T_Clark

Sorry to make things difficult.

And people complain about the quality of the posts on the forum these days.

By the way, James Rouse was Edward Norton’s grandfather.

You’re welcome. By the way, James Rouse was Edward Norton’s grandfather.

James Rouse, who's company is well known for redeveloping downtown landmarks as shopping malls, e.g. Faneuil Hall Market Place and Quincy Market in Bo...

I know it's not a democracy and I don't want it to be, or I might be expected to do more than just complain. But when you open a thread, you're asking...

I don't disagree that the quality of the forum has gone down. The first cause I think is that we've lost some heavyweights over the years and other st...

To tell the truth, I don't give a ding dong about the Trump thread and I'm only a bit irritated by the social media change. What bothers me is the way...

The moderators seem to be making a lot of unnecessary changes to a system that’s worked pretty well so far. Let me see… who else is doing that recentl...

Accordion to the web, “aversion” means “a strong dislike or disinclination.“

Again, you and I don't have enough in common to have a fruitful discussion.

I have no formal education in philosophy either. Your use of "indoctrination" in this context shows why it's hard to take your philosophical opinions ...

I don't think it's obvious to many, most, people that this is true. As I understand it, the implication would be there is no objective reality, only a...

Howdy Doody was sponsored by Hostess, so we were given Hostess Snowballs to eat. Red if I remember correctly. https://images.food52.com/zmDgo1pdRa6yZ-...

Nice to hear from the peanut gallery. Speaking of which - The phrase peanut gallery originally came from from a television show for children back in t...

I remember thinking that the world is fundamentally human, or at least half human. Theoretically, there is a world out there, but our only access to i...

Being very much a resident of the 20th and 21st centuries and an engineer to boot, I find myself very much at home with Burtt’s understanding of moder...

Yes, I have noticed that. I think your status as a moderator has given your words a new power, authority, and dignity.

More and more these days, and thanks to you, I find myself quoting “The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science” by E A Burtt. This came to mind wh...

You and I have always had different ideas of what is metaphysics and what isn't. It makes it hard for us to have a fruitful discussion.

Probably 2,500 years ago.

I'm having a problem with my Philosophy Forum pages. I think it's probably with my computer - Windows 11, but I thought I'd check. If I set the front ...

This is something I've been wrestling with. My first intuition is that, no, it doesn't need an explanation - at least science doesn't require one. It ...

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This is not a proof, it’s a definition. The word “magic” has a specific meaning which you’re ignoring.

I like your new feistiness, but many of the questions were reasonable.

I’ve never had a stroke, so I guess I have no excuse.

You forgot “true story.”

I think you’re applying much more nuance and subtlety than this issue deserves or requires. This ain’t rocket philosophy.

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No. Those will be allowed in the shout box.

I went back and reread your OP. It's true, in my response I wasn't dealing with the specific technological way you proposed to run and fund the govern...

What is the basis for you opinion? Is this a subject about which you have specific experience or education? Is this a scientific judgment? A religious...

Here in the US, and I assume elsewhere in the world, everything we don't like is Trump's and Musk's doing.

This is clearly part of Trump's Project 2025 program. Did Musk set you up to this?

Or very realistic sex dolls.

I misunderstood. You wrote "To dismantle this pathetic fallacy, I've devised a thought experiment." You meant a pathetic fallacy, not the pathetic fal...

I suggest also allowing it in the Lounge.

From the article linked: In the words of Aristotle, or was it Donald Trump Jr. - What could possibly go wrong?

I hope this doesn't include YouTube. I embed a lot of short clips from there. Also, please add this change to the site guidelines page.

You just validated my understanding of intuition. I drew a conclusion based on a "preconscious statistical analysis (or something similar." but, since...

The idea of objective morality is not one I have much use for, so I'm not here to discuss the merits of whether or not it is ever acceptable to kill b...

I got a little behind here. I think most of what we know is not specifically justified. In my personal experience, most of what I know I know by what ...

We can never be certain any particular thing is true except that, perhaps, we exist.

As Descartes told us, there is only one thing we know is really, actually, for real true.

As I understand justified true belief as it is usually discussed, it does not mean justified to best evidence that it is true. It means really, actual...

As I understand it, what you've written here is consistent with what Gould wrote and with my understanding of what knowledge is, but, I think we agree...

As the quote indicates, Gould was specifically writing about scientific knowledge, not knowledge in general. He was an atheist, but I don't think what...

This exchange made me think of this quote from Stephen J Gould.

This post is not in response to anything specific discussed so far in this thread, but I just came across this discussion of Robert Boyle's ideas abou...