Straw man. I never said that if we talk about something it "exists". I said that if we are able to talk about something then it must exist in some for...
You used Harry Potter twice in a sentence, so Harry Potter must exist in some way, shape, form, constitution, state, etc.--even if it is only as symbo...
No, that does not address the question of the possibility of something categorically not existing, which is the context that my words you quote came f...
The problem is not being addressed by the responses here. Everything exists. It is a question of what form it exists in (only in people's imaginations...
In an article in The Sun Magazine, Gary Greenberg says that, if I recall correctly, as part of writing The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Ps...
While I am still asleep, long before I wake up, part of my mind says "It's just a dream". Some dreams are horrible. Maybe they are manifestations of m...
What about the idea, proposed by some physicists, that we live in a static universe and, therefore, time is an illusion? And all these arguments about...
Read the work of David Smail. See his arguments about how psychological distress is the result of one's position in society, not something that origin...
Every individual "out there" has, at all times, some condition/state that is not considered normal. But if we see a person walking with a limp, strugg...
It said Platonism for me. I tend to have a postmodern worldview. I wonder how Plato would feel about modernity / the Enlightenment. The biggest proble...
Now that I think about it, I wish I really had been the "annoying pupil" who was "constantly causing distractions" like you insinuate I was. It would ...
Nah. In college, outside of the natural sciences, I experienced something for the first time: instructors self-conscious about the nature of their dis...
With cash. Cash from a high-interest health savings account. Cash that he/she is depositing into that account rather than using to pay premiums to a m...
Eliminate the middle man. Patients should pay providers directly. Have high-interest health savings accounts for everybody. The interest rate could go...
Peaceful = not willingly/voluntarily condoning, starting, celebrating, glorifying or supporting; nor willingly/voluntarily, knowingly indirectly contr...
I didn't think that Kuhn went that far out on a structuralist limb. But I have only read commentary from other people about his work rather than his a...
No, it doesn't I did not ask about why people "heed" anything. I observed that people--in the culture I am part of at least--submit to science like it...
I don't think that that does justice to what Kuhn really said. At the risk of oversimplifying, I would summarize Kuhn this way: science, contrary to r...
None of that addresses the way that everybody bows before science. I appreciate your well-developed perspective on postmodernism, but it has nothing t...
I juxtaposed that with encouraging students to think for themselves and form their own conclusions. You are ignoring that context. I think the best ed...
"What good does it do to adjust and integrate the self in a culture that is itself sick? What does it mean to be a well-adjusted Nazi? Is that mental ...
Kindergarten at a church notwithstanding, I attended public schools in the suburbs in the U.S. I think that the flaw at the heart of any controversy o...
I remember sitting in science and math classes quietly skeptical of what was being presented to me and accepted by everybody else involved as airtight...
I already said that I have studied all of that on my own. Did you not read my post? Again, I said that I have already studied postmodern theory on my ...
Everybody already had that freedom. But that is not what people mean when they say medical care is a right. Everybody talks about the "pursuit of happ...
To categorically state that any person has a right--a justified claim--to any material good is absurd. It makes sense to say that everybody has the ri...
To say that a cultural innovation is a right is absurd. A college education is a right? Does that mean that societies that had no such thing as "colle...
A right is a justified claim. Many of the things that I hear stated that people have a right to make very little sense. Medical care is a universal hu...
I thought the discipline of history aims to explain the past. Political scientists, economists, sociologists, psychologists--social scientists--might ...
Straw man. I did not "compare" anything. I stated that low wages is just one small pixel in the picture of the plight of people who we supposedly help...
I think that the source of the problem that you are trying to address is the magnified anti-intellectualism in the U.S. (and probably in other Western...
Right. But I would say that all of the issues/problems you list are issues/problems with scientism, not science. The issues/problems you list remind m...
1.) High wages for their labor are not the only thing that the "poor" people you refer to are not getting. They are not getting safe work environments...
If one's well-being is determined by his/her pleasures, and if killing people gives one pleasure, then doesn't reason dictate that his/her well-being ...
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