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Sorry for potentially interrupting the evolved conversation. I just now received an email for this and thus my late response. So this is a response to ken and I've quoted it in case you forgot what you said. Then I'll respond below. "Totality" is the word traditionally used by philosophers and logic...

"Analytic" opposes "Synthetic" more appropriately and referring to how a proposition's subject relates to the predicate. When the subject logically relates to the predicate by a genus-specie or tautological meaning, the propositions are deemed easiest to analyze because they don't add information b...

The way that I divide analytic from synthetic may be unconventional. Every aspect of knowledge that can be represented in language and encoded as strings of characters is {analytic knowledge}. Every aspect of knowledge that can only be perceived as sensations through the sense organs is {empirical ...

The way that I divide analytic from synthetic may be unconventional. Every aspect of knowledge that can be represented in language and encoded as strings of characters is {analytic knowledge}. Every aspect of knowledge that can only be perceived as sensations through the sense organs is {empirical ...

"Analytic" opposes "Synthetic" more appropriately and referring to how a proposition's subject relates to the predicate. When the subject logically relates to the predicate by a genus-specie or tautological meaning, the propositions are deemed easiest to analyze because they don't add information b...

"Analytic" opposes "Synthetic" more appropriately and referring to how a proposition's subject relates to the predicate. When the subject logically relates to the predicate by a genus-specie or tautological meaning, the propositions are deemed easiest to analyze because they don't add information be...

There seems to be an element of confusion here. Whilst it is true that many use the accusation ad hominem when they suffer a personal attack or some insulting remark. There is a strict difference between an insult and an ad hominem . If a person says something stupid and are met with insults, that ...

"Ad Hominem" was labeled to particularly make one notice that the challenging argument of another is focussed on attacking the person rather than the argument. The person COULD be a justified challenge if their motive is signficant to the position of the arguer. As such, it may not be a fallacy. For...

More time is wasted on Latin phrases that are not understood by the people who use them than is thinkable to serious people. Usually the abuse of the phrase ad hominem involves conflating a "personal attack" with a "logical" error, that of genetic falacy. Very commonly it involves immunizing onesel...

Before I address any of your arguments, I need you to be aware that the concern of abuses BY these people calling themselves, "Incels", is absurdly a trivial concern compared to the problems that occur on the opposite end of the spectrum. Those who abuse are more often those who normally HAVE what t...

This is NOT about me, you stupid fuck! You introduced this arrogant thread to which I am responding only. Whatever, regardless you are very emotionally invested in it. Why? Because I empathize for these people as victims of some social factors that many are BLIND to notice. The fact that society to...

Why do evil right wing fascists always win elections - if not now, then in the near future? What is it with Right Wing Fascism that makes it so much more popular than say left-wing liberalism? ...., why is Fascism so popular? Because animals normally are limited to LOCAL phenomena rather than GLOBA...

Most of this is just dreck and wallowing in self-pity. There of course is no exact "science" to such a thing, however generally it's a no-brainer that more "positive" qualities and fewer "negative" ones would be beneficial. You're blaming "society" or "the world" as a whole under the pretenses that...

The point is that it is not 'stupid'. If is it, then why do most people think it 'normal' to WANT anything at all? How is "society" to blame for you being non-sexually satisfied? You aren't entitled to sex "simply because you exist" or imagine yourself to be a "nice guy", "good girl", or "super dup...

I think you don't recognize that 'values' are themselves concepts and how I interpret them. The value 'assignment' is just a type of relationship classification that is linked to other concepts . We are not likely disagreeing here but talking past each other due to the confusion of the subtleties o...