T_Clark

5 cups flour, 2 cups soot, 3 cups water, and 1/2 cup oil (canola or motor). Wee dogies. It’s vegan.

Best thing in the history of the world. That’s for good gravy, not that crap that @"Hanover" showed.

Yes, it’s a meat sauce generally made from the drippings from whatever kind of meat you’re cooking.

Can’t we say something similar about what happens in all human thought, not just that related to morality?

I don’t get it. If it’s so simple why have people been arguing about it for thousands of years with no resolution in sight—just going around and aroun...

The gravy. If it’s real southern gravy, you have to cut it with a knife.

It’s hard to define metaphysics, but you can know it by the value it brings. Metaphysics should be in the background of every philosophical discussion...

You left out the most important thing—the “agree with me” part.

If you’ve read many of my posts, you know the subject of metaphysics comes up all the time. A large portion of the fruitless arguments here on the for...

The contents of this thread, and all the other metaphysics threads, demonstrate it’s not simple at all, although it could be if everyone would just ag...

That would probably be true if metaphysics was just something interesting to talk about as opposed to something really important and useful that has i...

Meat and three if you count the halvah.

Your advice was very good on the Burtt book, so I’ll definitely give it a look.

I was thinking about this some more. The thing about metaphysics for me is that it’s the most useful idea I’ve ever come across. It colors all of my u...

As I noted—supposedly.

Sadly, or maybe not, I am one of those sons and daughters who were supposedly beyond my parents command.

It’s rare for someone to go back and look into old threads. The one I linked is four years old. There have been lots of threads on metaphysics in the ...

Metaphysics is my thing and my man is R.G. Collingwood. He wrote “An Essay on Metaphysics.” In it he wrote that metaphysics is the study of absolute p...

I don’t understand how this relates to what I posted.

When you get to be one of the big bosses, for example, President of the United States, or, say, a partner in a law firm, you don’t really have to do a...

Actually, the one thing I really learned about this in school is that you can’t do statistics without at least three values. I think the solution is t...

Interesting. Maybe both. I’ll have to think about it more.

Hmm… explain the difference in this case.

@"frank" As I have followed along in this thread, it struck me that solipsism, the simulation argument, and belief in God are equivalent metaphysicall...

I don’t explain my jokes, but… No.

What kind of god would I be if I couldn’t do something like that?

Three statisticians go hunting. They’re out in the duck blind with their shotguns and their duck calls and their decoys. And Chesapeake Bay retrievers...

Up north here it was Howard Johnson’s. They had 28 flavors of ice cream long, long before Baskin-Robbins came along. Also, Jack Pepper was the head ch...

This is true.

My problem with that, and I’m not joking, is that ontology is one of the 10,000 things. On the other hand, when I’m in my human form, I call Taoist pr...

I started a thread on introspection once and I’ve included discussions of intuition in a number of other threads. I don’t remember any discussions tha...

It can be all that and still a tool

I think this is exactly right, and I think it shows what’s wrong with philosophy. If you can be doing this for thousands of years and not recognize wh...

I’m tempted to get into a rational, nitpicky non-Taoist discussion of the intricacies of what Taoism means, e.g. The human world is not part of the Ta...

Perhaps you’ve noticed I talk about intuition much more than I talk about reason here on the forum. I generally say that much more of what we do, what...

Would a respected teacher have cookies for breakfast?

I would not have been a good teacher. I don’t have the patience. Also, in your case, I don’t speak Spanish. A little French, a little German, but no S...

I went to high school in southern Virginia in the middle of the state just north of the North Carolina border. When I moved there in 1966, 10th grade,...

What would be going on in your mind if you had been cut off from all physical and social experience since you were born.

I have some idea how my mind works in this, our purported reality. But that knowledge is based on my experience and understanding that my mind is conn...

There’s a good chance Black people were not allowed to eat at that lunch counter. I’m not using that as criticism of your father. It’s just the way th...

Sure. It might not even be possible for them to become conscious. Who knows how my isolated super brain might work.

I’m not sure whether the problem is with @"frank"’s comment or my response… As I think about it more, I think it was my response that was incorrect. S...

Your existence might be an hallucination, a dream, an illusion, a brain aneurysm, psychosis, my imagination. Maybe I got lonely. I stole the following...

Let’s take a shot at it.

Solipsism as usually understood is not something that can be verified or falsified empirically. It’s metaphysics. It’s something you can pretend to be...

It would be fun to hear what Apokrisis had to say about this.

It would be fun to hear what Apokrisis had to say about this juxtaposition.

Short answer—yes. Longer answer—yes, but. The line after the one you’ve quoted goes—“the name that can be named is not the eternal name.” As I underst...

Acknowledged.