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How do you people with long hair put it up?
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April 20, 2018 at 7:18 pm
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2018 at 7:20 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
"Alone is what I have. Alone protects me."
“I may be on the side of the angels but don’t think for one second that I am one of them.” “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day."
While we're on philosophers... my favorite living philosopher is Galen Strawson.
Here's him in action:  (April 20, 2018 at 9:50 pm)Hammy Wrote: While we're on philosophers... my favorite living philosopher is Galen Strawson. I am unfamiliar with Strawson, and (just going by this video) I couldn't tell you if I'm a fan of him or not because identity is one of my least favorite metaphysical problems. RE: How do you people with long hair put it up?
April 20, 2018 at 10:39 pm
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2018 at 10:44 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(April 20, 2018 at 10:16 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: I am unfamiliar with Strawson, and (just going by this video) I couldn't tell you if I'm a fan of him or not because identity is one of my least favorite metaphysical problems. Hmm. Interesting. It's one of my favorites lol. Why don't you like it? Epistemology is probably my least favorite area... as it seems to be that science pretty much has a handle on emprical epistemolgy and when it comes to absolute knowledge all there really is is deduction from tautological premises. There's all these debates over different theories of knowledge but I think knowledge is what the most progress has already been made on. And when it comes to theories of truth the correspondence theory clearly makes the most sense to me. Ethics and metaphysics are the most interesting to me.... Specifically: Consciousness, Free Will, population ethics and identity. And I think identity is very relevant to population ethics. As are theories of time. It's my views on identity and time and the inability to aggregate consciousness between individuals, as well as my views on free will, that all impact my ethics greatly. It all connects up for me with one field saying something relevant about the other. I think that different theories of identity are relevant to time which is relevant to conscious experience and ethics. (April 20, 2018 at 10:39 pm)Hammy Wrote: Hmm. Interesting. It's one of my favorites lol. Why don't you like it? It's too confused of an issue. Imagine I asked you the question: "What (to you) is the self?" You could say a number of things, the body, the soul, psychological continuity(which is what it is to me). A metaphysical position here is really dependant upon what anyone regards as self (ie what they mean when they say the word.) I hate it when people boil down real metaphysical problems to semantics. They usually aren't. So, believe me, I hate to say this: Identity, as a metaphysical problem is just that: a problem of semantics. RE: How do you people with long hair put it up?
April 20, 2018 at 10:51 pm
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2018 at 11:00 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(April 20, 2018 at 10:45 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: I hate it when people boil down real metaphysical problems to semantics. They usually aren't. So, believe me, I hate to say this: Identity, as a metaphysical problem is just that: a problem of semantics. Aren't all problems problems of semantics? Even when it comes to truth itself we have to define it first. The way I see it is... presentism is true so that greatly affects what our experience of personal identity and the self must be like. If our self in the past and future existed then that would be completely different. But I don't think the past and future exist so that really affects everything for me. (April 20, 2018 at 10:45 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: A metaphysical position here is really dependant upon what anyone regards as self (ie what they mean when they say the word.) Isn't that the case on all matters? That's why my favorite fallacy to spot is the fallacy of equivocation, because people do it all the time, almost always without even realizing it. It's okay as long as you notice when people are using the same word in two different ways. Like, it irks me when people debate free will before defining first whether they mean incompatabilist or compatabilist free will and then you have them talking at cross purposes... and they may completely agree and just they define it differently. Semantics is important. I think it's only a problem when people go on discussing before they figure out the semantics. EDIT: I'm really enjoying our discussion but I must be going to bed now. Super tired and it's 4.AM. Ni night 
(April 20, 2018 at 10:51 pm)Hammy Wrote: Semantics is important. I think it's only a problem when people go on discussing before they figure out the semantics. Maybe you've hit the nail on the head here, Hammy. But let me put you to the test: Why isn't the brain, brain stem, and nerves which connect to it the self? Or is it? |
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