Shawn

Thus, why the ambiguity inherent in philosophy, as opposed to the clear cut nature of science, which the positivists cherished, although fallaciously ...

Another epistemological gap manifest here is how do we know that a tool is being properly used in the context of some inquiry to the truth of some mat...

The whole purpose in a Wittgenstein'ian sense is to know the limits of one's knowledge as to prevent nonsense from arising. So, we just need to know w...

Oh, but, remember about the children! We mustn't forget about them.

Indeed. I figure whereof one cannot speak one ought to remain silent. My puritanical attitude has been tarnished by this mistake. :fear:

Maybe a goat or a lama then?

Tough call. I say dog or lizard to keep the animal tradition up. I don't know if Hanover has exclusive rights to lizard pics so consult with him first...

:lol:

Done. :_)

I am compelled to change my avatar to a chicken. Pick one. I'm thinking a black chicken. http://vrf.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07...

Well, isn't that some form of prophylactic therapy in your mind? To better address any potential future issues that may arise in your mind or in the r...

What you're really talking about is change. That's hard to do through reason alone. Though, I am in the same boat, so to speak, and treat philosophy a...

You seem to have packed in some concepts quite tightly. Could you expand on the above for my simple mind to comprehend? Well, it is the whole purpose ...

Yeah, I tend to edit everything I post. For spelling mistakes and clarification of my position and thoughts about things. Well, they are strong trigge...

Amen.

I believe that one ought not to jump too deep into the pessimism, nihilism, and absurdism rampant in philosophy. It seems like every other day we get ...

See, and this is in my opinion the problem with philosophy or continental philosophy. Namely, that that inner anguish serves as a volition to create a...

Well, this runs deep into what I fundamentally believe philosophy is to many (not all!) people. A coping mechanism meshed with a large amount of the d...

Hmm, your call.

Pick a chicken, just for diversity sake.

It's some strange cycle between birds and cats. Next will be chickens. Who knows such things?

That's a good one. Too bad Wittgenstein's motivation/volition to do philosophy was in large part driven by his tormented soul.

Rereading this I find it important that you mention "motivation". Or the desire to do "good". This leads me to believe that science is devoid of this ...

Generally, yes. There is some ambiguity always present in the process of determining what moral truths are generalizable. There have been some outcome...

One of those epistemological gaps manifesting itself in this thread; but, how do we know the practice of 'philosophy' will be a 'good' thing? And, how...

Interesting. So, you're assuming a process based theory. Namely, that the practice of 'philosophy' itself will lead to 'knowing' what is ethical or mo...

One important distinction that I haven't seen crop up in this thread is that there are conditions or states of being that are a result of individual p...

Yeah, living in fear is no fun. Glad we ended up lucky in the end.

In MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction), you hold your enemies resources, population, buildings, land hostage, and so does your enemy to prevent nuclear...

Hey, will I give them an A for effort instead of adopting MAD policies of holding your enemies population hostage and exclusively saving the same peop...

I like China. They actually build bunkers for citizens in case of a nuclear war, instead of for politicians. And, I don't think they're lunatic like t...

Like what?

The ulterior motive is good PR, rather obviously. China is trying to build something called the One Belt Road or something like that, that would creat...

I'm not sure if anyone has noticed my comment in the other thread, where Hex posted; but, to practice "actual philosophy" requires an epistemic gap in...

That's like asking why a cheesecake is made with cheese. China is communist after all, and most tourists to Marx homeplace are from China.

Then it would all be metaphysics and sophistry then, no?

Ok, well I hope I'm on the same page now. But, my question still is undecided or still stands. That, I only experience this world and not any other. I...

I'm not trolling, so let me recap. You assert that each world is real, as would any other version of me would say upon being asked upon in any other w...

Then, which version of 'me' is the real one? I feel as though I am the only real Posty McPostface living life, and none other.

I find that hard to believe. I always thought the claim that there is no God, a stronger belief than asserting there is a God.

All hail our new King!

Well, that's the point isn't it? The wave function doesn't collapse in MWI. Just splits apart when an eigenstate is realized, as far as I know. So, wh...

What you're describing is the fact that the stochastic distribution of my likelihood of winning the lottery being so low, that I am not experiencing t...

Seems like a circular explanation to me. Why not assert the inconvenient truth and say that consciousness does not factor into the evolution or decohe...

They're gonna milk that cow till people are fed up. Hope that never happens.

Eww? Don't tell me your going to pull some Hanoverism here.

Your not my mom!

True that. Idk, the franchise needs some more creativity. Not that the people at Disney lack it. Just not sure where this is all going.

Well the IMDB rating for it speaks for itself. My ranking is 1. Rogue One, 2. The Force Awakens, 3. The Last Jedi.

No, I meant that you ranked The Force Awakens on number 3 with The Last Jedi as number 2. I felt as thought 2 should have been 3.