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I believe he Amish call it "virtue signaling." Google says that's "Tugendsignalisierung" in Pennsylvania Dutch.

I think I misunderstood you. I thought you were saying that what we perceive with our senses is not the real world. That reality is inaccessible to us...

Were you under the impression I didn't include myself as an overthinker?

Yes, defenestration is one of the best ways to try to harm someone. It's fun to say out loud. A technical sounding word for a simple process. The Russ...

As I noted, this is a metaphysical question, not a factual one. The proper way of evaluating metaphysical issues is in terms of their usefulness. I th...

My older brother and I are much closer than we were when we were younger.

I don't know about that. There's a good chance the bear will go away if you just give him your pick-a-nick basket.

Ha, ha, ha, ha....Hey?

Nicely put. The Philosophy Forum, and philosophy in general—Overthinking everything since 1,500 BCE®.

So...don't keep us in suspense.

I was rethinking my response. Typeface does matter to me, but only to the extent that it is easy to read and interpret. I tend to pick pretty standard...

I'll stick with three periods. My interest in punctuation is embarrassing enough without sinking into the morass of typography. I know what san serif ...

As I've noted before, many, perhaps most, disagreements here on the forum come from 1) failure to adequately define the terms of the discussion; 2) mi...

I'm shocked to find that someone other than @"Jamal" and I have the slightest interest in this. It's nice to know we're not just isolated pitiful peda...

I assume you're answer is "no." If so, I agree with you.

People are always saying this, but it's really untrue in an important sense. The only worthwhile thing "direct experience of the external world" can m...

Much of what you call "critical philosophy" is grasping at straws and just-so stories. The parts that aren't mostly consist of pointing out that much ...

Left that one out... dammit!

Brings tears to my eyes.

That's fine, as long as you don't try to prevent us from being annoying in other threads. That—as they say—is in my wheelhouse—or is it my portfolio? ...

Speaking of Scotland, did you ever see "Local Hero," a movie with Burt Lancaster taking place in a seaside village in west Scotland? Bill Forsyth make...

Yes, and that bothers me. I don't think it's really a different phenomenon, just a different understanding of where it comes from. I'm not sure about ...

—Agreed— There's a reasonably good chance I'll get tired of this punctuation mark soon and go back to my old habits. I certainly won't give up my elli...

I moved this over to the Shoutbox because I didn't want to clutter up the other thread. When I wrote "Mull" I meant the island, where my brother-in-la...

A couple of quotes from some of @"Wayfarer"'s past posts. I steal these whenever this type of subject comes up. Thanks again Wayfarer.

Mull.

Agreed. Knowledge is all about useful information. What other possible meaning can it have? Can't get more pragmatic than that.

@"Jamal"—I'm trying to use an em dash in every post I write, whether or not it's appropriate. By the way, for anyone that's interested, by which I mea...

I, and many other people, think justified true belief (JTB) does not reflect how people know things or use the knowledge they have. As someone who had...

I've found that about 150 posts is an ideal length for most discussions. After that, everyone, including me, starts repeating themselves. I'm not surp...

Now you're just looking to start an argument. Let's share a meat pie instead.

I was just reading about him and I thought of you. I didn't know if he was one of your favored Japanese writers.

You ignored my comment and just repeated what you wrote in your previous one. You're also commenting on a post I made a month ago. Let's just leave it...

I'm ok with this as long as you're not equating what I'm calling "intuition" with what you call experiencing stimulus emotionally. As I noted in my pr...

I agree that it would be weak evidence in court, but at some level I find it convincing. Whether or not I take it as evidence for God, I do recognize ...

A little history for you—The moderators here on the forum decided to lump all anti-natalism discussions into this one thread because they annoy some p...

Hi. Welcome to the forum. Agent Smith is no longer on the forum, so you won't get a response from him.

Yes.

You provided a quote. I provided a relevant response. I didn't see it as a disagreement, just a different perspective. That's as far as I intended it ...

My comment to @"Jamal0544" was not a rebuke at all. It was a substantive response to a substantive post.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the idea. It's the failure to live up to it that's the problem. It still forms the foundation of my understa...

This kind of idea always seems to me to miss the point. For me, it comes back to the words of the US Declaration of Independence—We hold these truths ...

I think the factors that can be considered are already limited by the structure of our minds and perceptual machinery. Evolution has already done what...

I'm going to stick with Knee-chee.

So, I can put in extra effort both to figure out how to use the different kinds of dashes and how to make them work on my computer, or I can say "scre...

Doesn't your analysis assume there are no balancing unintended consequences that come with the improvement in conditions, e.g. the progress in technol...

How do you get the em dash on your computer. I only have one key for hyphen/dash. On the other hand, if you tell me, I might actually have to figure o...

People complain about too much religion here on the forum, but there are four religion-related threads on the first page, all started by atheists or r...

Agreed. I oversimplified a bit.

No, there's not. And be honest - you meant to say that religious beliefs are preposterous. Now you're trying to get off the hook on a technicality.