I didn't say that there aren't rules for English, and there is no contradiction between it being the case that language has rules sufficient to create...
I doubt that anything that he says will bring greater clarity. On the contrary, it will compound the problem by creating a greater need for clarity. I...
So it's not a fact that I'm standing here right now? What's happening right now hasn't already happened. That would be absurd. So it can't be a fact u...
Facts are not standard-relative because they're determined by what's the case, unless that's a standard, in which case it would be the only standard, ...
Very odd question. I would advise them to learn the language in the usual ways, and use the usual resources, such as a dictionary or a language learni...
You're certainly missing something. A key difference between what's required for there to be understanding and what's required for there to be meaning...
I'm not disputing your point, I'm disputing its relevance. I think that your interpretation of Rovelli was uncharitable. More uncharitable assumptions...
But it wouldn't apply to me. I've clearly distinguished the criteria between the one and the other. Yes. And? No it doesn't. You and I could agree on ...
Not interpreted for what? We interpret meaning in order to gain an understanding. I'm not disputing that. My point was simple and easily understood. I...
Actually, if these experts are legitimate, then it would be a valid appeal to authority, and he also talks about conducting various empirical tests. H...
Can you cut that down, please? I don't believe you would've needed to use so many words in response to such a simple point about logic. I'm not readin...
The best outcome is the one which best reflects reality. It's counterintuitive that all of our moral statements are false. That doesn't seem to best r...
But that's not a valid argument. I've tried with you, but you're hard work. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. That's not a v...
Ah, so you're an error theorist? But that's a pretty useless outcome, isn't it? Don't you think that it would be better to move on to better ways of g...
I have felt the loving embrace of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, and I will never turn away from Him. His noodley appendage has touched my heart. He bo...
The standards obviously do not make the statement true or false in an absolutist sense, only in a relative or conditional sense. But this absolutist s...
No, not obviously at all. It seems more like you've taken what he said out of context. As per The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, "Aristotle is ...
That's trivial and irrelevant with regard to morality because of the context, not because it's about you. It's trivial and irrelevant because it's abo...
Either Fred doesn't share our standard of judgement, meaning that he judges it to be okay to kick the puppy, like he insists; or he does share our jud...
You're welcome. Fascinating. Please continue. I want to hear all about it. Believe it or not, that's actually what brought me to this discussion. I sa...
Ah, the typical unhelpful Banno one-liner for which you've gained notoriety. Maybe we should sort this out before continuing. Are you going to be coop...
I agree that they're not the same: that much is obvious. But I certainly don't agree that the former is not moral in nature. That's absurd! What I oug...
Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the US, a...
How can you call that a moral fact when nothing follows from it about right or wrong or what one ought or ought not do? I say that it's not a moral fa...
That conditional is not true in and of itself. It would require one or more additional premises, premises which others might well have good reason to ...
Whatever the meaning of "good", a moral subjectivist who is a moral relativist avoids contradiction by having relative standards of judgement which co...
I've just realised that your claim isn't even compatible with your stance of moral nihilism, if I've understood it correctly. If you're a moral nihili...
You don't get to choose what's the case, and meta-ethics is about what's the case. You seem to be muddling up meta-ethics and normative ethics. I'm no...
Yes, I know that you're a moral nihilist. You're fooling yourself if you think that you don't have an ethical position. You're a performative contradi...
It doesn't even really count against it. It's a bit like throwing a toothpick at a tank. The theory never presented itself as foolproof, and that's wh...
It is a negotiating tactic, but whether or not they'll relent is much less certain. Now more than ever, in this world of Brexit and Trump, it isn't sa...
No it doesn't, not to anywhere near the level required to reject the theory. That would be like saying that we should reject the scientific method bec...
Well, yes, there's definitely a disconnection in those cases where the activities fail to provoke moralising - and there are plenty examples of that -...
I don't see any relevance in that to what I said. Did I say that feelings aren't provoked by events? Did I say that the harm of murder is completely i...
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