Leghorn

...and these same trucks are the most raucous things around here, their jake-brakes jug-jug-jug-jug-jugging down the road so loud you have to raise yo...

Well, first of all, I’m not romanticizing the past. I’m saying that the horse served an evident purpose to mankind for millennia, and that the chief g...

Indeed that is the greatest evil of the automobile, that it replaced the horse, and severed man from his natural relationship with that animal. Only v...

@"Bitter Crank" Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

This is all very bohring, boaring, booring, borrowing, BORING!...did I leave one out? Oh yes...boering too.

This recalled to me a passage from Allan Bloom’s “Closing of the American Mind”, p. 177: “Rousseau’s intransigence set the stage for a separation of m...

And behind the words, which constitute conceptual boundaries, is an unbroken continuum of meaning which is common to all languages. It’s like color, t...

I disagree. The racial heritage/ancestry of ppl is universally felt as identity by them...or at least was so felt, back when it mattered, before the i...

The question is whether this issue is a metaphysical or political one. There is talk of LGBTQ “rights”, for example; are rights in the realm of metaph...

@"Bradaction" Do you believe that some ppl are born with the soul of a race different from the one they are identified with, just as some are born wit...

In this forum, all I had to do to get my name changed was to petition the mods. It was an extemporaneous act of mine that so persuaded them...but it w...

@"Bradaction" If I refer to you in the third person, I’m not speaking to you. If I’m speaking to you, I refer to you with the pronoun “you”, which is ...

I think the use of “they” to refer to someone in the third person singular arose from two factors: firstly, it seemed rather clunky to say “he or she”...

Curious that it is ok nowadays to choose your gender, must not your race...definitely not your race. Both these things are, however ambiguous, the pro...

If you had really cared that much about the substance of the conversation rather than whether someone noticed you or not, then you wouldn’t have had t...

@"Ross Campbell" The reason Hume said that was because, by his day, the Enlightenment had taken over philosophy (Machiavelli, Locke, Hobbes, etc), whi...

This reminded me of when I helped my landlord, Archie, one day repair a vacated room in the boarding house. He needed a hammer (we already had a nail)...

So let me apply this to the example of someone ingesting food though thinking it poison: by ingesting it for the purpose of harming his body, ie as po...

Or don’t we both understand that you considered food in that statement to refer to what is good for the body, and poison what is bad?

In this case, is the word whose meaning is in conflict “food”, in your statement, ?

So you retract this then? . For there you avowed that the intended poison was indeed actually food. To your last response let me point out that the “u...

I failed to notice that you were answering my question by avowing that the substance I ingested was indeed food, though I thought it was poison. Likew...

When you use something for some purpose, does the use of it lie in the outcome or the intent? For example, if I thrust a knife at your throat, intendi...

So if I ingest something, thinking it is poison, with the intent of harming my body, but instead nourish it, would you say the thing I ingested is poi...

@"Pfhorrest" Damn!...I gotta go up. I’ll ask you a further question tomorrow.

@"Pfhorrest" So would you be willing to accept, for the sake of the argument, that the intent of harming the body by the ingestion of poison commonly ...

Do you really believe that people who ingest poison on purpose, in order to commit suicide, are fewer in number than those to whom it is administered ...

And would you define poison as something ingested with the intent of harming the body?

I should have phrased my question rather like this: would you define food as something that is ingested with the intent to nourish the body?

Would you then define food as anything ingested?

Then would you also agree it follows from this that we cannot define food as dry nourishment for the body?

I don’t want you to be equivocal here. We’re talking about an important thing; what is good and bad for the body. So let me ask you again: do you or d...

Did he offer any evidence for this? He was certainly creative in either leaving out the indefinite article where it was needed, or failing to make a c...

So do you say then that subsumed under the general category “food” is a scale much like that of the integers, where the positive numbers represent “no...

Was it the OP itself that was offensive, or something he posted within it?

That’s exactly why I’m talking about souls. When I was a child I learned that the soul is the part of you that flies off to heaven after you are dead;...

A six-pack of cheap ice-beer would have effected the same. Just remember however: though the Persians decided their enactments of an evening in their ...

So we have a continuum of nourishment here where some food is more nourishing than other food. Not only that, we also have some food that is “negative...

It seems to me that it is instinctive to conflate identity with goodness. We do this whenever, for example, we take a bite of food, grimace and exclai...

It depends on whether we perceive our emotion to be justified. First comes the emotion (as you have suggested); then, the rational part of the soul we...

@"TheHedoMinimalist" I think you read my anecdote too quickly, negligently and thoughtlessly: If you reread my post, you should realize that she is MY...

It would be irreproachable to consider psychology a subset of biology—if the phenomena of the soul could be deduced from those of the brain; alas, the...

That is, whatever she does is not attributable to any outside influence, but only to her will. A human being is assumed to have independence from all ...

Your ingenuous words here, “technically”, “moralized”, “framed”, “insert”, “agenda”, betray that you perceive no distinction between the true impulse ...

@"TheHedoMinimalist" “Self-help philosophy” literally admits that it is not about morality—if morals has anything to do with our interactions with OTH...

Consider this scenario: my wife leaves me, takes her things and goes to live somewhere else. I assume you would consider this a physical consequence o...

The Education of Henry Adams, autobiography of same. Just read first three chapters tonight (1838-1854). Very eye-opening, illuminating recollection o...

Depends on the sort of animal: if it’s just annoying, rescue it. If it tries to bite you, kill it!...unless it’s human.

@"IanBlain" I hate killing anything...until it stings me. Then I swat it until I knock its head off its thorax...as I did this morning with a yellow-j...

I shed the loudspeaker; all I’m left with is the chick-en.