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Sculptor, asking for your experience is a valid question, and deserves an answer to the question. This is just the first, level of thinking, as I am sure you know. Epistemological privilege to this question is up for argument.

Sculptor, you are a philosopher. I was wondering what kind do you practice?

Yes, you really do know philosophy.

Sculptor is that a threat? Direct or instantiated acceptance is a threat. Sculptor, your so called reasoning, is direct or instantiated acceptance of a conclusion. Being, circumstantial in your replies is one of begging the question? Can you figure that fallacy out begging the question? Being, circu...

Ad baculum is what this board uses to give opinions. The Cynics would be embarrassed by your use of opinions. Your use of ad baculum is embarrassing, even to the Cynics. You may even be circumstantial in your attempts at an argument. Views against are against arguments that may have merit. You may h...

With a lot of research and reflection on the term philosophy, I have learned. Thank-You.

Stating, with confidence because of having read most of the message boards. I will point out and by not giving a response of convention. The tyrant or the philosopher has power, love is a tyrant ( Republic 573b.) Book X is the philosopher and the tyrant. Just remember, Imitation takes us far from th...

This argument is in the form of folk psychology. To denote the word, Irrefutable: That which cannot be destroyed. In the true sense, reality should not be confused with whether the idea of God exists. The rational universe, “… With all the blue eternal sky And spangled heavens, a shining frame Their...

"The Brain in the Vat," is about certainty and perceptions of the external world. Fundamental about the nature of reality and limits of human knowledge, Using, induction as a problem solver. There is no rational justification the future will resemble the past. Evidence and the limits of hu...

Laughing, than having searched for the problem of evil. Finding, forty four pages with reference in the search engine to the problem of evil. All you people can do is put each other down by saying, you do not know what the other is writing about. Knowing, that knowledge is not cheap because you have...

I do not agree with this and period.

If A is better than B and B is better than C than A is better than C, but lack the concept of self-evidence so could not know that a proposition is self-evident. Objective claims are not self-evident truths, they must be supported with evidence and deliberation. Sidgwick's: (1) Clear and distinct. (...

Truth does not mind being questioned, so why is this board cynical and hostile towards one another?

Personhood has a meaning, and surely you are trying to be cynical, at least, I think. Possessing, a moral satire, to the meaning of metaphysics ? Cynicism has a meaning and please look it up. Are you trying to be skeptical, but do not know how? Try being philosophical. Quite being a double thinker ...