I'm honestly torn on this issue. I think it would make a great replacement for current welfare systems, especially going forward into the age of robot...
Wiki says "with or without", Oxford 1.1 and 1.2 don't "especially" specify without. And yet oddly, all the early scientists were believing Christians,...
There are plenty examples of tribal Henotheism (where you have one particular god standing for, or taking the office of, an ultimate creator god, but ...
I think I covered what you're talking about in my post, but I'll go over it again. There are two possible phases, one might call them, to religion:- 1...
You are right, the argument is nonsense. The whole foofaraw about trans stuff is beneath contempt, it's just another attempt by the PC cult to silence...
Nonsense, you may not think it's good evidence, or you may think the arguments based on that evidence are wrong - and you may be right. But it's simpl...
What I'm saying is that even if the fit between our dreamed up logical puzzle games and reality is happenstance, if we find one that fits, then the fa...
Not unless you think reproductive fitness is one of "our values." It may be a value for some to pump out as many babies as they possibly can, but I do...
I'd rather put it this way. One modern view of logic boils down to: logic is really just using symbols consistently in some symbol-shuffling game (or ...
But belief is based on evidence, it's just that sometimes people make mistakes in the interpretation of evidence, or in the construction of beliefs ba...
You had said:- "What you continue to not acknowledge is that aesthetics, "linguistic meaning," and capital M meaning is all based on our values." I to...
I think they're rather just two ways of looking at something - one (consciousness) has a more passive connotation (it receives content), whereas the o...
There are things wrong with believing wrong things, but there's nothing essentially wrong with belief. Many of the beliefs you're pointing out there (...
Interesting. I think I have a sense of it that's somewhat similar to your own. I don't think "hinge propositions" are quite the same as the pre-verbal...
There's nothing essentially wrong with belief. Neutrally, it's a kind of expectation, more positively It's a form of trust - you pays your money and y...
"Mind" means several things. Sometimes it means mental imagery and thoughts, sometimes it means more of a process (the computing powers of the brain),...
Linguistic meaning isn't "based on values" it's a natural phenomenon that just grows. Although on another level I suppose you could say it's "based on...
2nd Gymnopedie IIRC. It was the amuse bouche of a set of three pieces (the others were Beethoven and Chopin things, much more flashy and difficult, of...
I was the keyboard player. Keyboard player tend to be the nerds, vocalists are the chick magnets :) It's interesting, the process of songwriting: it h...
No. You can have linguistic meaning in a material world, and science can be based on that, but you can't have meaning (with a capital 'M' as it were) ...
Hehe, fun non-philosophical fact. The band I was in back in the 80s was rehearsing in the same studios as Motorhead, we befriended them in the cafe, t...
Yes, beautiful and meaningful have nothing to do with right and wrong or true and false, I'm not sure why you seem to think you're still disagreeing w...
Art is quite stagnant now, it's the been the same stuff on the walls now for 100 years or so, ever since Duchamp told us that art is something to piss...
Warning: idiosyncratic opinion bombastically expressed incoming. Really this is just the vigorously expressed opinion of an amateur, FWIW. :) I wouldn...
That depends on what you mean by "rapidly" human nature and the nature of the world change over time, sure, but rapidly? That's an attempt at persuasi...
No, they evade it. Much of modern philosophy is a grand evasion of the abyssal horror of a godless, mechanistic universe. For ordinary people, the bus...
I don't understand how you can say it's a phase, there's no escape from it if the world is as science describes it. It's rather analogous to various f...
I disagree, people in my experience are either 9-5 zombies on a treadmill that's increasingly delivering less real prosperity for the average person, ...
Yeah, that ought to be the concern of every really serious thinking person. If thinking about this stuff doesn't put you into a cold sweat, then you'r...
It's hard to see what's so good about a configuration of stuff that's "kind, loving, etc." and what's so bad about a configuration of stuff that's "vi...
The questions all involve each other, the puzzle has to be solved as a whole. The breakdown into separate questions is just a matter of convenience, r...
Thanks. I used to haunt the Philosophy Forums quite a bit years ago, but this forum seems to have become the place for that old crowd to hang out, now...
Yes, perspective is an important part of what we're talking about when we talk about consciousness. In fact, "from the inside", it could be said that ...
Economic value is the cardinally-enumerated aggregate of all the subjective acts of ordinal evaluation in society, in which individuals exchange what ...
Yes, but what I'm arguing against is the idea that motivated some of the early modern philosophers - they took seriously the problem of general founda...
It just goes back to my original points re. doubt - the reason you dig back behind presuppositions in the ordinary way of inquiry is when and if you h...
Not sure if it's the truth of the proposition that's "caused by agreement". I think it's the possibility of the truth of the proposition that's caused...
Yes but that's a feature, not a bug. We can certainly tighten up our language and our concepts for any given purpose, narrowing our focus but what I d...
Because the conditions for whether a concept like "experience" as ordinarily understood is being used correctly, or not, only make sense if the world ...
That knowledge can absorbed in the course of a person's induction into society from childhood, it doesn't have to be innate. I do think morality has a...
I think what it shows is that people talked about stuff for far longer than they wrote about stuff. There have probably been something akin to "school...
No, "sexual liberation" increases the likelihood of sexual harassment. As you can see today, "liberals" are more frequent sexual harassers than conser...
Yes, you can't directly perceive that it exists unperceived while you're not perceiving it, but you can indirectly verify that it has the property of ...
Ancient Chinese philosophy is also very interesting. There were fully developed systems of logic, debates very reminiscent of nominalism vs. realism, ...
Ah, the perpetual beginning, the perpetual setup of the hypnotic trance! If only you could just get ... behind it, somehow, you could discover somethi...
Philosophy deals with the broadest, most general categories and ideas, so it actually has the biggest influence on us of all the intellectual discipli...
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