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and @"Ø implies everything" I feel the need to mention that the main reason I don't reply is because I haven't figured out what I could say. It's a co...

Fair. I'll accept the decision either way, of course. I don't want the responsibility. Only mentioning thoughts.

That's what I was looking for and saw nothing, but I'm lazy. I'll just say I would be fine with un-banning the member for now? Unless?

Yeh I was bummed upon reading that one. We had a really good conversation on something I hardly ever get to really think about here.

Heh. I think I'm more uncertain, but I have no disagreement that a lot of the difficulty has to do with horrors. The easy cases are the principles we ...

@"unenlightened" maybe we'll see one another the more I share, but maybe not. Still, in the spirit of sharing thoughts on the subject -- I have a hard...

And yet I will not do it.

The inversion would be -- I can only pretend that killing is bad, given my reliance upon those who are willing to kill to preserve our societies. My a...

Sorry, a third thought that might help us: I read Nietzsche as the philosopher that cared so much about value that he was willing to sacrifice the goo...

I feel the need to note: I wouldn't call myself beyond good and evil. I basically think most people who have thought about the problem enough to be ab...

Isn't that what moral realism does? Moral anti-realism wishes to divest moral statements of fact-hood. There is no truth here -- just what's important...

I'm not following how this goes against error theory. Or, at least, there are some thoughts I have. All moral statements are false. However, trust and...

I'm not certain anymore. I had thought that, but now I'm not sure. But even if so, it's still worth noting the divergence here between cellular signal...

Me neither. The ant example is something I take more seriously as an example of a sign than cellular signaling. At that point I'm not sure if we're sp...

My mind changes a lot. But I think that's a good thing. And I frequently find myself in between positions. I have certain loves: Epicurus, Kant, Marx,...

Well that kills it for me. I was all pumped until I heard the no daddy issues rule.

Cool. This might be the one thing that allows me to draw a distinction between myself and those who believe in Propositions, for instance (which fits ...

Are there an infinite number of sentences? I think there's a very large number of sentences, and language is infinitely iterable -- but it's used with...

Yup! :D Sounds good to me :). For myself, I don't feel coherent enough to have a classification yet. It's just one of those questions which lingers in...

Heh. That's the question! I don't believe in forms, and yet I believe words mean. It sounds like platonism of some kind, but I don't think that's real...

Is "grounded" the right relationship to seek? And if so, what even is grounding? I usually just take meaning as basic. Being a competent speaker of a ...

I should have done bookend last week. I think I'll be able to catch up this week. But, I haven't even caught up with last week's reading yet much less...

:D I like that one. The whole album is great. A couple of songs about death that have been ringing about my mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszL...

Epicurus and the tetrapharmakos is what came to mind first for me. Glad to see someone else mention that line of thought. -- I'd say what you feel abo...

Well, I can try! I don't think meaning is an easy subject to discuss. Some difficulties: It has a self-referential quality -- what we say is an exampl...

Present. :) All I know is that they mean with guesses at what they mean -- I certainly don't know how they mean, and at times doubt that they mean but...

Oh I think it's OK to strive for impossible goals. Else philosophy would surely disappear! :D Just noting that as we move from different communities t...

Given that I can see a world, that's so much the worse for our scientific understandings ;) But, even more, surely we can be realists who are not scie...

Yes. Though I'm hopeful that the point is non-trivial to what you are asking. I pretty much hold this belief with respect to any discussions about det...

I'd formulate realism-nihilism as more of a gradient, I think, where the most extreme form of the gradient is exclusion/inclusion rules without any ex...

I'll do my best to explain myself. Given any norm, be it consequential, deontic, virtue-theoretic, or somewhere in between, I claim that one can class...

First I'd say that distinction is a general one -- so no need to hold to it. But also, no need to hold to "objective norms" or "there are/not categori...

I tend to favor moral anti-realism, but mostly out of laziness. I agree that nature-based arguments -- or virtue-theoretic devices, which is how I'm i...

21MAR23 lecture notes. Haven't read the section yet, but still taking notes to share and listen for nuggets to think about while I do the reading. "Th...

I've filled in some details and gone too far in my description then. And come to think of it it was foolish of me to outline a path to enlightenment w...

In one set up of libertarian free will actions have a cause but that cause is not necessity. It's freedom. It's an entirely different causal structure...

A particular self is an existential bundle of powers: what we do, collectively, provides examples of the self beyond anything we might say about our s...

Wonderful read. I must admit when I read the OP my first thought was "Get out of my head!" :D Magical neo-Marxism is now a thing, I think?

Certainly not you. In my philosophy, only you speak for you, and "self" would be a surreptitious way of sounding authoritative if I were meaning "self...

I think of Freud as a kind of archetype of secular magician: the psychologist that can see you better than you can see yourself is a kind of Seer or O...

I think I'm just lost at a certain point, and don't know what else to say. These are conceptual distinctions rather than reasons why the secular is so...

I wouldn't question your namesake. Only you get to talk about that, at least in my philosophy. (A rule or a spell?) But for me, for us, for the world,...

I like that Heidegger's history is coming to be more widely known. It's important, I think. I don't think it discounts Being and Time at least, though...

I agree with this. Oh, sure. I'm aware. Knowledge is valuable. Not just in some esoteric sense. It's worth money. Lots of it.

I think that science is a part of knowledge. I don't have a general definition in the sense for all possible examples. But usually I think of it as an...

I'm interested! One of the reasons I thought to start the discussion was the hash out various meanings of "science". Care to say more? Yup. And due to...

Speaking of a re-occurring magical spell -- can we repudiate the enlightenment? Haven't we already done so, or tried? Dis-enchantment as the repudiati...

I hope to meet the bar of philosophy. Such is my intent at least! Interesting. So rather than looking at "interpretation" there's an outside influence...

Fair. I probably don't either then. Yes, I think we can. And I think that's helpful too. In fact, one can probably sell the glasses, would be a way to...

I like this. Good points. As long as we can acknowledge being a bit lost then I'm OK with that :D Less boring is always better, especially for an OP b...