It also strikes me how the last thread on baseless speculations and the BIV offers us an example of said transcendantal stupidity. Please dont ban me,...
- And conversely, I think of the kind of cases you describe are when the gears spin-out, catching only here and there, or engaging the wrong kind of d...
Life in massively industrialised breeding farm causes the animals to suffer a form of 'systematic' cruelty, tho. Hogs are raised in cages that do not ...
- Likely an animal of prey is slaughtered far more violently and suffers more long when it is killed by a pack of wolves than how their domesticated r...
Humans being meat eaters isn't what is wrong. It is that we actively impose on Nature the nightmare that is industrialized mass breeding and slaughter...
The reason why focusing on the terminology is important is because different categories of beliefs/knowledge/statements ellicit different responses an...
Nietzsche was often wrong, especially when he said that there is no creatures more pathetic than a short woman. I think he put it "a short man remains...
But, as I have now too-often repeated in this thread, it doesn't make sense to question the likelihood of a thought-experiment. And presenting it as a...
I didn't miss it, I meant what I said when I said that evaluations of likelihood are useless against a thought experiment. Fuzzily, yes. More likely t...
Well, its all downhill for every religions as far as I know, none are actually growing once you compare to population growth. Catholics are probably a...
Yes, it does matter. It is the topic. There are some moves which are permissible against a theory and which have no purchase whatsoever on a thought e...
Not even, although it is kinda closer, on the metacognitive level. Still, Putnam's argument was about putting to light certain things about our episte...
Jesus bloody Christ. The brain in a vat scenario doesn't describe a theory There are a world of difference between a thought experiment and a theory. ...
The brain-in-a-vat scenario is not a theory, it is a thought experiment. And it doesnt concern itself with weither or not we can tell or if it is happ...
Nope. Not at all. Thoreau wanted an empowered individual through the means of democratic rule. The idea that altruism was antithetical to progress wou...
I participated in a brain scanning experiment a few years ago. The cognitive science subdept came and specifically asked for philosophy students as we...
You could do with a late transcript of those thoughts, if it was taken according to a very tight methodological inquiry. Alone it would have little va...
How about you take it as an opportunity to apply the method to the subject matter? Otherwise 'Opinions on technology' would be more accurate, but also...
Ok so you have the first paragraph of your "Prolegomena to a Phenomenology of Technology". Thats good, but thats barely laying down ink on paper. Afte...
- Perhaps what we - at the general cultural level - lack is then a way to picture in our heads how informational modelling winds up "feeling like some...
- Because it's not something describable in physical terms. We have very good evolution simulators out there, which you can even run on your cellphone...
- "Is it possible to arrive at a general definition of "person" given the natural-legal distinction?" Yes, a person would be a legal fiction which can...
"The stick is bent in water is false even though the light being refracted by the water makes it appear bent. " That is just a question of unwrapping ...
Sadly, being abusive verbally has shown to be a good strategy in online argumentation. The objective being not to convince the other or make them acce...
Ever been a while on a sailboat? After a while you start being able to sense the wind shift direction before it does. Maybe it's something like that.....
At the very least, there is a distinction between a natural person - a human being - and a legal person - a private or public organization - and this ...
"There are no Truths, just different views." But an aggregate of different views can be more accurate than a single one, which once again throws us ba...
Truth, facts, untrue statements are only the most immediate components of a popular epistemology everyone uses to establish the framework of everyday ...
I have always been of the opinion that personhood, as a concept, is almost entirely vacuous once it is removed from the legal domain. In legal ontolog...
- In which Akanthinos shows a rare moment of lucidity, calling himself and all French inherently arrogants, only to then commit French exceptionnalism...
Language is a tool of communication as well as a mean of culture-building/identity-building. Yes, its integrity relates to its ability to maintain mea...
Also, this 'what would an indefinite pronoun even looks like in French?' Really? I mean, you have spent how many years in existence speaking a languag...
Honestly, that Google translation is really good. It cut out 'tongue' from Voltaire's tongue, which makes it silly, but still, its not like you wouldn...
Yes, God forbids one shows the decency of calling people by their prefered method. I mean, where does it ends?* Will I have to call my bratty pink hai...
Thats a rough time limit. Barely anything can be said under 10 minutes. Anyway, its too late to obsess over any on-time modifications, you certainly s...
I wouldnt worry too much about the lack of academically oriented threads. It is the summer, after all. I would expect there to be a lull outside of th...
The perfect trick for public speach is to repeat the pitch every night, in bed, eyes closed, moments before you fall asleep, for at least a week befor...
Well, it wasn't, 70 years later. And at that point it was advantaging investments outside the US, specifically giving the London market a huge advanta...
More Trump stupidity ; -Trump links Canadian lumber imports to deadly California wildfires "During a cabinet meeting, Trump and other officials downpl...
I appreciate that. Just wondering why he isn't following his Huckabee cues and screaming about how Brennan is a traitor. Talking about GW and Obama's ...
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