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 ...
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...
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...
Not necessarily, realism about universals would be that these properties, obtained by particulars, are one and the same across particulars. They are n...
Yeah, no, this is completely wrong. Animals have rights, recognized across the (developed) world. Animal abuse is a thing because animals have rights....
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
You don't have to believe in Platonic universals to believe in universals. Nevertheless Platonic universals are quite helpful with many problems. No, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Video games help with altruistic burnout. Playing old-school video games is inexpensive, recuperative and sublimative. But generally the video game in...
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...
Right, okay, because before I thought you were conflating universalism with the thesis that particulars don't exist, which would indeed create an extr...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Yet talk of rates, limits, self-optimization, flows, regularities, symmetries, all that stuff is still referring to something. A graph without numbers...
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...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
I would then put universals prior to particulars. Universals are more vague than particulars. They are what particulars are made up through the instan...
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...
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...
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