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Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2019 4:04 pm

Sculptor wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2019 3:36 pm Does ANYONE like you??
LOL

So...

A gratuitous ad hominem fallacy, but no answer?

I'll answer when you ask a question that makes sense.

Skepdick wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2019 3:46 pm

Sculptor wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2019 3:35 pm In other words no science, no number system, no classification system could have told Mary what Red LOOKS LIKE, until she saw it with her own eyes.

Non-sequitur.

I think you might want to look up the meaning of this phrase and understand it if you want me to take you seriously.

I have a great deal to say about it, actually. But for the moment, I was only interested in your own bold claim that you knew that life has no "proven purpose." I wanted to understand what you meant by that extraordinary claim. It was your own claim. We were talking about whether you actu...

https://philosophynow.org/issues/99/What_Did_Mary_Know Here's roughly what went through Mary's mind at this very moment. 1. I have never experienced this color before. 2. I didn't know apples were this color (because all the apples I ever saw were black&white!) 3. I need to give this color-expe...

Green and Red are essentially different a difference that no number system can describe If fact I would go so far as to suggest that no one can actually describe the difference between them The number system can definitely describe the difference because they will appear as different frequencies on...

That's the fucking point! Green and Red are essentially different, a difference that no number system can describe. If fact I would go so far as to suggest that no one can actually describe the difference between them. Give it a bloody try! Wanna bet? The difference between Green and Red is most de...

Free will means making the right choice in order to feel love and goodness, a sense of justice, security, peace and harmony, mainly, the natural equilibrium of being no thing and everything. Any objection? . How can you exercise the will to love, when real love takes to be real love? You cannot hav...

You can talk about RGB numbers, or wavelengths of light till you are blue in the face, but the difference between red and green is not just quantitative it is QUALITATIVE. We see different things across the spectrum that no amount of quantifying can explain or describe. There is a good thought expe...

I think Redness is a less ambiguous But it's not 'least ambiguous'. I literally just demonstrated to you that you use 'redness' to mean AT LEAST 255 different things! Ambiguity and equivocation are two sides of the same coin. Quite literally - you are facing a problem of precision. A bias-variance ...

Not 'helped to create'. CREATED. And the arrogant, racist English have been doing it for centuries! They persecuted the Irish to the point that they had to leave their own country rather than starve to death! Genuine refugees. What the hell does not wanting open door immigration have to do with 'ra...

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2019 8:40 pm You two are such morons. It's actually Trump who has the most 'socialist' policies.

ROTFLMFHO

You are insane. There used to be a sculptor on the forum and in some ways you sound like him, in other ways you do not. Because life is the measure, the purpose, and the meaning of existence then opposing life is insane although necessary* as proven by the fact of its existence. Therefore by this c...

In other words you have fuck all to say about this topic too. I have a great deal to say about it, actually. But for the moment, I was only interested in your own bold claim that you knew that life has no "proven purpose." I wanted to understand what you meant by that extraordinary claim....

Because it is a stupid statement. Why? That's not self-evident. Absurd claims require extraordinary evidence. I see. You're quoting Sagan. The quotation is "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." The problem is that Sagan never defined what an "extraordinary claim"...

Perhaps you should investigate the concept of inequality? Ha. "Equality" is not a moral concept. It's not even a clear concept. There is no guarantee written into the nature of the universe that everybody must have "equal" anything. In fact, there's a 100% guarantee they FFS. Ge...