QuixoticAgnostic

It's interesting, because it appears the question only makes much sense if you limit the scope of "what exists". Most people here seem to be casting t...

This is really interesting, I've been contemplating about how consciousness relates to existence and its seeming duality. I'm planning a post about su...

Interestingly then, based on that thread, it seems that the question and the three answers I give in the OP is almost a moot point; any of the answers...

Perhaps hatred grows from this same principle? Hatred serves as a defense mechanism to support strong attachments? If I love my family and something e...

I think the primary takeaway I've gathered from this thread is simply that there need not be "correct" words to identify concepts. That is, when I say...

This generated some interesting responses lol. I can't tell if you're being facetious or not, since it seems counter to your initial sentiment, althou...

That's exactly the claim I'm testing. What determines conflict between "identity" and "reality"? I gave some examples in which I can claim things abou...

What is more important to a person's identity (who a person is), their body or their mind? Mind is the correct answer. So, if a person exists whose mi...

Random question if I'm allowed: is schopenhauer1 still around? Back when I used these forums he was a frequent poster. He may have mildly ruined my li...

Upfront, I don't really care to hear about anti-trans perspectives, I want to know from trans allies: are there not legitimate worries in uniting tran...

I have a lot of thoughts about the soundness of this concretist approach to possible worlds, and one of them I think has to do with your answer as wel...

I read 2.1 and 2.1.1 of the Possible Worlds article, but have not yet read the rest of whatever literature has been mentioned in this thread. I can tr...

I'm also just going to leave this brief video here on the topic, very interesting take: the best way to count.

Nice, I arrived just as someone was defining terms. Just today, I've been in conversation about things like existence, necessary/contingent things, an...

I didn't read everything here, but it interested me because I happened to be doing a bunch of arithmetic in different bases recently for fun. The firs...

Thinking about things like charity and the child in the pond is what made me conclude that there's no such thing as obligatory goods. If charity were ...

Under a standard account where your choices have multiple possible outcomes, and those choices are not fully pre-determined, then yes, indeterminism d...

I'll take the uncommon stance, it seems, and say that hard determinism is a bane to our existence. While I would technically agree with you insofar as...

By the way, I did read some of the responses, but not all, so if I missed anything that you may have responded to that's relevant to my ideas, please ...

I'm not sure I see a problem with the idea that some concepts must reference themselves to be analyzable. I feel like, coming from ideas of axiomatic ...

Perhaps this a good way to transition into a discussion about the possibility of leeway freedom also, because, as is clear, I'm not convinced that we ...

This is pretty much what I was doing from the beginning, and perhaps the source of confusion. I wasn't arguing that free will exists, only that we oug...

Oh right. Still curious about my questions regardless, and I do think the question of the origins/transformation into knowledge is relevant.

I was just typing out a response to address this issue: My first instinct was to say "Something exists" or "I feel something", because I believe our e...

I feel like this is boiling down to an equivocation more than anything, because my argument, as I mentioned in the OP, primarily relies on a leeway no...

So is his general point in this segment that it's reductionist to claim all of these different mechanisms going on almost simultaneously boil down to ...

And? Is that not just a pretentious way of saying everything is determined?

How? If they accept sourcehood freedom? Is that not different from choice, or do you speak of leeway freedom, in which case I ask again, how does one ...

Expand on this, if you would, because the implications of lacking free will make it clear to me that we can't hold any real (free) value in something ...

Interesting. Perhaps this form of argument can be applied to something like the self, which seems necessary for experiencing the world and reasoning.

Are you referring to my A and B, in which case youre mistaken, or is this your own statement? Either way, I don't really get the point or where your c...

To address D, it's not so much that someone who doesn't believe in free will can't behave freely or do good. Clearly they can, because free will exist...

If you don't believe in free will, then you can't intentionally fulfill your obligation, it's just happenstance. Of course I think people who dont bel...

I would say it doesn't matter whether it's knowable or unknowable. If we know there is no free will, then it doesn't matter what we do, we'll just do ...

Surprised you engaged with him as long as you did. But also, do you mind giving your opinion on this point I made earlier: Even though it may be wrong...

I feel like a significant part of belief in God, particularly a personal God like in Christianity, is having faith: believing without sufficient reaso...

I regrettably can't argue too strongly against the imposition of will against potential humans argument. The only way I can logically get around it is...

A bad (negatively feeling) experience =/= badness overall. It's kind of the whole point of resiliency and growth: you fight through temporary displeas...

What are antinatalist counterarguments to a more stoic perspective on life? I.e., one that values self-improvement and a sort of indifference to suffe...

I like this MinutePhysics video with Sean Carroll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKbJ9leUNDE. He gets straight to the point, explains in simple term...

I'm hopelessly confused. Let's try to start over from the beginning, leaving aside the logic of the statement for now. First of all, to be clear: you ...

Random thoughts: Why is there something rather than nothing? Because there has to be something to have nothing of. Nothing is the lack of anything. It...

"You can say there is a dead cell with 3 live cells in its neighborhood" is a description of a state, but not a mathematical law because it doesn't de...

Hmm. . . Yeah, that certainly doesn't look like denial :roll: Also, reducing mathematics to numbers and numbers to words (not even descriptive words, ...

What formalism is this? I'm somewhat familiar with basic logics (propositional, first-order, second-order) but this doesn't quite look like any of tho...

Well, I can certainly sympathize with that optimism. I suppose if any miracles do happen, they'd come from the mind, rather than elsewhere in nature. ...

Well, why do you believe it?

Because you seem to be feeling some sort of existential dread and I'm trying to figure out why. So you think the only thing that exists is you. Strawb...

It's not that things aren't possible, it's whether or not there's "some world" in which the possible things are necessary. I haven't looked into modal...

Oops, I meant to distinguish between "only the self exists" and "only the self can be known to exist". Which category do you fall under? And why, whil...