Please explain. To be clear, in response to my first question, I would like a reason why not. (I don't doubt what you say is possible). And in respons...
I prefer it without the point scoring system. And one problem I see with wanting it to be a reflection of reasonableness is that I doubt that that wou...
Spit it out, then. What exactly are you suggesting? You think that I indicated bias and did not question myself enough? Or something else? Please clar...
But surely you agree that reasonable people reasonably think others are being unreasonable. So no, what you say above isn't the only explanation for t...
Ironically, all of that is irrelevant, and this is going exactly as I predicted. Okay, then by your definition, they don't have a measurement. So what...
Because it leads to rocks which suddenly cease to exist the very nanosecond that we all would. Because it can't plausibly explain the world, because i...
Typical. Some people just don't learn. :lol: This is a straw man. I have not said or accepted: "X is moral relative to A" is false if A does not belie...
Oh dear. What's he gone and done this time? First that thing with the bus, now he's been messing with trains. I predict that Theresa will make him the...
But it is conceivable, just like it's conceivable that it would continue to be the case that planets exist, even if we all died in an hours time, with...
Ok, then analogously, you're merely talking about what's conventional with regards to morality. The ring is worth thousands and murder is immoral, but...
It was only a suspicion. I could not at that time think of a way in which they would go about that without letting material objects slip in, but that'...
The idealist would have to explain what kind of evidence would be evidence of other minds, but not also evidence of material things. I would suspect s...
Without assuming what you do about location, then I don't understand what the problem is. There isn't one as far as I can tell. That assumption seems ...
This is genuinely very funny. But what's interesting is that you don't mean it to be. Do you know that there actually exist driverless cars now? Imagi...
One. More. Time. You must either demonstrate an internal contradiction or you must argue in support of your key premises. Why the hell should I care i...
Then the idealist is simply wrong. One can demonstrably conceive of an unconceived object. I can, at least. Why should I believe that anyone else is s...
It only doesn't make sense to you because of your assumption that everything must have a location. That's not my assumption, and you haven't justified...
Okay. I still don't care whether it's that or something else. This seems like a diversion. Yes, in your view. This is that same unreasonable request. ...
If the alternative to my position which you describe above logically leads to consequences which are far more absurd, which it does, then you should r...
Learn to sarcasm. And learn to read what I said properly: "...like a tautology which completely misses the point...". Ironically, you're missing the p...
Great, more philosophy jargon. Please translate that. If you can't explain what it is about it which doesn't make sense to you, then your claim can si...
Firstly, I wouldn't even need to argue that they're not abstracts, if that's what I thought, if you're only making a claim without any supporting argu...
That's tantamount to proving that a stone exists, and simply pointing out that the assumptions of idealism are unwarranted. You doubt that a stone exi...
Again, why wouldn't they? There's no contradiction. I can't do this for you, you know? This is down to you. In this situation, I'm right by default un...
I'm going to try to avoid playing this category game with you, but if you categorise my claim in that way, then yes there is a good reason, as per my ...
It can for me. If it can't for you, maybe you're setting the bar too high. Obviously I don't agree if that rules out my claim, although I'm not sure i...
Why do you think it defeats the experiment? From my point of view, it's irrelevant to point out that you wouldn't be able to think about anything or s...
That doesn't come as much of a surprise. Okay, so you've told me your position. I don't accept it, of course. You can attempt to argue in support of i...
Knock down argument! You win. This is hilarious, because you probably don't realise that, when analysed, that will be found to say either nothing of a...
Sure. I'm reasonable enough to acknowledge that I haven't presented a fully explicit argument. I am reasonable enough to cooperate where necessary. Th...
I have two points. My first point is that, obviously, you can think about, talk about, etc., the thought experiment now. That this wouldn't be possibl...
I understand that already. But you don't seem to understand hidden premises. There are virtually always hidden premises in any argument. In light of t...
Yes, of course they are not measurements. They are units of measurement. Something doesn't have to be measured to be such that it conforms within a sp...
It doesn't make sense to feel such that you judge it to be blue, because, unlike moral judgement, that sort of judgement isn't typically made based on...
Valuable in what sense? There's an obvious distinction to be made here between valuable in a variety of senses. Valuable in accordance with monetary v...
No, that doesn't follow from my premises, it follows from yours. That's begging the question until you first argue in support of your premises. How ma...
I've just realised that this is my constant expression: :smirk: There's no time when my face is not pulling that expression. Except, of course, when I...
Ronnie Pickering has a pretty petticoat, and you should have simply provided your full definition, instead of only part of it for some reason. Wait, i...
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