JPA (@2Philosophical

JPA

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JPA

@2Philosophical_

philosophy professor interested in ethics, the case for theism, consciousness, & free will • perpetually perplexed • possible worlds enjoyer

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Joined June 2020

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JPA
@2Philosophical_
Nov 14, 2025
Look, if we remove the slippery slope fallacy from the list of logical fallacies, then before you know it we’ll be removing all the other informal fallacies from the list and will soon forget the very concept of an informal fallacy altogether.
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@ZyMazza
Nov 12, 2025
Petition to remove “slippery slope” from the list of logical fallacies
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JPA
@2Philosophical_
Jul 20, 2025
“If we can’t know, it doesn’t matter.” ~Individual who thinks he isn’t doing philosophy.
Diane Yap
@RealDianeYap
Jul 19, 2025
One time, a physicist I know dismissed the entire field of philosophy with one simple declaration, and I still love him for it. “If we can’t know, it doesn’t matter.”
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JPA
@2Philosophical_
Oct 25, 2024
Replying to @timecaptales
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JPA
@2Philosophical_
Jan 1, 2025
Philosophy instructors really need to contend with the reality that the lesson far too many students take away from philosophy is, in effect, that there just are no objectively correct answers to philosophical questions. A top priority should be nipping this in the bud.
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JPA
@2Philosophical_
Sep 10, 2024
Questions Trump and Harris MUST answer: • A priori knowledge: no or yes? • Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? • Experience machine: would you enter? • Mental content: internalism or externalism? • God: atheism or theism? • Laws of nature: non-Humean or Humean?
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JPA
@2Philosophical_
Aug 13, 2024
Replying to @nikicaga
Turtles certainly can suffer. Barnacles almost certainly cannot, and any case lack the morally significant capacities of turtles. It’s quite simple.
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JPA
@2Philosophical_
Apr 20, 2024
“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.” ~Daniel C. Dennett
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JPA
@2Philosophical_
Oct 19, 2025
“We must picture Hell as contemporary academia”
David L. Bahnsen
@DavidBahnsen
Oct 18, 2025
“We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.” ~ CS Lewis
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JPA
@2Philosophical_
Jan 5, 2025
Given that the vast majority of humans generally, and philosophers in particular, have been theists, one of the great psyops of 20th century philosophy was fostering a sense of God as some utterly bizarre, embarrassing notion with no place in respectable philosophical theorizing.
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JPA
@2Philosophical_
Oct 28, 2025
A High Value Man: —shows that logic is complete but math is not —formalizes the Ontological Argument —solves Einstein’s equations to allow for time travel —finds an inconsistency in the US Constitution —fears the refrigerator —writes his love letters in Gabelsberger shorthand
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JPA
@2Philosophical_
Sep 18, 2024
Thomas Nagel: “Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.”
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JPA
@2Philosophical_
Sep 13, 2023
A high-value man: - only discusses philosophy - flosses & brushes teeth obsessively - All Souls Fellow by 30 - denies he persists through time - nocturnal by 40 - drinks instant coffee - cycles in underwear - wears one outfit - misses deadlines - writes 2 groundbreaking books
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JPA
@2Philosophical_
Sep 1, 2025
Pascal’s Wager is an extremely annoying argument. No one really likes it — not theists, not agnostics, not atheists. The most annoying thing about it is that, in the end, it’s probably sound.
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JPA
@2Philosophical_
Oct 21, 2023
Replying to @gmiller
Hamas is fundamentally anti-“West”, and the the extreme left is fundamentally anti-“West”. That’s enough.
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