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Do you understand/agree that at least one version of moral realism is boringly true ?

That's what I might tell you. There's nothing behind the mask. There's nothing hidden.

But who said the world or learning was all just language ? It's my understanding that the brain is the most complex worldly object we humans are aware...

:up: Excellent. Let the game continue then. Irrelevant, it seems to me. The point is that of course the individual is an individual. Once out of natur...

That may be the case. I tend to think necessity is grammatical. What if philosophers tend to say too much ? Trying to define wrong or true ? What if t...

I suspect I was right w/ my original atoms-and-void comment. You want an Impossible Object to make things Actually Wrong ? Or....you would like to thi...

Would you mind explaining what you mean by 'meaning' first ? Please, though, no dictionary definition. Just your meaning.

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This dictionary definition is not a bad start, especially the bold part. "Not in conformity with fact or truth; incorrect or erroneous. Contrary to co...

I'm an atheist. I'm just trying to fish out your presuppositions.

I endorsed the idea that "ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (that is, features independent of subje...

So you want an Entity ? If God says its wrong, does that work ? If not, why not ? Who wrote the logic textbooks ? And why should we trust them ?

Or, another angle:

Don't know if you've been down Heidegger Road, but it seems that the ghost theory leads to a kind of shining void. A tautology is. There is there.

To me it's not that surprising. I'm assuming you've studied real analysis. Imagine trying to do that without the axioms of \mathbb{R} . To format math...

I don't claim to speak for Witt, but I am indeed pointing away from the ghost theory toward a linguistic theory, to how selves actually function, look...

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The idea is that we, as individual claim-making monkeys, run cultural software that includes the concept of the responsible self, easily but problemat...

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I'm dismayed. You seem to be responding to someone else. I do hold myself to the usual coherence norms, and I invite you to root out contradictions in...

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If this is what you mean, then I'm a moral realist. If someone says 'murder is wrong,' they don't just mean that they don't like it. In fact, they mig...

Well, probably every question is. But what is implicitly assumed (and what commitments are made ) as the philosopher puts his philosophy hat on ? Perh...

:up: If we can't have final truth or referee the other disciplines, we can rule out nonsense, clarifying what it is to be a rational agent in the firs...

"God made the (positive) integers." That feels right to me, but in the end we have to settle on formal systems...or sacrifice the norms that make math...

I venture that he'd have had no problems understanding that intuition. The issue was probably multiplication and the shape of the number line ?

Philosophers seem to find freedom in the right kind of bondage, the perverts. https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/f/106/files/2011/...

That understanding of language is far from being the only one, so such presumption, in my view anyway, might be unwarranted. An alternative is inferen...

Why would you want to disqualify or ignore or circumvent established standards ? It's as if you want an example of a norm that's not a norm. If it hel...

I have a point of view in the way that a bachelor is unmarried. This is how our ( public ) concepts work. I do not expect the arrival of a final word ...

I've read that about Euler in more than one source myself, so it's out there if you decide to hunt it down. It's not that Euler was stupid, but maybe ...

I imagine another game...one person is 'it' and everyone else tries to convince him that they are mere figments of his imagination.

I granted him that a character in a dream could tell him he was awake. Is it logically impossible that I am dreaming right now ? I'd say no, but I'd s...

Jesus! It's awesome but a little terrifying. I don't know much about biology. But I did spend a few weeks reading about evolution (Dawkins, Dennett, a...

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Note that rational is important here. We rational ones need not assume (cannot assume?) that insanity or irrationality it impossible. For me the issue...

This seems problematic. How does one prove impossibility empirically ? Does this mean that our best psychological theories don't currently allow for E...

Just to be clear, I didn't say you said anything in particular. I was just making a point that we don't need to prove everything. For you seem to impl...

Sorry if I offended you. I did not intend to be rude. I tend to drink too much coffee. As Saussure might saw, each individual language user carries ar...

:up: Biosemiotics is fascinating, though I haven't got around to studying it seriously.

Great post. Genealogy of concepts. Make folks aware that these weird entities were invented to play a role in arguments and explanations.

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--- All beliefs should be proved before being accepted. --- Really ? Then prove that all beliefs should be proved before being accepted.

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Another implicit premise here seems to be that languageless creatures can't have propositional attitudes. To me the question arises...how could we tel...

Your view seems reasonable to me, but I prefer to use/understand some of your keywords differently. The philosophers who want to find truth and meanin...

:up: Good questions, and I'm glad you're following. I'm not sure what words I'd reach for in a context where I could assume folks had read and assimil...

As someone mentioned elsewhere, negative numbers are typically built within set theory as equivalence classes of pairs of natural numbers, so they are...

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It's impossible according to one of our best empirical theories. That's not the kind of 'absolute' (grammatical, metaphysical ) 'in principle' I'm tal...