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Then try learning less from textbooks. Locke was also a dedicated nativist, as was Hume. You have to read them to find out, but it should be obvious e...

Sounds like the typical narrative of a Richard Dawkins. “Back when men were ignorant, they would debate about angels— and then humans discovered EMPIR...

They aren’t. When they are, they do not apply to these men. Unless of course you don’t read them and are forced to use conventional shorthands. In whi...

I really don’t see the relevance of that remark; I didn’t say avoid using labels — I said avoid using simplistic labels, particularly when borrowed fr...

Let's try to avoid simplistic labels. These terms were not used by the aforementioned men themselves, are not very well defined, and do little except ...

Why do you bother with this imbecile? Let the thread die and just let him talk into the online ether.

A once booming thread. NOS4 has managed to put everyone to sleep. Well done.

Not sure. I think if we can one day formulate a technical notion of "consciousness," then perhaps we can explain it. Right now it's obviously too hard...

Of course. But like you said, "mind" doesn't necessarily refer to consciousness or awareness, which (in my opinion only) are slightly better terms for...

But if you want to get anywhere, you really should. Same as in the sciences. When we talk about mind, or body, or tree, or anything else in everyday l...

They are just words as well, yes. But I’m not claiming they’re beyond question. As I went on to explain. Before we decide if we’re mindless, tell us w...

I know -- funny because it's true. I wonder what Spinoza would say? :lol: Perhaps you should go study him.

Yet still incoherent. :lol: Can't expect miracles!

Right -- stick with Spinoza. Doing so has clearly benefited you. :yawn:

Good -- so next time spare me your incoherent blathering. I have no interest in it. Go read more Spinoza.

"Will"? "You"? "Please"? "Study"? (Excellent argument, yes?) Your obsession with Spinoza is your own. Putting quotation marks over those words explain...

Sure it can. "Mind" and "ideas" are just words. Why not simply start where Descartes does, with conscious awareness? But here again we're back to dual...

I find this way of asking as being the product of the educational system, particularly in colleges and universities. Philosophy majors and their teach...

The chess.com ratings aren’t very accurate, but I hover around 2000. I have no idea if I’d be considered a candidate master in actual scoring and was ...

:rofl: Yeah, and an excellent job you’re doing with that. Keep up the very important “work”.

Good thing you're here to enlighten everyone with your insufferable pseudo-intellectual nonsense. Keep talking in circles, by all means. Just do it wi...

:yawn:

No way to tell, until someone explains what this "identical thought" is. Personally, I find Heidegger to be more compelling in this vein. What's thoug...

Happy to play anyone, on chess.com or anywhere else. I prefer shorter games -- 3-10 minutes. I play slightly below master level.

It's not basic inductive reasoning, it's basic curiosity and thinking. If you want to impose order on this type of phenomenon, and call it inductive o...

The Forms are indeed universal prototypes. Whether they go on without human beings is a separate issue. The concept and word "circle" and "perfect" ar...

What do you mean by "come from"? Where does that idea come from? The Forms (or Ideas) arise in the human being, and are described by the human being. ...

You're already way off track. Ideas aren't "something from nothing." This has to be clearly justified and explained. Ideas, or forms, are generalities...

This is predictable. Try to get beyond this thinking of "left" and "right." That's reducing things to the level of sports teams. The right are program...

Exactly. He's great at exploiting "outrage" manufactured by the media (mainly conservative media, in this case: Fox News, Breitbart, NY Post, talk rad...

:rofl: Or maybe you're just a right-wing nut job? Hmm...

Jordan Peterson is a pseudo-intellectual and a waste of time. Look no further than the fact that he sells millions of books and garners lots of attent...

:yawn: I wonder who this could be? Another person recently banned, no doubt. My advice: don’t bother engaging. Let them talk to themselves.

Let’s first define “thing”. To reformulate: why are there beings at so instead of nothing? Leibniz asked this question as well. The best analysis I ha...

Let me be as unambiguous as I can: I look at you with utter contempt. Your "opinions" are completely worthless. You made your choice a long time ago. ...

lol. What a shocker that the guy up Trump's ass would say this.

Not a bad start. Ezra Klein had a decent article today in the NY Times about the Democrats. If they want to win, they should enact legislation that ef...

Right out of Ayn Rand. You wouldn’t have wealth we see in the US without a strong nanny state. So I agree— we should get rid of it. I don’t want my ta...

It's preferable if you cite your source: https://philarchive.org/rec/SOFAPC If you're not the author of this, that's plagiarism.

Trump supporters live in Opposite Land. Shamelessly. So if Trump is impeached for violating the constitution, YOU’RE violating the constitution. If Tr...

Yeah, definitely peaceful. Except for the sacking of the Capitol, which Trump incited. Go gaslight somewhere else.

Defending Trump is now akin to defending OJ. His supporters are still looking for the “real inciters.” Remember where all this started: demonstrably u...

How long before all these “soulful” corporations reneg on their pledge not to fund republican election objectors?

:lol:

You mean seeing a bunch of Trump supporters, incited by Trump, sacking the Capitol building? Or watching degenerates like you equivocate about it? I a...

Yes. Like incitement, which is what Trump did -- in reality. Of which we know you're allergic.

Yes. Put NOS in post-war Germany and he would have been equivocating about Hitler for years. Must be like playing whack-a-mole for bad apologetics. Bu...

There is no left hegemony. Conservative media dominates talk radio, cable news, has the most read newspaper in the country, etc. Hollywood is no doubt...

:yawn: And it’s the liberals who are supposed to be snowflakes. Take your pontification and sell it to people who care. Extra points for writing “veri...

How silly, appealing to reason, logic, general rationality, etc. The "debate" with NOS or anyone else still supporting Trump is already over. It ended...