You are viewing the historical archive of The Philosophy Forum.
For current discussions, visit the live forum.
Go to live forum

Thanatos Sand

Comments

So, as you said in your ridiculously inaccurate definition, "the skeptic proper contends that we cannot know anything at all. But in the quote above, ...
August 01, 2017 at 04:23
Of course you contradicted yourself since you used "skeptic" in a manner completely countering the erroneous definition you gave. So, in your trollish...
August 01, 2017 at 04:04
Me, too, but I'm surprised you agree with me that we're not in a Post-Truth world, but in the same non-Truth world we've always occupied.
August 01, 2017 at 04:00
This has never not been the case.
August 01, 2017 at 03:54
They weren't eager to play into the hucksters; they were eager to have their own home, as almost all Americans are. The people they gave money to were...
August 01, 2017 at 03:36
No, clearly the only troll or fuckwit, is you. And you've well proven that. And you said skeptics believe you can know nothing, so you just contradict...
August 01, 2017 at 03:21
The only one who needs study and education--and lots of it--is clearly you...:) So, get on it.
August 01, 2017 at 03:18
I am a skeptic and you are clearly not. Since that is not what the skeptic proper contends at all. I think you mean the Socratic. No, the skeptic does...
August 01, 2017 at 03:14
No, the real thing is the politician lied. I explicitly mentioned politicians who make promises they know they can't keep. So, you are straw-manning m...
August 01, 2017 at 01:55
I never said that. Your reading here is just awful. The fact you can't grasp I put my opinions in bold face in long posts so to demarcate my posts fro...
August 01, 2017 at 01:42
I never said that reincarnation was ruled out by skepticism, again you misquote me like a troll. I showed the definitions of the word skepticism and h...
August 01, 2017 at 01:39
I've made very clear what is lacking and incorrect about what you said about reincarnation being inconsistent with skepticism. You just run away like ...
July 31, 2017 at 21:38
No he didn't and the fact you can't articulate them helps prove it.
July 31, 2017 at 21:28
There is no more reality of reincarnation as there is reality of God or Satan. So, no, the supernatural concept reincarnation is not compatible with s...
July 31, 2017 at 21:23
The only one who's been misquoting is you. So, you are the common troll And you, yourself, said your definition of skepticism went along with the offi...
July 31, 2017 at 21:06
I will once you actually show how reincarnation is consistent with, or implied by, Skepticism, first. You clearly don't want, or can't, do so..:) By t...
July 31, 2017 at 20:17
No, it's not and you have laughably failed many times to show how it is. That makes absolutely no sense since no definition of skepticism is consisten...
July 31, 2017 at 20:15
You are really sad. This is what I honestly said: "I didn't imply anything. You have absolutely refused to answer me and back up your claim that reinc...
July 31, 2017 at 20:09
I didn't imply anything. You have absolutely refused to answer me and back up your claim that reincarnation is consistent with, or implied by, Skeptic...
July 31, 2017 at 20:00
No, you haven't just had your say, you've completely failed to back up your claim that reincarnation is consistent with, or implied by, Skepticism. An...
July 31, 2017 at 19:29
You've had a lot of erroneous say and failed to show how reincarnation is consistent with, or implied by, Skepticism. That's hardly surprising. OK...b...
July 31, 2017 at 19:28
You're free, however to show how reincarnation is consistent with, or implied by, Skepticism any time. Considering it's not, this should be a hoot.
July 31, 2017 at 19:24
I never said reincarnation was part of or assumed by Skepticism. You really are reading poorly. I said reincarnation would rest upon assumptions, so y...
July 31, 2017 at 19:22
Then your metaphysics is no longer a perfect fit for definition #1, since reincarnation would rest upon assumptions. See my last answer. It corrects y...
July 31, 2017 at 19:12
No, politicians straight-up lie all the time. They lie in campaign promises they know they will never keep, they lie about their opponents, they lie a...
July 31, 2017 at 19:08
No, I was saying exactly what I was saying right above, Don't take my words and say I was saying something else. When you do that you are acting crazy...
July 31, 2017 at 18:52
I know, and your definition doesn't fit any of them. No, it is not, because--as everyone can see--your definition is much narrower than number 1, sinc...
July 31, 2017 at 18:43
I'm not seeing any exclusion of sedimentary rocks. The real question is where are you getting your definition? And you said "productions of life forms...
July 31, 2017 at 14:27
Sure, but don't forget Obama let his banker buddies get off scott-free and even made verbal excuses for their horrid behavior. Trump is worse than Oba...
July 31, 2017 at 13:51
It's not reasonable since constructions and constructs, by the English definition, are not limited to the productions of life forms. Also, Modern phil...
July 31, 2017 at 13:49
Very well said.
July 31, 2017 at 05:11
No, you took the word "skepticism," which already has established definitions, and you arbitrarily attached your made-up definition to it. I've made s...
July 31, 2017 at 04:43
Yes, but it's not defined by the very different, arbitrary definition you give the term. That's fine, but that's not what skepticism means. No, it's n...
July 31, 2017 at 04:41
Sorry, you're shamelessly blaming the victims here when the banks and the loaning agents actively used predatory tactics by seeking out people they kn...
July 31, 2017 at 03:22
I still don't get this. One can't just call their metaphysical concept the word that already has a specific meaning. It's like proposing a metaphysics...
July 31, 2017 at 03:05
Of course they do. Just look at the 08 crash. They made a killing on fraudulent default loans and other extremely risky investments, and then when mil...
July 31, 2017 at 02:30
You're welcome, and my pleasure. I think I've pretty much shown they're not too abstract at all and are very well steeped in the classical philosophic...
July 31, 2017 at 00:09
Cont'd Judith Butler--A traditional philosopher and Hegel and Kant scholar, Butler was one of the first to use Lacan and Derrida's ideas to show the c...
July 30, 2017 at 19:46
Sartre was someone who made sure he was seen among the public living among the issues. His actual societal contributions were less impressive as he sp...
July 30, 2017 at 19:25
I never said Trump was no problem...but straw-man away.
July 30, 2017 at 12:51
Sure, but we also need politicians like Obama to do more when they become president and for attorney generals to act more like Bobby Kennedy and less ...
July 30, 2017 at 05:55
. In some ways yes. In many ways, no. Unarmed blacks are getting gunned down by police in alarming number and with alarming alacrity and the police ar...
July 30, 2017 at 05:27
I don't see it happening as, so far, he's proven to be much less of a hawk then Dubya, and less of one than the elitist hawks Obama and Hillary Clinto...
July 30, 2017 at 04:11
I'll agree with degree, because Trump is so stupid he doesn't even know how to lie or not to lie for his own long-term benefit. But I won't degree in ...
July 30, 2017 at 03:58
Thanks for the response.
July 30, 2017 at 03:53
Blacks and Whites may be suffering some of the same economic inequities and anti-poor government policies, but they are not in the same boat. Rice was...
July 30, 2017 at 03:51
What happened? How did it implode?
July 30, 2017 at 03:45
Thank you.
July 30, 2017 at 03:30
No, poor white people are not in the same boat. There are not nearly as many incidents of police gunning down unarmed white men and boys as there are ...
July 30, 2017 at 03:26
No, it's not, but nice try.
July 30, 2017 at 03:12