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Despite the long divide between them, in the mid to late 20th century the Anglo-American analytic tradition of philosophy and the Continental tradition of philosophy both became obsessed with the nature of language. Yet despite that, the shared interest does't seem to have acted as a bridge between...

Do you really think that I am going to waste my time answering a moral question about the impact of lying in the world? It is a pedantic ,neurotic ,dumb-fuckers question if I ever heard one. Who gives a royal fuck about the ethics of lying . Why dont you just get out the house and do something cons...

Sorry to burst your delusional bubble , that you have linguistic skills ,superior to mine ,but that idea is hilarious ,particularly given that loquacious sentence . Your question on this is crass and stupid. Wake up you dumb fucker . The world is transparently a place where people lie. Can anybody ...

You really want to get a life mate because that question is pathetic . To get a life, I suppose I should troll through a philosophy website, insult people for considering philosophical questions, then use patronising, abusive language that has the level of articulation commensurable with an outrage...

I understand harm to be pain & suffering or the reduction of an organism's ability or opportunity to thrive and an action ( such as lying ) causes harm if any of its ultimate consequences do.

a Shark wrote:
Who give a shit about silly questions about humans lying.
I mean where have you been.
The entire world is based on a god damn lie.
Politicians ,salesmen and bitches.
People lie - get over it.

I guess you must be lying then.

It depends how you qualify "harm" and "consequence". If you mean by "harm" just the physical damage to an organism and are limiting impact of lying to just immediate and direct consequences then your proposition is probably true, but I personally would not interpret har...

Apologies if my perplexity with your position is unclear. I was trying to understand how organisationism accounts for the phenomenal properties of consciousness if it did not need to rely on any "inner consciousness properties". Your reference to dual aspect theory and the suggestion that ...

Galen Strawson's panpsychism is also specifically a theory about consciousness and it seems like a kind of dual apect theory, at least in the way you describe percepts of red as being an internal state of matter. But this seems to be at odds with your earlier claim that "organisationism" a...

...But when the process is reversed into the past it is taken as an axiom (based on NOTHING) that it happened. The axiom that life emerged as a frozen accident from random natural processes is not based on nothing, but simply on the truism that it is one of two mutually exclusive logical possibiiti...

There obv is no law of chemistry that says matter left alone will spontaneously generate into the genetic code through natural processes You are correct that there is no law of chemistry that says matter left alone* WILL spontaneously generate into genetic code through natural processes. There are ...

Abiogenesis (obv) has never been demonstrated nor observed. It is religion vs science. Science vs abiogenesis/'evolution' religion. Science wins (again). Your definition of science seems to disallow the reasoned inference of unobservable phenomena ( eg abiogenenis ) from observable phenomena ( eg o...

After reading Darwins bate in my mouth garbage and 4-5 of Richard Dawkins books it came apparent to me Dawkins was hiding something (i knew he was lying as soon as i started reading his books). I found out what after watching interviews on youtube with the filthy snake for hours on end day after da...

The YEC's is: Genesis 1:1 is accurate and took place 6,000 years ago. I know my a priori starting point. Your starting point is an assumption that the book of Genesis is the literal truth. Given that our souls may be at stake, it would be nice if you could explain why this is a reasonable assumptio...