Metaphysician Undercover

OK, I think I see what you mean, some conventions are more universal than others. There are some conventions such as those of mathematics and logic wh...

Well I've been trying to get a good description of what constitutes "objectivity". I think we've all agreed that it has to do with being external to t...

Right, they're both books. So how do you justify "there's a world of difference"? You could just as well say they have different titles, or different ...

I've provide my definition of moral, as concerning goodness or badness, right or wrong, of human behaviour, in all forms of right or wrong. You appear...

The point though, is that it is through the very same type of training process whereby we learn to judge all the different types of correctness. This ...

Perhaps, I don't know law very well. Those who had respect for that law clearly would have believed that they were acting wrongly, and therefore immor...

Any judgement of "wrong" necessarily implies morally wrong, because that's what a judgement of right or wrong is, a moral judgement.

What I'm saying is that morality deals with our capacity to differentiate between good and bad, right and wrong. So, it follows that any type of decis...

I'm looking at how the word "moral" is defined, and what philosophers in the past have determined concerning the reality of this subject. Look at Plat...

If it's not legal to park there, of course it's morally wrong to park there. Do you understand that "moral" is defined as concerned with the distincti...

In case you forgot how to read, I said that "unlawful" necessarily implies "wrong". We were discussing ethics, which I referred to as rules for human ...

Are you and Sapientia the same person?

OED: murder, "the unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by another". I assume that "unlawful" necessarily implies wrong. Clearly, the way I d...

And you base this claim on a science fiction movie? Is that supposed to incline me toward believing you? If science fiction is believed as correct, th...

I'm not pretending. But the whole disagreement I had with Sapientia revolved around the fact that I said "murder" is defined as being wrong. If this i...

We haven't experienced the future yet because it hasn't happened yet. It's impossible to have experienced something which hasn't occurred. Is it diffi...

We're discussing human behaviours, I assume that "one" refers to a human being who is behaving. Now you've claimed "one shouldn't murder", but this is...

But you have no description of what type of act murder is. You only have murder as an example of a behaviour. Before you can judge it, don't you think...

OK, you've made an assertion, murder is behaviour. Now where does the ethical judgement come in to play?

How could one judge behaviour if there is no behaviour being judged?

That's not a judgement about behaviour, it's a simple statement. "A judgement about behaviour" implies that there is a particular instance of behaviou...

Ethics is rules, a code for human behaviour. We have two things here, human behaviour, and a code of rules. Judgements about behaviour is something co...

I don't recall that you defined "objective", care to restate your definition? It's not I who established the Celsius scale, and the convention which h...

No, I wasn't talking about ethical judgements, I was talking about ethical matters. Ethical matters are matters of human behaviours, human beings acti...

So you'd have no quarrel with the idea that matters of ethics are just as objective as matters of science?

That's a tall order, asking someone to put forth an account of the continuity of existence. We see that inanimate objects, as well as the living, cont...

Consider human activities then, human beings moving around in the world, doing things. These are not mental activities, are these objective matters?

If this occurs, then the substance is not water anymore, due to the different laws of nature, so it would not be the case that water would be boiling ...

If I'm looking at the wall, and hallucinating a giant spider on the wall, I am still seeing the wall, and making use of light to see the wall. Black i...

So what do you think could cause this to change, i.e. that water could suddenly start boiling at a different temperature? And, if you think that it co...

OK Sapientia, believe what you want, water just happens to boil at 100 degrees, by some sort of chance coincidence. Do you mean by this, that the scal...

I see religion as a process whereby agreement is created. This is accomplished through communion and the respect for authority. Of course people will ...

I think that Derrida implies an actual restart, by claiming closure. Then, he starts saying we have to go older than this, and older than that, finall...

I've given considerable thought in the past few days, along with suggestions from this thread, to the question of what makes science more objective th...

What's daft is you saying that you actually can have water boiling at 30 degrees, at sea level pressure. What I've said is that this is what defines "...

Thanks Moliere, Now here's where I have difficulty. We have first, "the ideality of the positive infinite". Then we have "the Ideal (as infinite diffe...

It's quite obvious, and I'm amazed that you still haven't caught on. One hundred degrees Celsius is, by definition the temperature which water boils a...

Ever consider the possibility that this says a lot more about you than it says about me?

Sapientia doesn't seem to get the point.

Really? I didn't think it was possible to get water to boil at a temperature other than 100, other than by changing the pressure. Actually I don't rea...

OK, I think I'm starting to understand what's going on here. You are assuming that "time" does not refer to anything real, you are treating it like a ...

I think my learning disability is much more serious than this. I really don't think I'll ever "get it".

I agree, I will probably never be capable of understanding how you can determine through a person's behaviour, what they are really referring to with ...

This appears to be irrelevant, if anything more than gibberish. Perhaps you could explain?

If you're not referring to what people believe about time, then what are you referring to, your own personal belief? Clearly your own personal belief,...

OK, so you've managed to distinguish between what people think they are referring to, and what people are actually referring to. Don't you think that ...

You haven't claimed anything about linguistic substitution. But if what you claim is true, that two distinct words refer to the very same thing, lingu...

No, you've insisted that time is change, time is identical to change, so why can't we switch names? That doesn't make sense to me. If we are referring...

As I said, I think your functional analysis is faulty. Try, as I suggested, replacing "change" with "time", in any common use of the word "change". Yo...

Let's get some clarification on terminology here. Worry implies anxiety. Anxiety implies anticipation. So Wayfarer is very consistent here: The diffic...