Well, it's not all intuition. How do you explain the presence of crime police but the absence of reward police? I mean there's no police force seeking...
Thanks for replying. Sorry if what I say is nonsense to you but am I not right to state that women wanting abortions are, in a sense, undermining thei...
Thanks for the information but I think it's incorrect. People don't do bad things because they get rewarded for doing good. Someone in the forum asked...
Not really. I was just surprised to find out that there is, despite creativity being our forte, only one method, punishment, that we employ to guide p...
There are two types of opinion. 1. One which must be reasoned to, like knowledge. This happens when, in a group, certain individuals are asked for the...
Well, I consider language as equipment. It helps us do useful things - express emotion, exchange ideas, describe stuff, etc. - but, like everything el...
Yes. There's a difference of degrees. Mild punishment for children and relatively severe for criminals. The severity of the punishment distinguishes t...
How did you understand ''it's raining''? Can you describe what it is that you apprehend from it? If someone tells me ''it's raining'' then I would tak...
:rofl: I see. So, now you resort to ad hominems. You're seeing this from a woman's point of view and also in the very narrow sense of rights. Rights a...
Well, this is a matter of grammar. ''Is raining'' is grammatically deficient, so we add ''it'' for syntactical reasons. The point is that the sentence...
I don't know. If we look at word etymology, even the most difficult concepts in <difficult subjects> tend to reduce to very basic concepts. A good dic...
Surely we can't isolate the sentence in a vacuum. It must have a context right? In ''it's raining'' the ''it'' refers to a particular time ''now'' or ...
There are many reasons for value. I'll try to name some: 1. Symbolism: A trophy represents victory and a sportsperson values it as a token of his/her ...
So, teleology = purpose and nothing else? Then why are you putting mechanism and teleology in the blender - trying to mix it so we can't tell the diff...
Something bad about me? I'm expressing a point of view here. I'm not against women or abortion. It's just that I feel women have the power to give lif...
That's a moot point. Abortion is a social issue and not only about women and their rights. This is unfortunate of course but it's a truth that women h...
Well, if there's no paradox then there must be no difference between innocence and guilt as both are being dealt with in the same way via punishment. ...
Can we judge the truth of a sentence without understanding it? No. Can we understand a sentence without the referring in a sentence being completed? N...
Ah! So we agree. There should be constraints to abortion. It can't be absolutely free like having a haircut. @"tim wood" says an abortion is like havi...
I see what you mean but do you think it's sound reasoning to treat both innocent children and guilty criminals with the same ''medicine'' (punishment)...
But I'm only doing that because punishment is a generalization. Also, what's wrong with the generalization? Bad, evil children are in the minority are...
Why do you think we pay the monk and the bandit in the same coin? shouldn't innocence be treated differently than guilt? As you said and I did mention...
Do I need to make what a child means precise for the discussion? I simply refer to the child-innocence association which is a generally accepted notio...
How does one discipline? Punishment no? I'm speaking in general terms which suffices for the discussion. Children are innocent in that they're ignoran...
Is there a reason why children and criminals are punished? Are criminals immature? Are children bad? It probably means evil is immaturity. That doesn'...
The OP asserts that reference can't occur without truth. In other words, only true propositions refer. How do we know whether a proposition is true or...
You're right about child welfare being relevant since if parents know their child would suffer then they'd surely opt for abortion. Yet, your position...
I think we're not on the same page. What exactly do you mean by "refer"? Isn't language symbolic in that we words and everything we can do with it is ...
I have nothing to say on this except that each person has a right to explore friendship as he wishes so long as he remains within the bounds of etique...
Well, if, as you say, women are concerned only about rights to their own bodies then you make sense. The point is, unfortunately in this case, a woman...
I understand. A complete solution should involve the welfare of children but isn't that another issue. The two issues are related, yes, but they can b...
@"Banno" I construe refer is the simple act of pointing. When I say ''Jesus was a Chinese'' I point to the subject-predicate of ''Jesus'' and ''is Chi...
You're right. The self is ''better'' at self-examination not because it's better than other people but only because it has greater acess to informatio...
Yes, that makes Relativity simpler than Newton's theory. No gravity acting instantaneously but mass deforming space-time. Not more complex than necess...
So, reference is impossible without truth according to you? Then ''about'' and ''refer'' aren't equivalent. ''Jesus was Chinese'' is about Jesus but, ...
Loaded language? You claim women should be allowed unrestricted abortion in a ''free'' country. I simply counterbalanced it with human rights, the mos...
Your point (suffering children) is relevant to abortion only to the extent that a child born because abortion is illegal will suffer. Is this always t...
Why want the impossible? It would be foolish and so the wise are satsfied/happy with what they have and even if they desire for more they only do for ...
I understand that a balanced assessment would require both internal (self) and external (other) evaluators. How does Socrates figure in the equation a...
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