Michael

This makes no sense at all. You’re saying that some third thing is required for the two apples to be separated. Then what separates the two apples fro...

You're right, I don't understand. I think it's entirely possible (in principle) that two apples exist, and are the only things to exist. There doesn't...

This is the case for every metaphysics (physicalist, dualist, other) that isn't eternalist, correct?

This is where you appear to equivocate. In saying that "we know everything" it's implied that we know the future. But Fitch's paradox is only that eve...

I think that’s an oversimplification. Does physicalism entail that mathematical truths are physics-dependant? Does dualism entail that mathematical tr...

I’m addressing your claim that one can believe that one ought allow for abortion and that the Constitution does not grant that right. If it is unreaso...

That doesn’t follow. If there are multiple minds then solipsism isn’t the case.

Well, the Ninth Amendment does say "the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retaine...

For A and B to be separate there must be some C that makes them separate? Why? What then separates C from A and B? Some D? And so on ad infinitum. See...

I don't understand this. If the Constitution doesn't say that States cannot establish a law against smoking then it is correct for the Supreme Court t...

It's not solipsism because there are multiple minds, and it's not a hive mind because they're separate. Presumably the materialist doesn't claim that ...

No, that isn't implied at all. No it isn't. There can be multiple minds, each with individual experiences. I could say that materialism is a form of i...

That’s the point. Banno is arguing that if idealism is the case then everything is known (even referring to us as being omniscient). I’m explaining th...

Is it reasonable to believe that there is no substantive due process in the constitution?

Yes, because abortion is just an "ideological" issue, and pregnancy is not something that actually affects the life and health and welfare of real peo...

Idealism doesn't hold that some statement p is true only if it is believed or known to be true. Idealism holds that only minds and mental phenomena ex...

I half agree, although I suspect it would have a knock-on effect on the price of my food which I wouldn't want.

So how long before a State makes it illegal to wear a condom and have oral sex? The irony of the above is that Alito's opinion says: Is it really unfo...

It's simple. Naked woman = good, clothed woman = bad.

The article doesn't explain why idealism entails that there are no unknowable truths, it just asserts that it does. Do you believe that there are unkn...

The title doesn't match what he said. Herschel Walker Said There Are 51 States "If it’s the worst state, why are you here? Why don’t you leave ? go to...

Not sure how Fitch's paradox is relevant. Idealism doesn't entail that there are no unknown truths. There can be unknown mathematical or logical truth...

Nothing. Whether you want to say that brain activity is sensations or that sensations are some emergent phenomena from brain activity, it is the case ...

Are you saying that we don't have qualitative experiences? That brain activity doesn't produce sensations?

To interject, imagine that you have tetrachromacy and 40/20 vision and I don't have tetrachromacy and have 20/40 vision. If you and I look at the same...

And what if I'm seeing the rock in a mirror because it's behind me?

The "whatever that turns out to be" makes the very question "is the Universe material in nature?" a meaningless question. See Hempel's dilemma.

I'm not asking about the TV. I'm asking about the rock. When I see a rock on a TV screen, am I seeing the rock directly? That doesn't make it direct. ...

I'm asking if I'm seeing the rock directly if I see it through a TV screen, or if I see it in the reflection of a mirror, or if I see it through a tel...

So how is it different to colour? The structure of some external world object determines what colour we see when we look at it, but it also determines...

So if I see a rock in the next room through a TV screen and a camera feed then I am not seeing that rock indirectly? Then it's not entirely clear to m...

That people who were born blind and recognise an object's shape by touch are not, after becoming able to see, immediately able to recognise an object'...

Why? What's the relevant difference between shape and colour? And is that shape as seen or as felt, because they're very different things (see Molyneu...

Then what do you think consciousness is? Some etherial entity that extends beyond the body and somehow "contains" or "touches" the external world obje...

Another thing: if I wear glasses then I quite literally have something between me and the rock. Am I seeing the rock directly or indirectly? Or what i...

The prevalent understanding of consciousness is that it is either identical to or an emergent phenomenon of brain activity. We can perhaps accept that...

I agree. When I look at a mirror I'm looking at a mirror and I'm also looking at my reflection and I'm also looking at myself. The painting might be o...

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Yes, that's the very problem with labels like this. It's not as straightforward as some would like to make it. Are Libertarian Republicans liberal or ...

You seem to be arguing that because I disagree with Nazism then when I claim that someone should be fired for being a Nazi then I am claiming that som...

I don't understand your question. If you say "we have the right to say what we like" should I interpret that as "we have the right to do whatever I be...

There's a meaningful difference between "people who promote Nazi ideology should be fired" and "people who disagree with me should be fired". I assert...

Well I never expressed that idea so I don't understand the relevance of this comment. They don't have to. A liberal can agree that perjury should be a...

But all this is mostly irrelevant. The simple, everyday fact is that "liberal" is the term adopted by those people who support things like interracial...

I was referring to the exchange where you referred to my views as being hypocritical. Well, there hasn't been another Hitler so maybe it has stopped i...

He has a wife you know...

Yes, I was joking. Mocking those who believe in unrestricted free speech. As if students having to call their teachers "sir" or MPs in the UK having t...

When I was a student I had to refer to my teachers as "sir" and "miss". We weren't allowed to call them by their first names. The school system sure i...

I think that if my name is Michael but my professor insists on calling me Mary despite knowing my name then the university has the right to discipline...

That doesn't address the point being made. If your rule of thumb is "live as you like, but don't force it on others," surely that means that I'm free ...