Terrapin Station

When people write posts on this forum, do they: (1) Read the post aloud to themselves prior to clicking "Post Comment"? (2) Read the post with the rea...

Here's a challenge for you. State a thesis, and what you want to ask about it if you want to ask something, in not more than 50 words.

Unless a work contains dialogue or natural language text that's literally something like a philosophical argument, the philosophy that's "in" any work...

That would have to hinge on claims that things like meaning as well as preferences can literally, wholesale be given to someone from something outside...

There's nothing modern at all about it. Morality relative to individual preferences is what morality IS, ontologically, and it's what it always has be...

I disagree, too, if you're saying that the ought is anything like a fact.

What, exactly, do you expect boldly forwarding straw men to accomplish?

I've listened to it many times via this album: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WKLqN0lPL.jpg

Libertarians don't think that everyone should ideally be on a level playing field (although they wouldn't force an uneven playing field if that should...

This is a big aside, but don't people realize that when they write so many long posts in such a short period of time that most of what they're writing...

What do I do? I point out that Bayesian probability is nonsense.

Or in other words, you think that subjectivity implies something completely arbitrary--yet somehow still "directable"--in every instance, and you thin...

What makes something art versus not art can be a way that a person thinks about the items or events at hand.

You've turned into an equivalent of the antinatalists with your obsessive, daily (if not more frequently) starting of threads that are all essentially...

I was saying it makes no sense as something that could actually exist, not as an abstract construction.

Why would you believe that things we can construct via mathematics might correspond to objective reality? Constructing things with mathematics is simp...

I think it's important that we avoid suggesting that anyone should be doing anything just because it's what everyone else is doing.

Unconventional, perhaps against rules that someone has agreed to play by (if they have)

As a sloppy manner of speaking. Yes, it's a misuse of the word to me. If you want to play by the widespread conventions, you can play by them, and hav...

I disagree with you on that, too. It's fallacious. That something is common never makes that thing correct or right or anything like that. It's simply...

If it has to be done tomorrow, it would just be a practical matter of whoever you can manage to kill by tomorrow, however you're going to kill them. I...

If that's all he's saying, though, what exactly is he disagreeing with me about?

Sure, but there would be no way to support that using "right"/"wrong" in a particular way is the correct way to use it aside from just descriptively n...

So presumably you believe that it's a non-opinion-oriented fact that "health and functionality are good" is reasonable, and you believe in general tha...

Yeah, if everyone feels that murder is wrong then surely it's a fact that everyone feels that murder is wrong and that fact implies . . . exactly noth...

"Logical space" is something we imagine, so the question is itself contradictory.

I don't know if he's being "cute" or if he really doesn't understand, but it's just NKBJ (perhaps pretending as if he's) not understanding scope and t...

Oy vey. Say what? Why would you believe something like that?

That you can define something in some way does not at all imply that the objective thing has those characteristics, does it? Two dimensions isn't real...

So, the idea is simply this. Normally, we say that something like "Man first landed on the Moon in 1969" can be true or false. Can "One should not mur...

I don't mention feminist philosophers much because "feminist philosopher" always struck me as being akin to something like "gardener philosopher" or "...

Wait. What is the thesis of the initial post? I can't figure out what you want us to focus on/address.

Are you familiar with nominalism? I'm just curious if you're talking about two things having identical properties.

"Do-gooder" isn't conventionally used for "people who are doing things that one feels are good or worthwhile." "Do-gooder" conventionally has negative...

First, I'm curious what some examples of this would be.

We could retitle this "The dangers of learning stuff solely from Wikipedia (and similar sources)." Re this: "A logical truth is a statement which is t...

He means "an interpretation of art" in the sense of "here's what this painting is about in my view." He's not saying that you don't have to think abou...

Yeah, that would be ideal, maybe, although I work a lot at night and I travel a lot, so a meetup group like that isn't the easiest thing for me to reg...

I shouldn't respond to something else because I want you to address "Let me ask you this. Would you say that what's suitable or not to a community hin...

I'd say they were more his explanations or accounting of what's going on with morality than something like an argument with premises and a conclusion....

I asked you, "Could you give an example and explain how we'd be mistaken? . . . " Your response to that is "You've already admitted to having made tha...

Wrong to everyone is wrong to a lot of someones. Wrong to Wilson and wrong to Andrea and wrong to Gary and wrong to Maria and so on. I don't, actually...

Let me ask you this. Would you say that what's suitable or not to a community hinges on what people desire with respect to the community?

Obviously I'm not saying anything like "individuals are not embedded within their communities." The only thing that would be simpleminded is thinking ...

Yeah, I try to do that, but then sometimes you get responses like, "The things you say are too simpleminded to bother responding to" while the person ...

For whatever reasons, there's a block to understanding and interacting with at least some ideas that people aren't already familiar with.

But that's just changing the topic. The topic is whether moral stances themselves are subjective or objective, and whether moral stances qua moral sta...

The reason I stay is simply because I don't really have anyone in my "real life" to regularly communicate with re philosophy. I desire to at least sli...

Yeah, I'm sure that's the reason that you can't come up with a better rebuttal. Sign me up for that bridge you're selling, too. So that's what we're r...

Only people care about communities continuing though, no?