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What is your position on the relation between Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) and his Metaphysics of Morals (1797)? Some, such a...

Yes, but the argument you give is not the only one by which someone could reach such a conclusion: "because someone may be problematic this bleeds int...

I do not think it is a question of feeling. Feeling is a passion, not an action, and therefore to feel is not to act. Acting goes beyond feeling, and ...

At least not in its recent revival. I wasn't a member when the thread began six months ago. Again, if Heidegger were a logician it would be different ...

I think @"Count Timothy von Icarus"' reply is on point given that the OP fails to make this argument. The OP grants moral facts with its right hand an...

I don't think anyone in the thread has proposed such a view.

Knowledge, and knowledge is not univocal. If this were the case then the minor would simply be false. But it is not false, because we do have knowledg...

But how many times does this poor argument need to be unmasked? Here are some places where it has already been done: (Conflating cases where "a centur...

But it is quite odd to claim that the two knowledge-predicates have no relation to each other. Metabasis eis allo genos does preclude a strict demonst...

Again, I think it depends on whether Heidegger's philosophy implicates the moral sphere. For an ethicist to produce a work of great import and then ch...

Interesting, thanks. I can see how this reflects your view that "the two bodies of work are two aspects of the same thinking," while yet providing roo...

That's interesting, because most people in your position seem to try to use Heidegger's academic work to explain away the writings, beliefs, and decis...

But your presupposition is that the two bodies of work are in conflict, and that we therefore must choose either one or the other. Why think that? On ...

But that's just what the Nazis said, "Look at this brilliant man who strongly approves of our project! Surely our project is worthwhile given his appr...

That's because rocketry and philosophy are not the same thing. You seem to be implicitly admitting that Heidegger's work is like rocketry, and has no ...

There were plenty of Germans in Heidegger's time who did not fall for the Nazi foolishness, and if Heidegger is to be held up as a paragon of human br...

Here is an accessible version: "Kripke and Wittgenstein: Intention Without Paradox," by Paul Moser and Kevin Flannery.

Yes, this is correct. Your care is appreciated. Freewheeling a bit, I would say that for Aristotle the purpose of a definition is twofold: to denote a...

- Good posts. :up:

Aye.

Now I'll leave you to it. :victory:

Becoming part of a larger whole really does confer meaning. I should think this is empirically demonstrable. I see you've given some rhetorical protes...

This must have been a typo given the referent of the link. For my part the discussion of essences and definitions never had anything to do with Fine's...

I'm not sure how you could construe "X making a claim on Joe," as, "Joe receiving external validation." Solipsism renders life meaningless.

- Very interesting. This seems to be common. A generation without children, without religion, without patriotism, etc. There is nothing to make a clai...

Was it intended to? Remember that the discussion of essences and definitions was transplanted from a different thread at your request, and was never m...

That's fair. I suppose I was thinking more of reference than Fine's article. For example, apparently for Russell or Donnellan if the referent of a nam...

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Interesting. Thanks for the links. :up: I like how you said this, and especially the emphasis on the act of understanding. It seems like a recognition...

Sounds good, I will revisit this text as well in the next few days.

You said this, as pointed out: I explained why it is wrong here: . Modus tollens denies the consequent (B), not the antecedent (A).

You mixed up the inference of modus tollens with the fallacy of denying the antecedent. Modus tollens denies the consequent, not the antecedent.

I should think that creativesoul won the debate, if only because Banno construed his own position in the form of a particularly bald tautology. That a...

- So let it be written, so let it be done.

... To be conscious or cognizant of. Intellectual awareness. The ordering of ideas. The viscosity of succession. The perceptible acting of a physical ...

All good and important points. :up:

(Two years since previous post) Quite right. Good post. :up: Another good post. I will have to read you on something I care more about. :grin: Aye. Pr...

Nowadays mysticism is often proffered as a method to adjudicate knowledge claims, particularly in relation to religions. Yet I think it is becoming wi...

Yes, there is something interesting about philosophy as fulfilling a need versus philosophy as abundance or overflow, and the various shades of both. ...

One way to cash this out is to say that risibility or the ability to learn grammar supervene on rationality, and it is rationality that belongs to the...

I have been wanting to come back to this: Can you say more about what this means? Maybe I can give a superficial reading as a foil. There seems to be ...

But you missed the point, which is that your construals are the ones requiring extreme measures. We don't generally stipulate definitions in the way y...

Thanks, great post. Related:

You can definitely think about it in terms of teleology. That may be the easiest way to do it. I was just trying to point out that Aristotle doesn't t...

This is basically correct. The burden of proof is on the claim that is contentious or contrary to the prevailing consensus, and this could also be exp...

Yes, great points. I think what you say is fairly accurate. Yes, for the Aristotelian they would have being but no essence. I'm a bit pressed for time...

I just did a quick search for Kripke on naming, to refresh myself. Google returned some class notes on the topic, which I skimmed (link). From the ski...

The reason I am not begging the question is because I am giving arguments. Arguments such as the following require a response: If the definition of Th...

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Okay. Yes, I can see this as well. I suppose the difficulty is that if we are to go beyond "duty for duty's sake" then we are effectively required to ...