Janus

:D Well, dance with Daffy Dack, or crack a d-zombie-ack, that's a d-regulation mindfrack!

Can you prove they don't...or...can you prove you do?

I totally disagree; I think it is rubbish.

To extend what you (and Nietzsche) seem to be arguing, would seem to be to say that people are inherently animists and that they (consciously or uncon...

Without investigation there would be no hypothesis to begin with. That seems obvious, so I'm not seeing your point here. That's right, and I did alrea...

That's one interpretation of the purported facts anyway.

No, just my impression of what you quoted there.

This all seems to amount to little more than "minoritizing" the tyranny.

Do you have an argument for that? In any case, even if it were accepted, it does not constitute a final explanation, but remains just another unverifi...

Yes, I think the intelligibility of any thought about the world, or any enquiry about anything at all, is thoroughly dependent on the ability of propo...

Sure, we can reason about reason, " turn it back to face itself"; which presumably a dog or chimp cannot. We can investigate and hypothesize about his...

We might want to be liberated from the tyranny of language, its 'superego' aspect, perhaps?

Yes I do agree with that.

I would say that both factual, and non-factual statements obtain if by "obtain" you mean something like "are relevant", just as true and false stateme...

Can propositions not be factual or non-factual, just as they can be true or false?

Try reading more closely: I said "true or false".

Seems so.

Actually there is no unequivocal philosophical definition of .metaphysics', and I think it is generally understood to be distinct from ontology; so I ...

No, I agree with you that facts are not the sort of things that can be true or false, as is evinced by my pointing out that truths are not either.

Really, what is the philosophical usage then?

OK, no worries, my mistake; it looked to me as if the 'c' statements were being offered as conclusions to the 'a' and 'b' statements in each case. In ...

Sure, you can have the statement that facts are actualities and the incompatible statement that facts are truths. I'm not seeing your point, though.

The two uses of 'metaphysics' both refer to what is understood to be 'beyond the physical' in some sense understood by the user, so still no contradic...

I had thought that you were weighing in on the side of the debate that claims that facts are unequivocally actualities rather than truths. If I misint...

Truths are also not the sort of thing that can be true or false. From the SEP Facts: 2.4. Facts and Propositions As we pointed out above, one view abo...

So what? I don't see an analogy here. If there is a concern about the 'proper' philosophical sense of a term, there must be contradictions, inconsiste...

What are you trying to get at here? You've lost me, I don't see the connection; I don't know if you are trying to make a joke or a serious point.

They all display a conflation of use and mention in their conclusions. For me, the 'b' premise follows form the 'a' premise. I think it is more the ki...

The meaning of a word is given by conventional usage, and there are many words which are polysemous. 'Fact' is one of them. You may prefer the usages ...

I haven't read Agamemnon, but quick consultation with Uncle Google discloses that Agamemnon inherited the sin of his father Atreus, on account of a cu...

'It is a fact that' and 'it is true that' are synonymous, so 'a fact' means the same as 'true'. That is one sense of 'fact', facts as true statements....

That's a good question and I'll need to give it some thought. I'm not too confident I'll be able to come up with a satisfactory answer, though.

I also want to address the misunderstanding this reflects. The Divine is referred to as a "possibility" only in relation to our knowing. Beyond that i...

Obviously no one who wants to live well with others (and not as a hermit, for example) will do unwarranted harm to other members of his community, bec...

I agree. I think that people are incapable of thinking of nations or individuals as 'forces of nature' and they inevitably hold attitudes of blame for...

You totally misunderstand me again. I haven't denied that the divine is manifested in life. Where else, from the point of view of life, could it manif...

I think Willow is of this opinion; and generally mounts the the usual justification of 'immanentist' thinkers on this kind of point, which is that bec...

Apparently I was adding to my initial response just as you were responding to it. I can't continue right now (work beckons), but I will later. :)

So...no subject, no moral responsibility and no valid reason for resentment? The salient point, then. seems to be whether there can be valid, or only ...

If the lack of God affects the non-believers does that mean the lack of God exists?

It seems to me that under your way of consideration, living is an entirely abstract virtually empty concept. 'What does it means to live?' is an empty...

Why should it be thought that the "necessary and sufficient conditions" for plants to live would be the same as those for a human? That seems obviousl...

I was asking for an example of the kinds of additional things you imagine we might come to know, such that we could then know that we did not previous...

True, you can do something and be totally unconscious of doing it, as the cold temperature presumably is when it freezes water. But I am conscious of ...

Jesus, talk about ridiculous statements; of course I recognize that; you are talking nonsense. Did you fail to notice the "as an apple at least". In a...

Yes, precisely, that's the general rule. This is exactly what I have been saying. :s You can't know a specific apple, as an apple at least, until you ...

This is just wrong; it is a general logical rule that any object, in order to be an object at all, must be that specific object and no other. Again, y...

Brilliant! The great existential questions...Fuck a duck? Or root like rabbits?

Yes, if we did not understand the general logical concept of apple we could not know that this is an apple before us. By allowing us to understand gen...

I am not " equivocating logic with empiricism"; that's a vacuous claim, since I have just outlined the difference between the two. If you think my ana...