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Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. Diagnosed two weeks after my second daughter's birth at age 30 (4 years ago) although I had already suffered s...

I don't know how much this comes into play in this view of language, but the vocalizations of babies are limited not just by language acquisition and ...

I require validation of my ideas and not me personally. I voted to like the posts but not the members (unless you really do like me).

In your opinion, is particularism a moral theory capable of providing only post hoc judgements or is it that moral judgements are simply carried out w...

I'm reluctant to view pessimism as a disposition but rather a predisposition. A disposition, to me, conjures an image of pessimism as a psychiatric co...

I suspect that if we converted or trained all the would-be philosophers to be welders instead, some welders would still do philosophy. Philosophy and ...

How does one become "morally attuned" and have "moral reasons" if not by applying moral principles? Surely you mean the morally significant specifics ...

Politeness often falls under the behaviour modifying category of etiquette. Etiquette is distinct from legal obligation and moral obligation where leg...

It won't do at all to end a Nuclear war by starting a lengthy court proceeding. Other weapons can be handled that way because there will be that way t...

I'm not persuaded by the "sufficiently motivated" argument because it posits a somewhat untestable premise. Counterfactuals are pointless and analogie...

Or, alternatively, life was so much harder back then that nobody had the time to ask these questions. Efficiency in productivity and more leisure time...

This is where the justification is missing. The leap from logical impossibility (e.g., that the Pinocchio paradox demonstrates a logical contradiction...

Yes, I understand the history of the paradox. The history of the paradox is distinct from the significance. I don't refute your proof of a contradicti...

The paradox is designed to challenge the axiom of non-contradiction. You can discuss it however you want, but the significance of the paradox is parti...

You are importing the metaphysical baggage without justification again. Why can't the rule be followed? Because it results in a logical contradiction?...

There are some that want to reduce it to a semantic contradiction. The dialetheists do not, and it's not clear to me where they've gone wrong, if at a...

Other contradictions (e.g., square circle) are semantic contradictions. We can dismiss them as a peculiarity of language. Redefine the terms and move ...

I understand the language implies duration or a particular moment, but the point of the paradox is not to fixate on the time interval between the lie ...

I'm not sure it is sufficient to point out the contradiction in the paradox. It was conceived to demonstrate a contradiction exists semantically, and ...

No, I just thought I was being clever. I love philosophy!

There is no point to philosophy, it is exceptionally dull. There are some razors that crop up in philosophy.

and "Now" isn't a reference to time duration but reference to a lying utterance (i.e., my nose grows in response to this sentence). Growth can occur i...

When I started writing the essay I didn't have an end or conclusion in mind but I was hoping that I could find or pull out a position about art restor...

I'm not sure it makes sense to say one has become a gymnast or martial artist if the practice is only done while asleep. We would be reluctant to refe...

Pessimism as a descriptive account of things seems to be fairly accurate or at least defensible. The normative pessimistic conclusions overreach. Pess...

Philosophy is the practice of asking questions and making distinctions that others find irritating. Good philosophy is the most irritating sort and ba...

How about future looking histories: History of Prophecies History of Predictions History of Invention History of Doomsday Scenarios These, it would se...

I selected "not at all", and although I have some buyer's remorse for that selection, I will nevertheless stand by it. My concern lessens with time an...

I wonder if it's worthwhile to note on your account that a definition of art for the sake of judgement need not be a good or accurate definition. For ...

Bad art is art that has no or little aesthetic value. Aesthetic value is a judgement made by reference to the culture in which the work exists and can...

God is not a solution to absurdity because God risks absurdity par excellence. Either God requires an additional appeal to meaning through an other or...

For deontology, the only thing good without qualification is the good will. Other things/characteristics (e.g., intelligence) have a value of goodness...

For me, part of the answer is that morality doesn't work that way. It does not prescribe specific actions as good and obligated but prohibits impermis...