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Depends on the discussion, no? If its ethics and morality, it seems ad homs are more prevalent.
June 28, 2021 at 21:34
In essence, if a patent contributes to efficiency in the marketplace, but is bought out by a large firm that doesn't want to see a net decrease in (th...
June 28, 2021 at 20:25
I'm just pointing out that it constantly goes on in what you say as antonyms in human reasoning towards objects in the world, and I think this was mos...
June 28, 2021 at 17:00
That's one way of putting it. It seems to me that education is more related to what I say than anticipated. I guess an example could be how associativ...
June 28, 2021 at 16:44
That's where psychology takes place, or at least human perception. I just don't understand why anyone apart from a Platonist would state that. It just...
June 28, 2021 at 16:39
Truth is I would have voted for Jeb rather than Trump, and I already stated this during that election season.
June 28, 2021 at 16:32
Well, I'm not invoking psychological issues with the issue just yet. I'm more concerned with places of gathering like the Library of Alexandria or Nat...
June 28, 2021 at 16:29
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June 28, 2021 at 16:11
What I mean by anthropomorphic understanding is to an extent the realm of intersubjective or subjective thought. The justification seemingly is in reg...
June 28, 2021 at 16:08
Now this is a beautiful dog: https://img.ifunny.co/images/7290fba14a26dbe40013bac240a644a053c0e5dd9ca8f71f29c95521fb852952_1.jpg
June 28, 2021 at 02:50
It ain't scientific socialism anymore, honey.
June 28, 2021 at 02:35
I think that I wouldn't say analytic philosophy is over; but, the linguistic turn is, and that might be somewhat confused with or associated with anal...
June 28, 2021 at 02:33
I'm just posting this here for further discussion about pigs. https://boston.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3859903/2018/12/amy-fat-pig.jpg?res...
June 28, 2021 at 01:00
Relations are usually causal and evident. The fact that the moon orbits the Earth is governed by the fact that the laws of physics determine it being ...
June 27, 2021 at 01:04
It's pretty straightforward, no? The fact that Santa exists is a fiction of sorts. So too, Pegasus.
June 27, 2021 at 00:43
Yes, I think so.
June 27, 2021 at 00:42
Pretty much. It's all in the OP about what I think is the proper thing to do when confronted with such issues as a non-denoting flaccid designator suc...
June 26, 2021 at 21:43
Some information about Pegasus refers to literary factoids about "Pegasus", no? So, if something needs to be referred to, then we can phrase it as, th...
June 26, 2021 at 18:42
If the only issue is about what the referent denotes, then stating the denoting fact about Pegasus seems elucidating, no?
June 26, 2021 at 18:39
It's rather simple as I understand it. Quantification over domains of categories isn't hard to do for mythological creatures like Pegasus. So, talking...
June 26, 2021 at 02:21
My point is that stating the fact that Pegasus exists already reduces the issue to stating it as a mythical issue. Hence no need for stating that it d...
June 25, 2021 at 15:54
And, indeed we truly fear it. Look at the effects of the industrial revolution on increasing the human lifespan in Western democracies.
June 25, 2021 at 00:17
Towards these immaterial beings, does the fact obtain by precising it if and only if it is described as a historical account of its (to sound like Kri...
June 24, 2021 at 23:54
Calling a "hole" an ontologically parasitic entity seems quite Platonist. Whatever works though. I contend that this is an epistemological issue since...
June 24, 2021 at 19:15
The nick though explains it. I still think binge eating cheese is a good way to get out of depression.
June 23, 2021 at 00:36
I like cheese.
June 23, 2021 at 00:14
Oh Lawd! It's wallowsome.
June 21, 2021 at 23:02
Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus Enchiridion Meditations Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
June 20, 2021 at 17:12
Drink in the belly of the day, find yourself deep in its womb; here hidden is its secret, the yet-to-be-born bundle whose joy only you can partake in.
June 20, 2021 at 17:08
Somewhat, I'm not sure how else to specify this as. Pierce might have argued in favor of this, with James, otherwise.
June 20, 2021 at 17:04
Invest in Philips or 3M? @"Benkei"?
June 20, 2021 at 01:53
I don't know if you know Ramsey sentences well; but, he does make an important distinction between these things you mention. I got the article here: h...
June 20, 2021 at 01:50
The difference, as I see it, is abound with the charges of psychologism of the latter Wittgenstein, whereas in another thread I raised the point that ...
June 20, 2021 at 00:10
@"Banno", what do you think?
June 19, 2021 at 18:55
Wallow around.
June 19, 2021 at 01:47
Is that you, @"Pretty Herds"?
June 19, 2021 at 01:44
Bruh, the calm is real.
June 17, 2021 at 04:06
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June 17, 2021 at 04:02
It seems to me that things aren't as bloody and hellish as say perhaps 1500 years ago in the world. I think times are at an all time low of violence a...
June 16, 2021 at 21:06
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-t8E0oNoqE
June 16, 2021 at 20:45
I was pondering over this and found a very apt description for what you describe on Wikipedia called the Hedonic Treadmill. It seems to me that for th...
June 16, 2021 at 00:44
I'd like to say briefly, that the recent economic situation of the world has been about economizing happiness to a great extent. With that in mind, th...
June 16, 2021 at 00:19
Yes, well that's the best I found on the internet. It is mostly according to their statement "vitrification".
June 15, 2021 at 22:56
I'm not sure. I think I'm brining into focus the issue of knowledge of living longer, going to college at 40 or resuming a job at 60... These are the ...
June 15, 2021 at 22:44
Great, so once again its shit relations between the US and Russia. I'm still waiting for a political generation to retire finally.
June 15, 2021 at 22:00
I'm hesitant to say that living longer isn't going to automatically make you feel happy; but, rather that long term plans of living that do not incur ...
June 15, 2021 at 21:31
https://www.alcor.org/
June 15, 2021 at 21:22
Do you think there's a duty to reduce deaths in the world due to aging or does this entirely rest with the individual?
June 15, 2021 at 19:12
Sorry, I just don't believe in the Malthusian Trap.
June 15, 2021 at 18:42
I think the issue is perplex. In some manner antinatalism doesn't need convincing, as much as living longer also doesn't need convincing, and yet as y...
June 15, 2021 at 18:11