Tom Storm

@"joshs" Curious what your take on all this is given you posted it with a provocative question.

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That's very funny. :wink:

Yes, this is interesting. Our values and interests are direct reflections of our dispositions. I'm not drawn towards totalizing principles or universa...

Got ya. Thanks for clarifying.

Could be. I don't know all the potential ideas/scenarios which might exist. I have certainly heard that amongst Aboriginal peoples in my country, infa...

Don't think so. Abusive parents/partners may well shower their children/partners with money, presents, elite education, holidays and time. But they ma...

Doesn't this perhaps go to the point made by @"Banno" earlier that religion or essentialism are influencing such views? What's your view on the OP? I'...

I'd ask for and listen to their reasons.

Cool I respect that and you put your case well. It's not an area that interests me. But I am interested in people who are interested.... if that makes...

Doesn’t resonate with me. But thanks for taking the effort. I’m pretty good with us holding different views on this. But I’m interested in asking you ...

Cool. We could even leave it at that. :wink: This is probably a quesion of values. I don't particularly value such cells. An adult human being (Mrs Sm...

I wasn't attempting to put the argument convincingly, just trying to understand the thinking. Yes, that seems likely.

That certainly seems possible. But is their reasoning as simple as: A bunch of cells may become a human being, that's close enough to Mrs Smith for us...

I agree with this. The people who don't see this seem to want a justification beyond the obvious. What do you think is at the heart of this difference...

Isn't the 'brute fact' at the end of this one a necessary being or a circularity? Is this an idea you believe has merit? I don't know what this means....

Yep - kind of what I meant when I said - Well, chaos is pretty big right now and seems to come down to people not understanding, hence the culture war...

It's well set out. I wonder how translations vary with him.

Intuition and experience. How could we truly understand each other, except through approximations? Many of us are strangers to ourselves, let alone to...

Yep. I had in mind that for those who argue that "all is consciousness" this is amounts to a brute fact - they'd be claiming that consciousness is the...

Ha! Isn't 'the observing subject who stipulates the axioms upon which it rests' another brute fact? :wink:

Ha! I spent a good 20 years drinking in bars (many of them smoking too). But mainly getting to know and appreciate complete strangers. Conversation is...

It does challenge us to reconsider. I expect that most people think of language as a social phenomenon. Mel's responses involve sense-making and inter...

It's a magnificent film and, as a revisionist noir, with a twist and directed by a genius, it's hard to ignore. I quite like the world weary Robert Mi...

Sure. Time wasting is my specialty.

Actually, on reflection I can see how your points have merit when it comes to my hypocrisy argument. Unless the person argues that all life is sacred,...

I tend to agree with Banno on this one. If you require argumentation to establish that a bunch of cells trumps the personal autonomy and rights of a w...

I had the virtually same reactions to this breezily sardonic novel a couple of years ago - same edition. I wondered three things - was my ambivalent r...

Just a joke. E.g., save you a lot of time so you can move on to something useful :razz:

I find your position very interesting and I respect it. Yes, that is probably the answer to my quesion to Yes. Perhaps my reaction to this is a banali...

I agree with this. This is not a matter I generally debate as it's a cesspit of virtue signalling and philosophical bullshit. What do you think is hap...

Get out while you still can. :wink:

Point well made.

@"wayfarer" I'm interested in your perspective on what @"Joshs" has written here.

Thank you. There's a lot there. Appreciated. Is there some Deleuze here in the notion of meaning and identity being shaped by relations and difference...

That's so interesting, but it's also a notion that's hard to adjust to given the way things are habitually described and understood. I'm not clear how...

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Indeed. Isn't it traditional to dismiss as nonsense ideas we don't understand or ideas which sit at odds with our own sense making intuitions? There a...

Yes, in Australia asylum seekers/refugees were relabelled 'illegal immigrants' quite successfully to play to the bedrock of community prejudice agains...

Well, that's logical... A likely concession! Well, it's pretty much off limits to me, I have no knowledge of logic or philosophy, so I'll need to leav...

Why doesn't that surprise me? :wink:

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A lot to think about here. One would almost assume that nothing can be known if paraconsistent logic is sound. At the very least, it suggests that how...

Thank you. Well, yes, in the end that's what all this leads to. Fair point.

I suppose I was thinking of conservatism as something more along the lines of 'there is one truth and it can be discovered by philosophy'. In relation...

Yes, I can see this to some extent. Doesn't Susan Haack argue a somewhat tamer version of this? https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/131210177.pdf pp.13-15...

Logical pluralists seem to argue that different contexts require different logics and this seems to be determined by the kinds of reasoning or the goa...

Sweet. Have you seen David Bentley Hart's dog book, described as a Platonic dialogue beast fable, Roland In Moonlight. Hart says it's the work he's mo...

Nicely put. Resonates also with the disenchanted world - Weber and Schiller.

It's not much different to the practice of CBT strategies which was influenced by Stoicism. It isn't that hard to change mental habits. We see people ...