apokrisis

Not convinced by the Standard Model, hey? You think it might be just a big coincidence? Sounds legit.

Did you actually contest any of the content of my posts. Must have missed it somehow. :yawn:

Oh please. If mathematical physics tells us that existence is the result of broken symmetry, then who are you to disagree? Get over yourself - your Co...

You mean that game where the goal, the meta-rule, was to show that no particular rule could hold firm? Yet, that’d work as prescribed. It would serve ...

In case I left you confused - it does happen - I hope it is clear that symmetry-breaking is what connects a triadic system of symmetries. So the "ulti...

Is there any real effort at thought behind these ad homs? Sure, there is pragmatism in the weak Jamesian sense of utilitarianism - whatever is good fo...

Remember that in maths, a unit is defined by the identity element - a local symmetry that can't be broken by whatever operation broke the global symme...

Not really. If we are talking about a pan-semiotic metaphysics now, the goal is to divide reality into its necessities and its accidents. So pragmatis...

So what makes that the correct framing of the situation rather than life being continuously stimulating apart from the occasional interruptions?

Oh the burden of deciding what kind of fun to have today. It is truly unbearable! LOL. You guys.

I agree with the pragmatic angle, but the conclusion seems more Platonic. Each of these particular turns in the history of mathematical thought were "...

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Pattee makes that biosemiotic point in support of Rosen's argument - that complex systems thus have many descriptions - in this paper ... (I mention i...

I'd say this is key. Eventually we lack reason to continue to doubt because our purposes seem satisfied. In pragmatic fashion, any further differences...

It's what I already argued. Contradiction is to be what is expected. Cognition thrives on having alternatives to contrast. So contradiction is not a f...

And so in turn, a felt natural contradiction that ethical reasoning ought to aim to balance. no? Like you agreed about self-defence for example.

Great. You are consistent with your beliefs. And pragmatically, the modern techno-consumer society allows you to achieve that. There are the products ...

It's off topic, so I'll keep it short, even though it is the topic I'm focused on currently. Even if all laws are heuristic, the PLA is a principle an...

So does a dog deserve to eat meat? Or would you force it to be vegetarian under your bill of universal sentient rights? No wonder you won’t extend the...

And dogs? Surely dogs too.

But if they are human rights, then they are human rights. Your earlier argument was based on natural justice for sentient beings. Emotionally, that is...

But that is now a far worse argument. All humans may be animals, but not all animals are human. So it would be logically inconsistent to grant human r...

Correct.

These are not arguments, just angry noises.

It was a joke. If science did in fact believe it served some clear cut purpose, philosophy would feel more "ambiguous" about that - even when supposed...

Yeah. It is clear from this thread that passionate veganism relies on black and white thought at the expense of relativism and balance. It's a shame a...

From a philosophy of science point of view, that statement seems very disputable.

Yeah. My distant memory is that Lewis relies eventually on counterpart theory and resemblances. So each of us is individual in our own world. And then...

I get it. You are not a pragmaticist. You live in a world of black and white where morality is objective and absolute. Philosophical discussion is rea...

But it’s not me that demands your simplistic black and white form of consistency here, is it? It is you that is stuck with that as the dilemma. Beside...

It’s straightforward. The very notion of something working says there was some purpose being served. Some people might think ethics is the prime purpo...

It’s pretty obvious. Cows don’t have the cognitive capacity for empathy and compassion, let alone a desire for consistent ethical practices.

I only mentioned it as I happen to be reading it and felt it matched your interest in the inner games people play. I found Catch-22 hilarious as a tee...

I only said that pragmatism is epistemically closed by the fact some position works. There has to be a purpose that was thus served. Whether that desi...

But surely even a flawless argument is only true if the premises are secure. So the gap that omniscience would have to fill lies in the truth of what ...

Real philosophy is the pragmatism of philosophical naturalism. Science is the applied arm of that these days. Then you have that sound middle road fla...

The past constrains the future. And then what isn’t constrained will happen freely. So yeah. There is no absolute determinism. But also, no absolute s...

You made nice points. Possibilities are real to the degree that some logic, some principle of intelligibility, constrains an unformed potency. And log...

LOL. What’s not recent? The surge in numbers due to a generational shift? Are you claiming that it is all the Baby Boomers who are suddenly turning ve...

Do those things count as a recent mass movement based on a moral argument? Do you want to claim that?

So when a cause becomes widely adopted by a generation, that doesn’t make it generational. Sounds legit.

Keeping digging that hole you’re in. Others are celebrating the fact.

It’s a generational thing.

Veganism is annoying to the older generation. What is the source of that? A prime principle of earlier generations was not to be fussy at the dinner t...

But Peircean semiotics gave a credible model of being as pure naked spontaneity. It supplies a mathematical, hence scientific, image. That gives a bet...

To address this bit, what are you actually experiencing but some counter-image, some umwelt, of your own imagining? It doesn’t escape the charge of be...

Beat me to it this time!

There is yet another way. And that is to talk about complexity. Mind arises due to the complexity of a sign relation that organises matter into a form...

But I have even presented reasonable arguments for veganism. So it can’t be that. A cult is an extremist social script that isolates its members from ...

Thanks.