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This comes back to my point about the multiplicity of alternative metaphysics, you're both using the 'obviousness' of the fact that every single child...
December 08, 2017 at 13:44
I've read this thread with interest up until the last few pages where we get a lot of this type of thing.. I'm not sure how constantly restating your ...
December 08, 2017 at 11:53
Then how exactly do they become rich? I presume I'm not alone in thinking that it's not the little pieces of green paper that people want, or the pixe...
December 08, 2017 at 09:17
So do you have a banana-fudger in your tool box at home? It's a tool that I just made up a bit like a feather tied to stick and painted green. It's fo...
December 08, 2017 at 09:00
To your direct question first, I'm afraid the answer is no, although I realise such a fundamental shift in axiom might end this otherwise fascinating ...
December 08, 2017 at 07:59
The laws that protect children do not ascribe them some special degree of protection. It is illegal to assault an adult, it is illegal to become viole...
December 07, 2017 at 18:15
It's probably my archaic approach, but I don't seem to have made myself clear here, I'm not comparing science to skepticism, idealism, or theism as op...
December 07, 2017 at 10:10
It's not that will/intention is not allowed for. Personally I'm a compatibilist, so I don't actually believe in free will, but that aside, what I'm sa...
December 07, 2017 at 09:54
(I haven't worked out how to reply to multiple people yet) There's a few things to unpick here, but they mainly centre around the contention that; and...
December 07, 2017 at 08:58
I understand your position to be that those actions where there is both harm and the intention to cause harm are immoral, as I summarise in my parenth...
December 06, 2017 at 13:31
I don't understand how this is not consequntialist. You seem to be deriving the ethical rightness of an action from it's immediate consequences. I can...
December 06, 2017 at 12:53
I'm not seeing how either of these examples are not a matter of degree. Our faculties can be quite reliable, very reliable or completely unreliable, n...
December 06, 2017 at 10:14
I see, I had mistakenly taken your rhetorical generalisation to be an absolute judgement, and thank you for your welcoming disposition. My comment, ho...
December 06, 2017 at 09:40
That seems a strange view considering the large number of more or less strictly materialist philosophers. I'm not sure I can see how anyone could obje...
December 06, 2017 at 08:44
Why would our habit not help us anymore on such a day? The moment a heavy object turns into a flying pig we will note such a change, presume it will h...
December 06, 2017 at 08:29
In what way is the belief that science isn't the only way of knowing any less of a presumption. You have no proof that it isn't in the same way that r...
December 06, 2017 at 08:06
The issue with intention that has not been addressed is that they are constrained by their position in an infinite future. Your examples all focus sol...
December 06, 2017 at 07:39
There seems to be an excessively binomial use of the term 'Skepticism' here - either one is skeptical or one is not, but surely skepticism, by whateve...
December 05, 2017 at 14:11
Unless I have misunderstood your application of terminology, you seem to have constructed an argument in meta-ethics, but applied it in normative ethi...
December 05, 2017 at 11:51