Michael

I've heard of it, never seen it, and it sounds like one of the most revolting things I can imagine.

I think this is the first time you've said something that actually makes me feel sick. I'm surprised it's taken this long.

I'm not saying that. I'm disagreeing with your claim that my suggested consistent evidence is confirmation of McEnroe's claim. I don't think they are....

Do you have a source for this? The IEP offers this account of free will: This seems to be the account I gave here. Free will is concerned with one's w...

So what did the first person who talked about free will mean by the term? But this reasoning is problematic anyway. The first people to use the term "...

Yes, but not confirmation of McEnroe's statements. So, contrary to your claim here, that "the best thing we have to assess the claim is evidence that ...

And according to this, "As a theory-neutral point of departure, then, free will can be defined as the unique ability of persons to exercise control ov...

Again, I'm not sure what you mean by this. You seem to be suggesting that the definition of free will that is incompatible with determinism is the cor...

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Just that compatibilists and libertarians have different conceptions of free will? Sure. Or maybe the libertarian ...

Anything that doesn't refute a claim is consistent with a claim. Consistency isn't sufficient for confirmation.

Compatibilism only really requires believing that free will and determinism are compatible. It doesn't require that free will requires the ability to ...

No. It's just the best thing we have to assess his claim. From that we have to compare Serena then to Serena now and compare Braasch then to the curre...

Well, the best thing we have to judge the claim is the 1998 match between Karsten Braasch (then ranked 203) and each of the Williams sisters. He won b...

The claim is that one cannot be morally responsible for an action that one did not freely choose to do. As an example, if I am pushed over and as I fa...

Well, 6 + 6 = 10 in the duodecimal system.

I put a pizza in the oven, went to watch a bit of TV till it cooked, and then 42 minutes later remembered I'd put a pizza in the oven.

The point is that what I'm saying is meaningful even though I don't understand it. Therefore your claim that the meaning of a sentence is to be found ...

Surely I'm able to tell someone that I have such-and-such a disease even if I don't know what that disease is (e.g. I'm repeating what my doctor has t...

I'll have my own go at addressing this. What about being male and being female? If all members of the species were male, or if all members of the spec...

I did read what he wrote. I believe what he was saying is that if every person spent their working hours writing, or if every person spent their worki...

You seem to be missing the point. You can't go from "X is unknowable" to "nothing is knowable". You're suggesting that agnosticism entails global scep...

My coffee cup has coffee in it right now. This is true. How do our statements differ?

Just a comment on this, but realism and idealism are compatible. See objective idealism. Perhaps also phenomenalism.

It's tiny. Far too small for two of us, a dog, and a cat. And I don't know why you're asking if I think it's the key to my happiness. I haven't said i...

Move out of my tiny, 3-room counsel flat for one. It's far more than just pennies.

But we're talking about a person earning $90,000 instead of $40,000, not a business earning an extra $50,000 (which would still be a lot for a low-ear...

I live in the UK, and it isn't a small amount. But, of course, you've thrown in that term "relatively" that could make your claim trivially true. Rela...

I'm sure by "full time" he meant something along the lines of the standard 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

$50,000 a year isn't a small amount.

You can, but then you're arguing for global skepticism, not agnosticism.

To continue, I think even this account has problems. What does it mean for something that has happened to presently be an event? Is there some (physic...

Strange, considering it's similar to the Republican's earlier HEART Act.

Have one insurer who covers everything and isn't interested in making a profit. Hmm, sounds familiar to something...

You haven't argued that. You've simply said that them being true is incompatible with your theory and so can't be true. But if that's all it takes to ...

Neither the intention nor the goal is the act of hammering. Neither the intention nor the goal is the meaning of the word. An imagined dance isn't a d...

No, it's simply that it's a particular kind of use. Perhaps, but the dance itself is the movement, not the intention. Dances happen on the dance floor...

No, they're not defined as not being possibly true. They're defined as having a dependent clause that isn't the case. How? What is the nature of the f...

This shows that you don't understand meaning-as-use. Wittgenstein wasn't saying that simply speaking any old sounds makes it the case that one has utt...

I don't see how this addresses my question. You said that we can use words but not refer to anything. So how can one use the words "the cat is on the ...

A handshake can be relevant or irrelevant, but there isn't anything more to it than its use.

I don't understand what you mean by this. Perhaps you could explain the difference between saying to me "the cat is on the mat" and not referring to a...

I gave you some suggested examples in that very post. There might be no explanation for why there is something rather than nothing. There might be no ...

That there are reasons for some things is not that there are reasons for everything. As for an example of something without a reason, perhaps that the...

So under your theory of truth, counterfactuals aren't true? I think that's a problem for your theory of truth. And what about statements about the pas...

If that were the case then if I believe that it is raining then my claim "it is raining" would be true, even if it isn't raining. That doesn't seem ri...

And that's the problem. Counterfactuals can be true, even though they don't correspond to any fact. "If I were born a woman then my name would be Mich...

I'm partial to the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. Plenty of times I've been trying to think about something but find myself unable to do so (with any kind of...

How do you account for counterfactuals?

You could measure it with a ruler that has been verified to be a meter in length.

It's true?