Ciceronianus

If that's the case, then it seems to me that debating, or perhaps more properly discussing, this "paradox" at length is nothing more than an effort to...

https://fortune.com/2016/03/12/googles-go-computer-vs-human/ Hanover is right (see link). And, as a chess player who has resented claims that computer...

A statement is made regarding the weather by X. Then, X says he doesn't believe the statement he just made regarding the weather. When people say they...

It doesn't say "I say it's raining" because "I" clearly is speaking, saying, that it's raining. It isn't necessary to say you're speaking when you're ...

Gee whiz, that Wade Davis sure is a gloomy fellow. I don't think civilization "has been brought low" by Covid 19 quite yet. After all, Wade Davis is s...

But it would be a weird thing to say about another. Because in order to say that another is saying the same thing, it would be necessary to say that t...

Really, you know, they're just games. Wonderful games (chess I know is, Go I heard is), but games nonetheless.

"'Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department' says Wernher von Braun." --Tom Lehrer.

Banno "et al," forsooth. Speaking on behalf of "et al", I wish to note something once wisely said about philosophy. No, not the comment made by my dae...

Damned if I know. I think it has to do with a stork.

Ah, but if we pretend that he wasn't, then we can keep having fun.

If it's raining and he/she says it's raining, there is no lie. No false statement is made.

I think the questions to be addressed are--Why does Moore say/think it would be said? Why does he maintain a true statement has been made? He doesn't ...

It's not so much a question of how I approach the question. I won't approach it; I won't even circle it warily. But if someone is really interested in...

Actually, if I'm assuming anything, I'm assuming that nobody would say "It's raining" if they thought it wasn't raining, unless they wanted to lie for...

I think this is an example of treating something which isn't a problem as if it is a problem. The sentence "I know it's raining (i.e., it's raining) b...

If you say so. But it seems to me not a particularly "tough" experiment; instead a silly one. For me, addressing the question "Why is it absurd for me...

Only in philosophy would someone think that there is anything to be gained from imagining that someone would say something that nobody would say in a ...

Well, it's absurd for you to think it's not raining when it's raining. It's merely stupid for you to say you think it's not raining when it is. In the...

Not a curse. Accursed, perhaps.

Did he? A pity he never apologized for what he was, and what he did.

If you're writing a thesis in philosophy, I don't think you need have any concern about the fact that Heidegger was an unapologetic Nazi and a virulen...

Yes. A dreadful little piece of romantic fluff.

I never said it was a democracy. It never could reasonably be deemed one in any case, as its Founders were careful to assure it would not be a democra...

More a plutocracy, I think.

Right, sorry. The Stoics believed that each of us shared in the pneuma, the generative principle which infuses the universe, which they likened to fir...

Oh the self-righteousness of your pharisiacal and peevish response, your High and Mightiness!

Roman citizenship was extended to all free men in the Empire by the Emperor Caracalla (best known for his baths constructed in Rome) in 212 C.E., by t...

Consider the enormously rich. The so-called 1%. That presumably will include those with assets worth a billion U.S. dollars or more. According to Forb...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has its basis in Stoic practical wisdom, as does Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (it's founder, Ellis, noted this in hi...

There certainly are similarities. It's interesting they both arose at around the same time.

How refer to "groups" then? Or, perhaps, there are no groups, or the word "groups" cannot be used?

Give the nature of the beliefs of far too many here in our Glorious Union regarding their "rights" and the nature of "tyranny," I fear that intelligen...

Well said.

That could be, although it's my understanding that like other ancient philosophers who weren't polytheists, the Stoics tolerated and even honored cert...

The Stoics view of suicide is interesting. The felt that death is nothing to fear, that there's nothing "wrong" about death; it's merely a part of lif...

I thought antinatalism takes the position that people should not reproduce, as anyone born will suffer. If that's not the case, and it instead takes t...

I suppose I could request that "privilege" be defined, but would hate to seem pedantic preferring, as always, to seem ironical if not surpassingly wis...

Whatever "secular nature" may be, I don't think it is essentially the Stoic deity. I doubt most of us today would consider nature to be infused with w...

Interesting. Similar to Roman pietas it would seem, which could be construed to encompass all of those characteristics. A quality thought desirable in...

What are religious moral values?

I like the fire. Very fitting.

"Traditional Christian moral values" owe much to Stoicism and other ancient philosophies; the belief that Christian moral values are unique is absurd....

Well, extinction will as surely guarantee there will be no ethical practices. Is the removal of ethical practices ethical? Does the removal of unethic...

It's been a long time, but Hobbes if I recall correctly didn't maintain things ought to be governed by our selfish traits as it is being put, but mere...

In fact, I'm the only one thinking now. I'm that demon Descartes was always going on about, and I'm pretending you're thinking, just as I pretended he...

Dewey's criticism seems to be of a surfeit of reasoning, though. Mere reasoning, divorced of context, is what he seems to feel is the error that perva...

Paging Dr. Mengele! Dr. Mengele, PF calling!

But I imagine (wrongly, perhaps) that economic models may still be useful if they are shown to apply accurately to a certain percentage or extent, bas...

Yes, I'd agree that's his primary concern. And I think philosophy remains useful, along the lines you note. But its role then becomes something very d...