both accounts have exactly the same IP, I changed your name to Kornelius so that annoying 2 won't stick around, I renamed the old account ...

The account "Kornelius" and the account "Kornelius2" do not have the same email address registered with their profile unfortunately.

The recovery email is being sent to a different email address, I think. Can you remember the email address associated with the last account? If you ca...

Every time there's a western - Asian conflict of some sort someone will always bring out the Chess vs Go strategy paradigm clickbait article. It was d...

Do you really need me to explain common ways in which animals experience pain through industrial meat production? I thought bins full of baby chickens...

If "causing unnecessary pain" was restricted to "killing" I'd agree with you that it interfaces with the argument. But as stated, it doesn't - the unn...

(1) Animals experience pain. (2) Causing unnecessary pain is wrong. (3) Humans eating animals is unnecessary in most circumstances now. (4) Humans eat...

There are good indicators that they don't. They don't have neurons or behave like they have central executive functions. The kind of "evidence" that s...

I don't understand. There's no good reasons to believe that plants suffer. Or bacteria. I dunno about insects. So the argument doesn't apply to them s...

One of those philosophical distinctions pretending it is not, @"Isaac" throws environmental interventions like eating into the process of perception. ...

Animals experience pain. Causing unnecessary pain is wrong. Humans eating animals is unnecessary in most circumstances now. Humans eating animals is w...

oyster->oyster perception connection in eating->human eating oyster We cannot eat the oyster in itself as eating is a perceptual interaction = We eat ...

x->y->z Causal separation can smell a lot like causal isolation. If I told you that x approximates y with error, and that y approximates z with error,...

I imagine that two people being in love is a rather vague thing involving the dispositions, acts, social context... It'd be hard to draw a line around...

I'm a bit uneasy attaching right and wrong to arbitrary ought statements myself; I don't like ought statements to begin with. It construes "ought" as ...

I think when he speaks like that lots of people see him as a strong leader sticking to his cards. Performing certainty. It is sad.

Well, the dynamic in the argument is for "privilege is a useful category in discourse" and "privilege is not a useful category in discourse". An argum...

Ultimately this means that there can be no sufficient evidence for any "philosophical position" to be true. Which is plausible, considering reasoning ...

:up: :up: Hm. Looks similar to this: Let me see if I can make an argument that consolidates both your points. You both seem okay with how I've used th...

Academia is mostly a pyramid scheme in which grad students get payed almost entirely in doing work that they love at most 25% of the time. You get the...

I don't think he disputes it directly. His account does very much undermine the motivating framework that allows solipsism to get going, though. Human...

"It turns out Republicans can accept a batshit insane candidate so long as it's consistent insanity" - Christopher Wylie

Found this which might be of interest to you - it talks about Heidegger's conception of predication (in statements) as a kind of "seeing as" (seeing s...

Whether Heidegger is ultimately an idealist or a realist of some flavour is debated. There's support for both: So there's strong support for the claim...

If you need citations for things I will find you them. I think for him analysing something with predicate logic requires taking a theoretical stance t...

I think it's pretty close to question begging too. Moral imperatives show up as part of social contexts. Maybe one way of phrasing it is that function...

I don't think that a course of action is specified in the agreement above. In my experience, whenever I should improve my conduct or avoid doing somet...

A reached agreement should be followed? Otherwise it's not an agreement.

And you find it unpersuasive that the event corresponding to "my partner and I agree I should try to be more courteous towards her after a shit day at...

Broad agreement with those things. Will have a go at saying what I think about ethics and meta-ethics in general. There is an argument that goes; (1) ...

I didn't! I get scared when racist demagogues who've recently sent federal troops to suppress protests start talking about postponing elections...

Oh god.

The deck is really stacked in mathematics+logics' favour when comparing it to politics. There's a background that fixes the meaning of terms, common a...

What do you actually imagine is happening when you think about the degeneration of discourse?

I don't think anything to do with human nature is a good explanation of why (allegedly) people have forgotten how to have Deep And Meaningful Conversa...

But what's the model of me in that? I'm quite happy to be seen as a stimulus->response machine of triggered by problematicness->woke signaling, you do...

AFAIK the Schrodinger equation's time evolution is deterministic, but that doesn't make the states deterministic. The states are samples from probabil...

I think you underestimate people. Or mischaracterize them. I did read the rest of your post. I just didn't understand that you were meaning literally ...

Us, we who do not do the "us vs them", are so much better than them, those who do "us vs them".

The biggest problem in American politics is that there is no political neutral ground... So let's talk about the neutral ground. Yes, there are politi...