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Yep. But this is an equivocation between natural language and a specific formal language. When @"Metaphysician Undercover" spoke about "possible world...

I don't know how any of that pertains to the topic, or what it even means, but can you answer my question now?

I think it implicates the very moral realism that I claimed has long been eclipsed in our culture. The person decrying intolerance is implicitly affir...

Okay, good. It's this clause of your post: " is actively being opposed by efforts that want to have power over the next generation." Which side of the...

From the article: There is a notable presupposition occurring here. It is the presupposition that natural language yields to formal language in terms ...

That read doesn't seem to align with right/left categories. Dismantling generally occurs on the far left and the far right, and not in the center. Gen...

Right, and I should have been more specific. I should have said, "Would you say the same thing about the gambling addict who asks to be banned from ca...

Once one sets out what they mean by "intolerance" and what counts as "more intolerant," the question becomes answerable. For example, if we take "into...

Would you say the same thing about the gambling addict who avoids casinos? I don't say that avoiding casinos is the perfect remedy, but I also don't s...

You've obviously gone beyond hypothetical imperatives in this thread. For example, see these posts: And we've already been over this with respect to m...

Yep. :up: Honestly, I think there needs to be a "right to self-ban" when it comes to technology, given its addictive nature. Additionally, computers, ...

You are basically claiming that there is an incommensurability between the act of sex and the effect of procreation. It's an interesting argument. My ...

Hard to argue with that. :up: And I believe this is the second time, so he is clearly persistent.

- I would invite you to actually read some moral philosophers, specifically those within the traditions you identity with. You will notice that they d...

Moral reasoning attempts to convince others to behave in particular ways, and that is what you are engaged in. I don't know of any academic emotivists...

Right. Well, LLMs don't "affirm" anything. They aren't capable of that. That word "affirm" is part of the illusory language that Pistilli points up. I...

The question that just doesn't go away. :up: It came up explicitly in the exchange beginning with , but was never addressed or even acknowledged. It i...

Again, then what is it? Turing's whole paper was basically saying, "This isn't a test for machine thinking, but it's a test for machine thinking." You...

Perhaps, but then what is it about? Turing was playing with the idea that machines can think, but even that question was largely avoided in his paper....

A great piece: "Debating Whether AI is Conscious Is A Distraction from Real Problems," by Giada Pistilli.

- Sure. :up:

Okay, so then your whole position is apparently that you would attempt to rationally persuade people to act in certain ways, but you would not call th...

I think compassion is a driving force behind progressivism (and at times this is perhaps more aptly called "empathy"). But I disagree with this: Of co...

Mmmk, Outlander. :roll: If you seriously needed to know you could have tried exerting an ounce of research effort by pulling up my bio. @"Jamal" is no...

People with too much time on their hands "looking out for the best interests of others" cause a great deal of problems in the world. Two pages of ill-...

Yep. Incidentally, this is a good test case for why I favor posting limitations (e.g. one cannot post twice in X amount of time, or something like tha...

You did some quick research about some other legal system and then assumed that it would also apply to the UK? It seems like you are not a legal profe...

Good answers all around. I had been wondering about some of the same things. I think @"boethius" raises an interesting general concern, but I don't se...

Well said. Sure, I agree with that.

Well if you look at the paper they are primarily drawing from Aristotle's zoological works, and the Metaphysics is more subsidiary: But the thesis of ...

Just to note, I've learned that there is an undisclosed shortcut to hide/show the Discourse sidebar ('=').

Interesting. That's the sort of thing I was wondering about. I know it can also get tricky running an international website. What you point to here is...

A more imaginative approach would be to stare into the beauty of one's own reflection until they pine away, perhaps with the help of an LLM. :wink:

The end is first in the order of intention. Or: someone should know why they want their posts before they ask Jamal for their posts. The most common p...

Out of curiosity, I am wondering whether Discourse was the only option able to accommodate the new laws. Were other options also capable?

Good stuff, Jamal. :up:

But this is correct. Metaphysics and philosophy do have a strange overlap; a strange redundancy. Actually Aristotle's Metaphysics is precisely not abo...

That's sort of right, but the reason it's not simple is this. If metaphysics is about the nature of reality, then what is not metaphysics? What activi...

Why is it redundant? Metaphysics is truly a tricky concept. There is actually a short clip where Michael Gorman talks about waiting in line at the sto...

Sure. Then there is no possibility of saying that one system is better than any other, or that the claims of someone within one system are any better ...

All you have to do is stop contradicting yourself. No one is asking you to become a theist. The issue is realism vs nominalism, not theism vs atheism ...

Yes, and Nagel is fairly cognizant of the problem I am talking about. For example, he says this in his chapter on ethics, and there is an analogy betw...

Non-paginated threads are nice insofar as they can be printed to a pdf in a single move, as @"Jamal" pointed out. Nevertheless, Discourse does not loa...

True, but I think you need something more than but-for reasoning to establish such a thesis. Okay. I feel as if you're trying to hold back the tide wi...

But you're failing to address the objection. It can be set out inferentially: 1. If <Truth claims are always context dependent> then <Every truth clai...

The question is how to justify this claim: This is because but-for causation casts a wide net. We would not want to conclude that knives are evil from...

Let's not lose sight of the central argument which is this: - Do you think water is visible to a fish? Well, what do you mean by "anti-foundationalism...

The new site will have an export feature built in. I'd be surprised if it is possible here. Another way to do it here would be to search for all of yo...

- :up: It would be a bit like the fish saying, "Everything is water." If the fish knew that everything was water then he would not be bound by water. ...

So would you say that "evil" means "the absolute worst," and one must be careful about calling something "the absolute worst" given the way that emoti...