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No, I would say that I'am a particular social construction, not an abstraction.

Dreamworld/Truth, no I don't think so. Phenomenal/Reality getting closer. I don't believe there is a hidden reality, I think that what's phenomenal is...

Isn't he one of your home boys?

The way he flows freestyle is quite amazing, perhaps I bet the most difficult part of the America video was picking which of the lines....Donald looks...

It reminded me of recent cognition studies involving people who were born blind and then come to see. The question was: would they be able to recogniz...

I like Jimmy Dore frequently and I like it that George Galloway wagered a thousand pounds for info on Philip Cross, as if he exists.

An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, §4 Where he expounds on the tenuous nature of Induction whose knowledge depends on experience..."the influe...

I take rap to be a form of song, "a short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung", it is essential different than Philosophy whic...

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Yes, I am excited. :up:

I think we should rejoice in the fact that their marriage presents an openness that was not provoked, a celebration of joy and love. There is certainl...

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Justice does not see The revolutionary's wink As Caesar dies

Yes, I think Meghan Markle's decision to give herself away is a bold feminist gesture.

It feels like Michael Jackson https://youtu.be/qFLhGq0060w

If the only thing in nature that is naturally reasonable is man, then what right do we have to declare that the rest of nature must follow along and b...

Ha, ha...meow George. A lot of people are obsessed with pussies, we have a few over on this side as well.

I've been listening to George Galloway he is very amusing and it seems to make sense but in reading Wikipedia bio...it's like holy crap! Is he worth l...

If you are becoming an ordinary language philosopher you may have to modify your moniker :razz:

Do his distinction between reason and cause mean the PSR is not an empirical principal?

I think the idea that North/South Korea peace in the bag is questionable. North Korea has a very long history of negotiating with the SK and Washingto...

The oldest works of art are estimated at around 40000 years old preserved in caves in various parts of the world. The most famous are at Lascaux in Fr...

I agree that "the parts serve the whole", that the parts are the means to an end, that their utility is only realized by the whole or end. In a simila...

[reply="Metaphysician Undercover;178892" No. In the expression "It is certain", what does 'certain' add to the statement if not some attitudinal repor...

Yes, that's my point. What's your answer ND? Sorry missed the utility part...does the whole exist for the benefit of the parts or do the parts exist f...

So the butcher, the baker, the cobbler, the culter, the chef...don't have an aesthetic?

Quoted in my opening post and you quoted in your response to me. The difference I tried to point out is that this inability that "no paraphrase ever d...

“You're either on the bus or off the bus.” ? Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test RIP he is off the bus.

If so then truncation is perhaps "good enough for government work" or some lame epistemology :smile: , but not for any metaphysics because there is no...

Yes, US's opening of its diplomatic embassy in Jerusalem, which I think puts to an end the two state solution, leaving only the one nation or bi-natio...

Harman is expanding on the notion of difference between the scientific image and the manifest image, he breaks this down into a difference in knowledg...

"'Thus Says the Lord': Religious Tunes at Jerusalem Embassy Opening Drown Out Protests Only smartphones’ push notifications told about the rising deat...

I don't know that much about Hilma Klint, however looking at her works, all those circles, reminds me of all those squares Mondrian painted. Kandinsky...

Manic music https://youtu.be/tyKeE3fBEsM

Propositional attitudes are reports using attitudinal verbs like believe, hope, is certain, in 'that' sentences. I tell you that I am certain or uncer...

I like your analogy, Do you think that inspiration is independent of the artist that becomes inspired; that perhaps the artist's insight is already sh...

Of course Trump took all the credit but Nigel Farage is the Nobel trouble maker.

I can understand how art if understood as semblance fails to create actual being, that's why Plato kicked the imitative arts out of his Republic, but ...

No, but then again I don't think "how things are" can be known, only how things are for us can be known, which is where propositional attitude comes i...

You suggest that certainty is an undoubted fact, but what does that entail, what is an example of undoubted fact. I doubt any undoubted facts, I think...

I don't think artworks provide discursive explanations of what they are. The aesthetic effect we experience from certain works of art describe a spect...

So then the only certainty is contingency whose only limit is possibility.

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Well if so then thought must be contingent since the good Bishop is not still here, and there must be a here, where they are no longer at and therefor...

Is there a free speech problem in UK as this article in The Spectator suggests? "Britain’s free speech crisis"

I did say that we don't confer such rights to animals, and you have admitted that you value human rights over those of animals, therefore since eating...

Human's construct rights to enable a workable society, they are not by nature and as such animals don't have rights, except as what might be conferred...

I too value human life over animal life, however unlike your position I don't believe animals have rights simpliciter, rather their rights are given t...

I eat meat because I like it, and you skirted my question... is there a difference between the butchering of humans and the butchering of animals base...

The majority of humanity eat meat, it's been that way since advent of man. Now you suggest that the normative notions of "Empathy, compassion and ethi...