Exactly. This is the point I made previously, glad we can agree. You clearly have a fundamental misunderstanding of the opinion that no amount of disc...
An actual decision is useful for more than just it's legal impact. Even concurring and dissenting opinions are valuable barometers for where the legal...
The part of the decision you cited lays out EXACTLY how that determination is made. They use the passage you quoted to EXPLICITlY clarify that experie...
I look forward to the time when all the esteemed legal scholars in this thread actually engage with the written decision instead of tossing about the ...
The reality of causation “needs” no jargon for the exact same reasons I laid out for the cosmos. Yes, but it’s quite a burden for me to be uninteresti...
The issue of your claim that the cosmos needs a jargon? A moderate one at that? The same cosmos that existed for billions of years before any sentient...
I said they were arbitrary, not accidental. Arbitrary choices can still be deliberate. The “truest” model (whatever that means) is the most pragmatic ...
Because it's useful to do so. The language is the abstraction in the first place. "painting" is by definition abstracting. Causes and effects were occ...
To a weary traveler, the purpose of trees, or a particular tree, might be shade. To Siddhartha Guatama, a tree serves as the setting for the transform...
I am now and was then in agreement. However, that's not a point I was arguing. I focus on the following premise: I disagree with the thought that a th...
Who said I think it doesn't? Distinction without a difference. But, to avoid a needlessly semantic discussion, use good or bad if you like, it changes...
I guess the issue would be with the idea of "intent" being the watchword for "purpose". But I'm content with the idea of decoupling purpose from any s...
I don't think the question is about replacement, to me it seems that thermodynamics gives us further context and insight into understanding what ethic...
I think my main issue with this line of reasoning is that "purpose" is a construct of rational minds, whereas it's perfectly reasonable to imagine the...
Even thermodynamic outcomes are probabilistic, which gives rise to the possibility of chaos. And indeed, in our journey toward higher entropy, the hum...
I (mostly) find myself in that same camp, but interestingly: I tend to agree. I tend to disagree. Anyway, whether America is unraveling or not, evolut...
"Is" statement "Ought" statement Seems the conversation jumped an awfully large chasm in just two lines. Not saying you aren't allowed, merely asking ...
A multi-polar world certainly seems to be an inevitability. Whether that state of affairs carries ethical consequences/connotations... that seems less...
"It is a delusional fantasy to think that COLONIAL citizens can stand against the BRITISH government." How unpleasant this idea would have been if it ...
At its core, this position is Hobbesian. I'm sure you can see how many Americans would view it as anathema, especially as the US was founded upon core...
Ironically, Socrates' unwillingness to part from (his concept of) rational action is one of the most unreasonable things about him. Who else would wil...
Where the Greeks strove for a moral duty to reason, Jesus (and later his Christian followers) strove for a moral duty to God. Perhaps both quests are ...
I think Plato got the cause and effect wrong, which seems to be what you are pointing out. From that passage in Romans it does appear like Paul is int...
Their concepts may not have been exactly congruent to ours, but I would disagree with the idea that Plato did not conceptualize the will. https://en.w...
This all rings true (a good example of intuitive emotion governing my purportedly rational response), especially as I am in the middle of "The Righteo...
It's interesting because I think it's often overlooked that the point of Zeno's paradoxes isn't to prove that motion is impossible, it's to reduce to ...
True, but in order to progress to a logical analysis, I think metaphysically defining our subject is a worthy cause. But in comparison, wouldn't Zeno'...
Depends if you think the sequential distances or steps required to traverse a distance are countably or uncountable infinite. They both have seemingly...
I hate to keep stealing my comments from Wikipedia, but there is another interesting version (at least I would call it a version) of Zeno's paradoxes ...
I agree that most of the time discussions on this topic tend to descend rather quickly and that’s what I was trying to point out, but you’re quite rig...
This, incidentally, does not appear far off from what Zeno was arguing for in the first place. Would you consider yourself a Parmenidean? Maybe a Neo-...
Moving back toward the original question of this thread, I'm eager to introduce the notion of Supertasks to the conversation. A great summary with exa...
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