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Rats. Now I'm back to not getting it again. On the web, I found a discussion of this issue. Here's a link: https://iep.utm.edu/kripkes-wittgenstein/#H...

Yes. Thank you all. It's been fun. If I don't win I'll blame you and criticize you harshly.

Not certain, but I think I might have written whichever poem had the highest number of votes.

Is it ok for us to start complaining about how this whole thing was run now?

Ah... Now, maybe, I understand your point. I'd forgotten that I'd never encountered 57 before. Let me think... Ok, for natural numbers, the definition...

The main reason I posted is that it had been more than a day since anyone had posted to the Shoutbox and I felt an obligation to keep things moving al...

Does my behavior include my invisible, to you (and perhaps to me), mental processes? If it does, I say "I already have given you that fact."

I think this is where I'm supposed to berate you.

Sorry. There's something I'm missing. If I apply the definition of addition to 68 and 57, I get 125, not 5. What you are describing, "quus," is a diff...

I've been a folky since the mid-1970s, not as long as you certainly, but I really hate Phil Ochs.

You've missed my point. I spent my career as an engineer formally and rigorously making and defending arguments very similar to the ones I do here on ...

Did anyone in this discussion indicate or imply that this isn't true? I don't think so.

JTB is a definition, not a fact. I think it's a bad definition. Any definition that says Isaac Newton didn't know that gravity is a force 340 years ag...

I agree. It doesn't describe how real people know things or what they mean when the say they know something.

This is clearly not true. You say "My claim is that philosophy needs dialogue..." @"DingoJones" gives counter-examples, which is a valid method of arg...

Are we talking about whether I am a philosopher - I've never claimed to be. I was talking about whether Taoism is philosophy. Philosophy is not the on...

I'm not sure what you mean by "spirituality." Is Taoism spiritualism? I'm willing to say it includes mysticism -The belief that direct knowledge of ul...

Your argument seems to be that eastern philosophies are not philosophies because they are religions, but they're not, or at least they don't have to b...

If that's true, then you don't consider Taoism and Buddhism philosophies, is that correct?

I thought Fred is your son.

I don't believe in philosophical blank slates. World views come as standard equipment, along with the accessories required to grow and develop them. P...

I spend time on the r/Taoism subreddit on reddit. People are always asking how they can solve personal problems using Taoist principles. As I see it, ...

That's pragmatism, or at least it's foundation. I come from science and engineering, so my focus is on knowledge - how to get it and what to do with i...

I find SEP really helpful, but I never go to it until I want the detail it provides. I also use it and Wikipedia when I come across something new I'm ...

Yes. Heterosexuality is my burden to bear.

Well, shit. I guess that leaves me out.

I am attracted to women, not ladies.

I like it. I started a thread a year or so ago about how you don't need to read philosophy. I overstated my case. I think reading other philosophers i...

Well put. I'd go one step further and say you have to know how to use philosophy in your everyday life in order to really be able to say you do philos...

I think that Kafka quote provides a good example of how philosophy is done, at least how I try to do it. I was rummaging around, thinking, talking to ...

It always annoys me when you say something like this. You're one of the most widely read, open minded, observant, and genuinely curious people here on...

Ahem...

Sorry, I shouldn't have barked. I love that Kafka quote. It points out that you have to bring something to the philosophy game. You have to have devel...

I like Hawaiian shirts, glassware, Barbara Streisand, women's dresses (I don't wear them), and musical comedy. On the other hand, I'm not attracted to...

Then you don't understand what philosophy is.

If I remember correctly, it had Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Grace Kelly.

Then, if you want to do some reading, you can.

Forgive me, I copied this from the OP for a discussion I started a year or so ago called "What is mysticism." I have some ideas about what mysticism i...

I deduced it logically: If Claude King didn't play Uncle Willie's butler, someone else did. Someone else did not play Uncle Willie's butler. Therefore...

When I talk about a "good death" I'm not making a moral statement. I mean that the death is psychologically satisfying to those involved, especially t...

Javi is Spanish But his soul is Japanese He is passionate

William James (sort of) Is it true? Who cares? What to do next is what's key What's useful is true. Welcome to the forum.

Unless, of course, the hard problem is metaphysical too. Let me think about it... I'm not sure, but it may be. For me, that ties in with the question ...

I'll be Claude King (uncredited). He played Uncle Willie's butler.

You're right, but I bet they would eat a corn dog.

If you go back and check my posts, you'll see I never endorsed them. I don't remember ever having one. I was expressing my interest in the pork chop o...

Materialism is a metaphysical, not a factual, principle. Scientists don't have to be materialists in order to do science. Nothing "depends" on materia...

From Merriam-Webster: I'll revise my post. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/CornDog.jpg/440px-CornDog.jpg

The only evidence we have that consciousness exists in anyone but ourselves is our observations of other's behavior. Perhaps that will change with all...

I hope they decide to go to trial early rather than after the feds. The Georgia trial may be the only one televised and I'm tired of "I Love Lucy" rer...