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As such, essentially every government in the world is an oligarchy where the elite few rule the many and limit and strictly control the new members to...

Yes, it's politicizing identity. What do you think anti-vac and vaccinated are, if not identities? It's using labels as weapons against your political...

But you were talking about string theory. Can you make up your mind which analogy you're going to use? By narrowing it down to only two (views), limit...

It's a good point. The only problem is that we can't say that all there is is human cognition. What does it even mean to say that all there is is huma...

The same can be said of Biden, who's been in power for 50 years, hasn't done jack for minorities except insult them, yet they keep voting for the prom...

Not hate. Logic. Given what you said, I don't expect you to understand the difference.

The analogy states that the person who hired them should go to jail too. Talk about needless personal attacks...

So string theory is what changed your mind? I don't get it. Is string theory right or wrong? It can't be both, but it has to be one.

Then it begs the question of what is truth, morality and justice? That is something that needs to be examined. If they are subjective aspects of our c...

:rofl: I was simply reiterating a point made by a philosopher, something that you say that I need to read more of. So you're saying that Witt is makin...

A little context certainly helps. Insurrection: an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government. https://en.wikip...

So what changed your mind, Frank, in the past 5 months?

And your misread of the post you were replying to stated that not reading to much, as opposed to not reading at all, philosophy is a good thing. My po...

Proving my point, I see. :rofl:

Wait, who sent who? The hit man is the one that is sent to make the hit, but on Jan. 6th the hit man is the one that sent them? Who did the hit man se...

wtf are you saying - that incestuous couples have this special power that no one else has where they can choose who they are attracted to? If you're g...

It's more of a statement than a confession. Computer programming uses computer languages. Learning a computer language helps you use your native langu...

A condition is any state-of-affairs that we can point to. The temporal distance between some cause and it's subsequent effect is subjective, as change...

So it is your position that existentialists and phenomenologists are the ones that determine whether any life is worth living? Is this who examines yo...

No. In this sense, consciousness has been defined as not being limited to which objects have it prior to any theories being posited. What this actuall...

Lame come-back, as usual. Having sex after 40 is an act, like having sex with your cousin is an act. :roll: Like I said, having children is irrelevant...

Women over 40 stand an increased chance of having children with birth defects. Does this mean that we should prevent women over 40 from having childre...

I defined information earlier in the thread as the relationship between cause and effect. Sensation is a causal relationship between the sense and wha...

They're silly questions. I interpret "unlived" to mean non-existent, as in to examine a life that doesn't exist. It doesn't make sense to say that one...

A definition describes what something is. A theory describes why something is. A definition is used for identification while a theory is used for pred...

Define "ethics". If ethics encompasses how you treat others besides just yourself wouldn't that mean that you'd need to examine everyone else's life t...

Domesticated pigs don't examine their lives. Does that make the pigs' life not worth living? The pig doesn't think so as it keeps on striving to live ...

Hmmmphh! Don't we need to define "defintion" and "theory" first? :smirk:

It seems that most of the "is" statements are definitions. The theories are more vague and require definitions to make them less so.

This is just another way of saying consciousness is composed of information.

Then it should be simple enough for you to provide an example of aboutness and intentionality that does not include a causal relationship. In talking ...

Mental states are not the only things that represent things. All effects represent their causes, of which mental states are just one type of cause and...

Can one atom look at itself, or can only a group of atoms look at themselves? From one view we are people. From another we are atoms. Is the varying s...

But what is it like for you to add two plus two? How do you know you are adding two plus two? Do you see numbers in your head, or hear sounds, "two pl...

What use is the brain without senses and what use are senses without a brain? What use is reasoning without anything to reason with or about?

This is exaclty the type of comment one would expect from those that see this issue through the prism of politics and not metaphysics. The metaphysics...

You have no idea what you're talking about. Names are given at birth, or even before, when the sex of the baby is known. Only after the sex of the bab...

Philosophy is ultimately a way of socializing and impressing others with the artful use of big words, hence most of the problems of philosophy are der...

I don't see how reasoning could be separate from sensation. Reasoning is a sensation, no? How do you know when you're reasoning and when you're not, i...

If gender and sex are different things then how do you know if others are referring to your sex or gender when using pronouns?

Again, comparing this to proper names is comparing apples to oranges. Its more like you're white but tell people you're black and you get annoyed that...

You can always use coding to restrict users to certain conditions and choices, thereby limiting the amount of coding you have to write that checks for...

I like to solve these types of problems using a computer programming language. In every language, the variables need to be defined in order to use the...

Sure, but are a, c and d categories? If you re-wrote the first example as All c's are letters . (true) All d's are letters. (true) Therefore d's are c...

The problem is that you're comparing apples and oranges. You're comparing letters in the first example and comparing categories (animals) to elements ...

True but trivial. Adjectives and verbs would be useless without nouns. To think that verbs and adjectives can exist on their own, without a reference ...

It's actually much simpler than this. Words in different languages can be translated only because they point to the same thing. If they don't point to...

It's not just the act of "writing", but also recalling. From where do we recall our ideas/memories? Our memories are not composed of neurons, but colo...

Then what use is the term, "physical" if it doesn't distinguish from something else? Well, that all depends on how we define, "property".

If philosophy uses words differently than the every-day use of the words, is philosophy talking about a different world than everyone else when they u...