T_Clark

@"T Clark"’s motto—If there is no way of knowing whether a statement is true or false, even in theory, then it’s either metaphysics or meaningless. If...

It’s not what Laplace’s Demon knows, it’s what you and I can know.

I didn’t say it was meaningless. I said it was meaningless or metaphysics. Metaphysics doesn’t have to be true or false. As a matter of fact, as I und...

This is not necessarily true. It depends on what your definition of “omniscient” is. It might just mean knowledge of everything the way it is right no...

I must admit I don’t get the whole modal/possible worlds way of looking at things. Simple solution— I never definitively declare something as not dete...

We know for a fact there are things we do not, and perhaps cannot, currently experience that we will be able to sometime in the future. I don’t think ...

I once started a thread to make the argument that if you can’t predict something, even in theory, then it isn’t determined.

Google says it was how they used to tell gold and silver money from fake.

Now you’re being cute.

@"Jamal" I noticed that @Pieter R van Wyk’s account has been deleted. Are you deleting all accounts for banned people now or was that a request by him...

Now you've prodded me to expound on my theory of regret. Regret is always a cheat, as if you could just wave a magic wand and erase your responsibilit...

Without very eccentric and not at all important points, the forum would not be nearly as active.

I don't see any contradiction between what you've written here and what I wrote in my response to @"Hanover"'s comment just above. Beyond culture, cla...

Yes. I think your post points out a weakness, an over-simplification, in mine. I wrote--"We’re not here to think what we’re told to think, we’re here ...

I would join just for the robes. Or do I have to be a former slave?

But it is all I'm interested in saying right now.

This week is the anniversary of the dismantling of the Berlin wall. I don’t feel nostalgic for that or for what came before it. Mostly I feel a sense ...

I rest my case. No further questions… NO FURTHER QUESTIONS!!!

I think that’s true of all philosophers—all real philosophers. We’re not here to think what we’re told to think, we’re here to put words to what we ca...

Agreed. That says everything that needs to be said. I think we’ve taken this far enough now.

I haven’t read this yet. The more I read James, the more I like him.

I've been listening to William James' "The Varieties of Religious Experience" and really loving it. This is from the second lecture in the series.

Without going back and checking our previous posts, as I remember it, this whole discussion arose from me pointing out that homosexuality was once con...

Yes, but those were marsupial vultures.

We actually called them buzzards too. I just wanted to exercise my talent for pedantry. They were always a sign of summer on the Eastern Shore of Mary...

Yes, of course. I should’ve thought of that.

They might or they might not go away. Again, I think the situation could be considered analogous to that for gay people. Although the problems are not...

I assume these are actually turkey vultures. Do you notice how three of them are aligned perfectly? That raises a question whether these are actually ...

I try to remember where people are coming from, not always successfully. I appreciate that you did.

I didn’t know anyone was paying attention.

I often argue the real value of a religion is the internal experience of it's followers, not it's consistency with what we see externally. I've starte...

You’re right. Just keep in mind what my post was in response to. Other posters were using the fact that gender dysphoria is considered a mental illnes...

Any posts with Christmas themes sent out before December 1 will lead to an automatic banning.

There’s a possibility, just a possibility mind you, you’ve missed the point of the question

You left out one— this is the most active philosophy site I’ve ever seen.

Yes, I think that’s the motto of the justice department and ICE here in the United States.

Yes. I do my best to make my obnoxiousness high-quality.

I have justification for my claim, admittedly, weak, but something. You have nothing. That’s fine, we can back off from the “in the world” standard. I...

I understand what you’re doing. That doesn’t change my comment. We can leave it at that.

From the guidelines—“…a decent title that accurately and concisely describes the content of your OP.”

I did

Here in the US we call him “the fucking architect of the fucking 2003 fucking Iraq fucking invasion.”

Inappropriately misleading thread title.

Oh, my.

Make that paranoid, full of shit, and creepily obsessed with transgender people.

What did you actually mean then? If it wasn’t that, I don’t understand how what you wrote has anything to do with what I wrote in my response to Amade...

Is this intended as “overwhelming evidence that being trans is an aberration likely to lead to criminal behaviour?”

Geez. Can you guys just get a room thread and take this elsewhere. You're making it hard for us everyday schlubs to get a useless word in edgewise. No...

For a good overview, I like "Tao--The Watercourse Way" by Alan Watts. Next, the Tao Te Ching, the founding document of Taoism. Here's a link to many t...

Here's what I was responding to: There are 8 billion people in the world. If 10% of them hold the kind of antipathy to transgender people I claim, tha...