A Seagull

What is important is what one takes from these works..or not, as the case may be.

Everyone is deserving of happiness, except perhaps those who would actively try to restrict the happiness of others. (Those who try to restrict the ha...

Every philosophical work is false. Just that some are more false than others.

Yes the senses are not entirely reliable for creating a picture of the world but they are way better than fiction or fantasy.

Without a method for evaluating or generating a philosophy, all you have are opinions.

You seem to be missing my point. In your example, you are able to consider the possibility of the house collapsing, so you can also ascribe a certain,...

The questions in the OP relate more to peoples opinions about philosophy rather than philosophy itself.

I do not know what you are trying to say here, nor what relevance it has to what I said. Words are for communication, nothing more.

My 'reasoning' is simply that the consequences of an action are inevitably considerably greater than the 'intended end'. And the possibility (or proba...

Forces produce change.

Suffering is voluntary. We live in a wonderful world to which we have been adapted over millennia.

The 'ends' are not this. The 'ends' are all the consequences to all people over both the short term and the long term as a result of the action taken.

And just what is this process of yours for acquiring and confirming facts about the world? If it is just playing with words, I am really not intereste...

Well if you want it, what does 'deserving' have to do with it?

Well I don't know about your world view, but my world view is founded upon a logical analysis of sense data.

Well, do you want happiness?

You say:"to build a world view that is true, the right place to start would be objective truth" But that is like trying to build a sturdy house by sta...

What does it matter?

Because if objective reality is a dream, then we are nothing.

If morality is the objective reality, then we are all doomed.

Certainly a certain amount of certainty is useful for pragmatic purposes, indeed daily life would be impossible without it. But a philosopher needs al...

Most words and terms in legal documents have specific meanings, in fact many words in specialised disciplines, such as physics, have a specific meanin...

I don't know how long ago the story in the link was posted, but Peterson admitted in a video ages ago that he took a daily dose of anti-depressants. H...

Interesting that you mention freedom. I have this theory that the more freedom you give away to others the more you get to keep for yourself.

There are many words that defy a clear definition, eg species, yet this does not mean that they are not useful terms.

Certainty is a state of mind. It is an indulgence, people like to think that what they know is certain. However, it is not conducive for a philosopher...

Yes, but only up to a point. Sometimes discretion is the better part of valour. If I am eating a banana in the jungle and a wild elephant intimates th...

Yes I agree with you.If I am conscious and others exhibit similar behaviours to me then it would be churlish to deny that they have consciousness too....

Causality is a construct based upon a subjective judgement, or if an experiment is repeated it is statistical. There may well be a temporal associatio...

Ownership is what you are prepared to fight for; whether physically, verbally or through the legal system.

Every one of your premises 1 to 9 is false, hence your conclusion (10) is unproven.

The best definition of time that I know of..and I think it is Einstein's is: Time is what a clock measures.

Probably the best model for time is that it is quantised. The shortest unit of time perhaps being the 'Planck time' .. some 10**-43 seconds if I recal...

That is a 'straw man' argument. Ownership does not require that the item can be sold or whatever.

Mathematical proofs are only 'true' within the system of mathematics. For they rely upon the axioms, symbols and rules of the system. Hence they canno...

Consciousness is hard to be treated scientifically, not because it is hard to explain but because it is hard, if not impossible to detect. There is no...

I know that I exist because when I kick someone in the teeth it is my foot that hurts and not my mouth.

What does: "My mind is absolutely unreliable" even mean? Presumably you are capable of tying your own shoelaces, typing a post to a forum and walking ...

As a wise man once said: " The world is is not only queerer than we suppose it is queerer than we can suppose. To try to impose one's pre-supposed ide...

Democratic countries also compete against each other, so if one country raises taxes past those of other countries, their wealth and expertise might w...

It is not probability that is an illusion; it is certainty. There is no justification for certainty in our perception of the real world. Any claims fo...

Ok that one has died. I'll start a new one: She opened the door

The claim that you can't get something from nothing cannot be a starting point as that idea is a conclusion only reached after a long and somewhat ten...

There are many many mysteries in the world, and I agree with you that the origins of DNA is one worthy of further investigation.

Yes, but the difference is subtle. Physicists might well consider that they are predicting future events, philosophers predict descriptions of future ...

How about 'stupidity'? It seems very real to me.

We can say that the laws of physics can be used to predict a description of the future.

I am not too sure what you mean by 'meaning', but for me the 'meaning' of an idea comes through being able to incorporate that idea into one's model o...

The only 'justification' required for a distinction is that it proves useful for the understanding of the world.. such as the difference between mamma...

The so called 'laws of physics' are not really 'laws' in that physical entities are compelled to follow those laws. What you actually have in the 'law...