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Can't she be undocumented Jewish? Does DACA cover that?

Thanks. I saw that and still couldn't figure out what it was talking about.

I've looked up "supervene" but I found the definitions and examples confusing. Can you clarify. What does it mean that "M supervenes on P." Does that ...

Note to self - Do not respond to posts from RG in the future.

This is not correct. Viruses are not self-propelled. They move passively with the substance they are attached to, e.g. droplets of moisture from the l...

If we were talking about mosquitos, and if a mosquitos behaved the way viruses do, and if mosquitos could only bite one person, perhaps you would be r...

A young person is not necessarily less likely to catch the disease than an older person, just less likely to have serious consequences. Also, as I not...

Yes, well. I just went back and edited that part out.

Lamest thought experiment ever. And that's saying something given how much philosophers and, especially, half-assed would-be philosophers like us here...

@"Hanover" Can one of you please do with it what was done with the last one - put it in a hide/reveal.

Interesting article. Thanks. I don't think it will convince anyone one way or another on the issue of the nature of mathematics. I come down on the si...

As is common in discussions here on the forum, you and I are working from different definitions of a particular word. "Thought" means something differ...

Is this like Zeno's paradox? You read half of it, then you read half of what's left, etc.

For me, at least, this is often not true. I just took a sip of water. My throat felt dry, so I reached over, picked up my glass, and took a drink. The...

Alas, someone dissing intuition again. Intuition is not arbitrary. It's a reflection of everything we've learned since we were babies. Generally, our ...

Is that really what happens when you want to open a door? When I want to open one, I just do it with no thought at all. The wanting goes directly into...

If you are saying that spirit and intuition are the same thing, I disagree. My experience of spirit is wordless awareness of myself and the world arou...

As AgentSmith intimates, the questions you are asking highlight the difference between eastern and western philosophies. I don't think eastern philoso...

I have some questions: I looked up "causal continuity" on the web and found references but no definition. You know if something doesn't have a Wikiped...

We've discussed this type of issue several times in the recent past here on the forum. The statement "The universe makes sense," is a metaphysical sta...

Almost as bad as that dolls head with... No, sorry. I can't even say it.

It strikes me that thoughts, ideas, whatever, are not really stored in the brain at all. In my experience, they are created and recreated as needed. S...

I was with you until this.

I'm ok with that, I guess, although it is pretty circular. Earlier, I described possible connections between thoughts based on my personal experience:...

We're all done (brushes dust from hands). We congratulate ourselves on a job well done.

And then you go on to do exactly that.

It hasn't been established. It's a claim I've made, but I don't think everyone agrees. Here is the OP: Why doesn't it have any bearing?

Yes. I agree, this is a metaphor. I'm not sure about this. Technically, I think it is what's called a metonymy. From the web: In rhetoric, change of n...

We seem to be running across the question of what a metaphor is and isn't. Seems like a good time to define the word. Here are several definitions fro...

Headed for bed.

It's a long story, but no. What makes you think that engineers are "constrained" by logic? I've always thought that Taoism is the philosophical system...

Everything I wrote is based on my personal experience of thinking from the inside. That's what it feels like to me. I'd like to hear what a cognitive ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu0XQVS9GCE

I'll speak, tentatively, for knowledge, thoughts, feelings, memories, fantasies, imagery, and other mental ... what's the right word? Experiences? Phe...

It seems like it happens when we get new members. They run through all the current threads, then go look in the past for ones that interest them.

I don't think any of these words, with the exception of "shit," is a metaphor. There has to be a comparison for it to be a metaphor. To say "She is a ...

According to Kant's formulation that I quoted, something becomes a categorical imperative when I will that it be universal. I think the act of will is...

I don't think these are metaphors. The word "chair" is not a metaphor sitting there by itself. There has to be a context in which a comparison is made...

One of the ways Kant formulated the categorical imperative is Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should be...

Shit! Asshole!

I would like to examine this statement a bit. When you say that introspection isn't science, do you mean that introspection can't be studied by scienc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXO4mEkNeZY&t=41s Little kids love this. No reason philosophers won't too.

Thoughts are not facts. And, no. Although it is not the subject of this thread, facts are not connected logically either.

I don't think our thoughts are connected logically. I'm not sure they are necessarily connected at all. Certainly some are not.

The model for application of a force to something solid is a spring. Apply the force and the spring deflects elastically as long as you don't overload...

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say, but I am sure enough to be able to say you're wrong. Here are two thoughts: The NE Patriots will win th...

The beam bends. Not much, but enough to provide an equal and opposite reaction to the force you have applied.

Hungarian is an interesting language, one of the few in Europe that aren't Indo-Aryan from India. Apparently the language originated in northern Siber...

Since the start of this discussion, I've been paying attention to my own writing here on the forum. Sometimes I use contractions and some times I don'...