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Cool. I'm just making sure I'm covering my bases. So, on your view, can meaning occur without language? When I associate a spout with its vase and see...

All morally permissible actions are not immoral. Abortion is morally permissible Therefore, abortion is not immoral.

A desire that's bound to result in frustration, I might warn. But if you want to continue this line of thinking I'd suggest a new thread on meaning, s...

Well, that's pretty far astray from here, I must say. :D I can agree to disagree. But you can see, I think, where my line of reasoning is going, yes?

I'm not ignoring meaning. In fact you could say my entire objection to emotivism hinges on meaning -- since I'm claiming that moral statements are mea...

Well, I've been restricting myself to the nature of moral language -- namely that moral statements are not special with respect to other statements. S...

I did misunderstand you, but I don't think this follows. It's not because it's a widely held belief that I say moral statements are truth-apt. It's be...

But I did not say that beliefs must have merit because they are strongly held beliefs. I said that emotivism does not account for the phenomena under ...

When I say "It is raining" does that, on your view, mean the very same thing as "I think it is raining"? I think the line of thinking would be to say ...

By appealing I mean that the account is convincing, explains all the phenomena under consideration, or some such -- it makes an appeal to our rational...

Well, sure, you can double-down and bite the bullet. But can you see why someone might find the theory unappealing? It seems somewhat elaborate and un...

I agree with that.

Alright, then we are in agreement I think -- I'm only saying that when people say "It is good" that this is what they mean -- they do not mean "I thin...

Cool -- so I think we are pretty close save for my lack of understanding what a moral fact is. Perhaps it does not matter? But maybe it does too. A mo...

Yes, definitely.

If "It is good" means "I think it is good" why wouldn't you just say "I think it is good"? In the case of facts we don't have a problem appending "I t...

I'd say that its claim is false. But furthermore, the falsity of this claim does not seem to matter for the argument. It's the future like ours that m...

Well, now that I know the script I can at least rehearse :D My initial temptation was to jump down the "biological unique human organism" rabbit hole....

Fair enough, and sorry for that. I wasn't reading closely enough. My thought was with respect to where I responded to you here: https://thephilosophyf...

Engaging in a bad habit of double-posting: Also, that being said, I should say there is some sense in which it makes sense to say there is a fact to t...

I agree that a proposition is true or false, and that moral statements are of the form of propositions. However, given that there is no fact of the ma...

To justify the people we want dead? So the future value of people is what we care about, yes? It seems to me that this point is still unaddressed by y...

Silentio?

My immediate reaction was to think of the differences between these and other practices, but I think I would say that, hey, a solution of context-depe...

Oh? How is that determined? And supposing it to be the case, then why does it matter? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/252264 https:/...

Why?

It's OK. The general notion is that not only is Abraham under consideration, but the very same act of Abraham is under consideration -- so you could s...

Have you ever had the (dis)pleasure of reading Fear and Trembling? Silentio's account of the knight of faith and Abraham comes pretty close to a plaus...

I suspect that I'm not quite in the culture you describe, just to be up front about that. Or perhaps I'm like an adopted son who still has memories of...

The point here, to get back to the OP, is that moral realism is appealing because it explains why it is we can feel desire for something while simulta...

Is "not disliking" different from "Liking"? The double negative confuses me. I'd say it's quite possible to like something you believe is immoral. Not...

That is a pretty light form of temptation, I'd say. Plus it's quite rational. Substance abuse comes closer to what I have in mind, or strong beliefs a...

Let's try a positive formulation. I'd say it is possible to desire X, and to desire the abolition of X. One can be simultaneously attracted to and rep...

Is the paradox that yours is a culture which allows nativism in other cultures in the name of diversity, but disallows nativism with respect to itself...

What's the difference? I'd say that this is exactly what temptation looks like -- to object to something yet want it.

I'd say that your statement makes sense. Isn't this the structure of temptation? To like something which one objects to?

The mother does. In some ideal sense I'd say the father too, but it's too idealistic to the practical realities of birth and who shoulders the costs o...

I think that some moral considerations are not black and white, and that abortion is the sort of action that falls in that category. The best way to p...

Marquis did, but I think his argument is a bit different from yours. At least if we're thinking of the same paper that he's famous for. Maybe he's mad...

Yes! That's exactly what I'm saying -- personhood is not a metaphysical category (though if we are cognitivists then we should supply some criteria by...

I just quote this below because I think we've come to a terminus on the other subjects. How so? It seems to me the question of personhood is just when...

Cool. I think we'd actually agree here in all except for where you say "to some extent". For myself it seems foolish to compare the worth of a person ...

So in murder these are the future-goods which are deprived, according to your rationale for murder being categorized as wrong. Now I would say a bird ...

Funnily enough it actually seems to resemble your argument, @"Rank Amateur", only it looks at time in the reverse rather than forward. Gotta think on ...

I think that's how this works. :D Give a criteria, respond with a counter-example, give a criteria -- and so forth. It's not an argument for personhoo...

I'd have to ask you once you wake up. I'd probably believe whichever you said, with the caveat that you might be confused. The thought experiment does...

Okay, so it's actually more general than just a straight line. It's just arclength of whatever manifold we're interested in.

I actually own that game. :D I just got to watch the video. It's a great game.

Ehhhh... i don't think I agree with your logic here. But let's put that aside, because I think it would be a waste of time since I likely fall into yo...

I was using that mostly as a segue to talk about what I believe your position to be. If you want me to go through your posts and comment individually ...