No, it's Tim's, for one. That's where this stems from, as far as I can tell. See his comment on the previous page. He strongly suggested that the acts...
You really should stop mischaracterising those you're debating. No one here is saying that nothing is wrong in the unqualified way that you just said ...
What's the point of a few Kantian's agreeing amongst themselves? That's not much of a debate, is it? I'm still waiting for the impossible, namely for ...
Yes, he started talking about reason, not wrongness, but even then, wrong-according-to-the-categorical-imperative is clearly not wrong-in-itself. It's...
It would be interesting, to say the least, to see you attempt to argue that I cannot condone murder without implicitly condoning my own murder, given ...
Indeed! Overcoming the initial prejudice, the superficial sense of absurdity, is a step in the right direction. It's not absurd at all when you actual...
But Tim, please try to understand you have a giant burden that we simply don't have, and a giant burden that you've utterly failed to even come close ...
It's weird that he seemed to have no idea of the correct use of "objective", and that he didn't use logic, as others have done, in order to see why th...
Ah, so you were trying to make the trivial appear profound. Yes, God is a thing. But a thing much more like an imaginary wizard than a dog named Sonny...
Sure. And I hang out with Frodo down in The Shire. We dance around for hours on end, then explode into a million pieces, and all the while Gandalph st...
Which specific part do you disagree with or would like me to elaborate on? You've been very short and dismissive thus far, without saying anything hel...
Hume is wrong/mistaken because he's that which contradicts the corresponding existentially dependent thinking about thought/belief yesterday and/or to...
Your mistake is to not understand that when he talks about reason in passages like that, he means reason alone as the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philoso...
"Basically, there's a whole generation of people who've confused political correctness with health and safety legislation". That could hardly be any c...
You're missing my specific point, and his if you still disagree with me over this. I clearly wasn't talking about what he was doing with his whole set...
Okay, but in that case you're obviously mistaken, because he clearly says "Basically, there's a whole generation of people who've confused political c...
Yes, I remember it, and obviously none of those jokes would work if there wasn't a proper and improper usage of the term. He would just be met with si...
Yes, or that the mashed isn't the potato. Funnily enough, conflating two distinct things causes problems, but philosophy-types apparently love doing t...
The point you're making is true of only some but not all cases. In the discussion on morality, it was useful to distinguish between moral relativism a...
I wouldn't go as quite as far as to classify them as mentally ill, although there are certainly similarities. They're just bad at logic when it comes ...
There are a few people who are particularly knowledgeable about Kant on this forum, such as Janus and Moliere. No one else in particular comes to mind...
On a superficial level, it might indeed seem to someone like you as though I'm unfamiliar with "meaning is use". But I'm most certainly not, and the r...
Of course it does, silly. Sheesh, your denialism is a real problem. You said that the analogy is a poor analogy, and the reasons you gave for this wer...
God is not everything, if that's what you're suggesting. Everything is everything. I call things what they are in the clearest way. I gave you two opt...
I'm glad, and my joke also serves a relevant purpose here, as it often does, which in this case is to reveal the benefits of what some would call poli...
Objectivity is not a scale or quantitative. It is not a matter of popularity or prevalence. That has already been refuted with a reduction to the absu...
False dichotomy. It is not a coincidence that we have noses. An explanation has been given which doesn't fit your false dichotomy. You're just coming ...
There is no more or less objective the way that I use the term. Something either is or isn't. And morality isn't. Nor is it universal. Near universal ...
What don't you claim to understand this time? Or is this just another delaying tactic? If I understand it, then why don't you? He's saying that morali...
No, it is only correct to say that the illusion of god is a common human experience, or to say that it is a common human experience in the same sense ...
No, they're not poor analogies at all. Drawing the strong atheist conclusion from the analogy is not the fault of the analogy, it's the fault of whoev...
Then you're in the same category as me in that regard, whatever we name it. I talk about this in terms besides probability, such as in terms of plausi...
With regard to your claim that all women are cats and all men are dogs, I beg to differ. @"Noah Te Stroete" and I are both men, yet I am a cool cat, a...
That there is some ambiguity does not mean that the meaning is whatever someone wants it to be, nor that there are no proper or improper usages. If I ...
You are having the same problem that Rank Amateur is having as a result of additional unwarranted assumptions which can be cut out with Ockham's razor...
Sometimes it is better to set tasks that help one to connect the dots themselves rather than simply spelling something out, don't you agree? Compare t...
Yes, but obviously I have already considered and assessed the argument for why reason is a slave to the passions and judged it to be successful enough...
Same here, lol. Understanding the position is that key first step that some people here are failing on. They are getting way ahead of themselves. The ...
It's interesting that it has mostly been the case that those who understand your position agree with it, and those who don't understand it disagree wi...
You have been a contrarian to almost every critical thing that I have said of political correctness, as though you are trying to protect it. And much ...
You're trying and failing to argue against Ockham's razor. Your additional requirement - "And also, morality is objective!" - doesn't improve the expl...
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