Well, tell me if you want or don't want to have a debate with me. — JuanZu

I want you to tell me the Absolute Truth about Reality Itself. In comparison to that request, debating is worthless. Why would anyone debate anyone, if someone where to say the Absolute Truth about Reality Itself?

I never did :)

I'm a Smart Fox :)
I'm a Firefox! :D
:fire: — Arcane Sandwich

:blush:

I'll just quote it, so that I can remind everyone of it:

↪Arcane Sandwich Your logic is impeccable. — Tom Storm

EDIT: You know what, Tom? I'm quoting that on my Forum Profile now. It's one of my favorite quotes, now. Congratulations.



I'm a Smart Fox :)
I'm a Firefox! :D
:fire:

The Quran is the literal, perfect, unchangeable and final revelation of God. — Tom Storm

Unless it's not.

Why punish someone for burning a quran but not punish someone for farting in public? — flannel jesus


This is the key to this entire discussion. — Tom Storm

Unless it's not.

You would do better to use probably most any flying species. — Patterner

And if I don't want to?

Would you mind proving a link to it?

You should if you want to have a debate with me according to your conditions. — JuanZu

And if I don't want to have a debate with you?

Are you going to answer the question? — Janus

What question?

↪Arcane Sandwich I didn't say it was anyone's fault. — Janus

I'm just asking.

It's a simple question.

Did I say that you were? — Wayfarer

You implied and keep implying that Bunge is wrong.

I wasn't taking a shot at you. — Wayfarer

• Gee, thanks for not shooting me, I suppose I should say.

OK. Could you help me to correct it and make it grammatical. — JuanZu

I could, if I wanted to. For example, you should have included a ? sign in your reply number 969740. Cool?

And for your other comment, why should I help you, even if I can?

↪Arcane Sandwich You didn't get the point. — Janus

And whose fault is that?

Is Bruno Latour a good Catholic, in your opinion?

It's an awesome series of movies regardless. They're documentaries, in an anthropological sense. I would say.

What's the difference between disrespecting someone's beliefs and disagreeing with them? — Janus

You shoulda lerned that in school, mate.

↪Arcane Sandwich Liberally educated people — BC

Some people are not even liberally educated. Some people are not even educated to begin with!

religiously (fundamentalist madrasas, fundamentalist christian schools, etc.) educated people. — BC

Some people are not even educated to begin with!

Not hard to see how people are wanting to rediscover the roots of Western thinking — Tom Storm

There's a really good trilogy about that, maybe you've seen it, or heard of it: The Decline of Western Civilization, by Penelope Spheeris.

Yes it does. If you say something ungrammatical, then it cannot have a truth value by definition. Actually I should qualify that: it can't have a truth value by definition unless you specify or stipulate certain conditions.

For those who suspect math underpins the character of nature, then the passage of time might well be understood in mathematical rather than philosophical discourse. — jgill

That's exactly one of the things that I've been saying ever since I joined this forum about 3 months ago. But people (like Banno for example) think that it's off topic in a Thread about the Ontology of Time. I ask him for his reasons, and he just won't talk to me about it!

↪Arcane Sandwich
I don't. — Banno

If you don't despise me, then why won't you talk to me?

I've flagged your post for mod attention. — Banno

You have the right to do such a thing. Thanks for telling me.

I think it and this ought be deleted as irrelevant to the thread. — Banno

Then delete it.

One might also measure the volume of yelling and screaming — BC

Not in a written text. There is no yelling and screaming in a written text. There is not even talking. You think we're all talking here? We're not talking about anything, at all. Instead, we are writing. I don't know whatever the Good Devil you Fine Folks are doing while we philosophically card-shark-it-up 'round these 'ere parts.

Oil slicks.

Some criteria might be how high the offended person's blood pressure rises — BC

Or the offended person's educational level.

I don't think that's physically possible. Like, how would you even do it? Do you set up a sort of trap to catch it? — Arcane Sandwich


I think we're having a semantic disagreement. — Philosophim

You can think whatever you want.

Let me be more specific — Philosophim

Why should I let you do such a thing? Let's start with that.

How it refutes what I just argued? — JuanZu

That sentence is not grammatical, to begin with. It's not a well-formed formula.

Which is what I'm saying is the 'blind spot'. — Wayfarer

And I'm saying, that your beliefs are respectable. When have I disrespected you?

We are leaps and bounds above any other species of this planet. — Patterner

No, we're not. You're not above a shark. Not when you swim under it.

No one owns The Philosophy Forum. — Arcane Sandwich

Someone created the site by purchasing the domain name and setting up the operating system. Someone, maybe the same person, pays every year for the domain name. Someone, maybe one or more people in addition to whoever pays for the domain name, has the power to shut it down, and even delete every post. — Patterner

And you think I care? I'm an Artist, dude. I carry my skills with me, wherever I go.

I mean, any theory would be true insofar as reality is given to us in its truth and we simply have to intuit it. — JuanZu

OK.

That's your argument?

Then here's a counter-point to it. I declare that I am the creator of the Philosophy to be called "Argentine Realism" (Realismo Argentino).

Don't you think that if we had this faculty it would not be necessary to make theories about reality? — JuanZu

Like I said, sometimes we forget our connection to reality, just as we sometimes forget our connection to Nature.

And to Culture, I would add.

What kind of logic takes you to a conclusion which contradicts your premise? — Metaphysician Undercover

A contradictory one. Paraconsistent logic, for example.

↪Arcane Sandwich Of course it's true — Wayfarer

Then why have you been giving me such a difficult time for the past 2 or 3 months concerning the idealism vs materialism debate? I already told you that I respect your beliefs! :scream:

Ok, cool. :up:

Let's make it less arbitrary, draw out the boundaries of offense please. — flannel jesus

But it's like, don't you know them already? Everyone knows what those are.

You should do philosophy how you do philosophy. :smile: — punos

:D

it might be better just to flag low quality or troll posts. — Count Timothy von Icarus

But that's my entire point as an individual, Timmy. When I complain about the latter, people suggest between the lines that I'm over-reacting. Yet when I complain about the former, they treat me like I'm somehow trolling them. So what's the deal here? I'm somehow not allowed to give people a taste of both their own and a better medicine?

That's true.

I haven't thought about Emerson recently — BC

What do you think about Emerson's Transcendentalism? I don't care what robots think. Fuck them.

If you don't mind, my question was specifically directed at Carlos. I want to know his opinion.