A Seagull

I don't follow links.

You are confusing dark matter with dark energy.

I came across this quote recently, despite being written some 250 years ago it is still relevant today and to this thread.: 'Opinion rules the world, ...

Just because you don't understand the meaning of the word, it doesn't mean that no one does.

Not necessarily. Not if the opinion is genuinely held. The merits or otherwise of slavery depend to a large degree on the social, economic and technol...

An opinion cannot be 'morally wrong'. 'Good' cannot be equivalent to 'public opinion'.

Maybe its not a circular argument, but instead an indication of a feedback loop. Public opinion creates power which in turn creates public opinion whi...

And what about tomorrow?

That is an over simplification. truth values only have logical meaning in abstract systems. There are many varieties of 'black' in the real world.

Or possibly as a hunter gatherer in the snowy north or the amazon jungle?

A question mark?

Yes it is all opinion. You claim to like definitions... so what is your definition of 'right'?

Not necessarily. When discussing deep philosophy one has to start from a position of ignorance not that of popular opinion.

Philosophy is communicated in words, that is all.

What has that got to do with it? Do you actually want to know what causes consciousness or was that just a rhetorical question?

What is called 'causation' is just an association of events - as cogently pointed out by Hume.

It seems to me that you are just playing with words.

No one does. Although some might pretend to do so.

Ownership comes down to what you can defend or control, whether it be your body, possessions or land. Sometimes you can defend it on your own and some...

My point is simply that there is a lot of data for what occurs within our universe but none for what may lie outside of it, And when one is referring ...

Only if you take notes, make measurements and write it all up afterwards.

Not really, there is a lot of data available for quantum weirdness....

It is one of the great mysteries of life.

The doctor should say: Congratulations, you are on the first rung of the ladder to sanity.

So it follows that there must be something beyond our universe that 'caused' it to come into existence. But what that is is entirely unknown. To ascri...

I think your problem lies with the distinction between pure and applied maths rather than a distinction between 1 and 1/9. 1, 1/9, -1/9 , 0.9, 0.999i ...

And that is the point that I am disagreeing with. It is only valid in a communist or fantasy world. Not one that I inhabit.

So if you steal something from the community that stole it from you in the first place it is 'justice'? Or are you referring to some fantasy world?

Then it follows that community ownership is theft from the individual.

Certainly logic is important but it needs to be rigorous. Syllogisms are not, IMO, logically rigorous. See earlier thread : https://thephilosophyforum...

You are making the implicit assumptions that 1. Beliefs are not a part of philosophy and 2. that syllogisms are. I disagree with both.

OK good point. My best answer would be along the lines that I don't believe in magic. And by 'magic' I mean something that defies logic, analysis and ...

Frank Apisa All that matters here is to realize that theism/atheism aren't blind guesses as the list of arguments I provided shows. Agreed that each a...

That still does not point to 'time'.

One test I use for definitions is: Does the definition point unambiguously to the word being defined? In your two definitions: "that diversity of exis...

You could say the same about academic philosophers.

Dream on!

Time is what a clock measures. — A Seagull Great. Now define clock and measurement without referring to time. I don't need to define 'clock' all I nee...

Yes life is a game.

Time is what a clock measures.

Words only have meaning in the context of communication.

I don't think that follows at all. Maybe it is a sign of sanity in a mad world.

It seems to be a matter of common decency and respect for others. Something that neither the laws of the land nor ethics has much to say about. It wou...

Have you seen the movie 'God Bless America'? If you haven't, I think you might like it. It offers a (somewhat unconventional) solution to the problem.

The hawking radiation conjecture doesn't prove it.

I can feel bad for a psychopath. I think that they have a hard life.

As I recall, information can be destroyed in a black hole.

I do not live in USA and do not know what the guidelines are for the police in restraining a person. But in most civilised countries in the world it w...

Certainty is easy. The stupidest of people and the dumbest of animals can be certain of their beliefs. Doubt takes something more.

I rather suspect that the machinations of democratic politics would be better effected if parliaments, congress etc were conducted in the nude. Would ...