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I was going to stay out of active participation in this thread because I'm not really familiar with Kant and I don't want to skew the discussion towar...

Agreed, but you and @"Agent Smith" started it.

That's a reasonable position, although it didn't work so well for the Chinese.

I'll give you a more serious response this time. As I wrote previously, no one needs a reason not to have children. It's their choice. The choice you'...

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This, from WebMD: Stuart C. Ray, MD, professor of Medicine and Oncology in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of M...

So... send us a picture and let us decide.

Other infinite songs: The song that never ends Infinite bottles of beer on the wall Anything by Grateful Dead seems infinite

By which I mean, this is the Hanoververse...Hanoverse.

No. I think this is the only universe in the infinite multiverse where @"Hanover" exists.

Baloney. Just because you're too lazy, or socially inept, or frightened, or ugly to have children, that doesn't make you a person of integrity.

You're much too reasonable. What are you doing on a philosophy forum?

Actually, that has inspired me to turn our universe into one where "I'm Henry the Eighth I am" has an infinite number of verses. Here are the lyrics: ...

This and your previous post are interesting and well-written. My plan is to learn everything I need to know about Kant without ever reading another wo...

I don't think I have anything to offer, but I'll be reading along. Good idea for a thread.

A philosophical question about the song. In an infinite number of universes in the infinite multiverse, there is a third verse to the song. What do yo...

Of course, I remember the first time I heard "I'm Henry the Eighth I am" too.

@"Agent Smith", @"Bartricks", and the other anti-natalists are misfits. They were never going to have children with or without the justifications prov...

As Woody Allen said - I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

As I noted, that's not the claim you made originally. You're changing the rules of the game in the middle of play. No need for us to continue this any...

No, I am claiming that most of us won't "do virtually anything to avoid it." You are changing the basis of this discussion in the middle.

I remember the first time I heard the Beatles. Driving down the street with my mother in Seaford, Delaware. "I want to hold your hand came on" and I w...

No. You wrote: Generally having reason to avoid is different from doing virtually anything to avoid. As I said, I'm enjoying my life; I'd like to live...

Yes. I went to Google, typed "how many people are afraid of dying," and picked the link at the top of the page. I am exhausted from all the work.

It's not true of me. It's not true of most of my friends and family. It wasn't true of my father while he was dying of lung cancer. I'm enjoying my li...

I looked on line and it said that more than half of people in the US are not particularly afraid of dying. Only about 10% are very afraid. Perhaps you...

One of my favorite military science fiction books. Clever and well-written.

I don't think this line of discussion is getting us anywhere. Let's drop it.

You missed the point I was trying to make when I provided the link. Let's leave it at that.

I was confused, but I don't think that means the OP was. After all, it wasn't @"Ignoredreddituser"'s writing, it was Steven French's.

Sorry, I can't help, but I'm interested. I have noted similarities between the writings of western philosophers and the understanding expressed in the...

I agree with your explanation, but I think Wayfarer's criticism was that I wasn't responding in the terms that the OP laid out. I don't disagree with ...

You got something different out of the video than I did.

Here's a link to an interesting video explaining why the speed of light in glass is different than in a vacuum. 16 minutes long. https://www.youtube.c...

I think it's a good OP. The addition of the summary was a good move. I read the whole OP, including the summary. As I noted, I tried hard to figure ou...

I don't think you and I mean the same thing by "mutually exclusive." No need to take that up now.

Would there be? Would there also be cells, and trees, and forests, and ecosystems without people? Would there be hydrogen and oxygen, and water, and r...

I was talking about Newton's laws of motion and special relativity. I should have been clearer.

As I've said, conceptual models are more or less accurate, not true or false. I wouldn't think that two different conceptual models of the same phenom...

As I noted in another post, the Pragmatic understanding of "truth" takes some getting used to. I'm still working on it. Identifying truth and utility ...

The point I've tried to make in this thread is that knowledge, from a pragmatic point of view, isn't made up of facts that are true or false. It's mad...

That doesn't tell me how an action can be true or false. I get up, go into the kitchen, and get a glass of water. Is that action true or false?

Sorry. I tried, but even with your summary I got lost. Why does any of this matter? A table is a table by human convention. An atom is an atom by huma...

You're right. I wasn't certain which assumption you were rejecting. I've read Collingwood and I find his ideas about metaphysics helpful. Pragmatism d...

You say "The function of thought is to give an analogue image of the world..." How is that different from "...the function of thought is to describe, ...

I think "twerp" is the perfect insult. You can't complain about it, because complaining is what twerps do. It also sounds just right for an insult. If...

Nuff said.

When I start a thread, I do it for a reason. I have a position I want to test, a question I want to answer, or some thoughts I want to put into words....

I don't think it's friendly to shanghai my discussion. This is from a few months ago: How's that?

I don't think it's a silly question. It gives me problems too. How about this - If it's not useful, it's not true; but that doesn't mean that if it's ...