Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

It’s extremely impressive that you are capable of spinning a whole paper from this. Your philosophical skills have not diminished at the hospital, or perhaps they have been positively enhanced! “To answer your second question: the differen…

It’s extremely impressive that you are capable of spinning a whole paper from this. Your philosophical skills have not diminished at the hospital, or perhaps they have been positively enhanced! “To answer your second question: the differen…

In reply to AliJ. Thanks for the comment. My post is somewhat artificial and misleading, since it follows Huemer’s discussion (which I regard as artificial and misleading), and it’s intended only to present a bite-sized snippet of the issue…

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I too am not clear on the distinction. It seems that if we want to allow that the distinction is real and not merely stipulative then presumably there are some essential properties that one has which the other lacks, and vice versa, each of which is su…

Well, “everyday” for me. Yes, believe it or not, this is the first installment in yet another one of my series that never quite sees completion. I have no idea how, or if, this one ends, but it was inspired (or counter-inspired) by a footnote on the definition of “table” in Michael Huemer’s Ethical Intutionism…