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It would just be that "this world has objects in it" isn't true when you deprive a world of of language. But if you can somehow speak "about" the worl...

The world isn't empty without language in it though. There'll still be rocks and gold. Which will mean statements like "this is gold" evaluates to tru...

One is not dead when one is deciding whether one should be dead. What you just wrote frames the debate as if someone who is already dead is trying to ...

I suppose if you contrast a life which stops now, and a life which stops in the future, if you believed the life which stops now accumulates less net ...

Is there a way you'd prefer people to respond to you in the thread?

@"Darkneos" The following is your post: ___ I didn't appreciate the last thread being closed as I asked a serious question about the worth of life and...

What I did was write it in pen off the computer, then copy it into a postit on the screen, then edited it in Microsoft Word 2011, converted it into a ...

You've made two responses in a single post, the top seems to be your original work and the bottom is entirely chatGPT. I believe this is against the s...

Holy necro batman, I'm closing it.

I see what you mean. The world is seen as a database of propositional forms, if you'll pardon the pun. But criticising that is another thread. I'll ma...

Because it quantifies into a context in which there are no truthbearers. In that condition no one could assert that there were dinosaurs, so "there ar...

It's complicated by the fact that any theory of truth worth its salt should evaluate "There were rocks before the advent of humans" as true. Since the...

Yeah. Can there be truth without a truthbearer? Seems to me a different question to whether there can be rocks on earth without humans. People treatin...

Question asked out of curiosity. In your view, if you imagined a hypothetical completely fictional observer of Boorara, and you imagined them as havin...

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You can leave the posts you've made so far. Almost the entire post is LLM content. Don't make more like that.

@"Sam26" - please see the new rules regarding LLM use. Failure to comply will result in a warning.

I am under the impression that the modern cunt doesn't need to have a cunt, so perhaps you can still be a cunt in the future cunt.

@"Hanover" - I think this is a radical feminism you can get behind.

I've seen Intermezzo recommended in three separate places I frequent now, I should really get to it.

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Get telt bawbag.

Maybe in print. This was what turned me off the book though. He wrote in a narrative voice like every Norwegian man with social difficulties I'd met. ...

Skill issue.

In a former life. I work with young kids that need additional support.

What advantage is this? :eyes:

That's a lot to chew on, thank you.

Aye. Which the OP implicitly stipulates as irrelevant (in its case).

"Legal != immoral != socially acceptable" looks like a whole other thread.

Okay yes. And why does that make incest impermissible when there's no chance of procreation? Say with our 60 year old sterile separated at birth story...

They were all real!

I'm afraid I don't understand. Are you saying eugenics is never immoral?

Think those are separate too. There are plenty of moral things which are illegal (responsible consumption of harmless drugs), and plenty of legal thin...

"Never being immoral" isn't the same thing as "being required not to". It's never immoral to eat ice cream, but you are not required not to. Separate ...

You can thank my students.

Alright, which forms are eugenics are good and which are bad?

You have to be really careful using principles like that, because as written they provide support for eugenics. IE, people who have heritable conditio...

The oneness of the many is the manyness of the one, or something like that.

I do really like the idea of trying to come up with a continuous graduation reality concept, which isn't an accuracy of a representation, or a way of ...

It isn't a very good scale. It jettisons the distinctions between all properties. It's exactly the same scale which would let you answer "What's a blo...

Exemplification's got the same kind of weirdness with existential import as the application of predicate to subject does, right? Socrates is mortal ei...

Doesn't that construe degrees of reality like degrees of accuracy of its representation? The scientists aren't going to think that tables are less rea...

I think you can have hierarchical organisation of predicates without being committed to reality degrees. Like everything which is red is coloured - th...

That's certainly a perspective. "wall" = w "beige wall" = wall + beige Walls have a higher degree of reality when painted beige? I suppose that just m...

A deluded person's grip on reality is a property of them, not of the delusions. It would be the delusions that would need to admit of degrees of reali...

It's very difficult for me to imagine what it might mean to have a degree of reality, in contrast to an existent which has a property of a given inten...

We don't see the skeptic Sartre is responding to in the OP. I find it difficult to tell exactly what radical doubt he's responding to. This is almost ...

Projects like that give you entire other ways of imagining everything. There isn't too much evidence for how we see the world at a base level, so it's...

I've been on a Cybernetic Culture Research Institute kick the last few months. I read: Nihil Unbound by Ray Brassier through fully for the first time....

Lemme know what you think when you're done please!