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= Or cut off your hand if it causes you to sin. Of course all of that can be interpreted in a non-literal sense, but it seems to be saying everything ...

To a point, but I wonder what sort of restorative justice a rapist would do, since you don't want to further traumatize their victim. Or what you woul...

Luke 9:59-60: He said to another man, "Follow me." But he replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father." Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury t...

Part of retributive justice is being aware that if you decide that bashing your neighbor's head in and stealing their stuff is a tempting idea, there ...

Another way to frame your Golden Rule question is to ask what would you want to happen if you're the victim? Or what would you want to happen to your ...

Hopefully, if I have any decency. But I'm also prone to being self-interested, like everyone else. That's why I won't get to try myself or pass my own...

The golden rule is just one maxim. I might endeavor to treat my neighbor as myself, but when he kills another neighbor, I want justice to be served. N...

It's also that Chavaka espoused the problem of induction as part of it's epistemology. Hume is credited with that, and he probably stated it in more m...

Soderbergh's movie also explored this angle. I've read the book the two movies are based on by Stanislaw Lem, and the focus was a bit different. Lem w...

The pragmatic answer. Do you think the mind can accomplish goals without somewhat faithfully representing objects? When I see a cliff and feel vertigo...

This assumes the nature of the objects cannot be known via representations in the mind. Here's a question. Why does the mind represent objects the way...

It's considered "nowhere" because it has been stripped of all subjective qualities. The world portrayed by science doesn't look, sound, taste, smell o...

But when I go and read on SEP, or a layman's philosophy book, it doesn't get bogged down with semantics. Things are defined as needed to setup the arg...

That's not an entirely fair description. It's too reductionist, and commits physicalists to mereological nihilism. Chalmers defines physicalism as the...

There are several ways to think about the distinction. I think Locke's primary/secondary qualities captures it nicely. One can also think of it in ter...

I suppose auditory illusion is the better categorization.

I perceive sound external to my ears, and that sound can hurt my ears if it's loud or shrill enough. This is different. It's like an internal auditory...

No wonder philosophy discussions on forums never get anywhere. It always turns into a semantic dispute over terms people normally have no trouble unde...

I don't think we need to go all the way back to the big bang to explain the rain satisfactorily. In my OP, I admitted that at some point, we run out o...

Why does it rain? Because heat from the sun evaporates the water which eventually turns into rain clouds. Sounds like an explanation to me. Science is...

It would make sound waves, but if there are no ears around, then there would be no sound as a phenomena. This is where it gets tricky. Does the tree l...

I would have said that, but then skeptical scenarios like the Matrix would qualify. I think Michael put it better: How similar does reality need to be...

So basically, we can carve up the world anyway that makes sense, but asking whether our carving exists is to mistake carving for ontology.

Many things we consider to be objects are made up out of parts. The question is whether something made up out of parts can be singular. I think of mys...

What does it mean to experience our experience? Isn't that how we get in these philosophical muddles in the first place? Do I experience the tree, or ...

I was on vacation, and I realized it would quickly pass and I would never get to do the vacation over again. That was a bit depressing.

Not everything has to be of practical importance to be worth doing. Humans watch and debate sports, movies, read comic books, they go to art galleries...

Good point. Perception in philosophy is so often focused on vision that I wonder if it doesn't sometimes lead philosophers astray. If we're the billia...

Right, so for example you can imagine this is all a dream, but then we understand the distinction between dreaming and waking because we spend part of...

See the Sime & Willow posts above my response. Also see other posts in this thread talking about habit or passion, including yours. What Hume was puzz...

That doesn't make you non-realist. That just means you think reality is different than the naturalistic version. Metaphysical realist means a belief i...

The point is that we do have the concepts of necessity and causality, contrary to what the Humeans in this thread have been arguing. It's not that we ...

The laws of thermodynamics prohibit perpetual motion machines from being invented. Nothing with mass can be accelerated to the speed of light. It's im...

That would be called faith, not a fact, would it not? Or even imagination, if we moved God from heart to head, depending on the person in question.

That's one problem with God being a fact.

God exists in my heart. True or false?

That still fails to explain how we came up with the concept of causality. Saying that it's a habit of mind is not explaining how the concept could for...

A passion isn't a concept. We have a concept of causality. Hume wasn't able to provide a good explanation for how we arrived at such a concept. As has...

You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat1GVnl8-k

Right, but science has taken over for metaphysics in the past on questions that can be empirically investigated. At one point, the idea of evolution w...

I don't understand what passion has to do with causality.

Do you think any other metaphysical system has a more useful answer than evolution as to how humans came to exist? Actually, I'm not that interested i...

Wouldn't realism being the most likely inference from experience qualify? We don't need to posit demons or computer simulations. We can just say the t...

It does. Certainly better than the tofu-turkey I had recently. Also, someone made a shrimp-eating addendum to Stove's worst argument. So if anyone man...

That's a good answer, and some philosophers are committed to living things being an exception. Living things can have parts. Seems to me the same argu...

Right, but it's not the the temporal priority that is sufficient, it's the nature of the prior. If the universe was filled only with inert gasses, the...

So Kant wouldn't have said anything to a hand waving argument either? Neither would Wittgenstein, but for a different reason.

Some things can't come to exist without the priors. Babies exist because of mothers. Life exists because of chemistry. Chemistry exists because of phy...

Some of our experiences are subjective, but it's not clear how perception should be classified. Heidegger makes the argument that we're always activel...

A Heideggerian critique of that might be that our being in the world is primary, and so abstracting away from that to ask radically skeptical question...