Tom Storm

Nicely put.

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For me true and false don't need to come into this. Communities set intersubjective agreements about how they should conduct social interaction based ...

They may think of it as a truth claim but from what I can see, the best anyone can do is express a preference based on some set of values.

Not sure how you get to this. Can you step it out again? I generally think that humans create morality to facilitate social cooperation in order to ac...

What can I say? I have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

Let's go with that. :up:

Oftmagrofonic, prokinitious.

Thank you. I abhor all that turgid and banal 1970's musical pap. And those dire Lucas movies should be expunged from the face of the earth. :wink:

Thanks for clarifying.

I haven't read the lectures in Naming and Necessity but I suspect you are correct.

I would think mainly because humans are emotional creatures who often struggle to express or resile from articulating these feelings.

Not sure I follow. Are you saying that the possibilities for a human life are immeasurably fecund and the most authentic life is one of continual lear...

If this is the case, what does this contribute to your understanding of the world and models of reality?

Is there a risk that the end of Trump might bring with it more astute and cunning demagoguery by people like Ron DeSantis who might actually know what...

No offence to your brother and good luck to him but I think there should be a major literary award going to the person who doesn't write a novel in a ...

I wonder if we could also add ‘spiritual’? I’m more generous to it than some atheists, as I translate it to mean emotional well-being. Is spiritual a ...

Nice set of possibilities. I mainly hear the word in spiritual/religious circles, where, as most of us are aware, ineffable is used to describe a 'spi...

Glad to hear you appreciate the funny side of life.

Doesn't Nietzsche says something like, “I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar”? To what extent (if any) do you thin...

That made me laugh a lot. Thanks Joshs.

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That's a helpful clarification, appreciated. I'll mull over some of the finer points later.

What is your conclusion, spell it out, I'm old and dim.

Indeed - to me these are the great voices. Character, uniqueness, expression. Try to sing a Tom Waits song with a conventional 'good' voice and it alm...

Interesting. I thought there was merit in this in as much as physics seems to rest upon metaphysical assumptions ('sits on'). Is this horribly wrong? ...

Just remember there is personal judgment involved in any such decision. Perhaps the discussion seemed more of a general conversation about values rath...

Well put. Yes, that's a good question.

Nice. There's a thread in this idea too.

Of course. And if people come to different conclusions about these matters then their metaphysics will reflect this. No doubt there are physicists who...

I hold no particular views on physics as I have no qualifications in the area nor is it a particular interest of mine. I just find it amusing that QM ...

I didn't say it was true, I said 'generally' and I think surveys have shown that physicists most commonly identify themselves as naturalists.

Sure; never said they were. Note also, that this idea of 'exceptional' will itself consist of a spectrum of possibilities, my idea of exceptional migh...

You're making assumptions that the best you can be has to be banal. Some people make it exceptional.

It means that voters may be returning to crazy within ordinary parameters. :wink:

Maybe, but the quote is Sean Carroll's not mine. He means, I guess, they are both in the metaphysical explanatory business as competing stories about ...

My point is that none of this is relevant to the 'baby Hitler' thought experiment wherein a scenario which can't possibly happen is used to shape real...

Yes, good questions. I'd be interested to get a firmer grasp of this. Well put.

Isn't the issue here that no one really avoids metaphysics, no matter what position you hold? If you are making paradigmatic and presuppositional clai...

The most powerful hold metaphysics has on people is where it forms the background to your notion of reality and is not questioned. I would suggest mos...

Certainly true and maybe I misunderstood your original point. I wasn't demonstrating the validity of the assumption - I was demonstrating what the ass...

That's not my experience. No calculations involved. We can only do the best we can (within reason) and make our choices. Fucking up sometimes is the p...

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While I find this kind of claim exciting, do you think this might be more outrageous than accurate? In practice you would privilege certain stories as...

I'm not sure you are following my point very well; maybe my language was unclear. I addressed the contradiction issue. A collection of allegories shov...

No. I make no assumption on this and my language was unclear. I think people often retrofit foundations and presuppositions - to explain things to the...

The demonstration is that scientists generally take the the view that the world is intelligible and can be understood through physicalism. That's how ...

I'm crossing my fingers for you, Brother.

Sounds like freedom to me. And choice. What a luxury! Celebrate it. Humans have to make choices in life. You do the best you can with what you have, o...

That's fine. I'm not a philosopher myself. Doesn't matter if it is a system or not. All ideas rest on foundations and pre-suppositions. Science rests ...