No I don't. I conclude that I exist at the time of my death. Jesus. — Bartricks
Validity is a property of arguments, not propositions.
And a valid argument can have a false conclusion. You're confusing validity with soundness.
If a valid argument has a false conclusion, then we have discovered by it that at least one premise is false.
Now, I have a book to write and I am behind so I will have to reply to the rest of your squawkings later. — Bartricks
Hugh Janus, get it? He's clever this boy, but he still doesn't know how valid arguments work. Willful blindness? — Janus
I find no pleasure in that. — Arne
Yeah, you may be right. I've had a bit of to and fro with Bartricks, and he is an odd one with a very weird conception of reason and what it entitles one to claim. — Janus
Bullshit which I have clearly demonstrated to be guiding his consistently invalid and unsound logic, and with pleasure. — Garrett Travers
Lots of fun bullshit coming from Bartricks. Also he wants to make sure everyone knows he has a PhD in philosophy. — ZzzoneiroCosm
Just curious, what's your beef with Nietzsche? — ZzzoneiroCosm
Just about everything that he said that mattered, I have a beef with. — Garrett Travers
What's my beef — Garrett Travers
Have you looked at Zarathustra? — ZzzoneiroCosm
I'm persuaded, via what I've experienced and the little that I know, that the OP is on the mark. My hunch is that the history of the world, humanity especially, begins to make (more) sense if contextualized hedonically. The history of life is the history of pain & pleasure. I hope I understood the OP. — Agent Smith
I have, my issue is inconsistency with his good stuff and his bad. That's realy why I put him in the pit. He could have been great, instead was practically schizo in his assertions. — Garrett Travers
I'm going to be honest, I haven't been this excited about learning a piece of philosophical history in years, and I have maintained a passionate love for this tradition. I genuinely mean to say that according to what I know of history, this man was the single greatest contributor to our tradition. And his societies, the most peaceful and prosperous of the ancient world, were fucking murdered out of history. This man who laid the foundation of everything we cherish in the world from science, to free societies, I am unbelievably stricken with gratitutude for this man. And, I don't ever want to here a socialist open their mouth to me about communes for the rest of my days, I'm gonna let em have it. — Garrett Travers
a PhD in philosophy. :lol: — ZzzoneiroCosm
Also he wants to make sure everyone knows he has — ZzzoneiroCosm
Epicurus got straight to the point. Stop trying to rationalize/sublimate; he cut through all the BS/noise that most other thinkers/philosophers were going on and on about. I like him for that. — Agent Smith
As an aside, I think it's pretty hilarious that the autobiographical Ecce Homo is almost pronounced: A Gay Homo. — ZzzoneiroCosm
The first 50 pages or so of Zarathustra are a constant inspiration to me.
His reactionary shoutings down of effete Christian slave-virtue have helped a lot of sheep break away from the flock, myself included.
But sure, in the main he's a master ranter and raver, bitter, egocentric, etc. — ZzzoneiroCosm
Epicureanism is the philosophical platform that directly gave rise to rationalism, science, capitalism, feminism, abolition, Anarchism, Communism, Utilitarianism, Objectivism, cognitivism, and the United States among other things... — Garrett Travers
What kinda laugh is this? :chin: — Agent Smith
I would say all these isms and whatnot are a mere smokescreen, a blind for what's really going on under the hood so to speak. If you disagree, here's a take that may be more suited to your sensibilities: at the heart of all these points of view, these ideas, etc., lies Epicureanism. — Agent Smith
But sure, in the main he's a master ranter and raver, bitter, egocentric, etc. — ZzzoneiroCosm
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