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The problem here is that pyrrhonist skepticism is more of an existential and ontological view, rather than an epistemological one. When be begin to discuss it in terms of rigorous, normative...

Just to clarify

I do not assert that truth is completely relative. I do not assert that nothing is knowable. I do not assert that A can be B and not B.

That's fine. They can still be implemented as such.



Dispositions that we have towards the different statements we make. Different levels of identification of self with those statements. ...

Trance you seem to have a very representationalist view of knowledge. Have you read any Richard Rorty? If not, I highly recommend him. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature is a good one.

A lot...

They are neither opinions nor assumptions. They are merely statements. The person providing neither assumes them to be true, nor wishes them to be true.





I don't recall mentioning...

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Alternative logical system. One of neither nor.

Can still make statements and function normally.

Has ontological implications.


IMHO, this Zen thought fully exemplifies the...

GREAT POST Quee. I had a very faint understanding of epoche, but never read it in such a good context. I've been meaning to go back and read the ancient Greeks.




Enso explained it very...

Do you have no better things to spend your money on? Serious.

Or are you that ballin'

Experience is an abstract concept.

Truth is an abstract concept.

I respect that. A lot of vegans I have talked to claim that they make the dietary choices they do because eating meat involves the killing of animals, but they seem to forget that the consumption of...

How is this evidence? It is an arbitrary claim with no evidence to support it at all.


Evidence?



So non-vegetarians are not able to digest grains? Since when do our salivary glands not...

I do not agree that it is necessary to stop meat consumption entirely, but I do believe it is necessary to change our relationship with it. That goes for our relationship to all foods. We...

I don't look to those movies as the moral foundations to my life, and the core elements from which I derive all meaning and purpose.

I knew animals could exhibit outward physiological signs of emotion, but I wasn't sure of the extent to which their cognitive abilities (and thus their internal experience) could produce suffering.
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Kind words AKR, kind words.

Those were serious questions. I was genuinely curious.


With that said, that's fascinating stuff. I'm gonna look further into those types of studies. This brings...

Best thread the misc has ever seen.

What of the likely possibility that the farmers who grew your plants may be meat-eaters? Does that not bother you in any way?

Topical quirks? Topical quirks?


Dude. The Gospels have some value to them, but to describe the barbarity that is evident throughout the Bible as a "little list of topical quirks" is completely...

How do you know animals suffer at all? Isn't suffering a human characteristic?

We are not talking about human beings. It is not socially acceptable to eat human beings. It is not an issue...

Proof that animals suffer in the same way humans do?