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- Oh, okay. Teleology is not purpose-driven in the sense that the entity necessarily devises its own purpose and its own means to that purpose. For ex...

Reason is surely teleological. It is ordered towards truth. It is not ordered to falsity in the same way it is ordered to truth. This is one place whe...

No, I don't think that's right at all. That claim was that to move from asserting to arguing involves an increase in transparency. I don't think you w...

Okay, thanks for that explanation! I missed a few days and this thread seems to have gotten away from me, so maybe what I am saying has already been c...

I would say that in Burr’s context and mine the proximate motivation is fear of criticism. Criticism is of course feared because of its connection wit...

Persona non grata, in the well-deserved sense. Even his scientific colleagues began speaking out against him and distancing themselves, wary that he w...

I don’t think this is plausible, and largely because Fine’s construal of metaphysics is the classical construal, stretching back thousands of years. I...

No, Wayfarer was not saying that Dawkins has a 7/7 certainty. That was your strained misinterpretation. You missed the point, just as you consistently...

Interesting essay. Thanks for sharing. (Caveat - so far I have only read the portion of the essay contained in your OP.) I must confess that the way y...

Here is a paper by Kit Fine on the topic, "What is Metaphysics?"

It does, thank you! That’s actually very interesting and it seems like I would have a lot of sympathies with Bernstein’s project. In fact at this poin...

Okay, fair enough. I apologize for overlooking that quote. But what assertion are you talking about? You seem to have taken a fairly simple assertion ...

The manner in which you brought him up is pertinent. The "conflict hypothesis"—that religion and science exist in an inherent conflict—has now been de...

The irony. :groan: You are the one misrepresenting Dawkins, and you are doing so with bald assertions, apart from sources or quotes. Everyone you are ...

I think this is exactly right.

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The incontinent man (the akrat?s) is one who desires correctly but does not act correctly. For example, the alcoholic who wishes to be sober but, over...

:up: From Wikipedia: It's simply not tenable to hold that Dawkins does not see science as undermining religion and the belief in God. Hell, just read ...

Yes, quite right. :up: The same thing occurs towards the end of the video, in the wrapup. Maybe it's better to say that Hohipuha sees a fundamental co...

If an arbitrary phoneme can be a sign, then why can't an action or a life? Photographers capture actions and use them as signs or even symbols. Biogra...

There is a place in the video series where this is addressed, and it seems that it is a pragmatic matter (link). In general there seems to be a lot of...

- You are begging the Kantian question. You are not allowing yourself to see past Kant's axiom.

But aren't looks, actions, poems, and lives all signs? I think they are all signs conveying meaning. I think meaning is conveyed by signs, and the "me...

Signs convey meaning, but not all meaning is conveyed by signs. We can say that a sign is meaningful insofar as it signifies some reality, but at a de...

I would say that in the website example knowledge is present, and this knowledge also involves knowledge of the referent. If I have a partial descript...

"Speculative Realism" is related to the anti-correlationism I noted (). Here is how Graham Harman describes it: After watching the first video I opine...

I tend to understand what Fine is arguing for better than what he is arguing against, and that's where my homework would lie. Ideally if I am going to...

The Wikipedia article was helpful in clarifying some things for me, especially this part: (This maps onto what I was claiming about realism in the oth...

Welcome to the forum, ! Good points. I am not familiar with Bernstein, but I can definitely see what you are saying with regard to Habermas and Peirce...

I agree. Sugrue is good although overly critical at times, but his criticism is usually evenly distributed. Yes - much of modern philosophy. :smile: I...

Sounds Fine to me. Is there a particular part or aspect of Fine's article that you are interested in discussing? I am inclined to doubt this, although...

Whereas I would say that observation proves that we do not do things that we are not inclined to do (things for which we have no inclination). Moral a...

Quite right. :lol: --- When we are riding an ass we feel the ass acting, moving, and we feel the ease or the effort. But to act is not to be carried a...

Off the top of my head, I think Kant takes some starting points that are not tenable. For example, that self-legislation is possible and that there is...

- Well, that might be slightly different than what I want to posit. It seems that if Ernie sees Bert flip a coin, then he has knowledge of Bert's acti...

If you start a discussion I will watch the video and contribute a bit, but my time is running short at the moment so I can't commit to too much. I hav...

Okay, thanks. I think that is a common approach to the matter. Wood's thesis (in the preface of his translation of the Groundwork) caught me off guard...

- Are we agreed that there is a difference between acting and observing, even though it is also possible to observe one's own actions?

Yes, quite right. :up: --- We're taking baby steps here. Okay great, so we know our own actions in a more immediate way than we know others' actions. ...

Yes, it does go back to that. Perhaps I should have resisted Banno’s desire to move that topic into this thread, for it is a rather different topic th...

Interesting, thanks. I will be visiting my parents soon and will have to dig some of my Heidegger books out of storage.

But what about "more immediate"? Are there different levels of mediation here? I think that question presents the first step.

I did not give a definition, and what I said is, "the existence of moral facts would presuppose the existence of fundamental obligations." I did not s...

Good posts. I think that by "essence" is meant the defining feature of the referent. I think those who prefer Wittgenstein would take the latter appro...

Using this approach, you can get true premises in the following way: Anything that is an appearance is known only mediately Action is known non-mediat...

Ha! Well, it means that the error is fatal precisely to a demonstration. My point is that the OP is not a demonstration, and need not be a demonstrati...

Hypothetical imperatives cannot ground obligation, which is why the existence of moral facts would presuppose the existence of fundamental obligations...

I am still intrigued by this comment of yours, which is quite informative. It seems to be one of those cases where Humean nominalism and British empir...

Is he capable of recognizing political decisions that are unfavorable to others? And if he is capable of the (rational) judgment that a political deci...