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What are you actually saying? 15 philosophers that are more important? Or 15 more than Wittgenstein? I can't do the former, because there aren't all t...
April 28, 2020 at 04:16
Oh please. I'm absolutely convinced you don't know what that word means, and you're just upset because I used the wrong word. Literally what Derrida p...
April 28, 2020 at 04:14
In a manner of speaking. I believe in a Universal Consciousness which underlies all individual consciousnesses. And I also believe in inanimate object...
April 28, 2020 at 04:11
Then, maybe your problem is the word "arbitrary" and not actually the argument I'm making. Do you know what it means to be ad hoc? Or arbitrary? Do yo...
April 28, 2020 at 04:06
Because that's all I can, and perhaps ever will, experience. It's the same as anybody else. Why would you believe in Dualism or Pluralism? "Don't mult...
April 28, 2020 at 04:03
You're right. I DID. I keep saying that. Jacques Derrida makes the argument that all language is arbitrary. There are no words that self-define themse...
April 28, 2020 at 03:56
Right. But what about a tournament held 4000 years in the future? Do you really think it would play out the same way it does today? Is online chess, s...
April 28, 2020 at 03:54
I mean, I read him. And I've made it pretty clear I don't agree with Wittgenstein. So I don't see why you keep saying I don't know anything about him....
April 28, 2020 at 03:51
Okay? So if you're missing a King piece and you decide to use a pawn instead, it's not chess anymore? You're really arguing for a Platonic form of che...
April 28, 2020 at 03:50
Wittgenstein believed two different things at two different times. So, even he didn't understand anything about Wittgenstein. But that doesn't matter....
April 28, 2020 at 03:49
You're totally missing the point. You made a statement about chess' "universality" which is a metaphysical statement about how chess always is and alw...
April 28, 2020 at 03:42
Like, any of them. Because any possible alien will not play chess "universally" like we do. That's silly. There's no planet in the ether where some al...
April 28, 2020 at 03:38
Chess is universal? lol Ok dude. Good luck convincing aliens that chess is universal. Forget aliens, how about other humans on remote islands?
April 28, 2020 at 03:36
Within the logic of that game, you cannot. But you can change the game's logic. The game's logic is arbitrary. There's no law of nature that says ches...
April 28, 2020 at 03:34
That's basically the same thing as being arbitrary. I can play a language game where a word means something you eat on a hot sunny day, or I can play ...
April 28, 2020 at 03:32
The irony of you using language games to argue philosophical points in a discussion about Wittgenstein is apparently totally lost on you.
April 28, 2020 at 03:28
Humans invented English. Based on nothing.
April 28, 2020 at 03:28
Actually, they do. Calling a word "word" as opposed to "logoi" or "kalam" or "mot" or "slova" is arbitrary. Totally and completely. God didn't make En...
April 28, 2020 at 03:26
And? Science was a form of natural philosophy. Newton called himself a philosopher, so did Galileo. Words are arbitrary descriptions. They call Wittge...
April 28, 2020 at 03:23
It's not Solipsism. I didn't say my consciousness in particular was the only thing that existed. I said consciousness in the general. This is a classi...
April 28, 2020 at 03:22
Most important? I don't know about that. One of them. 20th century had dozens of important philosophers. I think Werner Heisenberg was more important ...
April 28, 2020 at 03:18
Not really. Unless "no human error" means egalitarianism is somehow true.
April 28, 2020 at 02:39
lol What "hypothetical"? This isn't hypothetical. This is what's literally happening right now.
April 28, 2020 at 02:16
What are you asking me? I didn't say there is no human error. I just said that human error is not the only reason why systems fail.
April 28, 2020 at 02:08
I'm not totally onboard with that either. I mean, there are factors which swing the world one direction or the other that are unrelated to humans. Lik...
April 28, 2020 at 01:46
I think there is an order in the universe. But not in society. Society is a construct of the machinations of the elites who run it and the dumb herd w...
April 28, 2020 at 01:41
Well, I think there is no perfect. But I couldn't give a rat's tail whether people agree to it or not. Consent of the governed doesn't really matter t...
April 28, 2020 at 00:35
The way you write confuses me, so I don't know what you mean. Not very clear in your writing. I think the Critique of Pure Reason is easier than your ...
April 28, 2020 at 00:33
Really? I don't think so. People just "do things" I don't think there's rhyme or reason. People might dress it up like there is though.
April 28, 2020 at 00:30
Late Wittgenstein remains one of the most influential philosophical contributions of modern times.
April 28, 2020 at 00:24
Uh, except there are literally documents which show that there are things that are planned. Many of them. For example, the 1954 coup in Guatemala was ...
April 28, 2020 at 00:21
No, but the Illuminati had a role to play. Just as Rockefellers, Morgans, Rothschilds, Cecil Rhodes, the British Empire, radical revolutionaries etc. ...
April 28, 2020 at 00:18
It's called the Incompleteness theorem. Anyway, no point talking to people who don't understand what they're talking about.
April 28, 2020 at 00:16
No. Physical evidence is just a abstract concept. It's not an actual thing. 'Physical evidence' is just as metaphysical as 'God' or 'soul' is. What sc...
April 28, 2020 at 00:15
You can't prove it objectively either, because objective means self-evident. It's obviously not "self-evident" to me that I don't exist, and only you ...
April 28, 2020 at 00:12
No. You can model a system that produces infinities. But you cannot actually create an abstract thing that is infinite. That's a different thing. I me...
April 28, 2020 at 00:11
Of course we do. It's all we have. Literally. There is nothing that can be understood, known or experienced outside of consciousness. Therefore, consc...
April 28, 2020 at 00:06
There is a massive difference between totalitarianism, and the belief that the average person has the capacity to govern a country. I don't believe in...
April 28, 2020 at 00:01
No, I didn't prove that at all. That's totally a non-sequitur. So, just because I use language doesn't mean I created English does it? Obviously not. ...
April 27, 2020 at 04:25
lol So, Kurt Godel who was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century didn't know propositional calculus existed? Who's more likely to be ...
April 27, 2020 at 04:24
Yes. Good book.
April 27, 2020 at 04:17
Democracy is silly. And America is a Republic, not a democracy. Though, that too, is silly. It's not semantics. There are very serious differences bet...
April 27, 2020 at 04:14
Actually, the ancients really took a while to grasp the concept of nothing. Basically zero is the only coherent understanding of nothing that has ever...
April 27, 2020 at 04:13
Nobody knows. We have a lot of linguists working on it. A lot of what you're asking sort of assumes Neo-Darwinism. I would personally bet that languag...
April 27, 2020 at 04:09
1) How would a Keynesian and Classical economist differ in their view of government spending and aggregate demand and aggregate supply? 2) I have a pr...
April 27, 2020 at 03:55
Communism is perfect in theory, but terrible in practice. And it's terrible in practice because a) it was bankrolled by capitalism from the beginning,...
April 27, 2020 at 03:52
3. The whole economic bread and circuses was just that, an illusion. This system is as fragile as it's ever been. The economic system is for the elite...
April 27, 2020 at 03:50
Consciousness didn't evolve. It is the basis of all things. No matter how many times you reboot your computer, it will not become conscious.
April 27, 2020 at 03:49
Blamed? It's in their Constitution. The Illuminati were actually the apotheosis of the whole revolutionary Enlightenment political ethic. The whole id...
April 27, 2020 at 03:36
Yes I do. Freemasons come out of the Enlightenment, and base themselves on Hermetic and Esoteric philosophy. Manly P. Hall, a great intellectual and p...
April 27, 2020 at 03:34