Tom Storm

Smokes here cost $55 for a pack of 30, which is about USD $36. This high price has fueled a massive criminal market for black market tobacco, leading ...

No, I’m saying that a particular view is simply on the menu. If you can’t tell the difference between a statement that contextualizes an idea within p...

Ha! Was I too rude? I did say this also Sorry if I came across as rude. I guess I took the invitation for honest feedback somewhat robustly.

:up: I don’t have a shortage of answers to this myself - I’m asking what the OP had in mind.

I said it's an orthodox philosophical view that reality can't be fully known. I'm not saying this to imply it's popular, but rather to point out that ...

These ideas are not much different from the inclusive homilies that make up the value statements of so many not-for-profit organizations. I don't radi...

It's interesting how you consistently interpret this wrongly. To say that the external world cannot be known is by no means the same as saying there i...

See the comment, perhaps, more in the tradition of phenomenology or a more constructivist orientation, for which I have sympathy. It does not match yo...

I don't think that's the right reading of his post. See last post.

Yeah, I tried quitting smokes several times before it finally stuck. It seems to be part of the process. I think you do get better at it, recognizing ...

I'm not saying this is the natural order. I'd say it applies to the West (and certainly in my patch) and it's the contingent product of capitalism and...

I quite booze and smokes: 11 years since I had a drink and 21 years since I quit smokes. I found quitting smoking the hardest.

It can damage lungs and some say it might cause lung cancer. I like incense and burn it every now and then. But then I used to smoke three packets a d...

I’m not sure we can treat apparent structure as anything other than contingent, it may simply reflect the methods we use to measure and make sense of ...

I like this.

I’ve been swayed by advertisements many times, most people I know have. Bought plenty of things I didn’t need. I’ve also been convinced to do things b...

Thank you for this thoughtful response. Lots to think about. I always thought it was contingencies all the way down. :razz: But then, I’m not a philos...

You joke, but I think this is fair. I like my bottle, it's home. In a similar way, why leave Plato’s cave when there’s a permanent puppet show and eve...

Yeah, I guess it comes down to a difference in worldview or disposition. There’s not much point in debating it and I’m a poor debater.

That seems important here. The way people are spoken to and described by others shapes how they see themselves, how valued they feel and how they are ...

Interesting. This isn’t my area, so all I can do is ask naive questions. Are you saying Josh’s view is mistaken, or just a partial account? I’m also c...

Nice. That would have been my guess too. I think 4 is particularly relevant. Most of us are in the wheel reinvention business.

I think this is a good point. For some people philosophy is about fixing the plumbing (Midgely) and for others it's about existence disclosed (Heidegg...

I think the above advice sounds best. The issue may be that some people will slag off the popular thinkers as lightweights, shills and media whores. A...

Thanks

Yes, I've often thought this is a key point. People often want to say someone isn’t an artist because they’re bad. But to me, being good is not inhere...

Is this philosophy the way putting a band-aid on a shaving cut counts as medicine? :wink: Would your example not be unavoidable unless you were dead? ...

'I’m not sure if our comments reflect the times, or just our own thinking. Maybe no one agrees with us. But if times have changed, do you think that’s...

interesting. Seems reasonable. If we say someone is an engineer or doctor or lawyer, sociologist or stamp collector it seems fairly easy to define. Is...

Well there's probably an intersubjective component to any disciple setting standards for credentialling. Some, of these are more reasonable than other...

I agree with this below: I can think scientifically but I am not a scientist. Ditto many subjects, including philsophy. Expertise and having done some...

This raises an interesting question: what is beauty supposed to be anyway? I see it in women, but not much else. I occasionally see landscapes in natu...

Drilling down into this: Yes, smoking caused lung disease even before we knew it did. But as far as I know, from a pragmatist point of view, it wasn’t...

As I said - Well, this will depend on the pragmatist, I would imagine. But the idea that we don't have access to a truth outside ourselves is certainl...

Well I’d assume this is mostly about the framing. Wouldn’t we say instead that, rather than being about right or wrong, communities develop methods, a...

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Very interesting analysis. How do you see this playing out over the next 4-8 years?

The lack of enchantment is these three words could well be a turn off; perhaps he should have called it a prebiotic aqueous niche with sustained therm...

I can get behind that. Nice idea.

Language itself or how language is used? Do you have a favourite aesthetic experience out of poetry, painting, architecture or nature?

The points you raised in your lengthy paragraph seem reasonable. What exactly is 'hate speech'? Is the term used outside of polemical discourse, or is...

So your argument asserts that success and failure require an independently defined standard, and that we can only be wrong about what is useful if the...

Sorry, I don’t recall what we were talking about. I’ve forgotten the original point that led us into this. Wasn’t it simply me saying that I can't see...

What would you argue is a realistic and beneficial alternative to liberalism? Would you include MacIntyre’s communitarian approach?

Well, I am not a reflective type. I just intuit and act my way through life, and I almost always know what to do. I'm not sure what this gives us. So ...

This seems to assume that for constraints to matter, they must exist independently of the practices they describe. Doesn't this misunderstand the prag...

Not that it matters, but this just seems intuitively right to me. What is it that prevents this view if truth being more widely accepted.

Interesting, I am, perhaps, a methodological naturalist but not a metaphysical naturalist. I doubt that human beings can access reality as it really i...

This criticism suggests that Rorty’s notion that “constraints determine what we find useful and how human practices and beliefs develop” must either b...

I'm not convinced that the theory is self-refuting in the way you described. As I wrote earlier: Doesn't this objection misunderstand what Rorty means...