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No, nobody is forcing US consumers to buy Chinese products, despite their products perhaps being cheaper than US products or European products. I mean...
May 14, 2019 at 00:16
No, this isn't entirely true. It hurts China by decreasing demand for its products within the US. This is like econ 101, so I think you understand the...
May 14, 2019 at 00:04
I'm not quite sure that's true. In basic economic terms, the goal is to impose a deadweight loss cost on products originating from China, supposedly b...
May 13, 2019 at 23:28
Sounds like psychology to my ears. Philosophy has always been a dialectic between multiple parties and not a bilaterial exchange of ideas. However, I ...
May 13, 2019 at 15:48
Hehe, same here. There was an episode in Star-Trek The Original Series, where Kirk was divided into two beings, one with effeminate characteristics an...
May 13, 2019 at 15:36
Well, this is true to the degree that routines are established and tasks (such as working) become repetitive. Also, memory encoding, which degrades wi...
May 13, 2019 at 15:28
I read your bio in the link to your website in your profile. You seem conflicted about academia, where your thoughts are best addressed in terms of gu...
May 13, 2019 at 15:08
Pretty much. I wish I studied more medicine and neuroscience/cognitive science; but, my semi-educated take on the matter is that there is a perceptual...
May 13, 2019 at 14:51
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May 13, 2019 at 13:22
Then, I prescribe some healthy wallowing in the morning and before bed-time. Wallows gracefully.
May 13, 2019 at 11:33
Healthcare of wallowing you say? Well, I suppose I will die of a blood clot from laying in bed all day or a heart attack from the amount of smoking I'...
May 13, 2019 at 11:03
Yes. I agree. It's troubling that we don't always agree to disagree. I like your favorite quote. Withdrawal in disgust is not the same thing as apathy...
May 13, 2019 at 09:52
Hmm, well, then you be the chimp and I'll be the pig.
May 12, 2019 at 23:02
Yes, pig-chimp content.
May 12, 2019 at 23:00
Topic worthy issue. Go ahead and post something about that if you don't mind elaborating.
May 12, 2019 at 22:36
More a concern than anything else. Not any grudge or anything like that.
May 12, 2019 at 22:33
Nope. You seemed less negative, hostile, and angsty back in the old PF if I remember you correctly. More motivated to learn than the above. What happe...
May 12, 2019 at 22:28
It's a sunny day here in Westlake Village, California, as usual. How about you? And, I'm glad your cat is fine.
May 12, 2019 at 22:18
Abort, abort, disengage!
May 12, 2019 at 22:12
Sorry, I was just bringing up some questions that I've accumulated in regards to Wittgenstein's Investigations, that are lingering in my mind. Thanks ...
May 12, 2019 at 22:09
Haha, I'm not that stupid. You don't care about the destination of this thread, just endless rationalizations of your own drug habit, with tim serving...
May 12, 2019 at 22:07
Yeah; but, you take joy and glee in the whole process, whatever that process entails for you. Anyway, hope you stocked up on your drugs to help you in...
May 12, 2019 at 21:52
Here is the context: 323. “What is internal is hidden from us.” — The future is hidden from us. — But does the astronomer think like this when he calc...
May 12, 2019 at 20:48
Good point there, Merkwurdichliebe. Food for thought, I suppose.
May 12, 2019 at 20:32
So, juxtapose what you have just said with: 327. If a lion could talk, we wouldn’t be able to understand it. I must insist that this is at the very le...
May 12, 2019 at 19:24
Then what is it?
May 12, 2019 at 19:07
If you mean by prelinguistic as intuitionalist, then I agree.
May 12, 2019 at 19:05
Tim, you do realize that his behavior is no different than that of a troll at this point?
May 12, 2019 at 18:41
Chimp-pig content generator...
May 12, 2019 at 17:50
Yeah, descriptively there's really no solution to how we ought to go about these problems, as Wittgenstein would point out. But, prescriptively we are...
May 12, 2019 at 15:11
I'm not trying to imply that women have some moral "authority" over or pertaining to matters concerning ethics and moral conduct. I guess, all I'm say...
May 12, 2019 at 15:00
Ideally, yes. In practice? Not so much...
May 12, 2019 at 14:54
Happy mother's day! :100: :party: :flower:
May 12, 2019 at 14:46
Happy mother's day! :100: :party: :flower:
May 12, 2019 at 14:42
Yeah, I don't feel as though women get enough credit in society and specifically within the field of philosophy. There's a repugnant feeling of male s...
May 12, 2019 at 14:11
Wallowsome...
May 12, 2019 at 13:37
More chimp-pig content, please.
May 12, 2019 at 13:21
Thanks, I'll have a read. I've come recently to the conclusion that the later Wittgenstein was more of a neo-pragmatist in his adherence to forms of l...
May 12, 2019 at 13:19
I'm going to designate this thread as a place where we can talk about Fear and Trembling or alternatively about K's Concept of Anxiety. I hope more me...
May 12, 2019 at 04:31
Oh, yes. That is the chimp-pig manifest. It also goes about the name of agent orange/orangutan/Cheeto...
May 12, 2019 at 03:48
What may I ask are they? I haven't yet figured out this aspect of Wittgensteins philosophy?
May 12, 2019 at 02:11
What Marx got wrong, was his slant of microeconomic thought in regards to productivity and capitalism. It's rather a daunting task to try and address ...
May 11, 2019 at 21:44
It's interesting to note that foundational doctrines and structuralist assertions within the field of philosophy have only led to very few bedrock or ...
May 11, 2019 at 21:18
I can't but feel as though Kierkegaard is drawing out the subject/object divide here between God and the individual. In of itself, this can cause anxi...
May 11, 2019 at 20:41
I suppose you can say so. Though, I don't understand the use of the term "timeless thermodynamic phenomena"... This would be true if no constants exis...
May 11, 2019 at 20:32
Thanks for bringing this up. I always understood time as an emergent phenomenon from lower dimensions upward, instead of the absolutism of higher dime...
May 11, 2019 at 20:21
OK, now I can see what he means to address (by proxy) anxiety, dread, sin, and other labile emotions through explication of this concept of inwardness...
May 11, 2019 at 20:19
But, if I'm understanding you correctly, then in a deterministic universe where a perfect unchanging equilibrium persists, then time, understood as a ...
May 11, 2019 at 20:13
OK, then please explain how you are using the term "equilibrium" in more detail if you don't mind...
May 11, 2019 at 20:09
The same guy that got banned in the Scruton thread? nvm, explained in the Bannings thread.
May 11, 2019 at 20:06