Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(QC RSS) Major Malfunction
SPACE PSYCHICS
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on person-directed anger and the way things should be by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. Anger is way too strong. But what I’m getting at is: is it really obvious that it’s appropriate to have a negative affective reaction at all? Does thinking that X ought to happen entail anything in particular about af…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Somebody do something
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(QC RSS) Zero Consequences
storyline over!* *not actually true
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(Policy of Truth) Could Hilary Putnam Have Been a Brain in a Vat?: Three Arguments against Reference, Part 1
In previous posts (such as this one and this one), I have sometimes alluded to the philosophy of structural realism. Structural realism says that we are unable to know the intrinsic character of the world outside our minds, although we are able to know a great deal about the structure of that world, especially its…
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(QC RSS) Idiocy Of Maturation
It is a webcomic reference
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on person-directed anger and the way things should be by mlyoung57
I just went back to an earlier post of mine on (nominally, but not actually) the same topic: WHEN A SOCIETY OUGHT TO BE SOME WAY In that post, I’m concerned with it being the case that society (society’s norms and institutions) ought …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on person-directed anger and the way things should be by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. The motivation for [b], or something like it, is just that B succeeding more than A being desirable is different from B succeeding more than A being the way things are supposed to be (should be, ought to be, etc.). [a] just g…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on person-directed anger and the way things should be by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Oh man, a couple of lines in and I’m ready to wretch. LikeLike
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(The Black Wall Street Times) Oklahoma Education Board ignores bomb threats at Tulsa Schools
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