Sure, that's a valid point; there are different kinds of definitions after all, and being unanalyzable in the sense Moore is talking about isn't neces...
Heh, way to put me on the spot. :wink: Its been a while since I read any Principia Ethica, I'd have to think about it a bit (and probably do some read...
I will say, though, that I enjoy the hell out of Spotify (which I use on my computer); being able to listen to pretty much any music you can think of ...
But I think that's Moore's contention: good can't be defined by or analyzed in terms of any other properties, good is a simple, sort of an atomic unit...
Good and interesting topic/question, . My initial instinct is to say that of course you're under no moral obligation to e.g. "produce beautiful painti...
He says, while ignoring the relevant history. Pot, meet kettle. :roll: (and as always, bogus accusations of "scientism" are a reliable indicator that ...
Well sure, no one ever said otherwise- the claim isn't that the presocratic philosophers extinguished or eliminated all religious or supernatural unde...
Absolutely they were, no disagreement on that point. As for "proto-Christians", that strikes me as a bit of a stretch, but I did just call them "proto...
Sure, there's some truth to that, but like I said, the difference was that they weren't invoking gods or spirits as causes for natural phenomena for t...
:fire: :strong: The G.O.A.T. (seriously, it may be the best album ever). I had to re-burn myself a new copy just the other day because the one I had w...
OP is referring to Moore's "open question" argument. More background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-question_argument https://plato.stanford.edu/...
Most of them were at any rate. But they generally didn't invoke gods or spirits as (intellectually/rationally impenetrable) causes or explanations in ...
Can you say how/why it is unconvincing? I find it close to undeniable, in at least a couple important senses: the presocratic Greek philosophers were ...
:100: :fire: I think 180 cut to the heart of it; asking what caused the creation, beginning, or origin of the universe when we have not actually estab...
And don't get me wrong, modal realism is certainly an interesting position... just not a particularly widely held one (as far as I can tell, at any ra...
Or, at a minimum, as the exploration of alternatives to religious modes of understanding, emphasizing the intellect and critical reasoning, giving us ...
I've always been of the mind that its relatively safe to call things that quack and waddle "ducks". And the suggestion that the declassification of ho...
Checking him out right now, pretty sure I've seen/heard him before (his hair looks familiar). Speaking of Youtube guitar players, ever watched any Ich...
Its pretty straightforward, tbh: gender dysphoria is by all accounts quite miserable, hence the increased rate of e.g. depression, suicide, etc, and g...
I did: I highlighted why what you said was not only wrong, but deeply silly. But then, you sort of already know that it was, right? And so hence your ...
Well, no, not unless one is already a modal realist: simply saying "there is a possible world such that X" doesn't commit one to any ontological reali...
Steve Vai is awesome, love that guy. And I agree with him, the level of guitar talent out there right now, esp in the prog rock/prog metal, fusion, ma...
:up: Yeah that's awesome, sounds like some classic (60s-70s) fusion- doesn't get any better than that, imo. Love that bass solo. I can think of a few ...
Yeah I'm not sure this is even seriously in debate anymore; the positive effect on mental health outcomes, of both surgical and non-surgical gender-af...
Are we sure that's how it works? Isn't it rather that "the fact of the matter" is a matter of social convention rather than, say, a fact of nature? Ad...
I just invented a fictional character named Billy-Bob Butterybuns. His existence is not logically impossible, like a married bachelor or round square,...
So we can't say/believe that something doesn't exist unless its existence is literally a logical impossibility? Are we sure that's a reasonable standa...
I agree wholeheartedly- for instance, the moral certainty that trans people are wrong and bad, and/or that gender dysphoria is not a legitimate medica...
Nah, medical/scientific. Sorry if you're salty about it, but that's life. Gender dysphoria isn't considered a mental health condition. They're not har...
So, out of curiosity, since the decision to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness was (apparently) based on social mores and not evidence, woul...
Again with putting words in my mouth: "not in the light of evidence, but in the light of changing social mores"? When did I say that? Homosexuality wa...
It isn't (I've said nothing even remotely to that effect, as I suspect you know perfectly well), and there's no serious argument to engage here, just ...
No, I was correcting you on the facts: mental health conditions are medical conditions, and gender dysphoria isn't considered a mental health conditio...
I mean, honestly... is this satire or what? You post this checklist of transphobic misinformation- patent falsities- and want to turn around and claim...
Misgendering trans people is engaging in falsehood and deception, as it involves blatantly ignoring how both gender and language work, and frankly is ...
Mental health conditions are medical conditions, and in any case gender dysphoria, like homosexuality, used to be classified as a mental illness only ...
Weather Report is great, too. Love me some Jaco Pastorius. But Stanley Clarke and Return to Forever are on another level (imo), and Romantic Warrior e...
No offense, but who asked you? Gender dysphoria is a legitimate medical condition, and so if gender-affirming surgery helps people get relief then wha...
Maybe, but it isn't appropriate in this context (why do you even care about other people's extremely private business in the first place?), nor is thi...
Yikes. More nonsense. They are legitimate (and quite safe) medical interventions, not "genital mutilation" (else doctors would not be allowed to perfo...
Except, again, its unreasonable to expect people to just unlearn a lifetime of habituation and social expectation/performance at the drop of a hat. Wh...
This isn't "my hypothesis"- as if its just some random conjecture that just occurred to me- its a pretty well-established and widely-acknowledged soci...
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