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Funnily, you've posted an image that (if taken at face value) proves my account accurate? Thank you Banno :) Ha...ha? Why not just say "Yes, I was wro...

But clearly incorrect. Otherwise, our experiences would be of nothing. And that's not Kant's position.

No i didn't. Thanks for playing. Ah. baby Mikie. You'll be fun.

This seems the only relevant, or rational inference from Kant. Otherwise we're left with ding en sich- ???????? - experience. Rather than ding???en??s...

My further response applies to everything you've just said. I think it's possible you're not getting me: That you claim to be a person begs the questi...

A typo ;) Yes, but that changes from person to person, culture to culture, institution to institution. Says nothing moral, of itself. Can't figure out...

This is the crystalisation of what I think is wrong in your approach... And perhaps explains some of the deader-ends you've met in discussions about K...

This is just an elaborate restatement of the initial, incoherent claim, though. So, my response would be the same. It's circular and gives no argument...

Feel free :) You're now talking about somethign other than this thread. Which is why I find funny. I don't really care about the 'climate crisis' but ...

Hoo-boy. NMorality is a mental habit; social pressure is the filter and the elements of life considered moral pass through this filter and are thus ca...

Having gone back to this after a long break: Absolutely not and it seems totally ridiculous you could claim so. The exact type of incomprehensible non...

That gives you no authority to that claim. Dogs don't know what Dogs are. There is no settle consensus on this. All claims of this kind are personal, ...

Both aspects of this reply are awesome.

even your quips are nonsense.

It arouses my humour mechanisms. Have you tracked Mikie's posts through this thread? Several attempts have been made to catalogue his inane, insulting...

Oh Banno, lol. Just avoiding the issue again. What constitutes a 'human being' is what matters in the distinction you're discussing. Given your initia...

The day I come in here, and don't laugh, is the day I'll start bothering with stuff like that claim from Biden.

Not in the way you need it to mean for your glibbery. A blastocyst is specifically a state of zygotic development, and not comparable to say, an ovari...

My objection to it is that infinite regress isn't an issue, and magicking up an uncaused cause is a fucking wild move for a Fantasy novel.

(if i'm reading right) I think the latter is shunned in practice as considered 'bigoted' (top tip: It's not) and the former is shunned in theory becau...

Because (and this really is the rub, to me) that culture either doesn't possess the concept, or rejects that account. There's no real argument if that...

This is the exact issue which is going to, likely, prevent any real multi-culturalism every working. We would need to be blaming hte other culture to ...

What things are you wanting to assign blame for? I think that would preclude certain versions of this, and allow others, depending on which. I don't t...

Not sure how it could be. The concept of God, in any defendable form, is unfalsifiable from within the Universe - seems baked-in to it, and the reason...

This, itself, is based on a tendency for experience to converge in its narrative though, as doesn't do much at all for hte problem itself. Searle is a...

Which makes it extremely simple. If this connection doesn't obtain, then the other possible connection we could either observe, or care about, is a ps...

I was trying to clarify what you think the Bold is. It is getting less clear as this discussion goes on. I've taken long leave, re-read the parts I wa...

I love watching cats fight over the remote to a TV they can't turn on.

False. It was taken up as a slogan by a rather detrimental portion of the male populace of the USA for a short period. That said, this also contribute...

Doesn't seem relevant, other than as a contributor to my dissatisfaction LOL. Insofar as it was ever taken up as a slogan, yes.

I see no one has grown beyond teenage sloganing yet. Cool.

Can i clarify something here (not realated to any previous discussions)? Is this to insinuate that you can only conceive of "universal or objective" m...

I support, in other words, your interpretation. I also hope this helps Tom avoid similarly circular arguments.

This is highly likely to be the case. Makes for some really interesting Philosophy Club debates.

THis wouldn't get you closer to solving it, and it isn't the case. It's a preference of yours for reading hte term 'the good'. This violates its appli...

Brilliant! So the is-ought problem is not solved. :)

I don't see this one in my experience. But: I think somewhat misunderstands emotions. At base, we have either aversions or affinity behaviours. Are we...

For my part, you have previous tried to do this but I have not seen you succeed. The CPR seems to explicitly state that the thing-in-itself is what im...

This is shitty Randian claims to non-existent properties. The only possible way this gets off the ground is admitted it is entirely subjective. And th...

Neither nonsense, nor on stilts. Your handwaving may rise to that charge, though. Not particularly interesting, no.

Don't be afraid of your own views. Far, far, far, farrrrrrrrrr too many modern philosophy departments, philosophers, publications and lets say 'popula...

I think the point is that this is still, at base, an inference and not a certainty verified from without. There's no reflective way to ensure this is ...

This is a really good point, just by the by, imo. It points out the strict incoherence of referring to the organ of perception as anything more than a...

I'm conflicted. On the one hand, my understanding of hte physical elements of perception lend themselves to 'No'. But, my understanding of my experien...

That's consistent, to me. I reject it, but it's a consistent view if this negative view is open to you. I think this was the 'corner' I was trying to ...

We can only do this because it aligns with our experience. It poses no obstacle to indirect realism to use hte best of what we have. I see @"Michael" ...

Couldn't be sure, but I'm an emotivist so my position doesn't hinge on my being able to explicate it. That said, I'll have a go: Viability is where th...

Agree, but I have no idea what the import of that distinction is. The 'probability' for a single sperm could be, all else equal, the exact same as som...

It is. It really, truly does not seem like anything of any note. This would be the same as pretending "every sperm is sacred" . Preventing a potential...

that was not an insult my friend.