Let me see if I follow you. A threat against one's freedom to act constitutes a restriction to one's freedom of choice, but a threat concerning anythi...
I think you already knew that. You are framing things to suit your purpose. There was many factors involved in the population explosion,, medicine, an...
OK, so your principle is that freedom of choice is restricted by threats, because a threat is an act of coercion. It appears to me, like restricting o...
That... is highly doubtful. Definitely not a map I would follow. First principle for the mapmaker to acknowledge, as the essential aspect of making a ...
... I am correctly stating these two are distinct views, one may be a formalist without being a platonist and vice-versa. The question then, is how do...
I think we've gotten beyond this talk of "objects". We've moved on to "rules", because rules are what formalism takes for granted. Platonism takes mat...
Why do you say that not knowing a specific option doesn't restrict your freedom to choose it? I don't understand what you think freedom is. Do you thi...
It's a lot more than simply not thinking about something, it's knowledge not held, information not available to that thinking mind. An observer might ...
But that is exactly the case with Dan's perspective. Dan thinks laws, and the threat of punishment are restrictions. But these do not prevent one from...
I explained why the person's choice is restricted by habit. The habit prevents the person from properly considering other options. This is a very real...
I think that when anxiety is directed toward a specific thing it is understandable, and therefore generally not in itself disconcerting. Depending on ...
A threat to one's freedom is not an actual restriction of one's freedom. So we're right back to square one. Coercion restricts one's freedom by having...
For anyone who doesn't understand what the number 1 is, it makes perfect sense to ask: "What kind of thing is the number 1. The answer, for a platonis...
Endless growth is the idea which I said we should give up on. It's like the idea of endless life, impossible and inherently selfish. My point was that...
I don't see how you can say that growth doesn't have to end, then go on to list the restrictions which will necessitate an end to growth. Maybe we hav...
You know, there is always reasons behind one's choices, whether it's a threat, a deadline, love, friendship, hate, revenge, or one of a myriad of pers...
Yes, i believe the doldrums is where Jamal longs to be. Better known as the intertropical convergence zone, it's where the northeast trade winds and s...
No, I think we need to consider this difference between internal change and external change when developing policy. Growth is inherently selfish as in...
I think you ought to consider that there are two distinct types of change, change of form (internal change) and change of place (change in external re...
I really do not think that this could suffice for a foundation of "moral value". It requires a determination, or judgement as to what qualifies as "on...
OK, I was unaware of that convention. We are definitely not talking about Plato, but modern day platonism (my spell check does not like the lower case...
So truth for you is pragmatic then? I don't see how one could ever distinguish between these two. When an idea is said to be an "object" this is Plato...
It appears like you are confusing descriptive rules with prescriptive rules. This is why we need a good definition of what a rule is. The laws of phys...
No, no, no, this is not true at all. The most morally valuable choices we make are concerning others, when we help them, or choose to hurt them. You k...
Yes, I think this is the issue, why would some rules get special status, and if they do, how could we know which ones deserve that special status. For...
Now you've lost me. You appear to equivocate with "belong". Your car belongs to you. A choice which I freely make has no moral value because it does n...
So says you, but I say you do not understand freedom and the true nature of its restrictions. When you say "morally speaking" you imply that I ought n...
The ontological status of rules. If rules are real, then they have some form of existence. Ontology is the study of what there is, and the possibility...
So, the law is a threat to restrict one's freedom, the habit is an actual restriction of one's freedom. What is the principle you are claiming here? P...
The point though, is that the way that laws work is through social conformity and habit. It doesn't make sense to say that laws are a restriction, but...
Mental constraints are just as much a restriction to one's freedom as physical constraints are. Mental constraints of habit are how social conformity ...
However you frame it, rules are an essential aspect of formalism. So the ontology of rules needs to be addressed if we want to determine whether forma...
Right, this is truth, determinacy is a constraint on freedom. Why try to deny it? Nothing I said makes choice impossible. It's just a matter of recogn...
You have a completely different understanding of "morally relevant" from what I have. A habit inclines one to act in a specific way, and if that way i...
Yes, that's exactly what I am saying. You are constrained by the situation you are in. If you are not presently doing anything than you have more free...
If logic is following rules, as formalists seem to think, then to say that rules are derived from logic is circular. That's the issue with formalism t...
I took the meaning of "freedom" directly from your article. Check it out: As I said, not choosing, rather than choosing, provides the most freedom, be...
Hi Dan, I believe there's a very simple answer to this problem. Because you contextualize "value" in relation to freedom, freedom must be your highest...
Back to the question of formalism... How does a formalist typically account for the ontology of rules? What kind of existence do rules have? Consider ...
I don't know, but there are lots of US/Brit differences, the common one being the "o/ou", which most are familiar with. I'm Canadian so I'm stuck in b...
I believe efficient cause refers to the source of motion, the moving thing which acts as a force to cause change. The ngnb could be portrayed as effic...
The fact that it has leveragability in the material world, means that there is something more to it than "it just is". It is useful. The explanation n...
No, I'd say "it has five fingers" is an attribute of your hand. An easy way to think of attributes, is as what something has, a property. So ask yours...
Then the matter at issue is what constitutes a distinct individual, in order that we say that there is five of them. And this is a product of the way ...
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