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Nice to see my own thought and belief be verified. The OP cannot admit of believing what s/he writes. We've arrived at either an insincere speaker or ...

Either you cannot or you will not answer a simple 'yes or no' question. Neither is acceptable. When you enter into a public philosophy forum and say t...

Do you believe what you write?

Do you believe what you write?

Do you believe what you write?

No. I am not claiming that.

The usual sign of having no argument... Ad homs aren't acceptable at this juncture.

The OP has either no clue about thought and belief or is an insincere speaker. Neither warrants any further attention...

Generality is the essence that a collection of individuals would have in common... if they did. They don't.

I am asked where my 'argument' is. I give the location. An astute reader can peruse the thread for themselves as a means to read my comments here. Aft...

Your approach presupposes agency where none is warranted. Ockham's razor applies. If dropping the notions of intent and purpose requires excluding fin...

Assuming a sincere speaker... Statements are statements of thought and belief. Positive assertions are statements of belief. "Science prioritizes evid...

As a general note regarding your approach Apo... I find that your approach presupposes agency where none is warranted. Drop the notions of intent and ...

Click on my avatar. Click on "comments" icon. Scroll down looking for comments with this thread title. Read for yourself. Much of the discourse betwee...

It's been made heretofore. Go look.

On doing metaphysics... All discourse consists entirely in/of statements of thought and belief. Doing metaphysics consists entirely of discourse. Doin...

There's a marked difference between not being able to draw and maintain a dichotomy and rejecting it based upon grounds of inadequacy... Try again.

You're very welcome Sam. I've been mainly remarking about your actual replies, especially when following clearly rude remarks. In that, your behaviour...

I find it rather interesting that an entire school of thought and belief has arisen as a means to sophisticate what is nothing more than unsophisticat...

What's more puzzling; attributing meaning that is possible, or attributing meaning that is not? The notion of "generic" is 17th century. Aristotle liv...

I wonder if you saw what I've said about this matter. Reason comes in different 'kinds'. Some kinds of reason are most certainly dependent upon writte...

Indeed. This is at the heart of the matter as far as I'm concerned. What counts as being rational. This is one of those things that we do prior to bec...

Well definitions are notoriously difficult for all sorts of reasons. I'm not arguing against definitions per se. I'm arguing against what looks like a...

Sarcasm doesn't write well does it? Looks like we agree that Aristotle's notion is lacking.

Being A is essential to being B. Not all B's are A. :-}

If we are looking to define humans in terms of what's necessary, required, and/or essential to being a human...

With regard to the bit about generics... We are forced to attribute meaning to generics that does not follow from what was actually stated. "Ducks lay...

You're calling false belief 'commonsense knowledge'. It is most certainly relevant for me to point it out. Not my problem if others do not say what th...

If it is the case that not all A's are B, then 'A's are B' is false. I've granted Aristotle's terms Jeep. I've subsequently argued for why his concept...

Gratuitous assertions won't do Jeep. Explain for me. Always ready to learn something new...

The truth or falsity of 'A is B' isn't dependent upon this A or that A being B... No. No. No. Rather... those A's. Those are the ones that help make "...

Knowledge cannot be false. Belief can be false. You're conflating knowledge with belief. The truth or falsity of "humans are bipeds" is wholly and com...

Yup. Some are. Some are not. That's the issue I see. Not enough precision in the claims... Notably, with regard to Aristotle, an impoverished notion o...

The definition of man as being rational is not negated if man is not rational? For the same reasons, being a featherless biped is insufficient for bei...

In some ways I understand it better than you... Study a bit of Davidson.

A dichotomy is not a category.

Reason - as and/or on a whole - most certainly is. However, the attribution/recognition of causality is not.

Note, that I was working from Aristotle's notion of being rational, which stresses that humans are the only rational beings. That would mean that bein...

The point was that what you said was not true. There were other things to do, despite the fact that you and Meta work from different senses of key ter...

Grant the terms. See them through. Talk about the consequences. Compare them. Further scrutinize them.

This dubiously presupposes a completeness that is later represented. I would strongly argue that being rational in the way humans are cannot be succes...

Ah Sam... Witt's influence is strong, is it not? On Certainty in particular. Something tells me that you appreciate making a difference of a good kind...

Well my friend, philosophy can cause one to dig themselves into a hole... The good thing is we can get out and actually do things. Tends to make being...

Both of whom are worthy of admiration...

Regarding the essay... Self-contradiction on page 7. In defending Aristotle's definition of "man", the author says this... With this prima facie point...

Cool. Thanks for the actual Aristotle stuff... I'll check it out and get back with ya. 8-)

Try again apo... Mirror, mirror...

Hard to remember specifics. I remember that we're both autodidacts. I remember admiring your ability to assume a tenet and see it through. I remember ...

Gotta have a worldview prior to finding out it's wrong in some way. Worldviews consist of thought and belief about the world and/or ourselves. That's ...

X-) Looks like the beginnings for many here were reality checks... It has a way of imposing itself upon us. That is actually where it began for myself...