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David Gamez in What We Can Never Know provides three common reasons - and refutations - of Lockean primary/secondary properties: Primary qualities are...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s26e_86-K0k

Wildfires in Colorado are getting bad. Smoke is everywhere and irritates the throat if you are outside for too long. I was eight miles away from one o...

Interesting. I have had the thought that the "meaning in the now" is second-rate in comparison to some ultimate transcendent purpose, kind of like sal...

It has meaning now.

Sure. To (some) pessimists, living is the postponement of death - a procrastination of the inevitable, a patient preparation. Death is something to be...

Joining the party late, so pardon me if this was already discussed (and please point me to where it was). Many people at my workplace are restless fro...

More riddles...

Circulation and respiration require the brain to function, and vice-versa. The human body is a system after all.

The cessation of circulation, respiration, and brain activity (which includes consciousness).

It's not complicated, I don't think. What's the difference between a normal leg and a broken leg? One is whole, the other fractured. One holds weight,...

What's the difference between a broken dishwasher and a functional dishwasher? A dead body is one that is not alive, ya know, doing stuff that living ...

Nah, a dead body is not the same as a living body, it's no longer alive.

This begs the question. You have to already assume the mind and body are separate things in order to be able to subtract the body from the mind. The b...

IDK, I think a large part of it depends on how long someone has considered it for. Is it a spurt of the moment thing that they're liable to fuck up, o...

Well you're free to ignore whatever you please.

Some people kill themselves for bad reasons, and they ought to be offered help if possible. At the same time, other people kill themselves for complet...

Yes, people should be more acquainted and comfortable with suicide. It shouldn't be this "other". Suicide is threatening to the established order of t...

Well to be sure, both feeling that one's life is useless and attempting suicide are pretty shitty. You should reach out a helping hand to those who mi...

Yeah, I think having good moral sense is similar to having good common sense, mathematical sense, or any kind of intuitive knowledge. Those who lack i...

That just means we are not fit for survival. Survival isn't important if you think about it enough.

Nah I don't think this follows. Just because someone is doing something bad does not mean I have any moral duty to get involved to stop them. I didn't...

:ok:

Every decision involves a certain degree of uncertainty. Having a child involves both the certainty that the person will suffer, and the uncertainty o...

On this point, extinction does not contradict evolution, as evolution has no direction or purpose. If a species goes extinct, its members were no long...

So you can score brownie points with your peers by coming up with a new interpretation of the text, duh. :roll:

Colorado made masks mandatory in public spaces, thanks Polis. Late is better than never I guess.

i.e. there is no burden of proof if the question is incoherent. God must not exist if God is definitionally incoherent. The only "proof" comes about f...

Honestly, it's probably because most philosophy is bad philosophy. I believe it takes many years to develop a sense of what good thinking looks like, ...

Just finished Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Never read it back in secondary education. I liked it a lot.

I think the idea is that it helps prevent the spread of these harmful ideas. How could it be argued thus? Actually this seems like an empirical inquir...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjnWqRiNc2M

Ethics, i.e. radical alterity, the demand that I do not murder that-which-is-not-me.

Tea works too.

Can we get a drinking coffee emoji?

Yes, it's called propaganda.

PragerU, are you serious

The experience of selfhood is just that, an experience. The experiencer is an experience.

What would you wish I elaborate on

Do women who dress in "revealing" clothing have any culpability when men objectify them? oh shit wrong thread

There is a sense of self, but there are no selves. There are feelings of being someone, without there being anyone. People are zombies - there never w...

lmao

Those with detrimental/life destroying tendencies can still reproduce before these characteristics manifest and cause the end of the organism's life. ...

I am personally not comfortable having sex with someone unless I have an ongoing relationship with them. I think if I truly care about someone then I ...

I stated that meaningless sex is equivalent to masturbation. I did not state that casual sex is equivalent to masturbation. Having sex with someone ca...

A person who does not have a deficiency of self-esteem will require that objectification not be the only form of attention they receive. It is not nou...

I find it uncomfortable as well. Sex without genuine connection seems to me like masturbating with someone else's body. You pretend to care so that yo...

Not at all defending Schopenhauer's behavior, but this story always makes me chuckle just because of how ridiculous and petty it is.

Really insightful point, made me think. Would you expect this coopting to disappear if racism/sexism disappeared?

I had in mind the "new atheist" thing and counter-thing, which seemed to generate some pissing.