"Conscious" is an ambivalent term. On some definitions animals are of course conscious. Other definitions take consciousness to be synonymous with the...
It's perhaps off-topic, but I am going to correct you on this. LSD-25 was first synthesized by Albert Hoffmann in the late thirties from lysergic acid...
Now you appear to be contradicting yourself, but perhaps I have misunderstood. When I asked if something that is illegal is necessarily immoral ("nece...
The problem I see with an affirmative answer is that if something is necessarily immoral if it is illegal, that entails that when something is legaliz...
I think for the sake of clarity and transparency there are some questions should answer: (1) If it is illegal is doing it necessarily immoral? If so, ...
But despite your propensity to doubt that anyone else knows you should say, in strict accordance with your own philosophy: since you only have a sampl...
I would be more inclined to say that the notion of transcendentalism comes from an intrinsic human need to wonder about, to search for, the ultimate n...
This is my last reply if you fail to engage relevantly. Where have I said anything against empiricism? And why will you not provide an argument to sup...
If you have no respect for philosophy, why are you participating here? You should let off the brake, and get whollyrolling away to some other more sui...
Why would my statement about your lack of close reading be meant to apply to me? You're doing it (or not doing it) again! I read your commentary which...
I haven't claimed you said that "metaphysics provides knowledge", but your statement that seemed to imply that this "possible understanding of things"...
Where have I said that science does not have any practical applications? And where have I spoken about metaphysics being of any "benefit" to humankind...
No, I call a claim groundless when no ground has been proposed. First you'll have to provide some purported ground before I can show you that it fails...
I have no doubt you have plenty of other groundless pronouncements to make, too; but save your breath, I'm not buying. Yes, a key point that is often ...
How would we be able to achieve metaphysical knowledge by those means? The very idea of metaphysics is that, as a domain of enquiry, it is not within ...
As Kant pointed out we have an unavoidable tendency to wonder and speculate about the "ultimate" nature of things. We cannot achieve any such knowledg...
If it's possible that gods are "involved in the reality of existence" then it's possible that the gods inform some people and not others of their exis...
You should read a little more closely and think a little more deeply; I never said that the "laws and decisions of nations" are "trivial". A guess or ...
Sure it seems natural, but it does not follow that it is therefore desirable. If someone who apparently has not committed any act which is unequivocal...
Given that the prisoner believes he will hang the next week at noon on one of five days, on first examination the only day that could be a surprise is...
It depends on what you mean by "crime". Is "computer intrusion" a crime regardless of who commits it? If not, and it is only a crime in certain instan...
I have no idea why you would say I am missing the point. It is trivially true that whatever happens can happen. For me the point is that if whatever h...
It's trivially obvious that if Assange is indicted by the US, then he can be indicted by the U S. The question is as to whether that indictment is jus...
Well, it seems the thread was motivated by Assange's recent arrest. And in the linked video Waters specifically addresses what he sees as the implicat...
"Both and or neither nor Said the mouse to the big black door Both and or neither nor Said the wallowing, self-referential mouse To the gloomily didac...
They can add whatever superfluities or supereffluences they like as long as it is in the form of nicely manageable pellets. Also, as long as they don'...
Because I don't know if I know, or because I know I don't know, or because I think the very idea of an evil rabbit is super cool, or because the very ...
Is it considering it or considering whether to consider it? I don't know either, and I love not knowing.,. I don't know, and I love not knowing... (an...
OK, I guess that's true. Should this thread be considered? I don't know how to begin considering it; so perhaps the question is "can" rather than " sh...
Well, I think that might be off-topic, but the basic objection I have is that no such calculus is really feasible. We cannot have mathematical certitu...
Assange was the one who was instrumental in bringing the war crime to public attention. No doubt he was aware of the dangers involved in poking the ey...
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