But this is obviously false. If I call a stove a planet, it is not therefore a planet; it's just a stove, that I'm calling a planet. So I'm a little c...
But calling something a planet doesn't make it so; therefore it can't be that to be called a planet is to be a planet. To be a planet is to fall withi...
The second horn's conclusion doesn't follow – if Pluto is no longer a planet even though none of its relevant qualities changed, this doesn't mean to ...
Nah, close friends have so much disgusting baggage, they've always all fucked each other and are sick of their personal ticks and so on. In-politics a...
This was written by a man but it captures the voice well... "It is 1943—the height of the Second World War. With the men away at the front, Berlin has...
Actually I said that because I saw a one act play about it recently. The prototype for the novel is The Awakening, but there's a sense in which I thin...
I really like this. Although I think this hysterical tone, where every complaint is one of (sanctimonious) reaction to injustice is becoming universal...
I think it's good, and I'd read it over just about anything non-classical in a Barnes and Noble. But I'm in the target audience. It has a coherency to...
Honestly, I'm not really sympathetic to the virtues of human interaction generally. People are disappointing, and I don't think interpersonal interact...
This is a good example of it: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/4/42/The_Legacy_of_Totalitarianism_in_a_Tundra.pdf Novel written collaborativ...
After getting a taste of the way people interact in certain environments, it gets harder to care about the way they interact in others. I know people ...
I grew up on the internet. For me it wasn't an appendage or a tool but a fact of life, so I can't judge myself apart from it. I largely agree that mos...
I think the two have incompatible ends, with the most important difference being that Epicureans treat pleasure as intrinsically good and virtue as in...
I won't harp on this because I generally think Kant is vastly overrated in terms of his importance to the history of philosophy, but I'm almost certai...
You're not following the conversation. To reiterate, I am asking you to support the claim made here: You made this statement unsupported. So why is it...
I don't know how old it is. But it makes use of the notion of an object in the older sense. I don't think there was really any reversal with Kant, eit...
It's your proposed argument, so I can't do that for you. You have to tell me -- clearly there is no validly drawn conclusion as it stands, and I have ...
As far as I can see this doesn't follow or support realism. Idealism has never claimed, to my knowledge, that whatever you want to happen happens, nor...
The old sense of 'object' also survives -- to objectify someone is to reduce them to what you make of them. You can't objectify someone without lookin...
Yeah, I definitely think some of the classical transcendental idealists could be read as claiming that the universe is procedurally generated based on...
What about its being true? Also, don't give me this dismissive crap. If you don't have answers, then just cop to it. All my points are targeted direct...
Well, then your imagination isn't very good. I don't think this is even a plausible lay account of how these things work. Moral principles don't becom...
The desire to limit language to an artificial subset of its expressive power isn't very enchanting, since you have to decide and make up what expressi...
First of all, you're assuming a controversial principle of verification as if it were obvious. Second of all, even if this held, the relevant moral fa...
He seems to be saying that group consensus is somehow constitutive of objective truth, not that it's an indicator of it -- of course, it isn't either ...
In general, the inference scheme 'everyone thinks x' to 'x' is invalid. People having an opinion doesn't make the opinion so. If everyone believes the...
Not at all. Just because everyone values x, doesn't mean x is valuable. They can simply all be wrong. There are plenty of things in history that nearl...
That people objectively all value something isn't grounds to say that it is objectively valuable in any sense -- and even if it were, this would be a ...
He claimed that roughly for what we think of as 'external impressions' of the outside world, yeah. We'd also be capable of conjuring images actively o...
Nihilism is a position that denies the existence of something, and so if we're talking about value nihilism, it denies the existence of (at least 'obj...
Fair enough -- but Berkeley, Hume, and Hobbes were all more thoroughgoing in their empiricism than Locke. Again, I don't think that claim means much u...
I don't really take him seriously as a philosopher. He falls more into the apologist camp, cheerleading for a certain tradition and attacking its atta...
Here's an example of the early 90s prog metal aesthetic developed right around the same time DT was making Images and Words. Very very similar style, ...
I prefer the super early sound, but Images and Words is still good in the sense that it just has really good songwriting. If you don't like that early...
As far as feelings, they're a kind of motion and all motions wear themselves out, or else they'd just be standing still. But they don't just wear them...
Briefly, 20th century existentialism mistakes a revolt against a cultural heritage for a perennial human condition: the notion that the world is absur...
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