Michael

Silly me.

No, patriarchy "is a social system in which males hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privile...

Given that a p-zombie is defined as something that appears to be conscious (although, what does it mean to appear to be conscious?) but isn't consciou...

By this do you just mean that whether or not someone is unemployed is ambiguous, and so the unemployment rate is ambiguous? Or are you arguing for a s...

So if I believe that the unemployment rate was 5% and you believe that the unemployment wasn't 5% then my belief is true (for me?), your belief is tru...

But the point is that some of these beliefs are true. There are true facts (which you admit with your first sentence). So when you say "Unfortunately,...

If that figure is a false fact then surely there's a true fact, i.e. the actual unemployment rate?

I wonder if it's something to do with the language, as per the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis?

I'm not failing to distinguish between what is said and what is the case. I'm saying that the word "fact" need not only refer to the latter. Sometimes...

That's really the point. We can talk about artificial flowers and toy guns and so we might be able to talk about false facts. And as mentioned in the ...

That's misleading. Women have twice as many nerve receptors per square centimeter of skin, but men have more skin. I think it works out as women havin...

So a philosopher is only original and significant if they're on the level of Kant and Hume? Seems like saying that someone is only a great footballer ...

As with the earlier analogy, is "artificial flower" an oxymoron? I wouldn't say so. Even though artificial flowers aren't flowers, the term is still a...

Consider 1. it is true that the ball is red and 2. it is a fact that the ball is red. They seem to say the same thing, and so "true" and "a fact" are ...

What do you mean by us defining consciousness a certain way? We no more define consciousness than we define a dog. Rather we encounter a dog and then ...

Conclusions? There weren't any arguments there, just 9 separate statements (which I broke up into three groupings). Sorry if that wasn't clear.

So, the counter-argument seems to amount to "but I believe that Socrates is immortal, and so not a man, and therefore your premise that Socrates is a ...

And compare with: If Socrates is a man then Socrates is mortal Socrates is a man Therefore, Socrates is mortal The second premise is true only if Socr...

A is "if Socrates is a man then Socrates is mortal" or "if p-zombies are conceivable then consciousness isn't physical" and B is "Socrates is a man" o...

I don't understand what you're saying, hence why I said "what you're saying doesn't make any sense". You claim to not be saying that modus ponens begs...

The p-zombie argument uses modus ponens. If modus ponens doesn't beg the question the the p-zombie argument doesn't beg the question. Therefore, the p...

It's really straightforward. If A then B. A. Therefore, B. Such arguments do not beg the question. The p-zombie argument is stated in this way. Theref...

Then what are you saying? Because this modus ponens is the p-zombie argument. If modus ponens doesn't beg the question then the p-zombie argument does...

Then the same is true of the Socrates syllogism. Does it beg the question as an argument for Socrates being mortal because the only way that he's a ma...

Some use the term "fact" to mean "true proposition". As for false facts, there's an interesting analogy given here: So a phrase like "false fact" coul...

I'm not saying that it's sound. I'm saying that it doesn't beg the question, contrary to Real Gone Cat's claim.

There wasn't one.

According to this, there's a 51% chance of it being whatever was face up when tossed.

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, This is really just a trivial semantic issue (as most of these discussions are). There are statements, ...

How am I wrong? It's a straightforward modus ponens. If Socrates is a man then Socrates is mortal Socrates is a man Therefore, Socrates is mortal If w...

Are you saying that human biology and the natural laws of physics are insufficient to explain human behaviour? If so then you're taking the p-zombie h...

I really don't understand your question. You accept that a p-zombie could recite the Gettysburg Address. Then you should accept that a p-zombie could ...

Both arguments are in the form: If A then B A Therefore B. So I fail to see how the p-zombie syllogism differs from the Socrates syllogism. But their ...

By speech I just mean the measurable vocalisations; i.e. mechanical waves of pressure and displacement caused by air exiting the mouth and manipulated...

I don't know what you mean by a response being based on something. If we accept that speech is physical behaviour and that all physical behaviour is c...

"Contradiction" was probably the wrong word on my part, given that this isn't just a semantic issue. We can't simply define consciousness a certain wa...

Well, it's crucial to both Chalmers' and the physicalist's argument. You could argue that if neither defines the term "physical" then both arguments a...

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Sounds about right. Probability was in her favour.

Well, not necessarily. It was certainly part of the manifesto, but it doesn't then follow that they were elected for that alone. Maybe they would have...

According to Chalmers, "Kripke's insight that for phenomenal concepts, there is no gap between reference-fixers and reference (or between primary and ...

Well, that's Hempel's dilemma. I don't know if Chalmers provided a definition of physical and non-physical. A brief skim of the SEP article doesn't se...

It doesn't. It only argues that whatever it is, it isn't physical.

The p-zombie argument attempts to show that it isn't. The argument is: If we can conceive of a p-zombie then consciousness isn't physical We can conce...

Only if consciousness is just a physical thing. But the claim is that because p-zombies are conceivable then consciousness isn't just a physical thing...

Is it conceptually necessary that vibrating strings produces sound, or is it just a physical fact? Also, this isn't a good analogy. It's not a questio...

Yes, which is what the physicalist does. The purpose of the p-zombie hypothesis is to attack the physicalist's claim that consciousness is just some p...

Assuming that one is a physicalist, any answer to that question (even our answer) is simply a physical response. Given the auditory stimulation of the...

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Asking for the definition of spirituality can be a confusing question. If you want to know what most people mean by it then if someone gave their own ...