T_Clark

I edited that article in Wikipedia and added a lot of made up words. Examples - haggis, bairn, auld, lang, syne, Donald Trump Jr., and Glasgow,

Some thoughts: "Merit-based" just means the advantaged, your "best and brightest," get more advantages and the less advantaged get fewer. Let's reward...

In my writing, hmm... I've been writing so long I can't remember how it felt when I started. I know how it feels now - just like talking. Words flow o...

Can you clarify what you mean. According to my formulation, metaphysics does not include things that are measurable. Can you give me an example of wha...

You participated heavily in this exact discussion four months ago.

@"god must be atheist", @"180 Proof", @"Janus", @"apokrisis", @"Srap Tasmaner", @"Darkneos" I'm getting way behind on responses and comments are comin...

A presupposition is an assumption that establishes the context for a philosophical discussion. This from "An Essay on Metaphysics" by R.G. Collingwood...

On the basis that the examples you gave, e.g. "my spirit is green," are not metaphysical statements.

Yes. I might quibble with one or two points, but that is generally consistent with how I see things. Where is it from?

Yes, Collingwood. Example - materialism, realism, physicalism, idealism, anti-realism, monism, dualism, solipsism, and all the other ontological isms ...

I didn't edit your poem, I shanghaied it.

@"180 Proof" says your statements are "conceptually incoherent." I say they are meaningless. I think we're both saying the same thing.

My one unending, drum beating message for almost all the time I've been on the forum has been that metaphysical statements are not true or false. They...

Is it reductionist metaphysics? I wonder if I've overstated my case.

It's the world that's wonderful. I love metaphysics, but I see that it's just a bunch of stories people have made up to explain it to themselves. We g...

There is a common misconception that strombolis and calzones are traditional Italian dishes. Nothing could be further from the truth. Both were develo...

I like the poem. It's simple, descriptive. Maybe a little sad. When I read it, I wanted to do this. Forgive me. I bought a cat today She came to me to...

Keeping in mind that this is my idiosyncratic experience. I think other people would get different feelings.

I'll respond, but it's taking me some time to figure out what I want to say.

I'm not surprised at your conclusion.

This is a bit of a cheat, but I want to repost something I wrote about a year ago in the "Metaphysics of Poetry" discussion. This is my attempt to giv...

You and I see things differently. I doubt there's any middle ground in our views.

You're right. In discussions like this, sometimes I say "art has no meaning" and sometimes I say "art has no meaning beyond the audience's experience....

And the success of a cake recipe depends on chemical reactions which take place when you add heat to processed chemical and biological material. But I...

Maybe I've misunderstood. I wasn't discussing the distinction between art and reality. I was talking about the distinction between fictional, poetic, ...

Well, good. I guess. But then when I read your ideas it does seem like we're disagreeing. I'm confused. You keep talking about poetic meaning, but I s...

Except that 99.99999% of the time we do live within a framework of absolute space and time. QM says that things work differently at small scale than t...

I'll tell you what I tell my children - you can die whenever you like, but not till after I'm gone.

Oh... I thought we were disagreeing. I agree with this. There are worthwhile things to say about poetry, but I don't think meaning is one of them exce...

They've all lost their immediacy, intensity, franticness. I've always been a pretty angry, anxious person. Those have probably faded the most.

It's not wisdom, it's age. I guarantee you will be putting getting old into practice whether you want to or not.

As I've gotten older, the anger has diminished. That's made my life easier. It was never very productive anyway.

In “Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking” Douglas Hofstadter claims that all human thought is analogical. I've read similar...

Well, obviously I'm too mature to wallow in such partisan squalor. On the other hand, when I find out a strongly anti-abortion Republican candidate fo...

One of the points I've beaten till it's black and blue is that metaphysics is not universal. We don't need a one-size-fits-all universal metaphysical ...

I admit the shenanigans have been fun to watch from over here. If you guys can just make it about five times worse, maybe you'll be able to catch up w...

I don't consider myself a very artistic person. I've done a little fiction and poetry writing. I enjoy the process and I like some of the results, but...

I think I've shown I do take interesting questions seriously and I am very interested in these questions. As I noted, though, I think the gee whiz get...

To the extent I understand what you're talking about, it makes sense. I'm starting to get a feel for your description of how hierarchy's work - the id...

Geez louise. Don't be such a doink. Answer the ding dong question.

If you're saying the distinction made between epistemology and ontology is arbitrary and unnecessary, I agree. If you're saying something else, I don'...

I think I'm trying to address a different issue than you are. It bothers me when everybody, even scientists, keep saying that the quantum mechanics is...

As a matter of convention, I think it makes sense to think of interactions at human scale as foundational, at least for bookkeeping purposes. It was a...

Massimo Pigliucci and I disagree.

The federal flood insurance program will only provide insurance in jurisdictions where specified government flood control policies have been implement...

Thinking about it, I edited my previous post to read "Questions about the nature of our reality are not science." The original seemed a bit ambiguous.

I've come to see that art, including poetry, doesn't mean anything beyond the audience's experience in seeing, reading, or hearing it. Art is an artis...

I guess a lot of the secondary insurers are having the same problems the primary ones are having.

I assume you mean Colonial Penn. That's the company Alex Trebek used to shill for. There is a government sponsored insurer of last resort in Florida, ...

There has been a lot in the news recently about insurance problems in Florida, i.e. insurers leaving the state or going bankrupt. With the recent stor...