Hume would doubt that we could know that. The doubt would rest on his observation of the problem of induction, which is related to this cause and effe...
It's an interesting demonstration of the extent to which philosophy allows of different interpretations that while you and I both have an affinity for...
We don't have to choose between them. They are different because they deal with different subject matter. Physics deals with predictions of future obs...
Hume was writing at a time shortly after Newton, when Newton and his theories had the status of the Beatles and their works - so Hume and the people f...
I once heard a story of a young woman that was visited by an angel that told her she would bear a child that would save humanity from its suffering. I...
It is paradoxical because it should make an exception for that one thing. That is, it should say "The only thing you can be certain of is that you can...
This question was answered in my antepenultimate post. You responded with an opinion, based on a handful of expat Americans whose opinion you sought, ...
I continue to hope that Trump won't be impeached because, amongst other things, that would make him a martyr of the hard right and lessen or even reve...
They managed to convince them in Australia in 1996-7. In fact they convinced them to take the guns not to the roadside but all the way to the local po...
My impression is that that is not the reason. If it were the reason, the debate would be about the details of draft legislative bills. But it is not. ...
You ask a number of valid technical questions about how a proposed gun control act would work. I don't see the questions as being important to the phi...
I think they do. In particular, the observation: seems to apply equally to any other discipline that has mountains of research, including natural and ...
I don't think alienation from aspects of production - be they factors or products - is intrinsically a problem. What is a problem is alienation from o...
Unrealised gains on an asset are 'realised' when the asset is sold. This reflects that the gains are made 'real' in the sense that they will for the f...
The same way most persuasions are done in the real world - by making them feel they do not want to eat meat - by telling a story that changes how they...
As I said before, I have no interest in validity. It is only you that is talking about validity. It's a glass half full or empty thing isn't it? We ca...
I see no reason to postulate an aether, nor any reason to postulate something to 'constitute spatial extension'. I see spatial extension as something ...
I suspect you are thinking of the particle as being made of 'stuff' (aka 'substance'). That way lie irresolvable paradoxes that Nagarjuna, amongst oth...
If the parallels 0 to 9 is seeing with Bourland's E-Prime are relevant - and I feel they might be (I was wondering the same thing before I saw her pos...
We are not talking about 'authoritative'. To wish for a moral argument to be authoritative is to wish for the impossible. You said the literature was ...
It's not going nowhere. I became a vegetarian and started giving significant amounts to Oxfam and similar organisations after reading Peter Singer's '...
Why would they not be? What makes something a suitable moral issue? I don't know anybody that says that. Let's not confuse acceptance that one cannot ...
There is a stereotype that vegans are judgy and preachy. Perhaps that used to be the case. I don't know. But in recent years, as there has been an inc...
Yes it is counterproductive, and sometimes unfair, in that context as well. I find most accusations of racism regrettable, no matter who utters them. ...
It has no answer because it is a false dichotomy. The question presupposes that one either believes W or one believes ~W. It erroneously omits the pos...
Criticism of those in Australia that seek to deny or downplay the genocides of Australian indigenous people are right and just, as are those of people...
Most climate scientists would disagree. My understanding is that one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas accumulation is animal agriculture....
It doesn't compromise it. It just makes it contextual. I would consider it a moral error for me to steal a loaf of bread in most circumstances. But if...
Simply because I expect the ratio of time spent, to interesting, useful and reliable information learned, to be very low. It's the same time-allocatio...
I think you are mixing up Baden with unenlightened. I'm not aware that un was ever a prof. Based on the depth of insight displayed by un's posts on he...
A genetic fallacy would be if I said that a claim made on the website was wrong, because the website is biased, and produced no other reason for belie...
I wouldn't suggest wasting any time on the Horowitz site. In the interests of charity, I had a quick look to see if there were links to credible sourc...
No, but one needs a report from a reliable source. The fact that you have, despite receiving repeated requests, failed to provide one suggests it woul...
I think Hume is making what would these days be called a psychological observation, not a philosophical argument. He is observing that people in gener...
Whether there is an after life or not, the death of somebody I love means I will see them no more, and that is likely to make me sad. For many people,...
This works on some computers and not on others. It always works on my home computer, which is Firefox on Mint Linux, but only works intermittently on ...
That's all fair enough, if someone puts a regress argument. But the alternative is to just question 'how do you know that?' and continue questioning u...
Most people who describe themselves as conservatives these days are not conservative at all, but reactionary. Conservatism is about when in doubt, sti...
I think that in popular impressions the technical side of music and the emotional side of 'technical' work like maths are both greatly underestimated....
I assume you don't subscribe to the view that all use of military equipment is unjust, or you would not be asking the question. There is a philosophic...
If we replace the 'we all' by 'many of us' - or possibly 'most of us', although that would be more subject to contestation - the point is solid, and h...
I am fairly anti-capitalist these days but, for the sake of what looks like an interesting discussion, and because I enjoy playing Devil's Advocate, I...
'allowed' has nothing to do with it. It's about decency. If there is an issue that literally affects the ability of others to survive, and you don't t...
What would be good enough would be to simply keep quiet about it, and let others that take the massacres seriously, and those who live there and have ...
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