What is the sense of "knowledge like that of an object"? You mean a physical object ? Because I can chose my pain as an object of my attention, so a p...
I suppose it's taking away or not mentioning self-awareness, or more precisely in this specific case of pain, it takes away or does not mention our ca...
The biggest issue I saw in that French deal was the 'made in Australia' requirement, which added much to the price tag. Building warships requires sig...
Any positive theory proposes a certain explanation for why things and/or people behave the way they do (or the way we think they do). From Popper, suc...
You were proposing that sensations are felt, but not known, and he thought that it was incorrect, so he told you... Before I express it. What's leadin...
The advantage being that then you don't need to think seriously about it? I've been looking for allegations of corruption because such things do tend ...
I haven't seen any evidence of that, although Naval Group has a sulfurous history elsewhere. The Franco-Australian submarine deal was very big, which ...
Very good point. If aspirin works against your headache and also against my headache, maybe yours and mine are not that different. We can generalize t...
That is not what I wrote. Try and pay attention, I hate repeating myself. I said that TMF's comment already had a context: that in which the comment w...
When I was a teenager I read a lot of scifi, including some who included sea level changes. Like Paris or New York under water. https://static.hitek.f...
Young adult fiction says a lot. As I explained, a lot of nowadays scifi has a dystopian angle, which I guess helps kids and young adults prepare psych...
That's a very different question than CC. Capitalism is like gravity: you cannot escape it. My point was simply that people are only powerless against...
It was data. TMF was only stating the obvious. "Having a headache" means "feeling pain in one's head". You cannot feel something like pain in your hea...
Many people like Bernie but not enough to ever vote for him. Instead, they voted for someone else, someone who looked more serious and less bizarre, s...
My point was that the sentence was expressed in a certain context: that of a philosophical discussion on TPF. There is no need to look for another con...
They do everytime they vote, though. Why vote for climate deniers or do-nothingers again and again? In the US, Bush and Trump were deniers, and Obama ...
It's also not scientifically correct, and honestly, simply not credible. Trump is part of our reality, and scifi must reflect that sinister turn taken...
Do not be proud on account of your knowledge But discuss with the ignorant as with the wise The limits of art cannot be delivered There is no artist w...
One possible answer is in the second season of The 100. Another in Hunger Games. These echo (or try to) today's teenagers' views of the future as pret...
Technology can help. Hydrogen-powered planes would be nice to have for instance, or fusion power. But other things can help and should be made virtue ...
So you were exposed to books critical of the US as a kid? Shocking! I don't know how you managed to survived such deep narcissic wound. Climate change...
As I'm sure has been said many times already on this thread, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I find the 'Flore' statue very attracti...
I meant to respond to this sooner, but forgot. You can also judge a pudding by its look. However, the real proof of the pudding is in the eating. Yes,...
Well, they do have anxieties about these issues, rightly so, and our inaction fuels these anxieties. Kids never fully trusted grown-ups, but now they ...
Our 'private worlds' are what people talk about all the time, what poetry and literature have been about for several thousands years. I will never und...
I am aware of an English tradition criticizing correspondance but it never really went anywhere, from what I know, never crossed the channel in partic...
I think it's simply false to assume that "I can't be wrong about what I think I mean." We are not fully transparent to ourselves IMO. In Wittgensteini...
I personally have less problems understanding invisible things than visible things. Note that I'm avoiding the terms "physical", "material" and "immat...
Who was speaking of science, or eternity, or even reality? None of that has anything to do with the fact that words carry meaning, and that's why peop...
Witt is playing in the dark and probably at the wrong game. All words are "sensation words" when you think of it. They all code for an idea of a thing...
The law exists alright, even if it cannot be seen or put in a portrait. And if concepts didn't exist, then we would have to replace this err... concep...
Didn't see that one. Thanks. Just to close the loop, on the last pic with the scroll sign, the vertically-placed scroll follows after the shepherd hoo...
Unless you can see the beauty of ugliness. There is a passage about that in Heinlein's Stranger in Strange Land, where an alien comes to earth and tri...
I don't see how it does. If you go and see a doctor about your pain in the neck, he will inspect your neck and maybe find something objectively wrong ...
The difference it makes to your own personal aesthetic emotions depends on many many things including how receptive you are to certain styles. But in ...
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