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Yes, I suppose you can adopt him or her. Might grow on you. All we pigs do is wallow, poop, and eat. Not much fucking.

Don't be so self-abusive! I think, that "meaning" is a psychological construct. So, perhaps you need to understand your own psychology to determine wh...

Yes, solipsism is not an incoherent view in my opinion. The limits of my language are the limits of my world.

Well, at least the President isn't entirely exonerated and Mueller didn't really engage in doublespeak. Though, at least his public appearance is reas...

Wallowsome.

Here it is again: https://i.imgur.com/iUSgxri.png https://i.imgur.com/WvH335D.png

I'd be interested in anyone's take on the interpretation of God in the Tractatus? We have encountered in this thread the notion of solipsism, and it b...

Hi Rein. The Cynics chided the Stoics for not partaking, as least not in as an extreme an extent as the Cynics, in voluntary discomfort. I guess it's ...

Sorry to necromance an old thread, mods... I am feeling audacious and have a nagging interest in utilizing the Barcan formula to prove the coherence o...

Wittgenstein is mind-expanding.

Hi, I'm looking for a good book on QML. Any suggestions welcome.

I predict a war with Iran before the end of his presidency. Someone hand me some Prozac and wine...

Yes, you essentially are hurting yourself by being unethical in a pantheistic universe.

Effin Elon Musk... Capitalist heroism at its finest.

Actually, solipsism is pretty hard to escape in a pantheistic universe. You can use the Barcan formula to prove this even in a universe with a near in...

Perhaps it is interesting to note, that the USSR was a socialist republic, much as North Korea and Cuba identify themselves as socialist republics. Go...

That's actually quite paradoxical. If your aware of social Darwinism along with conservative sentiment that statement doesn't contrive with those doct...

Is it still a joke if it makes you sad?

I'm saying that people aren't as malleable as any frustrated psychologist might know.

Communism will eventually prevail; because society is composed of people, and it is the ethical thing to do. Maybe not in a 100 or 1000 years; but, ev...

I'm not a big fan of the notion that behaviors or memories can be unlearned or fundamentally altered. These memories tend to stick out and one identif...

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Part of me wants to say that psychology is anti-rational. I mean, if a person was exposed to trauma, abuse, and neglect, and form a resulting aversion...

I'm not sure about this. I suppose you are implying that there is a difference between situation averse and situation indifferent, yes? I don't really...

Cynical, not Stoical...

No, the customer is always right. They might have changed their return policy, as it wasn't Costco. I mean, even Costco with their money back guarante...

Supposedly, not many people deserve to be pleased. Back when I worked in retail and handling returns of products, I soon found out that the favorite w...

Yeah, no thanks. I don't need to be told that we have a pseudo-godfather as a president.

Then what are they associated with?

Rumor has it that Trump is snorting Adderall since cocaine is not available.

Yes, the end is near.

Yeah, Hitler was a precedent in modern day history. My (justified?) paranoia kind of brushes on this issue over in my old thread about profiling leade...

New favorite quote: In every discourse, whether of the mind conversing with its own thoughts, or of the individual in his intercourse with others, the...

To focus this thread on a theme, I think the issue boils down to who deserves "authority" and the issue of "governance". Does that resonate with you?

Could you expand on your views of the TLP's theory of truth along with the Investigations? And, ultimately his final views on theories of truth found ...

Do you think Wittgenstein's goal in OC was at some foundationalist attempt, despite there being a lot of controversy about logical foundationalism in ...

Guy must have done too much cocaine with the prostitutes or something. Someone give me dictator Pence over this guy...

I guess a healthy balance is the issue here. I think, the De Niro attitude fits for the society we live in America. I don't think he's all that a popu...

Could be paranoia, I suppose? Anyway, addressing your response again, I figure that it's a healthy attitude not to become a people pleaser or seek out...

As far as I'm aware, or my attitude at work has always been guided by checking your emotions at the door. I digress because I set standards so high fo...

Your whole argument here is based on the false premise that everyone needs some form of "approval" to justify their attitudes. The "leave me be" attit...

Pretty much my attitude summarized in a picture in regards to trauma, neglect, and unhappiness: https://i.imgur.com/WEIdocD.jpg

That's actually pretty deep. :rofl: Hegelian dialectics always in need of a job I suppose.

Yes, pretty much everything concerning ethics and the mystical.

Because propositional attitudes have no epistemic content. Thus, philosophy is concerned with life as a practice and not a problem that can be solved.

Yep, good philosopher.

I don't know. He despised a lot of philosophers before him and hated Christianity. Can you imagine a world full of people admiring Nietzsche? Not a pl...

Yes, but Nietzsche pretty much the dark psychologist of philosophy trivialized much of philosophy into psychobabble like the will to power and some ot...

After Wittgenstein claimed that most of the problems of philosophy are due to the way we use language, he made the next bold claim and stated that the...

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