I take it that you're clarifying your own personal use, here in this thread, but you are not making some claim true of everyone using the terms "red" ...
Brute perception of is physical interaction with light. My words were in response to Michael, who's been depending upon what he thinks the science say...
Bald assertion contradicting everyday observable events, falsified by them, in fact. Some people use "white and gold" and "black and blue" to pick out...
It's not a matter of agreeing or disagreeing. It's a matter of coherency/terminological consistency. As far as I can tell, you're equivocating key ter...
Looks like an equivocation to me. Proudly so even. Also... Weird that a chameleon would change my mental phenomena(the color of the chameleon) and res...
Data from inside the brain? Emergence of experience requires more than just a brain. Persistence of experience does as well. Brains are not enough. It...
The above paid no attention to what preceded it. Vance could also believe that authoritarianism is a preferable form of government/society/nation. He ...
His schtick, which is very much tailored towards the Midwest rural Americans, is a shared distain for the 'elite'. The 'elite' are scapegoats to be bl...
Yeah, I'm very cynical when it comes to why no one has just put the facts out there. It seems even the lots of the 'left wing' so called 'liberal' mai...
Oh, and Vance's memoir is pretty well written. He's a fraud though. Profit and power are his sole motives. Coincidentally, he and I happened to be bor...
When Trump got elected, I posted my general thoughts on the matter, something like "What did you f***ing expect to happen when huge swathes of America...
The Biden administration record is quite good. The American public have been sold a bill of falsehood and rhetoric that has affected/effected the comm...
Ah. Thanks. So, B and notB are negations of one another while "not B" in normal parlance means different than B but not necessarily contradictory to B...
Yeah, I get that much. As you said, that's kinda the point of using variables. I was just thinking that some statements implied a plurality of others,...
Hey Janus! Evidently, normal parlance does not translate into logical notation so easily. I think there also may be a difference between "notB" and "n...
My apologies. The scarequotes implied uncertainty on my part. You used the terms. I indicated my own trepidation of that use by using scarequotes. Tha...
It depends upon the values given to the variables. They can contradict one another at times. At other times, they can both be true. They cannot do bot...
Ah. Good. Thanks for clarifying. So, I'm curious. Do you have a bare minimum criterion for what counts and/or what it takes for any and/or all example...
Perhaps unpacking the last claim would help. I do think giving purpose(s) to things takes more complex cognition/thinking than attributing meaning/sig...
This could be used to justify knowingly causing preventable harm. 4, 5, and 6 presuppose omniscience of all means capable of bringing about the desire...
You seem incapable of understanding that some folk, myself included, fully accept that all things meaningful and/or significant are so to a capable cr...
Rhetorical drivel. The quality/accuracy of the belief system is not under scrutiny. In that case, it is how many people it could help to save from hav...
"Why the universe exists" is a psychological question. It does not follow from the fact that there is no rationale answering that question that the un...
I invite you to reread and directly address the counter-examples of reasoning for committing suicide. One example of valid reasoning arguing in the af...
Your characterization is not the only past/current state of affairs, situation, circumstance, actual happenstance. Your characterization counts as unw...
Seems other options are there to be practiced. Rationality is a feature/quality we attribute to a plurality of individual thoughts, beliefs, and/or st...
That is the case with all good claims. I agree. It is not easy to avoid anthropomorphism. We'll keep an eye out for it. I do not see the relevance of ...
You may be getting hung up on my distinction between a capable creature and an agent. I think "agency" is fraught with historical baggage. The more I ...
Sure, but being hungry without knowing what one wants to eat is more akin to being ambitious without knowing how to achieve the desired outcome. That ...
Agreed, if there is some judgmental afterlife. However, I was simply pointing out by anecdote that suicide is not always irrational, which is about be...
Means are purposeful. The purpose of means is to reach, attain, and/or acquire a goal/end. Ambition without goals? What's that consist of? However, I ...
I'm not sure I understand that. If the person believes the only way to rid themselves of misery is to end their own life, and they choose to commit su...
"X provides purpose" is about X, where all subsequent qualification of "X" is bound by/limited to that which is capable of providing purpose. If X pro...
It follows that religion is about that which is discovered IN the analysis of mundane ethics. That's not true either. Religion was around long before ...
Red herring. Some religion was before all such practices began. Not all religion is/was about thinking practices. Metaphysics IS a thinking practice. ...
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