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invizzy

['Member', 'Subscriber']Joined: October 26, 2015 at 16:32Last active: April 25, 2023 at 03:286 discussions143 comments
Location: Australia

Bio

BContempArts, BA(Hons), MA

Favourite Philosopher

Aristotle, Sam Harris

Favourite Quotations

“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?” - Sam Harris

"You shouldn't trust a songwriter. They distort, they exaggerate, they juggle things around to get what they want. They grab whatever's at hand to assemble their montages. Know that if you get close to them they'll grab bits of you, too. Out of their mouths true things become lies and lies become true. They'll rhyme, and murder while they rhyme. They'll take your precious wine and spill it all over town."
- Paul Kelly

"Make sure to never do it with a singer/ Cause he'll tell everyone in the world/ What he was thinking about the girl"
- Jack White (Lyrics from 'The Denial Twist')

Discussions (6)

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In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Thanks! :)
January 04, 2023 at 10:11
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Thanks to everyone on these forums and it’s predecessor. Played a huge part in my intellectual life. And in part due to things we’ve talked about now ...
January 04, 2023 at 08:54
In: Experimental Philosophy and the Knobe Effect  — view comment
Thanks for finding that quote. I am clearly wrong, apologies for my misleading earlier statement!
November 19, 2022 at 09:13
In: Experimental Philosophy and the Knobe Effect  — view comment
Oh my mistake, I thought the disagreement was about whether it was philosophy or not, not whether it was worthwhile. I know no sane philosopher who cl...
November 17, 2022 at 06:22
In: Experimental Philosophy and the Knobe Effect  — view comment
I reckon if you used the phrase 'harmed profits' to refer to the side-effects of Greenpeace's actions it would be seen as likely intentional, but 'hel...
November 16, 2022 at 15:13
In: Looking for recommendations  — view comment
Practical Ethics by Peter Singer?
November 16, 2022 at 13:49
In: Experimental Philosophy and the Knobe Effect  — view comment
I guess our intuitions just differ there! :)
November 16, 2022 at 13:45
In: Experimental Philosophy and the Knobe Effect  — view comment
Just trying to find examples of people not in power still giving rise to the Knobe effect. This paper gives a pretty good run down of some newer surve...
November 16, 2022 at 11:16
In: Experimental Philosophy and the Knobe Effect  — view comment
This is an intriguing position. I would have thought it really does matter what philosophers have decided in the last few decades. Especially ABOUT ph...
November 16, 2022 at 10:37
In: Experimental Philosophy and the Knobe Effect  — view comment
Oh I haven’t looked into other versions of the Knobe effect but I suspect they’re not limited to CEOs and people in power. But perhaps you’re onto som...
November 15, 2022 at 11:51
In: Greatest contribution of philosophy in last 100 years?  — view comment
Popper and Rawls would have to be up there. Gettier, too, in an odd fashion. Maybe Singer and Chalmers. I think there's a bunch that may seem to have ...
November 11, 2022 at 23:56
In: Gettier Problem.  — view comment
I think I agree with something like @"neomac"’s intuitions here. Doesn’t it make sense for the farmer’s self report at t1 to be about t1 and for his s...
November 11, 2022 at 13:40
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
Thanks for the advice @"Jamal" I might leave this convo here. It’s been instructive though, my philosophy education is a bit piecemeal so now I feel b...
November 09, 2022 at 11:01
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
I wonder if it is more likely you are the only one with a new insight about correlations (that correlation implies causation) or that you are using 'i...
November 09, 2022 at 06:34
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
I'm not sure which of my uses of 'imply' you're referring to, but it doesn't matter as I've been very consistent in using it as a synonym for 'entails...
November 09, 2022 at 06:23
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
Such a statement about causation would be the formal ‘entail’ sense of the word. One would only really use imply as a synonym for‘suggest’ if a PERSON...
November 09, 2022 at 02:43
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
I’m pretty sure that the strong ‘entail’ version is PRECISELY what people mean when they say correlation doesn’t imply causation. Now it’s said so oft...
November 08, 2022 at 11:10
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Thanks! It’s been a long time coming, it’s in part based on my Masters, which I finished a couple of years ago, the wheels of academia move slow :)
November 07, 2022 at 20:35
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
Oh that makes so much sense when you put it like that. I don’t know why I missed that version of implication in my internet search though. Sorry @"Bar...
November 07, 2022 at 11:42
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Ha no sorry. I’m all smug because it looks likely to be published but I don’t want to dox myself when it comes out so I’m being vague lol. It’s a sub ...
November 07, 2022 at 10:53
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
I’ve obviously upset you but when I google I am not bringing up the same information that you are. I’m not trying to be difficult I’m just curious whe...
November 07, 2022 at 10:44
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
I ask because a cursory search appears to confirm my intuition.
November 07, 2022 at 10:18
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
Do you have a source for this? I would use entails and implies as synonyms.
November 07, 2022 at 08:36
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
Well now I’m not sure if either it is you or I that has a non-standard understanding of ‘implies’. I am using ‘implies’ to mean that something necessa...
November 07, 2022 at 07:49
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
Just my two cents: correlation does not imply causation, but it doesn’t imply NO causation either.
November 07, 2022 at 07:16
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Been doing revisions on a paper all weekend, hopefully my first publication!
November 07, 2022 at 07:01
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
Nope I don’t think I know Karlen, but if he’s been mistaken for me he must be very handsome ;)
November 07, 2022 at 06:54
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
EDIT - I think I’ve made an error here. Please disregard. So this is why quantum weirdness is not that weird: if we have three verbs in a sentence (a ...
October 23, 2022 at 09:35
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
No that’s not my claim. It’s actually more simple than that. There can be all sorts of reasons that one thing is necessary for another. In the case of...
October 23, 2022 at 07:22
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
No sorry, I meant to correct myself. I would like to retract the ‘necessity between particular things’ bit. Think I misspoke. The claim is simply that...
October 23, 2022 at 05:44
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
Sorry, perhaps I was unclear. I don’t mean necessary in the sense that things necessarily happen (as you say possible worlds seems to imply that very ...
October 23, 2022 at 03:33
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
I wonder if we need the rather unsatisfying and untidy family resemblance idea when my idea works perfectly well and appears more parsimonious? Can yo...
October 23, 2022 at 03:20
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
Perhaps I mean necessity in a special sense, where x is necessary for y. In that sense your post is necessary for me to to reply to it!
October 23, 2022 at 02:06
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
I still haven’t seen a convincing argument against my idea of causation! A cause is necessity between particular things. We need, though, to explain w...
October 22, 2022 at 22:13
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
I'm actually well versed on these as it happens. The fact is it is still an open question about what causation is. My ideas are closest to Mackie's IN...
October 22, 2022 at 12:21
In: Why Correlation Does Not Imply Causation  — view comment
I was previously using sufficient / insufficient and words to frame causation, but now I wonder if it is better framed in terms of specific and genera...
October 22, 2022 at 10:25
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Ha love it :)
October 19, 2022 at 19:39
In: Gettier Problem.  — view comment
Is it people's intuitions that the Gettier problem is solved if we are relativists regarding what is true? What I mean by that is that while I think w...
October 19, 2022 at 17:50
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
It was incredibly general advice about something that should be universal - politeness. But you're correct, it probably was a bit condescending in ret...
October 19, 2022 at 17:24
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
It seems to me there’s a few users of the forum that could stand to dial everything down a tone :) People are gonna be wrong more often than they are ...
October 19, 2022 at 11:38
In: Is causation linguistic rather than in the world?  — view comment
Well there’s a long tradition about whether physics needs causation at all for instance. Arguments that we can seemingly do physics pretty well withou...
October 18, 2022 at 22:49
In: Is causation linguistic rather than in the world?  — view comment
I fear that my ideas are being lost in translation! (In particular I’m not sure what the word ‘belief’ is doing here!) I’m not sure I would completely...
October 18, 2022 at 13:37
In: Is causation linguistic rather than in the world?  — view comment
First up, I meant causation was a thing in a very broad sense such that qualities, ideas and states can be things too, but no matter. I’m just trying ...
October 18, 2022 at 13:16
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Thankyou very much!
October 18, 2022 at 12:26
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Does anybody know which button to press to quote people in that nifty way I’ve seen done?
October 18, 2022 at 05:04
In: What does "real" mean?  — view comment
Would you not then say that elections and other particles are not real since they do not concern our day to day lives? Or have I misunderstood?
October 18, 2022 at 03:47
In: Is causation linguistic rather than in the world?  — view comment
Thanks for the reply. I think you have diagnosed the problem accurately. ‘Causation’ is indeed a noun, presumably because it refers to a thing of some...
October 17, 2022 at 15:06
In: Is causation linguistic rather than in the world?  — view comment
Perhaps I’m simply getting hung up on the choice of words but I think the fact you’re putting things in parentheses is showing us that causation is no...
October 17, 2022 at 13:05
In: Is causation linguistic rather than in the world?  — view comment
I suppose if you’re going to say causation is a quality of physical processes the question is what IS this quality of physical processes? For some (al...
October 17, 2022 at 11:11
In: Realism and quantum mechanics  — view comment
I’m just looking up superdeterminism and trying to get my mind around it. Does the idea imply that causes somehow change things from one thing to anot...
October 17, 2022 at 10:54
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