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Again, my comment was sincere and responsive. I believe the things I wrote and they contradict some of what you put in your OP. I don't see how you ca...

So, what you're saying is that you don't have a good response to my respectful and responsive comment so you'll ignore it.

My decision is not intended as a reflection on his acting ability.

There are a lot of people here on the forum who think it is self-evident that everyone lives a life as described by Thoreau - full of quiet desperatio...

The TV version, with Alec Guinness, is the best filmed/video work I have ever seen. I've watched it 5 times and each time I do, I can't believe how go...

It's funny. I was thinking about this and all I can think of is movies that I love just as much as the books. "French Lieutenant's Woman" "Little Big ...

Unlike most Russian novels.

For what it's worth, the original discussion about a priori knowledge has mostly played itself out. As the original poster, I have no objection with y...

Welcome to the forum. This is a well-thought-out post. Well-written and clear. I think the problem with your proposition is that you are judging the p...

Agreed. Sorry, I can't think of anything to add to what you've written. Welcome to the forum. A warning, only Hanover and I are allowed to try to be f...

Good point. I went back and forth about whether to include that.

I agree. This is an example of what is so annoying about a lot of the discussions here on the forum. People build boxes with words and then can't get ...

Here's some more meaningless questions to go with yours: Can God cause itself to cease to exist? Can God violate the laws of the excluded middle or no...

I don't think it's fair to judge what under-developed countries might have been based on how they are now, after 400 years of imperialism.

Disagreeing does not constitute "fiercely resisting." This is not an argument.

I looked it up. Sounds like happy, happy, joy, joy.

Including followers of Confucius and Mohammad. Eastern history is as blood-drenched as western.

The "above comments" you are referring to are generally respectful and responsive. Reasoned disagreement is not "fierce resistance." You are just rein...

Sez you. We don't all see it that way. If this is the intellectual foundation of your position, you have not established it's stability by merely list...

Welcome to the forum. You'll find lots of discussions about this type of question here. It's generally called "antinatalism," the idea that it is immo...

You spelled "putz" wrong.

I don't think our minds try to predict what is real so much as they try to predict what will happen next. As organisms trying to stay alive, that's wh...

I was going to make a comment similar to Mww's. Laws don't "make everything happen," they describe how things happen.

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I'm generally in agreement with you, although I think you've made too strong a statement. It is my understanding that our brains and minds are built w...

Is this one of those "arguments" you were talking about earlier?

I agree with all of this.

Irony.

You said free speech has no consequences. I responded that I disagreed expressed as rhetorical questions. You responded by saying my kicking someone o...

Irony. It was definitely clever.

Yes, yes, I agree. You've won the argument. By redefining the meaning of "free speech," "consequences," "words," and "sorry." Clever rhetorical tactic...

They use the SI system for science here, so you could get a scientist to grind the salt for you. Or you could try it yourself, keeping in mind that a ...

I agree with everything you've written.

I don't get that. The only thing they've done that's disruptive is expressing their opinion. Redefining free speech to support your argument is not a ...

This is only true if "justification" means establishing the truth of an assertion without doubt, which can't be done.

So a woman comes to a dinner party at my house and starts saying derogatory things about gay people, I can't ask her to leave? So I run a business and...

Ooh, ooh, Mr. Banno. I do. I do. Mr. Banno. I do.

I agree with this. Some people seem to think that just saying "a priori" is all the justification that's needed.

In many locations in the US, you can call Dig Safe at 811. They'll come out and mark out where the underground utilities are. If you call, don't tell ...

I understand your argument, but I don't agree with your conclusions. I know you don't agree with mine. It's clear neither of us is going to change our...

As I noted, I found the discussions about pure vs. impure and analytic vs. synthetic, interesting and useful. I wasn't questioning their value, I was ...

This is why people dismiss philosophy as useless. Silly arguments about abstract ideas that have nothing useful to say about how to get along.

Data validation doesn't determine whether or not a data point is true, it determines whether or not it meets data quality objectives, which is another...

Of course truth is important, but if it turns out later something I know is wrong, it doesn't stop being knowledge somehow retroactively. That's silly...

I specifically didn't use the word "true." Say I have data chemical laboratory analysis data measurements for 100 water samples for 10 chemical consti...

You left out the most important part - justification. Knowledge is information adequately justified for it's intended use. Different uses required dif...

Perfectly good English, just wrong. I disagree. As Isaac and I noted, it's not how people use the word in the regular old world.

Most ancient Greeks didn't know anything about philosophy or science. They knew about raising goats, making shoes, fishing, killing other Greeks. I wo...

Yes. Which makes the whole thing ridiculous and, as I noted, it's not the way the word is used by regular people. You don't need philosophy to know th...

A peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich made with Jiffy peanut butter and Helman's mayonnaise on white bread is the only truly philosophical sandwich.