T_Clark

Smug, arrogant crap. Makes me want to vote for Trump just to piss you off.

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I'm not sure exactly what this means, but it seems to me that the specific laws we are concerned with have been legislated and enforced wholesale sinc...

What constitutes killing a child is not something that can be resolved by science. It's a matter of social convention, consensus. Obviously, consensus...

Women have a right to vote. Approximately 30% of state legislators are women, although that varies a lot depending on the state. Many of the most prom...

This is a weak argument. As for justifications for pro-life beliefs being based on religion or personal feelings 1) I don't see how pro-choice beliefs...

An ugly name for a powerful thing.

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Before my first child was born, I wasn't sure how the whole love thing worked. I've never grown emotionally attached to pets, so I wasn't sure how I w...

That's not what I wrote.

The closest feeling I have to love unalloyed with other factors such as desire, expectation, and obligation is my love for my three children. It came ...

Bob received an Ikea statue - assembly required - but he ordered a fully assembled statue. Bob received a blob of clay. What he ordered but didn't rec...

What a great post. Here are some thoughts - rather piecemeal and off the cuff rather than comprehensive. How much of the answer to this question depen...

I agree. For me, philosophy is there to help us listen to and recognize the voice inside.

Not to be flip, but that's what philosophy is for. For me, philosophy is about self-awareness - paying attention to how we think. If we are not capabl...

@"Jafar" Thank you for giving me this opportunity to bring out one of my favorite quotes. I try to use it at least once every couple of weeks here on ...

No, I can choose to do nothing. 4) Deny the word. Ignoring words is one of the fundamental human mental tasks. We can't pay attention to everything, w...

That would make sense - it's not an axe, it's a 9 iron.

Some questions 1) What is the bison doing in the woods? 2) What is that weird branch just above the woodsman’s head? 3) Why is he wearing checkered pa...

We are not talking about mathematical nothing, at least I'm not. We're talking about actual nothing - no matter, no energy, no fields, no quantum vacu...

I was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, son of a waterman - up at 5 every morning, blue crabs in warm weather, oysters in cold. I was runner-up i...

How could there possibly be nothing? Not nothing like the inside of an empty box with all the air removed and shielded against radiation, but nothing ...

There are no propositions that can't be expressed in language. This is just a restatement of the tautological proposition "All subsets of the natural ...

This is not right. Perhaps "the vast, vast majority of subsets of natural numbers cannot be expressed by language," but judgments of true or false onl...

Why use judgment when it is so much easier to speculate?

Or, more likely, that just happened to be the color of carts they had.

Agreed, but the purpose behind that examination and evaluation is to figure out how other's thoughts fit into your own understanding of how the world ...

Many people here don't see introspection and intuition as valid ways of knowing, while to me, they are the strongest intellectual tools we have to wor...

There seem to be a lot of orange vehicles in that parade. I’m not sure that’s such a good idea.

@"Jafar" To be clear, many of us here disagree with @"Fooloso4"’s opinion. You shouldn’t let it stop you from putting your thoughts into words. Intros...

Why not start a discussion in an area where you are comfortable. Write a good OP (original post) and be ready to answer questions and stand up for you...

I specifically said "local person" rather than "local" because I knew you'd pull out this weak-ass argument. If you were in Boston long enough so that...

Perhaps "a reason" would be clearer than "reason." Even then I'd be tempted to argue your point, but then we'd just get sucked into another of those u...

Most of our decisions are not based on reason, for example when I decide to order a cheeseburger rather than pate de foie gras or when I turn left on ...

Here’s where your story falls apart. I’ve lived in the Boston area for 50 years, and I’ve never once heard a local person use the term “bean town,” ex...

After reading your response, I went back and reread the OP. I think I misunderstood the argument you are trying to make. I still don't think there is ...

An insult but not an argument.

I'm more partial to "I know you are, but what am I?"

That's not an insult - it doesn't say anything about the person. It's also not an argument - it doesn't say anything about the discussion.

A metarule - nothing goes on list unless I understand what it means. Another rule for the list - Don't focus on petty or irrelevant issues, e.g. spell...

T Clark's rules of philosophy Define your terms at the beginning of the discussion. Spell out acronyms the first time you use them. Don't mix up scien...

I don't see being an asshole as a moral issue. I acknowledge you have defined that term differently than I did. Under either definition, perhaps it wo...

I often tell my brother that he and I are assholes. By that I mean we are sometimes, often, insensitive to how the things we say and do affect other p...

This is a good way of looking at it. I'm not sure if I think this is true. I'll have to think more about it. As I noted in my response to @"Shawn", I ...

I think that most of the conflict I've seen in my somewhat limited understanding of philosophy, and this forum in particular, result from these kinds ...

I like the quotes from Westacott and MacGee you've provided, especially this:

As I've noted in my responses to @"Bob Ross"'s posts, the specific cognitive mechanisms of perception are not relevant in addressing his concerns.

As I see it, this is a good way of looking at it, but it is not paradoxical.

I don't think it's truly paradoxical at all. As with most "paradoxes," it's a matter of language, attitude, perspective, not fact. Here's the heart of...

I’ve had my say. I’ll leave it at that.