T_Clark

Oh, Hanover. You’re just so cute.

I think it’s because they have more fat.

I’m disappointed. I thought it was the cat’s dinner. Oh and have I mentioned that I love Brussels sprouts?

I don’t know if you’ve paid much attention to any of my posts. If you had you would find I am obsessed with metaphysics and the difference between met...

I really like your post. I guess it helps that I agree with you on just about everything, but I don’t know that I could have expressed it as clearly a...

You’re just jealous because I think @"jorndoe" is cute too.

I like your thread a lot. My biggest gripe when it comes to discussions about consciousness is that people never get around to defining what they real...

I am not hip. I know this for certain because my children have all told me it’s true.

Nope. Nothing‘s changed here. I’m just happy to hear from you when we can.

Oh. @"jorndoe". You’re so cute. @"Banno"

Thanks.

In my understanding, interpretations of quantum mechanics, which do not make a provision for the act of observation are just as consistent with the ma...

Is intention without a mind and nervous system meaningful? I’m skeptical, but I don’t know enough about this particular example to make any intelligen...

I think this is clearly incorrect as a matter of science and not of philosophy. What we’ve learned about self organization, and abiogenesis since he m...

I never denied that I have purposes and goals for my own behavior. I work with the purpose of making money to pay for my house and food and car. I go ...

Vague, unsupported, low quality arm waving.

I'm not familiar with this "olive" you speak of. Back in the good old days, we would suck the pimentos out of the husks. The husks themselves are ined...

I've missed you.

I'll acknowledge from the start that this is an unresolvable issue. I won't convince you and you won't convince me. As usual, my view is that this is ...

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So the death of 1 million Japanese civilians is terrible, but the death of 10 million Chinese civilians doesn't matter to you. We’re done here I think...

About 1 million Japanese civilians died during World War II. About 10 million Chinese civilians died at the hands of the Japanese.

As I noted - 50 million people, mostly civilians, died in World War 2.

Acknowledging the harm done, I’m not sure that changes my first response to your OP.

I thought this claim was ridiculous, but then I looked it up and it turns out you were right.

When I was a kid, the only time we got pimentos was when we went out to nice restaurants and they brought us a bowl full as appetizers. Even with thos...

I’m not a lobster roll guy. I grew up around the Chesapeake Bay. It’s crabcakes for me.

Sad to say, I did not have a pimento cheese sandwich for lunch today. What’s more, I have never had a pimento cheese sandwich. I’m not even sure I’ve ...

These coincidences are getting weird. You like beets. I like beets. Your cat loves green beans. I love green beans.

Well, there’s certainly is knowledge about philosophy, for example Aristotle was born on a certain date and died on a certain date. He wrote certain t...

Sure. No. It’s just regular old everyday knowledge. Philosophy can’t even figure out what “knowledge” means.

I think this is an argument I could probably make. Not so much that philosophers don’t have knowledge, but that philosophy does not involve knowledge....

You’re right, in science, objectivity is methodological, but that’s not all it is. The existence of objective reality is the foundation of orthodox sc...

Don’t feel bad. Getting lost in philosophy is nothing new for me.

I went back and reread the OP and your response to my comment, as well as all the other posts on this thread. But I don’t get it. I can’t even figure ...

The presupposition that a view from nowhere, absolute knowledge, objective reality, exists is the foundation of the orthodox view of what you are call...

Yes, I love beets too. They are great in salads, either pickled or just plain.

This has been an interesting thread with a whole range of viewpoints, including my personal favorite "Snap out of it." I have been diagnosed with a fa...

Here’s a better one. Get some poison ivy and wipe it on the toilet paper. Then carefully reroll it.

I wonder if the cost comparison would change if we included the costs for disposal of unrecycled paper to the cost of the paper made from pulp.

What you have described is one of the primary arguments used by anti-religionists against Christianity. How can you worship a God who does such terrib...

I’ll have you know I have a reputation as the greatest metaphysician since Donald Trump Jr.

Ms. Shields seems like a very nice person. We both know she deserves better than that.

Whenever this subject comes up, people act as if knowledge, truth, and facts only apply to propositions when they rarely do. Who cares if Pluto is a p...

I will agree the fact I will grumble is as close to eternal truth as we can get. At least in the Shoutbox. If I wanted to be provocative here, I might...

I've always tried to keep extended philosophical ideas out of the Shoutbox, but, as you note, they are starting to seep in around the edges. I would f...

Yes, this is correct.

Maybe in a broader context that makes sense, but I think we're talking in a very narrow area, as we philosophers are wont. Here's what I generally say...

As the quote from Gould indicates, there are only provisional facts and, thus, only provisional truth. That's not a particularly controversial, nor no...

I don’t know what this means in this context. The fact to be construed is that you feel pain. Generally speaking, since you’re the only one who has ac...