Obvious?! It's extremely weird that you presumably believe that, for example, the fact that I'm alive is actually located somewhere, presumably somewh...
You really see no resemblance between the reasoning of an idealist, and your reasoning here? Wow. Okay then. That makes me think of the emperor's new ...
I thought that this would be a problem from the start. So, basically, I can't reason with you, because you're unswervingly committed to some sort of i...
You've gone wrong straight away. That's what a cup is in my language. You don't get to make the rules. It's my language, not yours. And if you're talk...
I see. So it's appropriate for you to spam a philosophy forum, but it's inappropriate of me to criticise your spamming of a philosophy forum, on that ...
You're funny. I've done the serious part in relation to Brexit. What you were replying to was about your spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, sp...
Well, gentlemen, I'm glad we've finally put this matter to rest, and I look forward to seeing the notable absence of any future discussions on abortio...
Hmm. I'm still not quite convinced. Can you please copy, paste, and resubmit some more of your lengthy, rambling conspiracy theories a few hundred mor...
If what I've said counts as that, then yes. I buy that if we all went extinct right now, then language would still have meaning, and I don't buy that ...
I find that view peculiar and unconvincing. But anyway, if that is so, then language rules must have a location or multiple locations in one of those ...
I think that it's a key point that meaning can be public, and that in at least some cases it is so. I also think that these "In spite of needing a min...
It's basically the is/ought problem, isn't it? For any "is", there's always the open question of whether we ought to act this way or that in relation ...
This is a very basic misunderstanding. I think that you're out of your depth here. You haven't demonstrated a contradiction under moral relativism. Yo...
Different categories: one about morality, the other about a possible state of affairs. Different ways of reaching a judgement: I don't appeal to my mo...
It feels to me like you're making a mountain out of a mole hill. Instead of writing such lengthy responses, why don't you just make it easier for both...
These are the possibilities: a) it has a location, but I don't know where it's located, b) it has a location, but no one knows where it is, c) it does...
It doesn't become anything other than what it already is: a language rule, as in this means that. You can categorise that however you like, but in the...
Oh. I think I just realised why you found that funny. You misinterpreted what I said. I didn't mean that talking about the statement isn't speaking pr...
How do you reach that conclusion? :chin: If you're going to say that it's useless for determining an objective right or wrong, then obviously I agree....
Interpretation is a brain process. It is not the same as "this means that", which is a language rule. Understanding definitely requires interpretation...
No, interpretation isn't objective. By objective I mean independent of any subject or subjective activity. Interpretation is a subjective activity. Ob...
Please explain what you mean by the function of language, and please explain why you started going on about what it takes for language to function in ...
Let's say that it does involve interpretation. Does it follow that linguistic meaning is not objective (which is where the discussion lead)? No, it do...
Before I get into the details of your reply, let's go right back to the beginning and analyse our discussion. This is where the problem began. It bega...
They wouldn't be talking about the statement itself, unless they didn't know how to speak properly. Quick tip: that's too many examples. This seems to...
And therefore I would reject that morality. Is there anything which you wouldn't go along with on this basis? Raping your mother? Setting your childre...
Ah, someone else who confuses understanding and meaning. My distinction can help you with that problem. What you're describing in your first sentence ...
You cannot pick up the meaning. It's not that it has no meaning, and it's not that it needs to be given one, it's that you need to pick it up. Banno c...
Sure, it can be, but that doesn't mean that it's appropriate to do so. And it wouldn't be appropriate if one only meant to make a descriptive statemen...
That's fucked up. I certainly wouldn't go along with killing all the blond haired babies. Proper be damned. Because I trust my moral judgement more th...
What more is there to say about them? They're false, and they're false partly because of the way that they're interpreted. It's not a good way to inte...
There is no absolute wrong and proper, only relative wrong and proper. In the hypothetical, it would be proper relative to everyone - myself included,...
Of course, in a relative sense. The puppy kicker's feelings are wrong relative to my standard of judgement, and probably your standard of judgement, a...
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