But we do talk in languages and we write. We follow along and reply to what others have said or written. If there is a technical reason why that's not...
If "economic necessity" means pragmatic scientific reason, governing the world versus our current ideological morass then forget it. Those that surviv...
Do you think we are passive conduits of experience to our self, that the act of presentation is something that we only can experience as an observer. ...
I think there are different aspects to 'truth', where scientific 'truth' is one aspect, another is logical, another moral. It may be pragmatically rig...
It's been awhile since I have read the Genealogy of Morals, but I recall that Nietzsche used a technical term "ressentment" a form of resentment. Wiki...
We all live in a society which is governed by laws. These laws help keep society ordered and functional. We learn at an early age that to kill, steal,...
The origins of modern mass advertising & propaganda lie in national state's need for men, arms and investment in WWI & WWII. "the World War led to the...
He wants to formally separate sense datum from our conception of sense datum, the former non-cognitive and non-intelligible and the latter both cognit...
Not sure I understand what you are referring to in regard to what he says. Seller's thinks that particulars are sensed. The problem he has, as I under...
What are they doing to you up there in MN? 4 minute commercials?! Sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. :) Mannequins literally freak me out, my s...
The Salem cigarette commercials. It is a mentholated cigarette, and the ad went along the lines that it took just one puff to take you out of your mom...
Do you think sense datum can be classified as becomings, in the genesis (the genealogical relationship between causes and effects)of a perception, the...
. Yin sounds feminine and yang masculine. Weakness and strength are part of the same continuum, but they apply variously depending on the topic. Is th...
I agree. If there is a true dichotomy it is between pleasure versus pain, which I don't think is isomorphic with happiness versus suffering. Also, the...
Shouldn't your sentence read: It's about the limits of what can be known/derived at this point in time. Can't point of view make a difference, 'from m...
Do you think this is true, A comes out of nothing?. Can you point out any such B? I don't believe in pure spontaneity, any uncaused b. It seems to me ...
"I was petting my sweet little feline As she purred in my lap near my zip line Her paws kneeded in So I pushed down her chin" Much to my chagrin as sh...
I think what is unpredictable ("behaving or occurring in a way that is not expected") is not the same as what is random, even though their usage is fr...
I think in so far as in 'taking a drug' and at the same time not putting yourself or anyone else in jeopardy, it is neither right nor wrong. It probab...
I have not followed the case very closely, the sad situation of these thoughtless deaths, one of many such situations, depresses me. I do wonder how o...
No, that is not what I am saying. You asked for a specific cause for #3's actions, of course there are a variety of factors, but the norms that drive ...
Say one of the siblings had a friend whose home was invaded and parents killed, he starts a defense course, and starts reading about guns, he buys a h...
I think that the circumstance as you have described it, does not allow for much in the way of rational decision, rather I think that each one of the s...
You seem to be looking for reasons, but I don't think that is the way we react in circumstances such as you have outlined. The decision is more likely...
I am suggesting that societal norms drive herd behavior, which is not to suggest that there are not outliers, but that vast majority don't actively co...
Speculation: How about a new form of Braille? ...a way to combine, to build a language on more than just the sense of vision. Not more meaning but per...
I said that all of the siblings in your example act normativley, I said the general population acts normatively, and their acts are not outside the no...
No I think we all act in or out of accordance with norms. The relationship of norms and our actions is one of authority/universal and responsibility/p...
The "individual disposition" is to a large extent a delusion, we are all part of a tribe, a city, a state, a nation; what and how we think are structu...
The truths that religions tell are not always easy to take. "If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.", it takes fai...
Do you think there is something beyond 'herd' morality? Or is this precluded in capitalistic societies where flourishing is conflated with economic su...
Not sure I follow. Do you mean that novelty is excluded from a determinate universe or that novelty I think all novelty rests on the past, that nothin...
Well, it's not my belief that revelation is the only way to have truths revealed about life. God is another narrative, it's a story I can appreciate, ...
It reveals truths about God and life, why and how to live a life of faith. It adds something material, substantial to their lives. This my opinion abo...
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