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One of the Australian states signed up to Belt and Road, but later, the Federal Government passed, or intends to pass, a law giving them oversight of ...

Roles are performed by actors. You wouldn’t describe the interaction between minerals in those terms. You use the word ‘stuff’ as in ‘all the same stu...

The two cases in question are: whether a camera is a being, and whether the concept of pain is painful. As regards the latter, I said that the asserti...

You're obfuscating a very real, and very fundamental, distinction in philosophy, in fact even in ordinary discourse, between objects, objectivism, obj...

Again, it’s not a matter of agreeing or disagreeing, but seeing the point of the argument you’re taking issue with - which you're not. If the contenti...

If I see a response worth responding to, I’ll respond to it.

Worth a read, if you haven't seen it already.

So, if you ask the question, how does the intentional domain (let's call it) react with the physical domain, the answer is, through living beings. Tha...

And I didn’t ask, can you can recognise the ontological distinction being made in the passage quoted?

The other point is, cameras are built and operated by humans. They have no ability to decide or intend, nor is there anything about them that is even ...

So you think there's no essential ontological difference between beings and devices?

A camera is an extension of the visual sense, that is all. This objection doesn't address the issue. A camera can't operate itself, decide what to pho...

I get the drift, but I think the word 'supernatural' is best avoided. As one of our erstwhile posters, Mariner, pointed out, the Latin 'supernatural' ...

There's a form of dualism. You don't see mind, because you are it. Everything you know empirically is presented to you as an object or relation of obj...

Rather a good analysis of the argument for the soul’s immortality in Phaedo. Nothing new but brings out some points well. https://dan-shea.medium.com/...

I think one of the influential academic books on virtue ethics is After Virtue by Alistair McIntyre. Plenty of information about that book on the inte...

Totally get you.

I'd go along with that too, but don't downplay it on that account. Don't forget 'esctacy' (not the drug!) stands for ex- outside of 'stasis', normal s...

Doesn't 'fit in' anywhere. You have a faulty idea of what you're criticizing, but explaining why is difficult in twitter posts.

It's too big an issue to try and explain here. The very short version is, that you're denying what classical theologians would describe as 'theistic p...

Logic always starts with some axioms, like for instance the law of identity etc. What guarantees those principles? Why is it that A=A? Dumb question, ...

I don't think so. I think the notion of the necessity of a first cause is a logical notion, not a postulation about 'something that may or may not exi...

Yeah, they do say that, but I think it's bullshit. They're simply figments of the mathematical imagination, they're not 'possible' in any real sense.

How could they not be? Where does the expression 'true in all possible worlds' come from? I think it is a reference to a priori truths. How could a wo...

so you reckon God is 'a concrete entity'?

what about the law of the excluded middle, or the law of identity? Must they not be 'true in all possible worlds'? Put another way how could a world f...

It's not that you disagree with me, it's that what you're saying is not amenable to reason. I say 'the experience of pain and the knowledge of the phy...

Well, if yet make the distinction between felt pain and the concept of pain, there’s really no point discussing it.

In what sense does one know one's own experience, your innate sense of being conscious and paying attention. You can't say 'oh, there it is, what is t...

All the things you mention are objects. You have an I-it relationship to them.

How could the reality of the subjective feeling be anything other than the reality of the subjective feeling? 'I feel sick, Doctor!' 'Oh no you don't,...

When he does, I hope we're all invited to the Nobel ceremony.

or 'salve'.

I'm not an atheist, but I also don't believe in the kind of 'sky-father' figure that many believers believe in and most atheists reject. It's a 'straw...

Basically, a troll.

Non-rational minds, such as the minds of animals, direct intentional behaviour. The rational mind, such as those of humans, is able to grasp meaning, ...

Perhaps Wittgenstein’s was a pregnant silence, rather than barren silence. An article by his biographer Wittgenstein’s Forgotten Lesson

From remarks like that, the Vienna Circle arrived at the conclusion that metaphysics is meaningless nonsense.

180Proof plays the 'dark matter' card! ` The first two of which are plainly scientific concepts, the second arguably meaningless - and yet he then goe...

I don't think he has broad electoral appeal, his approval ratings are pretty dreadful. And I think the Labor team looks tired and too familiar - they'...

There's a distinct lack of leadership candidates on the scene. When Kevin Rudd first appeared, for the first time in generations there seemed to be an...

:lol:

Wouldn't surprise me if it was co-authored by Malcolm, but if so he's keeping shtum. :-)

Just as well, because goats are notoriously bad at racing. :wink:

Blistering OP from Rudd this morning, on Greg Hunt's failures, which, now he spells them out, are abundantly obvious. Not that it will be heeded.

Right - as in ground and consequent.

There's a link between 'perennialism' (which is the academic notion of there being a world-wide and history-transcending perennial philosophy of which...