Is our identity the same as our experiences? Either way, OK, identity here is a relationship between DNA and experience -- however, would that we coul...
This is the argument from queerness. I googled "argument from queerness" and found only responses and an old archived SEP article. I think that "queer...
Just to make sure I read over your OP again. I think the disconnect is between: these two sentences. In a way this reminds me of the free will debate:...
That may be the claim -- but why believe it? I think far too much emphasis is put upon DNA when it comes to identity. DNA doesn't relate to who you ar...
Yup, I agree. I also do not agree with the apologies -- when I say that Fear and Trembling doesn't end in aporia for me, I side with the conclusion th...
I agree that faith in an authority is questionable. The Euthyphro demonstrates the difficulty there -- faith in an authority can serve as a kind of wa...
I've rewritten this several times, just to say that up front. Pick away. This could be a way of introducing what's important rather than what is true....
Well, which is it, do you think? Are they the same or are they different? And I am saying I don't believe there must be willpower in place for someone...
Does it have to be one characteristic? One could be honest because telling the truth gives you blessings in the afterlife. It's not that that honesty,...
Fair enough -- if what I'm describing is, in fact, Aristotelian then the distinction between the thinkers isn't as important to me as the line of thou...
To be fair to you and anyone who has a more charitable read on astrology: I don't find astrology very significant, so my rendition of it is inadequate...
It always pleases me that I manage to set out something which actually manages to capture some sort of agreement, so thanks for letting me know. I hon...
That question reads a bit convoluted to me. Can you rephrase the question? I am tempted to say that any notion of conceptual scheme would claim that p...
I like this exposition. I think it surprisingly gets along better than I would have predicted with the Davidsonian picture -- perhaps we could treat D...
Some thinking out loud: Incommensurable is the word I'm tempted by :D But then it seems to be too convenient, in a way. It depends upon just how radic...
Hrmm, not painless, I agree with that -- Lucretius' poem talks about how the cure is painful, and the reason to put it into poetry was to sweeten it i...
Hrmm, not if the cure is making you happier, I'd imagine. Or here we are -- if you withdraw consent then this is just a failure on the part of the doc...
Hrmm, not sure. Sometimes I use the boards to think out loud and sometimes it's more piffle than substance. I'm going with that now. I was thinking ho...
One truth that is no fact are the logical truths, I think. There's no fact that makes "A = A" true. It's not a state of affairs, and I'm not using thi...
That's interesting. I'm with you that we rely upon the social, and that we're embedded in a world with others. But is the social a product, when consi...
Oh. Well... I think I understand the explanation of moral realism you've supplied. I can understand that it can be defended, which is why I noted I'm ...
You can, it's just not persuasive to the person who believes we ought to harm another, so our differences remain even as you call it a state of affair...
I'd say that it means the speaker believes it ought to be true, in the case of moral propositions. So "One ought not kick puppies for fun" is true mea...
The only difference is that some sentences use "is" and some use "ought", and that this verb indicates how we are using the word: the statements which...
Hrmm... not can't. I wouldn't reach for necessity. More just noting that this is not how we normally use the word "fact", at least -- usually we mean ...
Well, there's a subtly here that I'm now not certain about -- between truths and facts, to give a name to the distinction, where truths might include ...
Hrmm, I'd say we've already covered this point a bit, and the account laid by is sufficient for me to see a difference between claiming those as moral...
I can see how the story goes. That makes sense in a way, but let's consider another case of a materialist below. In answering the question directly I'...
I realized this morning I kind of hijacked your thread @"Bob Ross", so apologies for that. What can I say other than this has been something that's be...
Yes, I think that's the idea: that there's no real way to get around the post hoc choice of a situation to write a history from so the best one can do...
Right. We agree this far. The fear, let's say, is that they are all of them false. M'kay. Then all I can claim is it feels like faith because I'm unce...
So this might be the better way of putting things -- the anti-realist position sets doubts which a realist position may attempt to overcome, but I hav...
I think the important part you highlight is that we ought to take stewardship for future generations. I can imagine a Transcendentalist who doesn't ca...
The argument from difference gets me more than the argument from queerness. It strikes me that there would be more agreement if ethics were real. (not...
:D It's kind of funny to me because my interpretation of N is in conflict with Mackie. But they are also a bit disparate, in terms of time and place, ...
Thanks back :) It's always nice to feel appreciated. Perhaps my repeating the mantra "meaning is use" is obscuring my judgment. However, yes, really. ...
One missed in your opening is Erich Fromm's notion of love as an art: Rather than an emotion Fromm thinks the various forms of love are actions we per...
Perhaps another way of looking at it -- Sentences are not the bearers of moral worth. Actions are. Whether the sentence is true or false isn't importa...
I mean it sounds nice to me, but I don't think it makes sense to pursue it anxiously because that's counter-productive to the goal -- at least for me ...
Yes! And no! :D Let's see... the historicist approach, as I understand the method, has no need for transcendence as much as situatedness. A historian ...
Would that I could! These are genuine doubts on my part, though. I'd say that it's error theory which demonstrates how ethical propositions can be tru...
I love that paper. It's so incredibly good. But also note how in talking against incommensurability Rovelli does not shy from "conceptual structure" -...
The cure! The way I understand it -- if the Epicurean master had a brain surgery he could perform on people that would be effective that'd be acceptab...
If it is a true statement its truth does not share a sense with other uses of "truth". "One ought not kick puppies for fun" is false, in sense of the ...
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