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If that is what physicalism entails then I doubt anyone would actually want to call themselves a physicalist.
December 21, 2016 at 22:35
No, it's not circular reasoning. Animals have the right not to be abused because they can suffer. The same reason why humans have the right not to be ...
December 21, 2016 at 22:34
But it can still be physicalism, as long as we limit particulars that exist as being physical. The properties of particulars may not be physical thems...
December 21, 2016 at 22:05
You can't abuse something that doesn't have the right to not be abused. There's no "lazy" thinking going on here. I disagree. The capacity to suffer q...
December 21, 2016 at 22:03
Not necessarily, realism about universals would be that these properties, obtained by particulars, are one and the same across particulars. They are n...
December 21, 2016 at 21:26
Yeah, no, this is completely wrong. Animals have rights, recognized across the (developed) world. Animal abuse is a thing because animals have rights....
December 21, 2016 at 21:21
I mean that's generally why I don't see the point in calling things "physical", it inevitably leaves things out or is so broad as to be indistinguisha...
December 21, 2016 at 21:19
Letters on a computer screen can only exist on a computer screen. It doesn't make sense to talk about the computational letter "B" in Times New Roman ...
December 21, 2016 at 20:56
The exact same reasoning was used to justify racial discrimination, segregation, and extermination.
December 21, 2016 at 20:41
Well, I mean, universal theorists don't have to be Platonists. We can be Aristotelian and believe that universals actually exist in the world and aren...
December 21, 2016 at 20:06
So the question is, how are universals physical? I would argue that "physicality" is a universal itself. There's no "physical" and then "everything el...
December 21, 2016 at 19:46
The Mongols and Spanish in AoE2 are so fucking OP.
December 21, 2016 at 19:10
You don't have to believe in Platonic universals to believe in universals. Nevertheless Platonic universals are quite helpful with many problems. No, ...
December 21, 2016 at 18:52
The irrationality of Pascal's Wager is that it doesn't follow in the way your A1 and A2 example does. It strictly assumes that a single God, usually t...
December 20, 2016 at 23:05
Pascal's Wager is flawed because, like what others said, it discounts the existence of another different deity, or assumes the deity is reasonable and...
December 20, 2016 at 18:51
I like this quote but at the same time dislike it. It can be seen as a pragmatic way of bypassing tedious debates, or it can be a way of affirming the...
December 20, 2016 at 18:47
Then don't you think we should keep trying to figure them out? False. Life is filled with assumptions. You will keep on living and breathing even if y...
December 20, 2016 at 18:44
Have you done any better? lmao Some things can still be valuable even if you never actually finish it. You provide, what, five examples (a big number,...
December 20, 2016 at 02:40
Dworkin I know was against the idea of female superiority, but my point was that some radical feminists continue to believe that men ought to be exter...
December 18, 2016 at 23:13
No, I think they can, I just don't think causes "exist" as some kind of ephemeral entity of sorts. I'm more into dispositionalism. Causal nets based u...
December 18, 2016 at 21:15
What is the difference between "everyday feminism" and "radical feminism (radfem)"? Just from what I have read so far in things like the SCUM manifest...
December 18, 2016 at 19:09
No, I think they exist but they have be predicate-able. To me, it doesn't even make any sense to talk of something that has no discernible nature but ...
December 18, 2016 at 18:53
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December 18, 2016 at 04:57
Then I can safely disregard anything you say about principles, since they do not exist and are thus irrelevant.
December 18, 2016 at 04:46
Which is it? Then what exactly is it? Why can't we say that there are some properties that exist thanks to a history and some properties just are, bru...
December 18, 2016 at 03:57
The problem I see with this is that it still doesn't prove anything about universals, because you use universals in the description. Or, to be precise...
December 18, 2016 at 02:50
I mean, I don't necessarily disagree with this, but I would also say that scientists can also be blamed for making wild assertions based upon the very...
December 18, 2016 at 01:39
Umm, okay? I'm asking what the difference in "real-ness" you see to be between something like an asteroid and "symmetry" of "something" like vagueness...
December 18, 2016 at 01:34
Video games help with altruistic burnout. Playing old-school video games is inexpensive, recuperative and sublimative. But generally the video game in...
December 18, 2016 at 00:03
The part I get tripped up on is when you explain the existence of universals like redness or hardness of whatever by appealing to things like sign rel...
December 17, 2016 at 23:49
Right, since nominalism rejects any and all abstracta.
December 17, 2016 at 19:33
Right, okay, because before I thought you were conflating universalism with the thesis that particulars don't exist, which would indeed create an extr...
December 17, 2016 at 19:20
True, one simply has to make sure that what one is inquiring about is not part of the scientific enterprise. I'm not so sure if this is accurate, at l...
December 17, 2016 at 19:07
I'm not so sure. Theology and metaphysics generally don't try to be "sciences" although their practitioners sometimes like to play dress-up and preten...
December 17, 2016 at 06:17
Every time someone uses the word "freedom" I always have the urge to yell "OBJECTION" and demand they define what they actually mean by freedom. Best ...
December 17, 2016 at 06:06
But that wouldn't be very objective, would it? Nietzsche is calling for us to become poets of our own lives and try to understand who we are, like who...
December 17, 2016 at 06:01
Although I sort of agree with the sentiment I can't help but point out the irony of you claiming reason is not equivalent to bird-calling, yet also cl...
December 17, 2016 at 06:00
I suppose you are right that airplanes and shit don't just pop out of nowhere. They are built by humans, living creatures. But the point of naturalism...
December 17, 2016 at 05:57
On the other hand, is was Nietzsche who argued that the overman would have an objective and realistic view of their own existence. Nietzsche was not a...
December 17, 2016 at 05:40
Or perhaps God allows things to slip through his grasp? In the same way a parent is pretty much omnipotent to a child but allows the child to do thing...
December 17, 2016 at 05:26
At the same time, however, we aren't perfect reasoners and we aren't objective evaluators of the world. We're filled with biases and fallacious thinki...
December 17, 2016 at 05:24
Self-esteem is a psychological power structure that motivates the organism by reassuring it as a significant and important symbol in the world. More o...
December 17, 2016 at 05:11
Yet talk of rates, limits, self-optimization, flows, regularities, symmetries, all that stuff is still referring to something. A graph without numbers...
December 17, 2016 at 04:53
Yes, well I had brought this point up a long while back, how nominalism not only struggles to explain why things are similar but why they are differen...
December 17, 2016 at 04:37
I'm not being polemical, Quine was a hardcore nominalist and called his own system an amorphous desert. Right, so like I said, without universals the ...
December 17, 2016 at 04:34
I am saying that without universals, particulars wouldn't exist. Particulars are made of universals. In the same way you might boot up MS Paint and us...
December 15, 2016 at 23:23
I would also say that what you know how to do is the most important thing to know. It means you can be a reliable and productive member of a society. ...
December 15, 2016 at 23:10
I would then put universals prior to particulars. Universals are more vague than particulars. They are what particulars are made up through the instan...
December 15, 2016 at 23:08
If it is not conceivable then it's not able to be witnessed. It would be outside of our knowledge except perhaps by indirect inference. For example, w...
December 15, 2016 at 18:15
It certainly is interesting how metaphysics affects things outside of its own domain. I remember reading a while back on SEP how ancient Buddhist phil...
December 14, 2016 at 22:45