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Supernatural was probably a bad word to use - 'revealed' serves my purpose better. Need not be non-physical, but certainly requires a brute fact about...

This supports my position. A realist can't make a claim that a judgement is objective, because that would entail they were not realists with regarding...

And they would be wrong in every sense of the word, unless invoking a supernatural source of morality.

While your conclusion there may be correct, your example doesn't touch it. Those are subjective terms for subjective demarcations within actual states...

To me, a state of affairs is an actual, obtaining situation in the world independent of further judgement. Something like "There are others" could be ...

It strikes me that the claim could not be made, but for a subject perceiving it's value. That, to my, suggests it is a subjective judgement on the har...

This sounds a little JPB :P Truth being functional, to my mind, removes all real meaning from the word. Then again, 'my truth' tends to be an accepted...

But it patently is not a state of affairs, and at very, very best, a description of one. What state of affairs outside of the mind indicates that comm...

Sure. I have no problem with that formulation, i would just prefer to not use the term 'objective' as neither my example, or stretching to obligation,...

I've not made those assumptions. But my guess is that those earlier claims are general - they are objectively true, because they are ill-defined. E.g ...

I don't understand this to be a 'feature' of anything, but a subjective judgement. I'm wanting to know what is at the bedrock of that claim, to suppor...

Interesting. That's somewhat confusing in the sense that the example you used doesn't quite do that. It seems to be either illustrating or lamenting t...

Hmm really? The population ethics boom and subsequent altruism movements stemming out of Oxford seem purely materialistic to a fault (my view). The cl...

You beat me to these questions... LOL.

Which ones, what mind-independent feature, and how could that come to our sensibility if not through phenomenal interpretation (i.e not a fact about a...

I think that if youre not talking to physicists or academic philosophers, thats probably a good move for self-preservation and time-saving :P

THe word here is still 'cost'. "X cost me Y (in the past)". Im no linguist - but this appears to me just to be a shortcut. Referring 'as at' the time ...

I think its entirely possible you have been refuted in this exact way. The logic and explanative power have been found wanting. I tend to agree. All e...

Ok, this is certainly a clearer handle. Thank you for that.

@"Pantagruel" Ah, okay so you take it that (in reference to later comment) socially-reinforcing 'right' actions are those which are reinforced by virt...

Can you be sure you're not just referencing inter-generational awareness? There's nothing per se spiritual to that notion - though, as @"javra" noted ...

https://philosophynow.org/issues/115/Is_Morality_Objective Just thought i'd throw this in for comments. They all appear to be badly argued responses, ...

I've been interested in how people find drugs affect personhood ever since finding out some people truly believe a loss of consciousness constitutes d...

This is something i've been stuck on thinking about identity. I start with that there is no personal identity - Occaming everything away... but in mov...

A mere comment after reading through (most) of the thread: I'm noticing a number discussions are not about things that could be called objective, even...

I think this depends on whether you're asking a genuinely racialised question (i.e i want to hear from non-white people) or whether you're talking abo...

If it helps, the schematic Wayfarer linked includes, without any confusion, my understanding of hte first fifteen pages :) I'm finding that as long as...

Bump ? Haha... Bit late to the party, but late enough to start another! Just picking up the Critique for the first time. Having traversed most of it's...

where I live this is true but of “sex”. It’s a bizarre thing to do if you’re dealing with a different issue (gender). I don’t think identifying as a m...

that is not what I think it have said.

hey mate / thanks so much for such a thorough reply. I don’t know that this is going to be a fruitful exchange because I’m seeing some talking past ea...

hi again Vaskane. Forgive but that is clearly untrue. If you have a look on that page under “characterisation” it makes the specific delineation I’m t...

I’m getting the feeling there’s been a bit of a leap-frog here. If truth is mind-dependent even if about mind-independent objects, how are we assessin...

This would metaphysically turn on whether determinism is wholly true, constrictively true or not at all true I think. I go with the former on the info...

thanks very much for your reply. I still think you are seriously misapprehending what personal identity is in this context (the thought experiments). ...

This speaks to, but doesn't answer the problem. Multiple personality disorder is, even on a laymans interpretation, many 'personalities' within one 'p...

I think your terms a little muddled here but i could be fully misunderstanding you. I believe you're referring to what Parfit thinks 'matters' after d...

Hi Vaskane, I take you to be speaking about social identity, and not numerical identy. From my understanding the identity problem is one of what makes...

Mine is variations on the Branch Line Case from Parfit, It’s just so juicy