I include as evil self harm, not just that harm to others, including subjecting yourself to degradation or humiliation. " — Hanover
Living on high ground in the Southern Hemisphere will be sustainable for centuries at least — 180 Proof
First off, it's rather intriguing that your response to the end times is precisely what a person diagnosed with cancer would (decide to) do. — Agent Smith
. What I find odd is that with or without a fatal illness/global catastrophe, death is certain and yet to "spend away my savings travelling, extracting what joy and fulfillment in life remains" isn't on your average Joe's to-do list. — Agent Smith
But abstract objects are often said to lack causal power. The number 2, on its own, can’t cause anything to happen in the physical universe. But if The Maltese Falcon is indeed an abstract object, then an abstract object can have causal powers. For instance, the novel can entertain, cause me to feel suspense, happy, sad, etc. — Art48
I don't understand your last sentence. — Manuel
f they retreated as soon as they invaded, that would convey weakness, not power. — Manuel
Not because he's less bad, but because he doesn't have the same amount of power. — Manuel
the negotiations were rejected, and then as soon as it was launched, they would've stopped and retreated? Really? — Manuel
Yet you are holding Zelensky to this unrealistic standard while he negotiates with one of the greatest liars in politics.Politicians, by definition, are liars, so of course proven liars must negotiate. — Manuel
Once the conflict started it was too late. — Manuel
So I guess negotiation with such a proven serial liar is impossible?Zelensky says different things depending on which camera is on him: Western, Russian, etc. — Manuel
As for NATO launching a conventional war, this came out yesterday: https://www.yahoo.com/news/petraeus-predicts-us-lead-nato-190325472.html — Manuel
But it's not speculation, NATO is the cause of the war, and should be recognized. — Manuel
would argue that every time you use the word ‘greed’ to describe another you are failing to see how they legitimately justify their actions based on their perspective and personal history. — Joshs
My point is that intellect and morality are not intrinsically linked. — Deus
I’d much rather find voluntary means of coordination. — NOS4A2
Yet there's a vicious circularity here, in that suffering is what we seek to avoid, and yet what we seek to avoid is suffering. — Banno
Such a system doesn’t occur naturally — NOS4A2
The problem with that definition is that by that ,we cannot say about anything at all that is "real".Since every procedure that allows us know/think/consider something as "real" is made via our minds.So nothing at all is actually mind independent. — dimosthenis9
Hence, the thought of the rock of yesterday is a thought just as real as the thought of this rock today, but the existence of either rock is not given by mere thoughts about it. — Mww
It is therefore unjustifiable to say the same thing about those by which the determinations of each depends on non-congruent modes. — Mww
he saying is not the thinking, but merely presupposes thinking for its antecedent, and represents thinking as its consequent — Mww
Tell Lord Russell. And Kant. — Banno
Now to say that the rock exists is not to say something about the rock. — Banno
My thoughts are real. My thoughts are not mind-independent. Therefore some things which are real are not mind-independent. Therefore “real” doesn’t mean “mind-independent”. — Michael
Also a toy gun isn't a real gun, but (for the sake of argument) toy guns are mind-independent. — Michael
So my mind isn't real? My thoughts and feelings aren't real? — Michael
From my understand hypericin isn't asking if the rock existed yesterday. He's asking which theory of time is correct: growing block, presentism, or eternalism. — Michael
Wouldn't it be better to say that what is real is what is true? — Banno
actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed
Seems to me you are not happy with the consequences of reality being mind independent. — Banno
There's nothing real about that in the philosophical sense. — Tzeentch
If there is no one around to remember my birth, does it still exist? If so, where? — Tzeentch
When you touch a Greek stature you are touching the present day successor to a far past event and object. When you wrote the above your past writing reverberated into my present. I see it right now.Can I touch the past and the future? Can you point to it so I can verify it exists? — Tzeentch
The distinction between "real" and "unreal" is the distinction between mind independence and mind dependence. A rock is mind independent, and so real, while a dragon is completely mind dependent. The event of your birth does not depend on the state of anyone's mind. It is real, and it's mind independent reality extends to right now.Just a memory, a conception, a reasoned argument, but nothing real. — Tzeentch
I don't believe I am experiencing my birth right now, unless we have very different ideas of what it means to be born. — Tzeentch
According to theory of relativity, time is a special kind of space. So you could say that the rock of yesterday or tomorrow exists in that space, just in a different location. — litewave
If they are real, then where are they? — Tzeentch