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I'm not familiar with Goodman's new problem, but I get the sense that 'grue' is an ad hoc term that has been tailor-made to throw a spanner in the wor...

For what its worth - and I know this isn't quite relevant to the type of cause and effect this thread is about - but cause and effect does kind of wor...

all jokes aside, the cosmological argument is actually pretty interesting. A good parody would mirror its logic, and this one doesn't quite.

Ha ! this reminds me of the flying pasta man! its funny when you think about how people who are are so eager to believe in god are so unsure of the fl...

It really feels to me like a wittgensteinian ladder that has been turned into something else.

Oh, I figured. All the threads I cited felt, to me, like they were drawing on a family of conceptual knots, so I thought it might be useful to bring t...

Just wondering Not arguing Just curious You're familiar, I take it, with those militant atheists who, under the pretense of curiosity, coyly bait thei...

I agree with this. I worry that it leads to effective (not metaphysical) solipsism. Or at least a shared, niche, solipsism. As you pointed out in an e...

anyway it just goes to strengthen my a j ayer theory: The most 'sensible' among us are sitting atop a reservoir of wild shit

i take offense to that as a long time crossword fanatic. but cmon youd 'psychoceramic' this thread without two blinks if it was someone else.

See what fruits come from simply accepting wittgenstein and david stove as your therapists and saviors . Be addled no more by the barbs of idle though...

Philosophers should have to take five years off during which they neither talk to other philosophers or read their works. Then return.

But isn't it the case that you set up the comparison between different meta-philosophies in this thread and the ones prior to this one? Could we not d...

This is cool, about halfway through. Thanks for this.

I don't think it's self refuting. I think coping skills are meant to help you accept the way things are at a given moment, in order to ride things out...

Coping skills, in the context of therapy and psychiatry, usually are about handling irruptions of overwhelming emotion in non self-destructive ways. T...

Say what you will about Trump, his recent bombshell that he has, i quote, '100 pictures of comey and mueller hugging and kissing' is amazing.

I think part of the debate here stems from a higher-order language game that emerges organically when you try to characterize anything in opposition t...

Well its after (following on @"unenlightened"'s post) anything you can think. you just cant get there from here, thinking. tho youre fated to get ther...

Oh no I think its a thing worth talking about - I just mean the way in which its talkable about is outside of reason. Its inherently emotional. I *wou...

I'll check out your thread! I think you're right that a change in self-image is necessary, and also that apo is right in that this also requires a cha...

Rationality always works within a delimited field. Death is outside that. Its beyond rationality/irrationality.

Not for me. I think of clinical depression as something that descends upon an otherwise normal person, like any disease. Depression, for me, is tightl...

Yeah depression is definitely part of it. I feel weird being joyful in front of people. When it happens usually some other part of me kicks in and say...

@"apokrisis" one last thing. The feeling I get when I try to play a normal role as a healthy adult male is a lot like the feeling of trying to tell so...

Which, again, he knew. But it didn't help.

Following on that David Foster Wallace, with whom I had a long love affair, is, imo, an example of someone who gets the destructive/creative dialectic...

Yeah! I like this distillation. @"John Doe" this is the heart of what I found dissatisfactory in my account. My discussion of art focused on the condi...

@"apokrisis" As I said I've been thinking about you post. I do indeed identify as 'broken' in some ill-defined way. &, irl, I usually feel like its im...

thats really unsatisfactory to me but its a start

I think I'm on board with what both you and apo have been saying. The nuts and bolts of of realizing that kind of change are another matter tho. so, y...

hey thank you. I've been mulling over your post for a while and still am.

I wonder if there's two separate emotions or states that have been lumped under a single word. I think there's a type of pride that is something like ...

I think this is right, Pride/Shame, 'sinful' pride anyway. The pride you're talking about is very very conscious of the threat of shame. The virtues i...

I understand what you're saying. But the bone in the throat is that its one of the selves - the superself? - that is neatly setting things in triadic ...

Yeah I have a general anhedonia as well. Or at least the inability to sustain enjoyment of anything for more than a few days. I have some kind of inne...

yeah, sorry, my post was (contextually) nonsense.

Thanks for the responses, everyone. I think I'm talking about a compulsion, along the lines that @"John Doe" & @"Moliere" mentioned. Something kinda l...

yeah and heres a poll: whos ever actually seen a person die? actually seen it? and how it progresses? death *is* an otherness, But dying isnt. it invo...

the point, @"apokrisis", is that -

Well no. You're mixing up levels. You're casting the debate in implicitly gladitorial terms. Tho thats not a bad image: the gladiator who thinks he ca...

imagine doing dialectical tricks on your deathbed hooooly

i think you're right. my moms dead and my dad may as well be. the joke is there's no punchline and there's no one to register how clever you are. So b...

I ask this sincerely. it seems like a virus of the mind, one with which I've been infected, and im really just tired of it. It doesnt care for its hos...

you already answered the question in (5)

I disagree with almost everything Schopenhauer1 says, usually, but I don't agree with this criticism. You can even translate this easily into the OLP ...

@"schopenhauer1" Not sure if someone has brought this up already - the thread grew quickly, so I've only skimmed the conversation so far - but I think...

I feel like the only solution would be a different form of status symbol. It seems, unfortunately, like a need for legible social hierarchy is built d...

I think the french know that though - their excesses are the continental equivalent of knowing wryness that characterizes many anglo philosophers. The...

hard to disentangle 'reality' from 'the world' tho I agree there's a distinction. It just goes beyond Sellars into mysticism. An aspiring stoic who's ...