But it's his perspective which is the problem. Ordinary language wins out because it causes less problems. He's having to go out of his way to make hi...
All things contrary to good sense can touch a nerve for me. The topic could have been about almost anything, but if it's absurd then I'm not the type ...
Okay. It might have touched a nerve, but certainly not based on your presumptuous suggestion that women being sexually independent from men is so scar...
Yes indeed, otherwise it's a huge misnomer, and should instead be called political sexual abstinence, not political lesbianism. There's a huge differe...
I certainly didn't miss that, and it certainly doesn't change my assessment of the opening post. It's not viable if there are much better, more sensib...
I know that this was for him, because he's the one with the problem. But I just want to jump in to say what most of us already know, which is that, in...
But you should, because a) it was obvious from the context (I'm pretty sure others aren't having the problem that you're having here), and because b) ...
Yes. An example of this would be earlier on when Terrapin revealed that he has got the nature of reason completely wrong, in that he thinks that it's ...
No, that's not what it is by definition. But yes, if something not too far removed from my own view happens to be sensible, then it's sensible. And if...
No it doesn't, it means only that you're choosing to go by an interpretation which leads to that conclusion. You're the cause of your own problem, nam...
Please stop doing that. Again, it's not helping. It's just an annoying distraction. I've made my meaning clear enough to you. Go with that, not someth...
Yes, that's more or the less a problem we've been having. I'm saying, sure, metaethical subjectivism, but let's be sensible. He's basically saying, no...
You're talking past me again, and that's a problem. I agree with that, but that's beside the point. I wasn't using the phrase "anything goes" in that ...
It's not. That suggests that anyone who is a metaethical subjectivist or noncognitivist must adhere to the senseless 'anything goes' version which you...
But it very obviously wouldn't work as a test, because it would allow all kinds of nonsense, such as no crimes beginning with "m". And if you're takin...
You're completely missing the point, and going back over our discussion, I think I've found where the problem originated. It should have been very obv...
You suggested that they're equal when you suggested that anything goes. And you suggested that when you said that the view that there shouldn't be any...
But what I'm saying doesn't have to be objectively correct for it to be right over and above the opinion of someone who says something completely barm...
There are degrees of understanding, and I don't think that it's controversial to say that we wouldn't be capable of fully understanding a concept to t...
What you're attempting to do here is redundant. What you're doing here is once again pointlessly bringing to our attention another distinction of whic...
Philosophers would rather be in their study on their own writing a lengthy treatise on something that doesn't matter. Conclusion: philosophers aren't ...
You're discouraging us from being logical, and honest, on a philosophy forum of all places. No, in answer to your question, certainly not. And to top ...
That's my line. Please don't use it without my permission. So they're all depressed because they're not all depressed, because some of them are conten...
No, I don't think you can lump them all together like that and jump to that conclusion. Like I said, in some cases, they're largely lying to themselve...
Yes. They're lying to themselves. They'll come up with elaborate answers to avoid having to admit that life ain't that bad. It's all misdirection: smo...
Well language isn't necessarily moving, for starters. That would be an odd way to describe language, so not the best description of what language is. ...
I think that that's a totally ridiculous and unnecessary way to tackle problems to do with the stereotypes of gender roles, problems in the bedroom, u...
I said that a crunch is alright, but it's not as good as a "Ni!". And what I meant by that is that you need to work on your ability to correctly ident...
I just don't believe that. I think that you often fail to recognise the problems which arise as a result of your unusual premises, and you compound th...
Yes, but that's irrelevant. It obviously didn't exist in it's entirety beforehand. An entire novel of that size consists of hundreds of pages, and it'...
I suppose the statement is ambiguous enough to result in different answers. I was assuming that in this example, the "report" would be the novel itsel...
Maybe yours can't. You must have one of those less evolved cats without arms and the ability to speak. Well maybe your cat likes things she can't tast...
Okay. You should look up what a red herring is, though. Because giving an example of why I believe what I do alongside my explanation of why I believe...
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