creativesoul

What have I missed that matters?

Weird but very true. They all have lots of letters after their names too... if that matters to you. That popularity thing is good know. A glimmer of h...

I would be happy to vote for Warren, except I have this irritant in the back of my mind. I remember how she endorsed Hillary despite her position bein...

Bernie suffers from being just another old white guy... suffers from racist thought. Ironic but true. I have actually heard many well educated, normal...

Democrats did not elect Clinton. The DNC elected Clinton. The people would've elected Sanders had they been able to make their minds up for themselves...

Rabble-rousers... oh how definitions and values can change. Trump is not. Thomas Paine was. John Hancock was. Paul Revere was. Crispus Attucks was not...

The United States is great because of people like those women, who are changing what needs changed from the inside, because they love our country. Wan...

The actual events preceding and influencing/affecting/effecting the social climate are many. The descriptions we accept and allow of those events must...

Indeed they could... :wink: It could also be the case that 48 or 49 of the 50 United States have enacted laws that force an individual private citizen...

Now... What were you saying earlier Maw?

Trump is not the problem.

Most people I've been around are surprised at the sheer amount of support Trump had around the fringes of non college educated white males. Many of th...

That sort of rhetoric won't cut it. We can let the readers decide. What's the topic statement?

Too bad. With that comment about substantiated opinions and all, I figured you meant it.

I'll tell you what Maw. I love a good debate. You may know that about me already. Let's have one. Shall we? We could do it in the debate forum. It des...

Confronting the country? As if it's new? Her eyes must've been closed for a long time. That's not the problem. If you do not agree that the things you...

The other problem is that the real problem(set out above) will be very hard to bring to light - even after Trump is gone - without being associated wi...

The point was made. Just in case in seemed unclear in any way... There are a very large portion of United States citizens who no longer think/believe ...

That's a part of it. Unfortunately, as I've already mentioned above, it's just not enough of the whole story.

Think what you like Maw. I'm not at all denying the racial vestiges that remained in America prior to Trump. I'm not denying that white nationalism re...

The United States of America has always had the best justice system money could buy. Now it has the best government money can buy, and it's been that ...

Trump is not the problem. He's merely a symptom.

What's terrifying to me is the way white nationalism subsumes an otherwise perfectly warranted attitude about whose best interest a government and oth...

What are you talking about? There's an obvious disconnect here. Are you denying what he wrote? That's a foundational premiss Baden. He wrote it. He be...

What? :brow: Does this somehow exonerate him from saying that thought comes into existence through words?

Thanks.

I offered valid criticism. I received ad hom and red herring.

Whatever Baden. :brow: He wrote that thought comes into existence through words. No mangling needed. He's clear. He's wrong. If he meant some thought(...

My father once said to me "Michael, behave." in a somber and serious, but not at all angry, voice. I was around three to three and a half. I answered,...

That question has already been adequately answered. What more proof could anyone ask for? I was disagreeing with... ...because the author kept being r...

Using words doesn't always require thinking about using words. Answering the question of what some word or other means does. The latter is metacogniti...

Rubbish. Some. Certainly. Most. Certainly. Not all. It takes pre-existing thought to learn words/language.

Thank you kind sir. Nice to be welcomed. Reflective thought - strictly speaking - could be characterized as any and all thought/belief about what's ha...

Unfortunately, because I'm aware of the fondness you have for Hume(he is the man), the mud that the wheels are stuck in is - in part - Humean. Hume do...

There are new reflections. Things like learning.

Hey Un. Interesting vein you've taken here. The identity 'misfit' is just as much a result of the ritual 'diagnosis' as the identity 'schizophrenic'. ...

The irony...

And there you have it... exactly as I initially charged. Talk of information at the level of DNA presupposes agency where none is warranted. The idea ...

You should read it through a bit more carefully. There are those, like yourself, who want/desire to say that things like bacteria have agency. They ar...

This is more along the lines of what's appropriate here.

You're defining agency in such a way that Ajax toilet bowl cleaner and rocks have it.

You rejected that in lieu of Ajax and rocks. There's nothing left for me to say here. You've proven exactly what I stated earlier regarding sneaking a...

Maybe this helps... Calling mental correlations between different things "thought/belief" is a practice I've arrived at by virtue of taking proper acc...

I reject the conventional notion of proposition. It's tied up in far too much mistake. Thought/belief and statements thereof are the sort of thing tha...

No. Clearly set out the referent of "it is(it's)"... What exactly is being determined again that is a proposition beforehand? So... During the time pe...

I take it that this one to which you refer is mental correlation? I do not disagree. However, that barely scratches the surface. That's not the only t...

So... "The cat is on the mat" is not a true statement/proposition unless we look to determine if it is? :brow: Certainly the cat is either on the mat ...

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:roll: You win, Meta. You win. The Ajax(a household cleaning agent) that I clean my toilet with has agency. The cleaning is the agency. Perfectly reas...

Yeah we certainly disagree here. You're neglecting the difference between relationships, of which not all require thought/belief, and drawing correlat...