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Eikadistes
Reaction (Post)December 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM https://www.newscientist.com/article/250665…-as-we-know-it/
Growing evidence of the plausibility of life like and perhaps unlike our own on other worlds.
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Pacatus
Reaction (Post)December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM The Okeefe answer would be "But "absence of pain" is the highest pleasure, so if you simply breathe air, eat bread, and drink water, there will be no pain on the right side of the ledger, and the left side will be all 10's in every column!"
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Pacatus
December 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Cassius’s post in the thread Latest Thoughts On Natural and Necessary Classification of Desires - Adding A FAQ entry.[…]
.... because only YOU can measure the pain or pleasure that results from any action.
It is exactly wrong to do what the Benthamites tried to do and reduce the calculation purely to mathemetics.
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Pacatus
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Cassius’s post in the thread Sorites Argument Referenced in Cicero's Academic Questions.The sorites question is going to come up again in upcoming podcast episodes so I am posting this as a refresher (Edited from Grok). I suspect there are a lot of people like me who aren't very familiar with this question or its unusual name. However the… -
Cassius
Reaction (Post)December 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM https://www.newscientist.com/article/250665…-as-we-know-it/
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Adrastus
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM Posted the thread Asteroid found to carry all the ingredients for life.Threadhttps://www.newscientist.com/article/250665…-as-we-know-it/
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Eikadistes
Reaction (Post)December 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM In the third chapter of this book, Greenblatt relates an anecdote which it has taken me ages to track down;
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Looking at the print edition, I notice that he does include an endnote; 63 At the games in the Colosseum: Erich Auerbach, Literary Language and… -
Matteng
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Kalosyni’s post in the thread Latest Thoughts On Natural and Necessary Classification of Desires - Adding A FAQ entry.[…]
The problem with including both bodily and mental pain, is that mental pain can arise from false views of reality. Lucretius warns about the pains that come from intense romantic infatuation. And there are other false views which can give mental… -
Matteng
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Kalosyni’s post in the thread Latest Thoughts On Natural and Necessary Classification of Desires - Adding A FAQ entry.[…]
Cassius Perhaps reformulating the question for clarity?
How do I know what desires are 1) natural and necessary; 2) natural but unnecessary; 3) unnatural and unnecessary ? And are there any rules on how to apply the categorization onto each… -
Kalosyni
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