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Yet if I remember correctly Peirce included second-ness and third-ness. So first-ness would be vagueness (which is a vague term itself - a placeholder...

What is the difference between existing and sort-of existing? Does this mean that whatever exists depends upon an expression of universals?

I don't know what this means. If the universal is prior to the particular, then the universal is prior to the particular.

Now, now...

I think when people ask what the meaning of life is, they are asking what general purpose or goal does life fulfill that makes it "important", and tha...

One of the biggest issues people tend to have with consequentialist ethics is that they apparently ask too much of us. This is false. Consequentialist...

lol no man's sky sucks big time. Go with star citizen.

Yes, it is perfectly acceptable to use embryonic stem cells to cure diseases. To view it as wrong is to place more value on a someone who doesn't even...

Knights of the Old Republic I and II Jedi Knight series Star Wars Battlefront I, II, and the mediocre DICE remake Republic Commando Age of Empires and...

Why not?

From this, several questions can be raised: Is a happy slave still a slave? Can slavery ever be good for someone? Is manipulation always bad in-itself...

I agree that we could not have "made it" if evolution had programmed us to live in misery our entire lives. We would have needed to feel positive and ...

As Schopenhauer said, a man can do as he wills but he cannot will what he wills. If he didn't have a desire to get x, would the man still consent to g...

I continually flip-flop between believing that adding additional happy people improves the world to believing that addition of happy people does not c...

I would say that fear is an negative emotion that motivates a desire-creation that further motivates action. Fear makes us uncomfortable. So basically...

Yet what else could make a statement justified if not that it is true in virtue of a truthmaker?

Sartre's metaphysics, at least from what I have read from primary and secondary sources, is actually kind of shallow. It's rooted more in phenomenolog...

Presumably not, which is why I favor neutral monism in that respect. Or property dualism.

I never said it was ambitious, in fact I said the opposite. So spare me the pretension. Well because the nervous system controls movement and bodily p...

Every Cradle Is A Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide by Sarah Perry

Certainly I am supposing the phenomenological experience of being a self of sorts. But I don't really have an ambitious metaphysical structure of the ...

What even is "material"?

Where, according to your pan-semiotic theory, does qualitative experience reside? It doesn't seem like a process, because I can identify specific qual...

I am not thinking about a soul, although I suppose there are actually some decent arguments for the existence of a "soul-like" entity of sorts, in the...

I disagree. You would be accessing a duplicate copy of my brain state, not my brain state. Both of us can stub our toe and feel pain - perhaps we woul...

The point was that the reference point that we inhabit ourselves - mind - is inaccessible to anyone else but ourselves. It is our personal, private sp...

Apo I don't know all the answers, so stop playing with me and actually start giving me your own answers. I don't go on this board to satisfy some urge...

I'll have to get back to you in a bit, I'm currently reading Brian Davies' introduction to philosophy of religion. As of now I will say that contempor...

You'll have to give me the essential characteristics of "life", then. As far as I can tell, anything lacking a nervous system cannot have a mind. Unle...

The point of the OP was that the phenomenological experience of being a black box is in friction with a universe that is seemingly open to observation...

Mind is of life, but life is not mind. It is not a requirement for life to be mind.

I feel like that itself is a form of coercion. Either pick a nice relationship or lonely isolation. God, if he exists, has incentivized our actions.

Right. It's just that if they aren't eliminative materialists, then the definition of material or physical has to be stretched.

I don't know what you're saying here.

The problem I have with this and presumably Schop1 has with this is that we have reasons to hold this opinion, whereas we see those who disagree with ...

Sorry, I meant an infinity of modes.

So like what's going on right now?

Personally I would attack the notion that the purpose of human life is the achieve happiness. Happiness is one of the most insidious myths of modern s...

We exist to entropify with slave-like efficiency.

This strikes me as potentially incoherent. At first you deny that the past or future exist, yet then go on to say the present is a movement, or a proc...

Whaaaa? The most common motivation for antinatalism is that life isn't worth it due to an unreasonable amount of suffering. The goal of antinatalism i...

Fuck the red pill/blue pill debate. The former are a bunch of degenerate scumbags and the latter suffer an inferiority complex. Reality ain't that bin...

Here ya go. A Confession, by Tolstoy. Right, similar to how Sartre had characters who were deeply pessimistic but he himself may not have been. Exactl...

Indeed this seemed to be the perspective of Tolstoy, who thought there were roughly four types of people: 1.) Those who were ignorant of their existen...

It's gene-worship, basically.

I'm not sure if your representation of various world religions is accurate. Abrahamic religions all see the world as "fallen" because of sin, and that...

I feel independent from my body, as if I could exist without it. Indeed I can lose bits and pieces of my body and still consider myself the same perso...

From the latest Existential Comics: "Really, I more look at life like an airplane trip. It's great if there is a decent movie on or something, but wha...

I agree, AIDS pride and similar movements are basically coping mechanisms.

Nor did I intend to imply this. I meant that in a bygone age, transgenderism would not have passed the status quo, as we had different goals back then...