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	<title>Comments on: Metaphysics is Boring When You Know the Answers</title>
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	<description>The Sweet Release of Reason</description>
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		<title>By: Aaron Agassi</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/01/02/metaphysics-is-boring-when-you-know-the-answers/#comment-9435</link>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Agassi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It might even help to read this first: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.FoolQuest.com/metaphysics_for_dummies.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.FoolQuest.com/metaphysics_for_dummie...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It might even help to read this first: <a href="http://www.FoolQuest.com/metaphysics_for_dummies.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.FoolQuest.com/metaphysics_for_dummie&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>By: Aaron Agassi</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/01/02/metaphysics-is-boring-when-you-know-the-answers/#comment-9434</link>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Agassi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It might even help to read this first: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.FoolQuest.com/metaphysics_for_dummies.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.FoolQuest.com/metaphysics_for_dummie...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It might even help to read this first: <a href="http://www.FoolQuest.com/metaphysics_for_dummies.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.FoolQuest.com/metaphysics_for_dummie&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>By: Jose Ramones</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/01/02/metaphysics-is-boring-when-you-know-the-answers/#comment-9433</link>
		<dc:creator>Jose Ramones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>great blog!</description>
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		<title>By: Patricia W Olson</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/01/02/metaphysics-is-boring-when-you-know-the-answers/#comment-9432</link>
		<dc:creator>Patricia W Olson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>tu blog es excelente!  te mando 565 felicitaciones!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>tu blog es excelente!  te mando 565 felicitaciones!</p>
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		<title>By: Jillian J Monahan</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/01/02/metaphysics-is-boring-when-you-know-the-answers/#comment-9431</link>
		<dc:creator>Jillian J Monahan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>your blog is really great! 953</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>your blog is really great! 953</p>
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		<title>By: Betty R Brent</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/01/02/metaphysics-is-boring-when-you-know-the-answers/#comment-9430</link>
		<dc:creator>Betty R Brent</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>great article!, grats for u site :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>great article!, grats for u site <img src='http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: nutrition foods</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/01/02/metaphysics-is-boring-when-you-know-the-answers/#comment-9429</link>
		<dc:creator>nutrition foods</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the info. May God have mercy on us all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the info. May God have mercy on us all.</p>
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		<title>By: How to Hypnotize For Free</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/01/02/metaphysics-is-boring-when-you-know-the-answers/#comment-9428</link>
		<dc:creator>How to Hypnotize For Free</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who said we know the answers?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who said we know the answers?</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Drake</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Drake</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;The universe is either deterministic or it isn’t. This has nothing to do with free will. We have it.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is correct, except for the third sentence, which should read &quot;We have it, as long as you redefine it as consisting of properties we have.&quot; Preserving a folk concept like &#039;free will&#039; and recasting it as &quot;reasons responsiveness&quot; (or whatever) in order to confirm that &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt;, we &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; have free will seems like the epitome of a pointless equivocation. (Cf. &quot;We have free markets; it&#039;s just that they&#039;re centrally planned.&quot;)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;To be is to be the value of a bound variable.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No. To be a justified existential postulate is to be the value of a bound variable. (Cf. your subsequent musings about epistemology.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Modal statements about fundamental kinds (”gold might have had a different atomic weight”) may be grammatical but are not meaningful.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Only if we insist on reading it in terms of the Kripkean construction that gold necessarily has the atomic weight that it does. (Again, cf. your remarks on epistemology.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The universe is either deterministic or it isn’t. This has nothing to do with free will. We have it.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is correct, except for the third sentence, which should read &#8220;We have it, as long as you redefine it as consisting of properties we have.&#8221; Preserving a folk concept like &#39;free will&#39; and recasting it as &#8220;reasons responsiveness&#8221; (or whatever) in order to confirm that <i>actually</i>, we <i>do</i> have free will seems like the epitome of a pointless equivocation. (Cf. &#8220;We have free markets; it&#39;s just that they&#39;re centrally planned.&#8221;)</p>
<p>&#8220;To be is to be the value of a bound variable.&#8221;</p>
<p>No. To be a justified existential postulate is to be the value of a bound variable. (Cf. your subsequent musings about epistemology.)</p>
<p>&#8220;Modal statements about fundamental kinds (”gold might have had a different atomic weight”) may be grammatical but are not meaningful.&#8221;</p>
<p>Only if we insist on reading it in terms of the Kripkean construction that gold necessarily has the atomic weight that it does. (Again, cf. your remarks on epistemology.)</p>
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		<title>By: Steve M.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve M.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cheers to m-jayz for leading me back here!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Qualia: Yes! They play a computational function.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Don&#039;t say that out loud.  Daniel Dennett will appear and destroy you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cheers to m-jayz for leading me back here!</p>
<p><i>Qualia: Yes! They play a computational function.</i></p>
<p>Don&#39;t say that out loud.  Daniel Dennett will appear and destroy you.</p>
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