Is the problem with the term "ownership" and "own"? Would it help if I just said that we are causally responsible for our actions? It doesn't make sen...
But the presence of multiple outcomes are in your head, not out in the world. It wouldn't be correct to call them multiple outcomes. Only one outcome ...
If a conceptual scheme includes cultures and periods, which are an amalgam of individuals' conceptual schemes, then by definition individual conceptua...
Thats like saying you can predict what someone will conclude without knowing their premises. Its nonsense. You would not be predicting. You'd be guess...
It seems that if your goal is to put a man on the moon and you put a man on the moon, your knowledge was 100% accurate. Now, if you wanted to put a ma...
It seems to me that you are agreeing with, and want to adopt my position. What does it matter what we call ourselves, left, right, moderate, libertari...
And I'm saying that you are making it more complicated, and therefore less coherent, than it needs to be. I have a feeling that this is how your threa...
I'm not categorizing it "how I want". That is how Libertarianism is defined. In saying that the left needs to assert itself in this area, you are esse...
Yes, they are not being intellectually honest with themselves, so how would one expect them to intellectually honest with me? They aren't asking the q...
I agree with this because asking for race when applying for college is a category error. Would it be racist to have your race listed in your medical r...
Who made that absurd statement? That would be like saying "the apple makes no difference to what the apple is". I don't think anyone is claiming that ...
This is another straw-man. I didn't make the argument that others "want to give central government all the power it is possible for a government to ha...
Theories are based on observations. The problem isn't that others aren't getting what you are saying. If that was the problem, then why didn't you say...
I think our understanding of knowledge, which leads to paradoxes like, "knowing that you don't know anything" needs to be reworked before we start ask...
Difficulty is another anthropomorphic projection. Difficulty lies in our ability to understand the processes that actually did happen due to the lack ...
But those are all external worlds. Is the argument "how do we know there is an external world", or "how do we know what the external world is like"? T...
What do you mean by "use"? "Use" for me entails causation. You conceive of a goal, then you use your brain, words, screwdriver, etc. to achieve the go...
I'm not quite clear on what the problem is. Don't we acquire knowledge from observations? We don't know anything until we observe it. So the answer is...
How do you know how probable, or possible, the occurrence of DNA is? It doesn't seem to occur out in the vacuum of space, but on certain planets with ...
Energy put into the a stable system. Think of natural selection as an environmental feedback mechanism where the current state-of-affairs of the envir...
Do either of the first two that you mentioned hold a view other than there are things outside of our experiences, or that there aren't? For a transcen...
Because of citizens who revolted against an unfair and authoritarian government. I answer your questions. When are you going to answer my questions? I...
Which has nothing to do with how the universe works from existing states to new states. The universe does not consist of new states coming about compl...
What are the viable alternatives? Are there only two - solipsism and realism? If so, then we've narrowed it down to just possibilities. If solipsism w...
How do you distinguish a thought experiment from imagination? There is a difference between random character generation, and processes that can only b...
This straw-man is no surprise from someone who conflates "fondness" with "a type of harm, or unjust action". What in this statement implies that a Lib...
If another person told you about Mt. Everest, then you'd have to first believe that that person and their observations exist independently of you for ...
First, nothing happens randomly, or by chance. There are reasons things happen, if not then logic would be useless, and our understanding of the unive...
Or you could keep the plan you have and be hypocrites. You are hypocrites because: 1) you are encouraging the mistreatment of people who had no choice...
If this were the case, then there would never be a case where someone doesn't know what they are talking about - meaning their model is inaccurate and...
:confused: Uhh... Go back and read that question again. Your answer is for a different question that I did not ask. What information is in your tone o...
What is it about your tone and body language that is relevant to the point you're trying to make in any post, that doesn't get picked up by the reader...
Sounds like something the Roman Catholic Church would pronounce some centuries ago. Anyone who doesn't believe in the vague descriptions we've given o...
If you didn't intend to type that and submit it, then how did it get on the screen for me to read? Are we talking about your intentions, or the topic ...
Yeah, but what percent? A majority of it? You're the one on that end that knows what they're typing on the screen and how much of it is missing. What ...
I asked you to show where I have done that consistently, but you won't, because you can't, because I haven't. Show me what argument in my previous pos...
I don't see the reason to label people, especially from a standpoint of your limited interactions with me. Like I said, information is everywhere - wh...
This is a joke, right? Show where I have "quite consistently is plastering your impressions of people over their faces to the point that you can no lo...
You're saying information is lost, but what I'm saying is that the information is probably irrelevant to what is being said. Information is everywhere...
So theres no beetles in our box when it comes to communicating uncommunicatible feelings? But when it comes to communicating philosophical/metaphysica...
I doubt that 95% would be how much information is lost in communicating on these forums. Maybe when communicating with Banno you'd lose 95% of what he...
Which is why I asked how others might learn to use the term when observing someone else use it. Indescribable: too unusual, extreme, or indefinite to ...
This is better. Why can't we express them? Is it that the language is limited, or our cognitive grasp of the language we're using, or something else -...
Because if you didn't you wouldn't be coherent. No one would understand what you're saying, and you'd get a lot of questions asking you to clarify. "T...
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