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No immoral act or any act for that matter is without consequences; the consequences may certainly be more or less trivial and more or less trivial ran...
September 29, 2016 at 21:06
Well, since probably most people are, at least prior to reflection, naive realists I don't see how it could possibly claim to be characteristic of the...
September 29, 2016 at 09:59
Everything with a reflective surface and some light shining on it I guess. But really it only makes sense to speak about anything being visible from s...
September 29, 2016 at 09:56
Well, I don't agree with your characterization of naive realism, and I don't see how you could possibly know that is what most of them think. You must...
September 29, 2016 at 09:51
Oh, I see where the misunderstanding lies, I was proposing a broader definition, where for instance something might be visible or not visible to a haw...
September 29, 2016 at 09:39
But, aren't you just cavilling over language here? In any case, how sure are you that most or even all naive realists will respond this way? Have you ...
September 29, 2016 at 09:35
I can't see where I said "no" to it. Perhaps you could quote the actual passage where I purportedly said it.
September 29, 2016 at 09:32
Yes 'visible' means "able to be seen".
September 29, 2016 at 09:09
Thanks Wayfarer, I have read Kant's refutation of idealism in the past.
September 29, 2016 at 09:00
I can't see why it doesn't. Don't you know what it means for something which you are not seeing in a field to be visible nonetheless. Perhaps in the n...
September 29, 2016 at 08:58
Yes, something like that.
September 29, 2016 at 08:56
No, I mean, for example, say you are looking at a field and there is a rabbit perfectly visible in the field, and yet you do not see it.
September 29, 2016 at 08:56
Yes, I agree that Kant was no idealist of the kind I am targeting. I am thinking more of Berkeleyan idealism. Phenomena are, I agree, entirely constit...
September 29, 2016 at 08:54
I would say that "categories and kinds" are not merely projections of the mind, but reflect the reality of the things being seen as kinds and placed i...
September 29, 2016 at 08:40
I think value is dependent on mind/body to think and feel it and morality is dependent on mind/body to think and act it. I don't believe it has anythi...
September 29, 2016 at 08:14
I am still not quite sure what you are getting at. When I look at the 'illusion' shown in Wayfarer's last post it is almost as though I can see the ed...
September 29, 2016 at 07:45
As Mongrel says, biology and by extension for me, brings to mind Klee, and to a lesser extent, Miro. I love to see such free experimentation.
September 29, 2016 at 06:13
The difference between real delineation and the visual suggestion is that the first produces an actual image of a triangle, and the second produces a ...
September 29, 2016 at 06:09
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September 29, 2016 at 05:30
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September 29, 2016 at 05:29
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September 29, 2016 at 05:28
A considered naive realism does sound somewhat contradictory, granted. Of course a considered realism cannot be a truly naive realism, because in bein...
September 29, 2016 at 04:59
Yes, I agree, in fact I don't think the very notion of 'ideas' can be intelligible without the assumption of things about which to have 'ideas', the n...
September 29, 2016 at 03:59
Hi, and welcome to the forum. I am not convinced that porn addiction should be counted as being as significant a betrayal as having sex with someone e...
September 29, 2016 at 01:41
I think what you are failing to see is that realist assumptions are not made on the basis of a belief that one possesses any knowledge of the "ultimat...
September 29, 2016 at 01:18
Who? Aquinas? We have had "Aristotle by Aquinas" and now we have "Aristotle and Aquinas by Agustino" X-)
September 29, 2016 at 00:20
I don't believe there is any "day to be saved" in this discussion. :P
September 29, 2016 at 00:18
I agree with all this BC and I think it is mostly in line with what I have been saying about the relationship between envy and jealousy. IT is a compl...
September 29, 2016 at 00:15
Why not just call it "righteous anger" then, as I have been suggesting?
September 28, 2016 at 23:05
Yes, several of his paintings are in NSW Art Gallery. I was always somehow drawn to his work. The pastoral muse.... On another note I have forgotten h...
September 28, 2016 at 23:04
It doesn't seem to me to make any sense to say that you feel jealous of your wife in any case. The way I interpret the term you feel jealous on accoun...
September 28, 2016 at 22:59
Well then what are you actually jealous of in a situation like that? I would say you are jealous or envious because you are afraid that he might be a ...
September 28, 2016 at 22:41
Envy and jealousy are basically the same. Envy consists in the feeling of losing when comparing what one has with what another has. Jealousy may consi...
September 28, 2016 at 22:19
First, I haven't anywhere said that adultery is a good thing. Second. society was altogether much more rigidly institutionalized in Aristotle's day. T...
September 28, 2016 at 21:53
I think Spinoza would say that we are nothing (not what we think we are; i.e. not radically free) in the sense that we are already nothing more than m...
September 27, 2016 at 23:42
But, such views are ultraconservative. just as my views are liberal. From this it does not follow though that you are aligned with any far right conse...
September 27, 2016 at 23:04
It's all good; I don't become offended or entertain bad feelings on account of online exchanges (or face to face ones for that matter), no matter how ...
September 27, 2016 at 22:40
Not much; I prefer the what I see as the much greater subtlety of Japanese gardens; and I am much more familiar with the principles underlying those. ...
September 27, 2016 at 22:28
Well I didn't see it so your characterization that my response to it it was "just another one of my sophisms" is completely out of line. By the way, t...
September 27, 2016 at 22:21
This is incredibly disingenuous; you have added to your post. When I quoted it, it just said "Nope". Nothing worth responding to in the rest of your r...
September 27, 2016 at 22:05
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September 27, 2016 at 21:56
I wasn't suggesting platonic realms or anything of that sort; just a purely logical exploration of the concepts "existence' and 'real' to see what way...
September 27, 2016 at 00:01
That's cool, I can see where your background is verging towards abstraction. Do you ever work with paint and canvas or other physical media?
September 26, 2016 at 23:57
Shades of Turner; I like it...
September 26, 2016 at 23:55
This is a really nice point, well explained, Mongrel. 8-)
September 26, 2016 at 23:53
Some liberal conservatives may share my beliefs or even all of them. From that it simply doesn't follow that I am a liberal conservative. Syllogize yo...
September 26, 2016 at 23:50
Jealousy is a kind of sub-species of anger yes; which is just what I have been saying. So, now you apparently are agreeing with me. It is also an unhe...
September 26, 2016 at 23:39
There is no need to apologize for your failings Agutsino; just try to see things in a more rational light. You keep trying to cast me as a liberal pro...
September 26, 2016 at 23:35
Not convincing; if you were just angry and upset as you would be about any injustice that has been committed; then there would simply be no feeling of...
September 26, 2016 at 23:33
As far as I am concerned those beliefs may have had their social uses in their day ( for a start there was no reliable contraception or social welfare...
September 26, 2016 at 23:30