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I think the issue isn't about brute facts as opposed to criteria we use to evaluate whether a fact is brute or not.

Mine is a neo-fascist emblem used in the Captain America comics books series. Hail Hydra!

Ridged designators aren't a-modal?

Yes, the second. I believe that what can be said about red is dependant on the red observed, it's intuitively obvious once you imagine the multitude o...

Being an observer you are modal independent.

How did he use the term? The assigned value of a property is everything that can be said about it, this is distinct from the object itself, e.g a blac...

Is think were still assuming every physical law is computable?

A brute fact is the assigned value of a property and the property itself.

Yes, the function or property is real in its own state space.

Its usually called state space or formerly logical space. That by which I mean to say the ontology of any system is represented by its state space.

Would it be wrong to call a brute fact just a 'state of affairs'?

That's heavily dependant on the modality of the situation. Isn't it?

The purpose was, as I understand it, to make the producers of pornography go to a different county than the Los Angeles one. It might also be that the...

Brute facts seemingly can only exist in a monistic universe. I also don't think brute facts can exist in a relativistic universe. Furthermore, logical...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bA2Gnac9OY

What's more, economics assumes that people are rational only when they act as egotists. I should be more specific and say that this applies to game th...

Well, sci-fi or fantasy movies are just as 'real' by the same logic; but, we don't have a prejudice against them as not being real as you claim dreams...

What grounds are there for assuming a differentiation between the two?

The concept of 'control' is obviously not the same as in a dream as in waking life. The concept of control in a dream is maximized when one dreams luc...

I suppose it's the same as when we go to the movies. We don't stand up and shout, "That's not true!". Some form of suspension of disbelief is required...

Here's one interesting concept. Take the fact that some dreams are lucid enough where we are in control of our surroundings. Would this not at the ver...

Well, that's what we're discussing here. Mind to explain why they aren't sufficient evidence? What's your take here? I have to admit the OP question w...

In an effort to facilitate some discussion, I would hope to change the subject to something of the sort of, 'Dreams, as proof of 'idealism'' Would tha...

It's hard to elaborate on using something so ethereal as dreams as the leading premise. I would suggest that dreams are just simply a way in which we ...

Too blasphemous for my Puritan'ian ears.

Gotta watch out with those BDSM master-slave relations. Wonder what Nietzsche would say about it.

The dialectics of depression, where nothing good comes out of false premises. Depression, as you know, is a distortion of reality. One can't make a de...

Never knew that. Hegel was a staunch believer in marriage though so go figure.

How is your vision of reality different from logical positivism or the early Wittgenstein?

Hegel never did go to explain why the dialectical exists as opposed to some sort of monism. Maybe I need to be educated; but, that's a topic worthy of...

I need that dearly.

It's pot with very little THC if that means anything to anyone prejudiced against pot with THC (most pot nowadays).

One can hope that the whole thing falls on itself eventually. *No signs of it happening yet.*

I shall have some more of that Wittgenstein please, with some Schopenhauer. Thank you.

More philosophy please. Thankyou.

What do you mean? I don't understand.

So, you would say that buying cheap goods, in the end, harms the poorest by supporting and perpetuating their exploitation?

No, I don't hear voices. Amen.

Ahh, as if things were so simple. Psychiatry has yet to qualify what it means to 'function'.

I have an aversion to psychiatry, to begin with. There's a great deal of pressure to find a label to diagnose the patient with and prescribe medicatio...

Yes, twice. Once when the symptoms first appeared and a second (most recent) time when the denial of the gravity of the disorder subsided.

I have to say that I'm more fond of using cannabis as a safe outlet to quell my urges. Namely, instead of going out and getting smashed by alcohol to ...

The conviction is strong in this post. Are you really that against marijuana? Its a harmless plant with fascinating potential to treat a whole range o...

I wish I organized all my files and stuff in regards to the research behind marijuana, but a quick rundown is that cannabis high in THC can hasten the...

Yup, I had a friend who owned a dispensary and got shut down by the Feds. Not a happy world to be in legally.

If you say so.

Emotions can't be reasoned with.

Oh, you've misunderstood me entirely. The mental illness started before any of these hobbies started in the first place. So, no, the pot or the stimul...

Yup, it's cash all the way home.

Can you at least present the main arguments here or is that too much?