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(1) You are conflating the essence (meaning of life) with the example of it. Even if the essence is not cultural it may very well be that every exampl...

Yes but it implies that thinking about the world is not "diluted 2nd hand experience of reality over the real thing"

Please refer to Aristotle's Physics, Book 4 part 10. Aristotle defines time as the measure of motion. I think this is a perfect definition. It is some...

Our understanding of the world is only thoughts. There are no forces or atoms or whatever in the world. All of those are simply what we think about th...

I think we largely know what to do. Only a few details are wanting. The problem is convincing the masses to go along with the solution. Look at the pa...

Dude I've been advocating for civil discourse for years. Generally what happens is people call me names up until the point I demonstrate them wrong an...

Causality as envisioned in this way is nonunique. I'm not saying you're wrong but that your point doesn't have anything to do with mine. Just because ...

I also think people without actual avatar images shouldn't be allowed to post :razz:

It won't let me... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/9919/against-excellence

Libertarianism is predicated on the use of lawsuits to settle disputes between individuals. Thus in order to make the system effective it must have a ...

Your ideas are good ones, which is precisely why we shouldn't implement them. Refer to my post Against Excellence for the reasons.

You must consider your use of the word knowledge in the thought experiment you wrote. If you know something, by definition it can't be changed. Thus, ...

Republicans aren't a political party anymore. They're just a faction intent on destroying the country.

Trump represents a moving of the goalposts. The real legacy of Trump will be Republicans doing antics like they did in this election in every single e...

So I suppose you support a socialist economic model with a jobs guarantee?

I think there is a flaw in the argument that only the harm to others matters. It is a bare assertion. If I harm myself or if another harms me, I am ha...

I guess that Antifa also tricked Trump into giving speeches to those same protesters inciting them to march on the Capitol building. Source

The world is falling apart because of Global Warming. But yes, it's all Trump's fault.

What is the "this" about which you speak?

Amazing to think that the left being full of people calling cops pigs might make some cops unhappy with the left.

Support for Trump and his populism must be sky-high among police. I'm not saying this sarcastically. Just look at exit polling data from the Georgia r...

Here's exactly what I mean about leftist strategy: https://youtu.be/LN1LmXpQQQs?t=1518 I agree with Krystal Ball's strategic suggestion although I don...

What's the progression of the Trump-fueled populism from here? My guess is the next step is assassinations. They definitely can't allow a blue senate.

How should a leftist who is genuinely interested in strengthening the position of left politics in America respond to this crisis? It seems that there...

Many more people will die from Ohio's new stand your ground because a black person walking up to a white person is inherently threatening.

I don't even know what NOS stands for.

So this Baden guy is actually an admin on this site and all he does is insult people who have different views than him? Starting to wonder if I've was...

The following thought just occurred to me and although I'd do better to keep it to myself, well anyway... Many species of animal mate through a what i...

I haven't had the chance to read all of this in detail so apologies in advance if I repeat something already stated or otherwise step on anyone's toes...

When a right-winger goes through the normal process of reserving a university space, are they "taking over university space"? When the protest against...

I'll just leave this rather trollish quip here for you to reflect on. And remember what I said about how certain Antifa identifying people react to th...

You said "Empirical natural philosophy" which I interpreted to mean "empiricism". And someone obviously cares what I think since you and another perso...

Maybe we could turn the whole idea around and find the perfect answer, then work out what question must have been asked in order to elicit this answer...

I want to return to the OP. It suggests that systems of rights do not determine what is right or wrong. Rights therefore only function for legal purpo...

I would prefer to attack this line of reasoning by arguing against PSU, not by denying that everything has a cause but by denying that the cause must ...

I think you'd have to order them the other way. They arise in group theory as the additive inverse of the natural numbers.

Unfortunately these lawmakers will need to be removed from office according to a democratic process, which is ironic since they are pledging their sup...

Isn't the cause in this context the thing that brings something else into existence, or alternatively the reason for something happening? In other wor...

This is the exact verbal violence, meant to silence me, that I am pointing out is symptomatic of emerging fascism. You are exemplifying the exact diff...

I think it is quite controversial to place science within empiricism. In particular, it gives too much credit to the rather weak arguments made by emp...

I think it's pretty clear that assuming time and space are real objects which exist outside of consciousness inevitably leads to the conclusion that t...

Insofar as someone is just doing nonviolent, legal acts like this, meant to clean up the community, he is not an Antifa-scist, but an Antifascist. The...

I read Capital in the 21st Century over the summer, and it was good. I would have totally read this with you if I'd known about this forum several mon...

I think you're trivializing Tim's argument to some degree. For one thing, since Tim started off the discussion with Kant's definition, we can presume ...

AFIAK the typical translational convention is to use "same" for situations where Plato compares two things, while "identity" refers to a single object...

A useful model of the world is useful because it has something to do with the world. Does freedom really have a more secure metaphysical status than c...

It was directed at me, and I deserve it. I'm actually starting to regret making this thread now. I'm definitely saying a lot of ridiculous things at t...

I'm not an empiricist. Consequently, I don't need to base my arguments on facts.

Animals before the frikkin market.

Since a cause implies an effect and an effect implies a cause, the only way to make sense of them is to have something which simultaneously determines...