Ciceronianus

I don't have the time right now to look into the law in question, but the words "as a professionalized service" are interesting. Those words indicate,...

Everyone has a fantasy. In the case of these unfortunates, it's a fantasy of being law enforcement or soldiers, or perhaps just walking about with a g...

I see the word "aim" but not "dim."

http://www.azquotes.com/image-quotes/Quotation-H-L-Mencken-The-whole-aim-of-practical-politics-is-to-keep-the-19-67-71.jpg Fearsome words for a fearso...

John Galt wouldn't have hair like that. I suppose that even fans of Ayn wouldn't like things rough all the time, though, and he should be left alone t...

Such a long thread. Damned if I'll read it all. The comparisons with Hitler and Mussolini have become tiresome. Besides, Mussolini actually read books...

Someone is critical of Heidegger? You astonish me. I hope the criticism isn't based on the fact he was an unapologetic Nazi and virulent anti-Semite.

Well, we drudges muddle along somehow. Not all that much of our uninteresting, narrow lives requires a great deal of precision, and generally takes pl...

Assuming I understand, and recognizing that I'll have to give it a better reading, some preliminary thoughts: As to (1). My knowledge of religions is ...

Well, I haven't thought about God for some time, and there was apparently nothing He could do about it. Until now, thanks to you. You're working for H...

Personally, I think a computer deleted it. For psychological reasons.

Yes, only socialists would treat people fairly and equally. Thank God nobody does that here in His Favorite Country!

That would be fine. It's good to know there's another admirer of Dewey here. I think he was extraordinarily insightful.

Well, he set the stage, as it were. I think he made it clear he was engaging in an exercise, a contrived one that he didn't really think anyone engage...

I think that claims that there is no God, or it's likely there is no God, are typically made as responses to claims that there is a God or likely is a...

Also Some Consequences of Four Incapacities. Peirce laid into Descartes in that essay as well. For Peirce and Dewey, actual doubts--actual problems or...

They are not the Father. But they're God, and so is He--according to the explanation given.

I'm unsure what you mean be "existentially impactful." But if you want to ignore my comments, suit yourself. If your desire is to ignore things, there...

There's a kind of special pleading involved in such apologetics. Faced with the fact that scripture clearly distinguishes between the Father and the S...

There are some things we can't properly be said to "believe." I don't "believe" I'm eating, breathing, pissing. I need make no "serious commitment" in...

Thank you. We can be otherwise useful, though, in drafting legislation and assessing its legality. But even as administrators we're notoriously inept;...

I would say we cannot truly doubt everything because by living we don't doubt everything. In fact, we rely on everything, for the most part unreserved...

Why, the Trinity is no problem at all. Pater, et filius et Spiritus Sanctus are merely three divine persons all having the same substance. The persons...

I like to hope that we have some reason to doubt, some reason to believe everything is an illusion, before we consider whether it is an illusion. That...

What Canada is, and how it can be treated under a particular law, need not be the same. So there is no contradiction. In Moore's example, "raining" is...

Yes. Nor would they be made in "ordinary life." I think the further we depart from the real, the less sense we make.

And yet it goes on and on. My humble opinion is that it's futile to argue that reason or science establishes there is a deity, and frankly that belief...

I don't know what more to say. If the statement "It's raining but John thinks it isn't" is true, then it's raining but John thinks it isn't. If John's...

I never could understand why Frantic Freddie Nietzsche was so upset with the Stoics, but he was the sort to get upset whenever and wherever he could. ...

Stoicism doesn't say there is no difference between being rich and being poor. It teaches that you shouldn't let the fact that other people are rich d...

Ah, you don't fool me. That only proves aliens were involved, not God.

Sorry, but I don't think the statement "X is the case, but I don't think X is the case" is a true statement.

As I said: The hypothetical John's statement would be "true" only to the same extent it would be "true" that he thought it was raining while aware it ...

Definition of futile 1: serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective // efforts to convince him were futile --Merriam-Webster Online

The hypothetical John's statement would be "true" only to the same extent it would be "true" that he thought it was raining while aware it wasn't. But...

Because when we're not mistaken, we're not mistaken. When someone else is not mistaken, they're not mistaken. According to Moore, in the first case th...

Such a profound insight. And all that was needed to arrive at it was to pretend that a statement which would not be made was made, and was "true." Oh ...

Well, if you think statements (1) obviously not intended to be taken as literally true, and (2) which refer to what was believed in the past, are the ...

There's no mistake, not really. Someone might say "It's raining but I don't believe it" in frustration or amazement (for example, if it hasn't rained ...

It's not clear to me that philosophy is needed for us to understand that we're in deep shit. And, if we don't already know that, I doubt it will be ph...

Yes. But you said there are virtually an innumerable number of true statements we cannot make about ourselves without sounding absurd. In what sense a...

What is the "true statement about ourselves" here?

The law doesn't justify anything, for that matter. What's legal isn't necessarily what's right or just. Property in the sense of physical objects or l...

If "property" as being used in this thread means "a physical object" or "land" than I suppose that's the case. But I thought something different was b...

Well, you can't do much of anything when you're dead. However, you can, now, impose restrictions on the use of property which will govern its use afte...

If the concern is solely whether the choice increases the chances of the Democrats winning the presidency--and I assume that was ultimately the sole c...

For the concept of "property" to exist, the only thing required is law, if by "property" you mean something which a person can claim to own.

Speak for yourself. Though I can, of course, make statements about myself (whether false or true) in an tone or voice which will make those statements...

You see, I'd have hoped that would result without the need for this contrivance. Ah well. But what on earth is Marie McGinn speaking about? Surely (I ...

I don't know much about her, I confess. But I understand she's a lawyer, and of course we need more lawyers in high government positions. Irony, you k...