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You claim that a novice asks about Thales while having no description of Thales. I pointed out why you are wrong and I gave a number of different argu...

The difficulty is that your argument simultaneously requires that the name identify and not-identify Thales: So let's look at these three properties o...

Ah, fair enough. I was not familiar with this history. I was talking past you. :up:

Okay, but isn't it true that government puts people in compulsory situations whereas nature does not? The key here is that the government is a respons...

You're welcome. I find it helpful. There are downsides to the model, but the people who created it seem genuinely interested in trying to provide a me...

Sure, but I think this will all depend on the original objection. One could object that government is unjust, or one could object that government give...

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To quote the eminent philosopher John McCrea:

Peter L. P. Simpson has often drawn attention to the fact that the state has a monopoly on coercion (and violence) in the modern world, and that this ...

Right, and they also relate in a much more diffuse and indirect way. --- Yes, and I think the first thing to do is to specify the level of abstraction...

But if a family is a real collective, then is not also an extended family a real collective? And a clan? And a tribe? A village? A town? A city? Once ...

This is not bad as far as it goes. The key here is that there is a big difference between saying, "But how do you know that that definition captures t...

Yes, I also like Anscombe. I did run across an article relating to Kripke, albeit relating to his sceptical argument. It is in the same volume, and is...

But this is a confusion of a name with an individual, and it hinges on that mistaken assumption that the referent of a name must be an existing indivi...

Okay, fair enough. Yes, I did read that exchange, and I think it is on point. It seems to me that a sense of duty is powerful given the nature of duty...

@"Banno", I have been perusing Elizabeth Anscombe’s writings due to the fact that she forms a helpful bridge between Aristotelian-Thomism and contempo...

I read the part of the paper relating to Thales and I find that the arguments do nothing of the sort. If you wish to try to argue for such a conclusio...

I want to circle back to this. I think you are right that anthropology is crucial. If Aristotle is correct about the nature of reality and knowledge, ...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but your argument seems to be, <Names pick out things in a definite way; Description does not pick out things in a definite w...

In Banno's defense, to speak about duty and to speak about the manipulation of motivation is to speak about two different things. The idea that, "We n...

Some: I still think gave the most apt reply.

Basically, no. Some degree of knowledge is always present. If no knowledge is present then you are not acting in a philosophically relevant way. For e...

Yes, more good points. I am sure that we would disagree on any number of things, but on this you are preaching to the choir. I like the references to ...

Yes indeed.

Hear ye, hear ye! :fire: I agree so much! Granted, I can appreciate the 'linguistic' character of much of this forum, especially as it represents rece...

Thanks for your interesting posts. If we want to look at Kripke I would probably need to refresh myself on his work, but the irony here is that Kripke...

I would want to say that a name is intended as a unique designator, but that in fact it fulfills this reality no more than a description does. There a...

Help what? You said, "A novice who asks 'Who is Thales?' does not have at hand a description of Thales..." I explained why that is wrong. Doesn't that...

These are two different questions: Do names presuppose descriptions? Do names presuppose correct descriptions? My understanding is that we have been t...

Yes, I checked as well. I tried to quote more but the OCR is flawed. But it would be interesting if Wittgenstein had already provided an answer to the...

But the one who inquires about Thales already has some notion of Thales, and this should count as a description. Contrary to your claim, the novice al...

About the coherence of his position, about the claim that there is no fact about S that constitutes S's meaning plus rather than quus, and about the c...

I was digging through some old articles and I happened upon a paper, "Kripke and Wittgenstein: Intention without Paradox," by Paul Moser and Kevin Fla...

I don't think the modal view is correct, either. My point is that if you have no stake in either position of the OP, then Fine's argument won't be ver...

Neither am I, and a crucial point here is that dialogue requires compromise. If you are willing to put in the same amount of effort that you expect of...

I should begin by saying that it has been some years since I have worked extensively with Aristotle's primary texts, so a strict Aristotelian may quib...

I would say that when Heidegger writes and publishes he is doing theory, not practice, and he is manifesting theoretical wisdom. So long as we maintai...

This sounds interesting. I found a link to it <here>. I will have to check it out when I get a chance. Exactly. :up: Right. Perhaps social media has r...

- Sure thing: <link to new post in other thread>.

...discussion transplanted from "Belief" at Banno's request. I am probably as unfamiliar with Kripke as you are with Aristotle, but I am willing to ex...

Okay, that seems probable. The problem with this argument is that, just because one uses a word without setting out an exact definition, does not mean...

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So then you think it is moral to threaten to do things that you believe to be immoral, which is a difficult position to maintain. There is nothing in ...

My point is that simple, ready-made interpretations of Jesus almost always fudge the evidence. It seems to me that at the very least Jesus was a deepl...

If we disregard all of the evidence that contradicts a pacifistic interpretation then our self-fulfilling prophecy will indubitably be fulfilled.

But if you are familiar with the four canonical gospels then you must be aware of when Jesus instructed his disciples to sell their cloaks to buy swor...

- Jesus' teachings according to which documents? Which documents are you purporting to be familiar with?

The book of Revelation involves the idea that the fight will eventually be brought to Earth. If you are thinking in terms of the traditional Christian...

The first quote you give does not seem to involve any direct claim about wisdom. The second does speak about wisdom, but if not for its Heideggerian l...

It is true that some views are held uncritically or unreflectively, but oftentimes the most interesting philosophy occurs precisely at the point when ...