Janus

Premise one is undeniable: as it is in the form of "if...then". It is premise two, and the conclusion that follows from it which may or may not be sou...

The term 'death' is ambiguous, and it is that ambiguity you are leveraging for your vapid "argument". 'Death' can mean either 'dying' or 'being dead'....

I didn't say the mind is not a thing; I said it is not a physical thing. You need to improve your comprehension, Bratricks.

You're trading on a conflation between dying and being dead 1. If dying harms the one who dies, then the one who dies must exist at the time 2. Dying ...

One is still existing in the act of dying or being killed. I haven't said that being dead is a harm: how could we know, since none of us have been the...

The mind can be conceptually divided up into different faculties; thought, emotion, volition, perception and so on, or different states: most broadly ...

I haven't said that. Of course killing someone harms them. Even if there is no pain involved it deprives them of life.They are harmed in the act of be...

If reason represents death to be a harm, then there must be a reason for that representation; so what is that reason? Why does reason represent death ...

I'll try one last time to explain the way I see it and if you don't respond to that, but to something of your own fabrication, or just keep repeating ...

I have come across some ideas along the line that death is harmful in that it is a deprivation of life. I don't buy that because if there is no afterl...

:cool: That's 'entertainer' talk. Are you just here to entertain?

Yes, we know he's harmed by being shot, by dying, but we don't know that he is harmed by being dead. Epicurus assumed that when we are dead we are not...

I'm familiar with Epicurus' idea that we cannot be harmed by death if we are nothing when dead. We can certainly be harmed by dying though, which alon...

Cheers, thanks for the kind words, ND... I don't know, is there? You tell me...

Yep, it's true; no fucking way.

'Our faculties of reason" don't represent death to be anything at all, because we have no knowledge of it. We are afraid of death because we are afrai...

It has nothing to do with "an internet blurb" or "being human"..You linked the source. If you have others, then quote them to back up your claims, Oth...

What "conventional wisdom" is that? Do you have a source? The information from the source you did cite seems to have been cherry-picked by you: "How l...

You seem to be reverting to your "fool" status.

Not according to the WIKI entry on Ice Ages: "Earth has been in an interglacial period known as the Holocene for around 11,700 years, and an article i...

If so, it is not a theory or explanation of causation, but a definition.

:lol:

Any explanation will be a part of "everything", and can thus only be an explanation of some other part. To explain everything it would have to be able...

Following on from what I said, and to clarify why I said there was nothing in what you said to respond to; what you say above is just an expression of...

The problem with 'hard' materialism is nicely set out there. As to correspondence between signs and the things they refer to, I suppose the physicalis...

Did you mean apophatic? I looked up apophenic and it relates to apophenia, which is "the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern betwe...

I think to say that A necessitates B is exactly the same as to say "If A happens then B happens". And that is not affected by additions like "if C hap...

I wouldn't take it as a criticism.Wittgenstein thought that nothing (propositional, that is inter-subjectively corroborable) could be said about mysti...

I agree with you if we are considering discursive speech. The spiritual has to do, not with observation of particulars, logical relations or propositi...

I'm getting the impression now that I misunderstood you before when you said perception is inferential; I had thought that you were talking about the ...

You're making my argument for me. The wealthy generally produce more emissions than the poor, and since they are wealthy and live the extravagant live...

Relevant to assessing degree of responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions, what do you think?

It's much more relevant than per country.

I think a huge part of the issue is that people want governments to solve the problem as long as it doesn't inconvenience them or impact their accusto...

Is there any point to that statement of the obvious? Sickening indeed! What will it take to halt business as usual, or even slow it down?

Fair enough, I suppose. I remain unconvinced that complex abstract thinking is possible without symbolic language. And I don't think this conclusion h...

Not per capita, by a long shot

The mind-independent world is necessarily thought as being external to the mind (and body). Of course, there can be no mind-independent thought of the...

As an initial attempt I would say that simple thoughts involve images of concrete objects and actions, whereas complex thoughts involve logical relati...

I'm not convinced that it generally changes that much. I find Kuhn's idea of radical paradigm shifts to be somewhat overblown. :ok: I'll try to find t...

If you think that what is apparent to us constitutes evidence either way, then it is the case that the vast bulk of observational evidence suggests th...

What kind of hierarchy are you positing? Intelligibility is apparent and not in question; even animals find their environments intelligible, a fact wh...

Not necessarily; it depends on whether the observational evidence is relevant to the metaphysical perspective in question and it is never the bare obs...

It seems to me that any science relies on there being some inter-subjectively determinable reality to warrant the veracity of its observations. I have...

I know what it means to think one philosophy is superior to another. I agree that one philosophy cannot be proven or demonstrated, to be superior to a...

I can be aware of the bare visual character of the visual field in a state of suspension of thought. Of course to tell you or myself what I see then t...

I don't think this is justified. If I dream of a churchyard covered in snow I cannot decide to move around it, walk up to and touch its cold wet stone...

I note that you've downgraded your claim from "undermining" to "challenging". I'm not sure QM even challenges realism, although I think it's fair to s...

OK, I had thought I had read that claim somewhere, but looks like it may not be true. That poll was only of 33 physicists at a particular conference i...

I think it's more the case that quantum physics does not seem to offer a realistic picture of what is going on at the "fundamental" level; but that do...