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Sigh... The intellectual poverty in comparing government finances to private business... It's a shame that many, if not most, Americans have been brai...

It's never a good sign when one supplants valid objection with attacking a strawman. It's not the only time that the government provided stimulus(prin...

Because of the clearly demonstrable quantifiable harm done to the consumer and less fortunate members of society. The market is supposed to be a vehic...

Whomever wants to increase profit margin and can get away with raising prices.

I find it odd that you keep blaming inflation on the government printing more money, while offering a graph that clearly disputes that... Look at 2009...

Indeed. Hey Apo! We both know our positions differ in remarkable ways. But the quote above shows the most important similarity between our views. The ...

To the OP... Would Occam's razor be considered "atheist dogma"? :brow:

Faith is hope accompanied by delusional optimism that good things will come to those who believe with all their heart, do not doubt regardless of the ...

If knowing all the physical facts includes knowing the meaning of all the terms that refer to different ranges in the visible spectrum, then it is imp...

Need a link...

I'm not entirely sure what the precise wording is. It matters though. Seems to me that Mary's room aims at the wrong target.

Yeah... :joke: Probably a direct result of growing up so poor... much easier to satisfy!

Yeah, I've been accused of looking at things differently than most people. I could always increase production as well and keep the same margin. I'm ce...

Well, his response to Mary's room doesn't support that explanation/characterization. It's similar to my own thinking, or at least seems to dovetail ni...

There are greedy sellers... that's not a fiction.

Sure, that's exactly what was happening in the housing market, and perhaps still is.

Well, I'd question whether or not Dennett holds that one can know everything there is to know about seeing color without seeing color. In fairness, I ...

I understand that that's what some believe. I do not share that belief. I do not believe that one can know about color vision without ever having seen...

Exactly. It was a fantastical hypothetical. It's not going to happen either way. However, for the sake of mind experiments I was simply pointing out t...

Inflation IS an increase in retail price/consumer cost. The cause of inflation is the desire to maximize/increase profit. I personally like for the de...

I've never denied that printing money is a factor. I've basically set out how it is. I'm denying that printing money causes inflation. That line of th...

Printing money to provide stimulus in 2009 did not result in inflation(that's not the only counterexample either). Printing money in 2020 to provide s...

Let's do... Add to the hypothetical one caveat... it's all done in secret. Sellers have no idea. Do you really think that the addition of the money al...

Ah... so ad homs supplant argument, valid objection, or adequate explanation. For whatever it's worth, your assumptions about me are as wrong as your ...

If the experience of eating rattlesnake only includes the taste, then sure, you'll know quite a bit of what eating a rattlesnake will be like, if you ...

I think it targets certain positions that share that presupposition...

They're both putting meat in your mouth and chewing...

Mary's room is based upon the all too common inadequate academic notions of thought, belief, knowledge, and perception. It presupposes that it is poss...

Eating venison is like eating escargo... by that standard of "what it's like"...

Those of us who believe that would be mistaken. Recent history shows otherwise. The financial crash at the beginning of the Obama administration prove...

This was my first reply here. The reader can read through the thread and judge for themselves how true it rings...

Oh... and you're equivocating terms to an extent I've not witnessed in quite some time. Particularly the term "perception(s)". In addition, it seems t...

Is that the acceptable standard for all accounting practices, or just some of them? Are you claiming that the position you're arguing in favor of succ...

So, according to the position you're putting forth... Organs are extrinsic representations of senses within one's perception. Senses are not existenti...

Yup. That article points to some of the results of all the deregulation over the last five or six decades... The lack of antitrust laws...

Ah... whatever the market will bear... What someone would be willing to pay(what the product is worth) is irrelevant to the point. Completely. The cau...

An increase in consumer cost of good and services is inflation. The amount of money printed does not increase cost. Supply shortage does not increase ...

Sure, you can draw a distinction between your perception of the tree and the tree. I'm just saying that that distinction is notably different than the...

This is comparing the tree and your 'perception' of the tree. I thought we were discussing Noumena and phenomena. If the tree is a proxy for Noumena, ...

Feathers and all... If rattlesnake tastes like chicken, then you may know what one tastes like. The experience of eating the rattlesnake is more than ...

I'm struggling to make much sense of your taxonomy. It seems you're lumping thought, belief, perception, imagination, olfactory, visual, tactile, audi...

Hmmm... but you explicitly forbid physicalist accounts from appealing to obscurity??? :yikes:

Hey Janus! I think, and I could be wrong, that Srap was attempting to help you experience the untenability of the thing in itself.

Yup. It is my understanding that Kant posits the Noumena precisely as a negative limit for human knowledge. I take the general gist of it to be someth...

Exactly. It's not 'like' anything else... which is the point.

Yeah, you're right. On its face, it's false. I second guessed the wording when writing that, but wrote it anyway.

If your point is that such questions(what is it like to..) can be used in common parlance to generate meaningful discussion, then sure, I agree. If yo...

So, what is it like to watch a sunset?

When we ask, "What is it like to watch a sunset?", what exactly are we asking for? :brow: Does that question even have an answer? It seems clear to me...

Nor do I. My mistake for not being clear enough. What I meant was that Noumena is a conception that rests upon logical possibility alone and is untena...