memla

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by memla 14y ago
There is some value in comments like yours. It brings to light just how many of these PHP bashing statements are biased and uninformed knee-jerk reactions, and therefore, should not be taken seriously by any rational person.
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by memla 14y ago
Once again you're missing the point. Nobody here agreed or disagreed with you about the nature of persons. What everyone is claiming is that you're simply espousing a position withing philosophy, which may or may not be true, and requires a
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by memla 14y ago
He didn't ask you whether there are accurate rules for distinguishing between felines and other families, he specifically and precisely asked you if you can deduce those rules from the illusion! It's the same inference you were trying to
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by memla 14y ago
Yes, you will have to draw that line and some other distinctions, and that is exactly his point. Determining what is a good, useful definition that all rational participants can agree to, and clearing all other conceptual baggage before the
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by memla 14y ago
This might be an interesting read. Also the comments about Krauss on that blog are useful because Krauss is representative of many contemporary scientists. http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/...
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by memla 14y ago
You should be careful with this grand pronunciations about what scientist have discovered, given that your last sentence doesn't have much to do with anything that precedes it. A "sense of self" is not the same thing as the "self". Nor does
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by memla 14y ago
To take one example, philosophers have been more than instrumental in the development of logic, especially [informal logic]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_logic#History ). Don't want to get into a discussion on whether logic is itse
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by memla 14y ago
Actually, according to the philpapers surveys most philosophers are moral realists. Of course, that means that they believe that at least some moral statements are true independent of what anyone thinks about them, not that "nature cares wh
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by memla 14y ago
Right, but Facebook supposedly receives 1 billion new comments + a couple billion likes + a couple hundred million status updates daily , and is probably the largest photo sharing site on the net. Twitter gets about 200 million tweets da
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by memla 14y ago
This comment of yours is also nothing but thoughts and ideas. What's your point?