T_Clark

Not just flour, whole grains in general. Silos and other facilities for storing grain require special protection to prevent dust explosions caused by ...

No, they are not related except they both have a "pan" prefix which refers to "all," "of everything," or "completely." They are completely different t...

The saying is "Transgender rights are human rights." I'm willing to be extremely pedantic in explaining that the correct wording is "civil rights." I ...

The thread is about civil rights, not specific policies or practices. It is reasonable to consider adequate medical care a civil right. What adequate ...

This has nothing to do with anything I’ve written in this thread. Perhaps you’re asking the wrong person.

This is not true. Pantheism and panpsychism are entirely different things.

You’re OP is not about panpsychism. It’s not even mentioned. It’s primarily about consciousness being the result the transmission from outside the bod...

This is from the ACLU page on transgender rights. I think it’s a better summary than the claptrap baloney you’ve put together. Here’s the link https:/...

I’m sure everyone here on the forum would agree that you deserve a real human doctor.

I’ll admit it, it’s the loudness I like best.

For the record, I really like James. As for this quote, that’s not all that far from what I believe. The material world affects the spirit through our...

The idea that the essence of humans—the soul, consciousness, the spirit—originates outside the body is nothing new. As I understand it, that is one of...

The link you provided doesn’t really identify any scientists who support panpsychism, although it does identify some philosophers. Can you name some s...

One of my favorites and easy to memorize. Or maybe it’s one of my favorites because it’s easy to memorize.

I’m glad we’ve finally got a credible source of evidence for your ideas—a Dan Brown novel.

They, along with crows and jays, are corvids. They all tend to be loud, social, and intelligent. The way a crow Shook down on me A dust of snow From a...

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a magpie except in pictures.

I’m not jealous, but I really like birds. Especially loud raucous ones— crows, blue jays, mockingbirds.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRxteAoJV5dhrqr4a1vBtAXwmZ-rgVdarrMQKcnXK6KiQ&s=10 The Maltese falcon.

I’ve given the book to both my daughter and one of my sons. They both like it a lot. We do an annual book club where we read one long book, 100 pages ...

It’s the Maltese falcon.

Thanks for the call out. All of the issues that have shown up in this thread so far are exactly the reason I tried to avoid a discussion of mental cau...

His opinion on what gets to be called philosophy has no more credibility than non-believers.

Baloney. If I believed in claptrap philosophical jargon, I would call that the fallacy of appeal to authority. Which is not relevant.

It doesn’t matter. Philosophy isn’t a secret society where the members get to decide who can join.

Of course it does. Christians themselves have always thought it does.

This is one of my favorite jokes, or rather it was one of my favorite jokes. Philosophy ruins everything worthwhile.

Yes, we Americans are a philosophical bunch.

Over the weekend, almost seven million people in several thousand communities here in the US got together to celebrate our anniversary...among other t...

My choices for a basis of appropriate action are not limited to general truths established by reason and inherited traditions. There is the matter of ...

I didn't notice anyone glossing over @"Tom Storm"'s point. I don't think I did. I acknowledged that an appeal to tradition is not what you call an inv...

Shotgun, mostly.

This is a great OP. I was going to say it belongs in @"unimportant"’s thread on tradition, but you really have opened a much broader door. I’ll think ...

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I left something out of my last post. I said that we are born with certain things. That’s true, but we also learn things from what we observe and expe...

I agree with everything you’ve written with a little addition. I agree that factors that affect values include convention and tradition, but they also...

@"unimportant" called this out as a logical fallacy. That that’s where my first post came from. You say this is not about logic… then what is it about...

The OP indicates an appeal to tradition is a logical fallacy. Then you ask whether an appeal to reason gets better results than an appeal to tradition...

I don’t know what that means.

A really good post. You got to the heart of it better than I did.

Logical arguments are not about the results of an action, they’re about truth

A good post, although I think it’s perfectly reasonable to place this thread on the main page.

I come from a family of hunters, although I don’t hunt anymore. As much as you might sneer, hunting is an important tradition for us. I have many good...

Have we dispensed with the restriction on use of videos in posts?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t slow, steady empirical analysis at the heart of Enlightenment Liberalism?

I’ve always known what “prone” means because those little green plastic soldiers that came in a big bag always had soldiers lying on their stomachs an...

You are forgiven. I know you are prone to this kind of mistake.

“Prone” means lying on your front. “Supine” means lying on your back.

As I indicated, it’s a quote from a famous movie.