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I would genuinely love to watch the spectacle of someone trying to "moving past the illusion of truth entirely" with complete consistency. I'm extreme...

Despite having edited the post, you've explicitly admitted you used the word "fag" as a slur/insult. So, a homophobe. Again, the mods really should co...

Ok so not just willfully ignorant and unserious, but a homophobe to boot. Yikes. Mods could probably go ahead and trash this one...

Since you're not familiar with Dennett's views or the arguments for them, you're not in a position to be making a post like this. Go acquaint yourself...

Yep. Despite poor Mr. Fishfry's dogmatic (and largely baseless) insistence to the contrary, the question of the past duration of the universe is an op...

That's not what I said.

And yet, that this person was being sarcastic is not something that is clear from the clip of the brief interaction so that interpretation is apparent...

Yeah and weren't Devan99's threads about infinity pretty active too? Relative to actually serious/substantive threads? Makes me have a sad face.

Obviously this is explicitly question-begging.

Is Karen Bass considered a serious contender now (I haven't really been following the VP speculation very closely)? She's the best one I've heard floa...

Yikes. Dennett, in 2017: "I'm not saying that consciousness doesn't exist. I'm just saying it isn't what you think it is." So, not what you evidently ...

Right, so like I said, "true for me" as a peculiar way of describing matters of taste or personal preference (i.e. whether chocolate is delicious). Bu...

Sure but we don't have to oblige such abuses of language by adopting them ourselves, especially not when we're having philosophical discussions where ...

Oh I'm not accepting it so much as I'm saying that its a battle not even worth fighting here. But I absolutely do think its a misguided and ultimately...

If it was only redundant I don't think it would much of a problem, but its one that carries a good deal of baggage as well (i.e. all the Kantian nonse...

I did, and that seems like quite the leap based on the short interaction we can see in the clip, and especially in light of all the other relevant con...

And so this is a perfect example of the confusion and redundancy I'm talking about, and which I don't think has adequately been supported. I think its...

Sarcasm, that's really what you're going with? Lol oh dear. :grimace: Running desperately short on excuses at this point, clearly. Guess that shouldn'...

Of course it is. Its a discussion of the value or worth of a particular genre or sub-discipline of the academic field of philosophy. And "dismissed" i...

Trying to participate in a technical discussion without bothering to do even the slightest bit of work acquainting yourself with the relevant terminol...

180 Proof's (quite spot on, imo) response uses, almost without exception, well-defined/understood technical terms in philosophy. And as this is quite ...

Or its effectively been severed from us altogether (thanks, Kant). A philosophic muddle if there ever was one.

I don't see where this is clarified. One straightforward way to pose the same question would be to ask whether there are moral truths. I've yet to see...

Fair enough, but I expect that those of us that do are a rare breed and more exception than rule. Many people will get heated talking about politics o...

I think your take on the OP's argument is correct (at least, its consistent with my own interpretation), but I would submit that it remains the same a...

I take the OP to be arguing that relativism in general is refuted by its implication of moral relativism (though its a bit ambiguous). I'm just agreei...

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But since there isn't any other sort of truth besides "objective" truth, this is not a useful distinction and only serves to muddy the water. Better t...

Sure, a pretty important distinction I should have mentioned. And Matt O'Dowd is awesome, btw.

True, but I'm not sure many people get especially riled up about e.g. the ontological status of universals. Nor is it quite so common for people to be...

He removed a redundancy. There is no use to any distinction between "objective" and any other sort of truth, since all you've done is distinguish trut...

Indeed, and the fact that its an area where people can (and often do) have intense and passionate views even when (or especially if?) they lack any pa...

Here's the official press release, and the actual paper, for anyone who is interested: https://releases.jhu.edu/2019/08/08/dark-matter-may-be-older-th...

Yes, philosophy of religion probably gets something of a bad rap... But that's mostly due to the sheer volume of utterly incompetent discussions of ph...

directly above.. but then you already knew that. You're playing games now, and I'm not interested so thanks for playing (and better luck next time).

I've pointed out your continued failure to derive a self-contradiction from, or provide a non-circular or question-begging argument against, an infini...

Is this thread in the Lounge/Casual section I hope? Not any philosophy here, just the OP's personal confession.

Lol oh dear. So you're now just waving the white flag. Probably a good move.

This is really rather amusing, in a grotesque and sad sort of way. Even Thomas is rolling in his grave at this point; at least he paid lip service to ...

A contradiction- between your assertion (that nothing can be greater than "all finite numbers"), and the proposition in question (an infinite sequence...

Have you honestly never even taken a basic intro to logic? Not a contradiction with something you said (that there can be nothing greater than all fin...

Did you not read my reply? This is not a proof, not a reductio, not a successful way to establish something as logically impossible, even in principle...

I certainly wouldn't deny that popular discussions of science tend to be terrible all around. Sensationalized, partisan, overly simplistic. And certai...

You keep making claims about logical impossibility, but then failing to derive or produce a contradiction from whatever is alleged to be logically imp...

We know you believe time must have a start, that you want time to have had a start. The problem is of course that the evidence and logic of the matter...

And therein lies the key- pop science figures and pop science journalism, which is always quick to sensationalize things or provide overly simplistic ...

And in any case you do not appear to be serious about the discussion, as evidenced by your refusal to engage in any way with studies showing precisely...

Actually it is how it works. The studies are rates of police violence by race/ethnicity, not totals. And yes, if you assert, as you did above, that th...

and in any case you would have to actually show that the math works out as you claim (that the disparities disappear when accounting for rates rather ...

most of them are based on rates not totals, so that's a swing and a miss.