T_Clark

But then what is the value of any idea if it’s so amorphous we can’t actually use it for anything? Words, ideas, are meant to be used.

Or maybe it should be titled “Are there more things that are really things that exist or things that are really things that don’t exist?”

What’s the difference between “existing” and “really existing?” Maybe the title of this thread should be “Are there more things that really exist or t...

This is the most fun I've had with a discussion in a long time. And this has been my point all along, we just differ on the solution. We don't even di...

Oh, good, finally an easy one. If it doesn’t exist, it’s not a thing. No further questions. I rest my case.

If @"Hanover" has the power and authority to travel into the past to change the history of the forum, he certainly has the power and authority to talk...

Yes, I think that's right. As I noted in my last post, I understand what he means and agree with the general sentiment--after all, two electrons and a...

It's really much worse than that. There really are only two members on the forum--you and so-called @"Jamal". He voices all the other members. By whic...

I think @"schopenhauer1" is still around. His anti-natalism kind of got shut down by the moderators. They made him put all his thoughts into a single ...

Too bad. I liked Bob in spite of our serious differences. I’m not surprised by this and I’m certain he wasn't either.

Thank you for saying so. It was my daughter‘s idea, and I am grateful to her for getting us started.

Yes, forgot to mention “ War and Peace” is on our list too. I read it a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Jamal, I remember you and I discussing it...

As I’ve mentioned before, my son, daughter, and I read a book a year. In 2024 we read.”The Power Broker.” This year we are reading “Infinite Jest.” No...

Nice floor. Nice shoes. Nice pants. Nice picture. Nice post.

Hey, don’t complain to me, you’re the one who made the picture.

Oddly, or perhaps not so oddly, the woman looks a little bit like Brooke Shields.

They certainly feel different. "Reality" feels more objective, concrete, philosophical, external. "Existence" feels more abstract, subjective, persona...

After I wrote that post, I was doing the same thing— trying to think of a good example. I figured someone would ask. An obvious example is the differe...

What about connotation? Two different words might be accurately called synonyms, but still have a different mood, tone, or implication associated with...

Other, more sophisticated, others say puh-kaan, emphasis on the second syllable.

To start, I'd like to put a frame on the discussion up to this point. All the issues we've put on the table so far--your existence, being, reality, ca...

No, of course not. It’s not that other things can’t be beautiful, it’s just that wasn’t the purpose of this thread at the beginning. It was intended t...

You talk about this in a way that doesn’t come naturally for me. Although you’re welcome to use this thread to have a discussion on this, I’m going to...

Yes, cod, haddock, and other saltwater white fish are among my favorite foods. Eating them brings me a great sense of well-being.

I started this thread a long time ago, at least on a forum scale. At that time, it was specifically intended as a showcase for visual beauty. The OP i...

When I was a kid, I remember there being donkey baseball teams. They would travel around putting on games against local civic organizations as a way o...

I think there are natural kinds, but they are natural human kinds. They are manifestations of our human nature and, beyond that of our own specific pe...

The problem with that for me is, again sticking with metaphysics as the example, I need the idea as formulated in my understanding of philosophy. The ...

Can you give an example of this? As I understand it, at the most fundamental levels, joints are established based on biological and neurological chara...

This is right, but what it leads to is that every discussion about a difficult or obscure concept ends up as an argument about the meaning of words, a...

This is a great OP--clear, well written, and, even more important, something I'm really interested about. Yes, this happens a lot. I have made the cas...

Now you’re being a little overdramatic. I’m just talking about you diddling with the member files, not creating life. Only @"Jamal" can do that.

I’m skeptical. I can smell what the Rock is cooking. It’s the stench of moderator shenanigans.

This isn’t that impressive. @"Hanover" just used his moderator superpowers to travel back in time to set this whole thing up.

Geez, now my feelings are hurt.

I think he likes you better than he likes me.

@"Mudcat"

I recognized your references immediately and was amazed by your erudition, but then you had to spoil it by telling everyone. If you have to explain th...

I’m surprised you’re disappointed—we’ve been through all this before. I’m not disappointed, I’ve heard these arguments from you before.

So, I’m at fault for not taking into account— searching for—arguments you made in a different thread. Is that right. And since I didn’t, I’m arguing i...

I went back and looked at all the posts you and Philosophim made in this thread. I have no idea what you’re talking about when you refer to quotes and...

I went back and looked through all my comments on this thread. They were all civil. The only comment I found that was not philosophically appropriate ...

That’s not what I said, and you know it. More importantly, you didn’t respond to my primary point which was: I think your ideas on transgenderism are ...

He didn’t just make a claim. Unlike you and @"Philosophim", he provided references to evidence. If you want to question his evidence, that would make ...

Have you read @"Questioner"’s post above? Here’s one of the things he had to say: The information included in his post puts the lie to just about ever...

Or maybe I’ll just plagiarize what you’ve written in future discussions.

Boy, this is a great post. Really interesting. I’m going to follow up on some of the reading you linked.

This is clearly not true. For 99.7% of people, biological sex and gender match each other.

I’ll quote the great Flight of the Conchords:

Nicely put.