See: Note how erroneous your definition is: ...."Unable to express itself; unable to be spoken for." You won't find your definition in any dictionary....
If Wittgenstein or anyone else claims that X is inexpressible, then they have already expressed the inexpressible. If X were truly inexpressible then ...
Yep. If someone believes something to be inexpressible, then they have a reason why. The ones who are willing to say why are the philosophers. (And if...
Yep. :up: The intellectus/ratio distinction is something I focused on when I first arrived at TPF, for it seems to me the biggest error that basically...
Okay that's fair. I added a second edit a bit late, which I will reiterate below. Okay. I suppose the question is whether every language is equally at...
Sure, I agree. Right, I agree. This is where I disagree. There is a very important sense in which mind-independence is not part of what we do. Your pi...
Here is Aristotle on justice in the narrower sense of a particular virtue: Of course this is slightly different from your division. I would say that f...
No, that’s fine. I am not critiquing you on this basis. In fact I went back and reread the first few posts you wrote after I had asked you to give you...
No, "truth" specifically. Saying that urine is healthy is not problematic. Article 4? This is the same topic that I quoted from the Summa. Let me quot...
I appreciate the natural progression of the thread to a contemporary form of nominalism or pragmatism. I would not want to underestimate the differenc...
One reason I haven’t posted much in this thread is because is saying the things I would say, but better. I’m perfectly happy with that, and his posts ...
I should admit that I don't really recognize your "counts as" idea: I think is right that eating is not a custom or convention. If eating is the inges...
I'm struggling to find an argument here. We must help others because they are worthy of protection? Is that the idea? Does this relate to your ideas a...
I agree with that. I don't think it affects my points or arguments. Aquinas explains what it would mean: And my contention is that our predication of ...
@"Count Timothy von Icarus" It is worth noting that Aquinas sees truth in a largely discursive manner: And I read Aquinas as seeing created truth as u...
I would want to think in terms of intellects and intention. If someone asks, "Did you have a good day?," are they asking a question with a binary answ...
Right. Yes, on pain of equivocation. But is this a matter of the univocity of truth or of the ambiguity of language? And is the LEM being rejected if ...
So: Let me try to do what I want you to do. I will try to capture each position you oppose with a thesis: The univocity of truth: "Truth" means only a...
I don't see it. A good entry point into Aquinas' topic is to read the objections, and none of the objections are claiming that true/false are contradi...
, I think you are saying that because knowledge can be more or less, therefore propositions about knowledge can be more or less true. For example, "I ...
There is a rather long ongoing discussion on this topic beginning on page 12 of another thread. See: - This is interesting insofar as Thomas delineate...
I got a degree in computer science a few years before formally studying philosophy. Some years later as I was reading Plato I finally popped out of th...
Okay, but in your OP you talk about "forcible imposition" and "taking over North Korea," which look like warlike acts (i.e. imposing some value on a c...
I added a sentence for that: For atheists it is statistically improbable that we are all alone, therefore there must be alien intelligence. If you fol...
Atheists believe in UFOs because they don't believe in God. Theists don't need to believe in UFOs because they believe in God. Neither one really beli...
I think Michael is driving in the direction of the kind of consistency I was gesturing towards at the very beginning of this discussion, and I maintai...
What do you say? There is a problem on TPF of criticizing views without giving one's own view. You pointed it up in Michael quite well, but to be comp...
Yes, we do not know that at all, despite the fact that seculars today pretend to. Harming oneself is bad. ...That's a sound principle that does not re...
Well, to occupy a country militarily seems quite different from, "to restrain a man for a time from doing some unlawful deed there and then." I think ...
The word "reprimand" does not appear at all in the passages you quote, which hinders your argument for equivocation. What do you think it would mean t...
Yes, I saw you nudging in that direction. I don't know. I think things get tricky once we realize how important the predispositions of philosophical i...
Yes, that is an interesting idea. It also seems to me that there's a kind of pre-reflexive movement—something like faith or trust—that determines the ...
:up: This is the classical problem of "realism," namely the debate between those espousing some account of universals and those espousing nominalism. ...
That's fair. I think self-preservation is a drive of nature. Isn't is sui generis in the sense that it forces us to conceive of "our benefit" in a non...
Well, again, I think the question has to do with cases of heroic virtue. If a 110 year-old sacrifices their life there will almost certainly be less h...
No, it's called true. Saying things you don't believe is lying, whether you like it or not. You're engaged in a lot of sophistry in this thread. Here'...
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