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Just to comment on that, I decided to return to college to pursue a degree in philosophy. Long road ahead; but, at least it's something I see myself d...

Don't pass the pipe. I feel like it's laced with some shit the mods concocted.

Man this place is a far cry from the old PF. Starting to feel more and more alienated.

Upon further thought, I think what the issue here is, is treating facts as a correspondence between the world, so-to-speak, out there, and the mental ...

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Uhh, alright. Can't complain about anything apart from still being unsure about going back to college. There's still that lingering doubt hanging arou...

Definitely did not mean to caricature. Sorry if it came off that way.

I feel doubly sorry for Native Americans. Reason being is that they are very gentle spirits and kind and warm and giving, which makes them prone to be...

Sorry, I have no idea what passage you are referring to. I have the book in front of me trying to find what passage you might have in mind.

He never objected that idea explicitly in the Investigations. In fact he talked in great finesse about bedrock beliefs and such, which constitute what...

Then, what is the alternative if that is not the case? As per Wittgenstein in the Tractatus, the totality of facts of either what is or is not the cas...

Yeah, that may be true, pun-intended. But, the ontology of a fact has to be grounded in a statement either being true or false. Does that make 'facts'...

Going back to this... I don't think they are referentially or extensionally equivalent. I think, talking about a fact is different from a statement ba...

From what I've read it seems like there's a couple of logical fallacies being made in the article and hereabouts. Namely, that just because we don't h...

Break time from philosophy. Cheers.

Thanks, I got bummed over it today, but that was just the tip of the iceberg, now we're going to family court, see what comes up, and then onto the di...

How so? An interesting point to make in general.

Looks like we lost the case to enforce the restraining order. Goes back to wallowing.

I'm still waiting for it to happen. In five hours I should know the result. Can't sleep; but, not feeling too hot about it.

I'm a wannabe Stoic, but in reality a Cynic. Oh, the drama!

None of this ambiguity would apply in a formal language like mathematics; but, this isn't the case informally, why is that?

That's not the question here. The question is whether the content they convey is different from each other? Namely, is the statement that the fact the...

My take on the matter is deflationary. There is some implicit metaphysics being pushed by stating 'the fact the grass is green' from 'the grass is gre...

Cat's sure have a good life, given a willing and able provider. Heh.

My cat is getting fatter. That good, I want her to be fat.

No problem Dorothy.

Perhaps you address a different target audience. But, in general, people are inquisitive and interested in new things or at least if it serves their g...

Again, if there's no real alternative to the current state of affairs, then your post is reduced to a type of value judgment or some emotive, *I don't...

I just think you're being unreasonable in your claims to know about human nature in an economy. At the very least, if you live in a democracy, you hav...

Well, you can't say in advance that they won't be happy, or use you as a measuring stick for what others should or ought to think.

It would be an undue burden to claim that what we have ought to be ideal, otherwise we shouldn't participate in the superstructure, as you call it. It...

I find it hard to equate the professed attitude here, and the actual state of affairs. Isn't this all just an issue with perception or attitude toward...

This must have been what Adam complained to God after being banished from Eden. Yeah, we do live in a world of scarce resources, and decisions have to...

The good thing about not being materialistic in a materialistic society is that you can spend more time to yourself by not satisfying the never-ending...

The good thing about the economy is that those preferences are able to get fulfilled if one is so materialistic. So, it's an issue about how much we v...

Yeah, but that's obviously a reductio ad absurdum. People do find happiness in such a predicament despite what the economy demands from us. I mean, I ...

Isn't that like some form of truism if no alternative is provided? I mean, there really aren't any viable alternatives to the predicament of just bein...

In economic theory, Hayek in his epoch The Road to Serfdom, concludes that it only gets worse when the means of production are in the hands of the gov...

I feel as though Quietism has its roots in Moore's ethical philosophy or naturalistic philosophy. It also adopts the common sense philosophy of Moore ...

If I can afford it, I try and get a vape product of CBD, which is still quite expensive. The benefits are mostly anti-anxiety. It's also good for depr...

Apart from the negativity THC get's (and rightly so in some regards), there is a host of other components to marijuana, such as; CBD, CBN, CBG, etc. t...

That one. :_) Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one ought to remain silent.

Don't worry TimeLine, you'll find someone that will appreciate you for who you are.

Thanks. I think everything should work out. I'll just wallow instead of venting.

It's on the 16th.

Just wallows in contention.

It really is depressing that people here talk so much about sex. I mean really, are all philosophers frustrated perverts? Maybe I'm projecting my own ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29E6GbYdB1c

This might sound funny but I was all for Jeb Bush during the primary. I have nothing against the Bushes because they know how to get sh*t done.

Nixon really wasn't a bad President in all honesty. Maybe a crook, but not a dysfunctional one.