creativesoul

Intellectuals question their own mostly adopted worldview. That's where it begins...

Intellectuals are not all alike. At least be mad at the right ones. Oopsie. I see you're not peeved!

True belief is prior to language. True belief corresponds to reality. That correspondence is truth. Correspondence is prior to language. We do not gat...

Looks like that line of thinking is built upon conflating several different notions of "truth" all into one.

That's such a good point.

I wonder if George Floyd could have just moved some things around to improve his own life... ...a knee perhaps? This talk as if anyone can achieve the...

That misses the point entirely. Trump, and each and every individual who refuses to wear a mask in public is taking a risk with another's life. Drunk ...

Everyone is not Einstein. Not everyone can successfully start from nothing and acquire a comfortable peaceful free lifestyle, not that he did, it's ju...

And if one's morality is such that they cannot do both, be free and help the society(by helping others in as many ways as they reasonably can) they ha...

Oh look... the very privileged point of view.

We've established that all sorts of different utterances 'following' that form can be stated. None of them can be believed by the speaker at the time ...

Privilege talk sheds light on underprivileged people. That's a good thing, if we're aiming at an equitable, free, and fair society. Some use it as a w...

My immediate thought is that it does not follow from anything you wrote that truth is an inconsistent concept. In fact, I would - and have quite succe...

There is no right to not be killed by drunk drivers either. Laws against it are to protect people from those who do not care enough about other people...

The Democratic convention is talking about a platform that moves to the left of where we are today, which isn't saying much. But, it's also left of wh...

Nice addition Banno. So, I'm firmly in the realist camp, in that regard. However, I do not hold that predictions about what will happen can be true/fa...

"How do you know?" is a fine question to ask. Do you find that there is a single universal answer(outline or some such) to everything that we know?

Well, Moore is dead wrong. He offers an example of one being mistaken and another pointing that out, while it's happening, and then goes on to ask why...

I was thinking more along the lines of what one would say if they knowingly believed a falsehood, which of course cannot happen.

There's a common denominator between Moore's paradox and the liar. Do you see it too?

Well, Trump has certainly shown some gaping holes and fundamental flaws in the American system.

Short term? Current administration? Sure. Certainly there will be no admission of wrong doing and/or being mistaken by those people.

Those have been around for a long time as well. What worries me about them is that the president has recently been using federal officers that do not ...

I hope so, but until enough influential people start thinking, talking, and acting in(on) such terms, the masses will not follow.

That already happened. That is not what you 'said'. Even if it were, it's wrong anyway. Woke people are emerging. Rednecks have been with us for a ver...

That's part of the unraveling.... and a big one.

Ah, the fantasy of unfettered freedom. A myth, at best. A weapon to be used against others, at worst. No one on the face of this earth is unaffected b...

Another part of the unraveling is the sheer amount of falsehood and/or ridiculous conspiracy theories being perpetuated by the president and his close...

Yeah. I was very disturbed when I saw and heard people beginning to speak as if doing what's necessary for containing Covid19 was somehow infringing u...

Indeed. A representative form of government acts on behalf on what's in the best interest of all it's citizens, each and every time it can do so. That...

The health and safety of all Americans is not at all a concern so long as it does not impact on your(one's own) personal freedoms? That's the mindset ...

Free will starts when one realizes that the will is not free from influence, and so begins choosing the influences as wisely as one can...

It speaks to the OP in so many more ways than are obvious at first blush. This pandemic and it's effects/affects, are symptoms of much deeper problems...

Not sure how to take the "pettifogger" comment. Talk of existing and/or existence is fraught, perhaps?

What about you... personally? Set the unquenchable thirst for explanatory power aside... Answer the question.

That's seems closer to what I'm arguing. How do you arrive at Santa does not exist from that?

Why so much resistance? Anyone who knows how to use the English language, particularly those who know what a representative form of government is supp...

I just thought the aspect of change was interesting. It seemed common sense to me. Something that does not exist cannot change. You've simply taken th...

Can't ask Santa a question. He is a character in a story.

So, things that do not exist change by virtue of doing things with other things that do not exist?

Not following... How does something that does not exist... change?

I did not ask what "the US likes to say". I asked if the American government should do everything it possibly can to minimize the harm caused to Ameri...

Domains of discourse? Care to flesh it out a bit? Do they exist?

Does the story exist? If the story exists, and Santa is a part of that story, then... Help me out here. How does something that does not exist... chan...

Is that a modus tollens?

So things that do not exist drive helicopters?

Elaborate?

No takers? Surely someone here would argue that Santa Claus does not exist.

I asked if the American government should do everything it possibly can to minimize the harm caused to Americans.

Forests and trees... All views share the very same context. We are all in the forrest of a representative government in which the elected officials(ar...