I'm talking about the problem on a global scale. Of course the problems are worse in some areas than others. Australia exports more of it's produced f...
The point is that we cannot feed the world population sustainably. :up: I agree that it will require (much) more than depopulation; but it will certai...
I'm not quite grasping your point here; could you elaborate? As I understand it industrial farming practices, most notably the use of chemical fertili...
To say it's "somehow" more than a matter of human sensibility, when you cannot say what that "somehow" is amounts to a kind of amorphous reification (...
We do know; I already explained it. Universals don't have any discernible, measurable effects; to say that they do would be to commit a category error...
Quarks are empirical insofar as they have empirical effects. If empirical predictions about what would be observed if they existed and acted as they a...
I didn't say he doesn't do metaphysics, but that his approach is phenomenological. It's like Heidegger, who eschews the traditional reificational meta...
The American war of independence was fought to gain freedom from British rule and establish American sovereignity, so of course it was about the contr...
If you want to propose something extreme such as that the destruction of resources will likely produce a better future for humanity than refraining fr...
John Ashberry (one of my favorite poets) might be an AI. :scream: Seriously, though, for me poetry is an attempt to invoke and evoke sensation, feelin...
Sure, I'm not for a moment objecting to protest; I just think it is mostly self-defeating when mob emotion turns peaceful protest into violence and de...
I think we own ourselves, just as we are ourselves; there is no duality here. But that doesn't mean we can do what we like to ourselves, and expect so...
Yes, I agree; it always a matter of degree. Where should the line be drawn regarding individual accumulation of wealth? I would say it should be drawn...
Looking at it simply from the point of view of law, I agree. I do think the appropriation of lands from aboriginal peoples was theft, though, from an ...
Violence in war, though, is designed to facilitate the conquering of territory or the subjugation of the enemy (neither of which I am arguing is justi...
Fair enough I suppose. The point was that I was signalling agreement with his arguments, though, not merely with his opinions, but I didn't see the po...
Yes, I do think Lonergan is a creative, interesting thinker; but I see him mainly as a phenomenologist. I haven't read any of his work in some time; b...
There would seem to be little or no reason to believe that looting and burning will achieve anything positive. So the onus would be on those who think...
The problem is that if you own something under the current law, then any future expropriation can be seen as theft, or else the abiding law must be se...
Interesting questions! What if we take as example belief in a supreme, infinite, eternal and yet personal intelligence; what does it entail to hold su...
Yes, but the claimants seem to believe that there is some "special" way of understanding which can justify their claims and yet not be discursively ex...
No, @"Snakes Alive" seems to be saying that nobody understands what they believe themselves to be claiming metaphysically. If they could understand it...
I disagree: the core concern of science is to understand how things work. And I don't think it is right to ascribe to metaphysics any "core methodolog...
The issue with metaphysics is that it deals with what we can imagine or think we can imagine about the nature of the real. When someone says that univ...
What other economic system could there be, given that money, which is essential to any complex economy, in the absence of strict central control, by a...
It's my first response in this thread. It signals my agreement with @"ssu" that you are offering overly simplistic responses to an overwhelmingly comp...
If only the system was "woke" to what really matters! And, just to anticipate, I'm not for a moment suggesting racism doesn't matter, just that it's o...
It's the focus point of the much broader, deeper anger of the frustrated "consumer". To be consumers is to be cattle being fattened up for the slaught...
From the linked article: Aristotelian realism stands in a difficult relationship with naturalism, the project of showing that all of the world and hum...
It seems strange to speak defensively about accusations of "deceit" when no mention of deceit has been made and no other trolls are present in the thr...
OK, seems I missed that part of the thread. The idea that it is a computer generated image of a face didn't occur to me. I know who you are now....9, ...
I agree that most of what we would consider "sedimentation" or paradigm fixing is cultural, but perhaps there are also biological sedimentations that ...
Not really, I would say the fifth possibility is that I didn't believe or disbelieve anything about your front door (or lack of front door) prior to t...
I think it's kind of weird to talk about a cat believing it has four feet; it simply knows it has the feet it has. You might say the cat believes her ...
I don't think linguistic beliefs necessarily involve correlating language with anything; they involve symbolically correlating or associating some thi...
I disagree because I would count all linguistic beliefs as having been already expressed; otherwise how would they count as linguistic? A linguistic b...
I'm not sure we are coming at this from exactly equivalent angles. I am not proposing anything beyond the distinction between linguistic forms of expr...
The distinction I would make regarding meaning is that between signing or signalling and symbolic or abstract meaning. The latter is a human phenomeno...
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