A constraint??? :gasp: Alternatively, there is Naturalism. Wave goodbye to the Big Daddy in the sky, say hello Mama Nature. Why wouldn't we want to un...
Well that is the big question. Can you succeed where others have failed? We can of course find approximative and perturbative mathematical techniques ...
In the end, I'm not religious. I don't believe in transcendent being. Naturalism is the position that there is only nature and its immanent meaning. S...
There must be a fallacy which is the fallacy of posters hoping to win debates by claiming every possible fallacy that springs to mind once all their o...
Pragmatism is about collectively demonstrated truths - what a community of rational inquirers would believe in the end. So it both accepts the subject...
Why did you erase your mention of terror management theory? I thought it funny that you again wheel out a theory about the extremes that people will g...
As I agreed with Darth, in the end there is a choice. Either you go with the subjectivity being expressed by all you anti-natalists - where your perso...
Yep. It does come down to me being happy to let nauture tell us what reality is. You have some invented image of rationality that you won’t even quest...
Yeah. So how does every particle, every event, know how to follow the path of least action? How do you accommodate this “weirdness” that infects even ...
Finish the thought. What would that reasonable prediction actually be in real life? 10%? 1%? 0.001%? And then ask yourself how good is an argument tha...
What I said was that it is fanatical to take up absolutist positions. Not having kids can be a perfectly reasonable choice - "reasonable" meaning "on ...
If we are reasonable people, we could make reasonable judgements about whether on average those babies will later feel grateful. And being reasonable,...
....is not an answer to the question: "Why should everyone have to serve your preference in this matter?" Yeah. Why on earth would flourishing be a pr...
Yep. Life never runs smooth. There is always friction. And yet at some sensible level, we are indifferent to that. It ceases to matter ... probably be...
Huh? I am asking you to justify why your personal preference ought to be the metaphysically general preference. You are the one claiming that the real...
Nope. My actual argument starts pragmatically with the preference to be achieved - the purpose you might have in mind. You want life to be x. And so w...
Huh? My claim is that it is natural to be indifferent to this bumpiness when it doesn’t really matter. It is your pessimism that demands the perfectio...
So what I said then? Mechanisms are fragile because they depend on material stability. Organisms are robust because they are the management of materia...
But even the experiencing eye is imposing an intelligible structure on the world. The Ancient Greeks knew that as well. Empiricism is simply the forma...
But it would be a narrow definition of reasoning to identify it with just something people pursue as a method of inquiry. The primary datum of experie...
Trying to drag me into yet another of your scab picking pessimism sessions? ;) For the record, I would say organismic rather than mechanical. And so y...
Life is managed instability. So it is based on a separation of powers that establishes the third thing of a synergistic and complementary relation. So...
You need emotional range to model the richness of the world. So you need this baseline balance as the neutrally poised state from which you can launch...
But @"Inyenzi" nailed it. Not having children is to suffer a deficiency in an especially close human and community relationship. It is thus funny - in...
Of course you need many dichotomies here. There isn't just a single dialectic. Discrete~continuous, flux~stasis, one~many, matter~form - we are talkin...
The fact is a fact about the metaphysical process. It is its distinctive structural feature. Out of individual accidents, collective order arises. So ...
The "map" is of the very fact that accidents accumulate to form the regularity of habits. That is the Peircean ontological story of the Cosmos. And th...
So do maps need to map the essential or the incidental? What do you think abstraction is apart from the shedding of the inessential particulars to arr...
Don’t you instead wander the city streets brandishing your placard warning the end is nigh? Repent while you have the chance! You have to have a reaso...
So not just a weak analogy, or a bad analogy, but the very worst analogy that could be imagined? Sounds legit. I mean you made such a stellar argument...
When you say fractal, you could mean holographic or scalefree. So like a hologram, every bit of the reality provides a map of its whole. And this woul...
I don’t follow. Who is arguing that we shouldn’t make rational choices about having kids. Their welfare ought to be our primary moral concern. We migh...
The map would be the view from nowhere. It stands outside the world it describes. So that would indeed seem a problem. But I am defending Peircean int...
Yep. By definition, anyone posting here about antinatalism has a full belly, a roof over their heads, time on their hands. They can take for granted a...
But all theories are the same kind of tool - a map by which to navigate the territory. So while - like blind men feeling an elephant - that might resu...
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