Dan

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but I think no, I don't mean that.

I'm working on a paper I have back with revisions at the moment on the control problem, but yes, I plan on writing up some papers now that I have a so...

This challenge has now closed. A solution I am satisfied with has been found. While the solution was found by me, someone did partly inspire me with w...

I'm not sure you are referring to the same thing as a problem that I am. What I am saying is the fact that people have conflicting desires is not a pr...

Again, no. It doesn't violate the law of noncontradiction because wanting something does not imply wanting something else which conflicts with the fir...

I have absolutely been saying that people have conflicting inclinations, but this isn't a problem. Also, since I haven't defined understanding a choic...

There isn't a problem. You are inventing a problem where none exists. This doesn't violate the law of noncontradiction at all. This is exactly the kin...

I don't do anything of the sort. I haven't been claiming that my position is correct because it is true by definition, nor have I been conflating diff...

"We ought to do good" is a normative statement, not a descriptive one. You can tell because it's about what one ought to do. Kant's categorical impera...

Perhaps not my most polite of comments. Perhaps while attempting to spit someone else's words out of my mouth, I accidentally spat out some venom.

Universal rules do apply to every particular circumstance. That's what makes them universal. If not the truth, what can be objective? Are you perhaps ...

Consider the implications of what you are saying here. Do you meant to imply that a doctor is not responsible for the death of a patient when proscrib...

The rare condition in this case causes drug X to be lethal, so the doctor's actions did kill them, which from an actual-value consequentialism perspec...

That also isn't what is happening in my hypothetical. The situation I presented was that of a patient in a time-sensitive situation where spending tim...

I mean, I gave you an example of this in this hypothetical scenario. In real life, we would praise the wrong action when we had good reason to think t...

No, the wrong action is being praised in order to promote the right ones. I have not equvocated so much as clarified since you seemed to be stuck on t...

No, I didn't say that at all. For example, there is such a things as the rules of chess, though they were invented. No I didn't. I used the same defin...

Yes, I would happily say that I would judge someone to be an expert even if they demonstrate misunderstandings in aspects of the field I judge them to...

No, my point is that someone can be an expert and misunderstand some aspect or part of their field of expertise. Again, I didn't say that the doctor w...

I'm going to avoid quoting except where necessary to avoid excessive length. Habits: Whatever we might say of people choosing to sleep in different ci...

I mean, MU has not expressed that point in this context as far as I can tell, and has instead accused me of inconsistency and incoherency, which is qu...

I agree that "freedom" doesn't automatically mean good. But, to be fair, I never claimed that it did. I said that the ability of persons to understand...

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this. Perhaps you could try explaining it another way? As to percieved inconsistencies, there really aren't any...

I expect you'd have to ask MU. This discussion started because they (he?) claimed I was trying to marry two things that were supposedly inconsistent (...

That isn't at all what I was saying was silly. I completely agree that we should think experts probably have some misunderstanding. The bit that is si...

And I'm not trying to unite two incompaitible principles at all. No part of the problem comes from the inconsistency you have imagined.

I mean, this reads like a contradiction. However, I will assume you aren't intending a contradiction here and assume you mean that experts can believe...

Thanks, Amadeus. I have been endevouring to answer everyone's questions and criticisms, whether or not they are relevant. I am asking for help on a ph...

I was with you until this part. This part is just incorrect. Expert implies a quality of understanding I agree, but this does not exclude misunderstan...

I agree. I definitely didn't intend to suggest that someone would be an expert in "science". No, I would say a field of study might be something like ...

First, common usage is useful for definitions, but not so much for actual claims of what is correct and isn't. Second, common usage would absolutely a...

That is a ridiculous bar to set. I am not using words in a sloppy way, you are using them in a way that is divorced from both common usage and, in thi...

I am not using words in a sloppy manner. We absolutely can and do consider people to be experts in a specific field in which they misunderstand (or mi...

I agree that misunderstanding implies an incorrectness in one's understanding. What I am saying is that you can have an incorrectness in your understa...

I did not want that. You were the one that claimed I was including "providing reasons after the fact". That is not something I claimed at all. Also ye...

I'm not using words in a sloppy way. I'm using them in a precise way, just not the way you want them to be used. My difficulties solving the problem o...

In that case I don't think I would agree that understanding human action implies understanding time in the sense you have said here. I mean, one can a...

I mean, I don't agree that implies indicates necessity, but putting that to one side, are you suggesting that to misunderstand something is to not und...

That doesn't follow. Requiring some understanding of something does not imply that having a misunderstanding of time would result in a misunderstandin...

That isn't remotely how I described understanding one's choice. I'm not being inconsistent in the least, but if you mean a low-level understanding, th...

Eh, I'm not sure that this is true. Perhaps to fully understand an activity requires an understanding of time, but I think this is a very high bar you...

I don't know how this relates to what I said. I would say that moral philosophy deals with the activity of moral agents, which includes but is not lim...

This is nonsense. To the extent that time is relative to the speed one is going, that itself is a fact about the world. I'm really not proposing any d...

You seem to want our judgements about truth, or facts, or anything else, to be the thing itself, and they just aren't. I put it to you that there exis...

No, facts about the world are not statements. The world is as it is, regardless of what we say about it. Statements and facts are not the same thing. ...

People do often look for usefulness, but you are assuming that scientists are not interested in getting at the actual truth of reality. I would say in...

The claim "God exists" to me seems to imply that God actually, objectively exists. Without the assumption that truth is objective of what we think of ...

No. I've had a few genuine submissions emailed through, and a couple of them have presented some ideas that are interesting, but nothing that solves t...

I agree it implies self-contradiction, because the position that truth is subjective is itself contradictory. Would you instead say that your claim, t...

I mean, few ways we could go about this. Probably the easiest way is to entertain the idea that the idea that opposite proposition is correct and real...