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I'd have no idea what "it's the case" is supposed to refer to if it's not a synonym for facts a la either states of affairs or the colloquial "true pr...

How would I help you help me? I haven't the faintest idea how you're using the term "fact" based on what you've said you don't have in mind with it.

Nevertheless, I have no idea what you'd be referring to by the term, exactly. Do you want me to just pretend that I do because you don't want to try t...

Yes. For it to be possible, we have to know that there even is a Main Street first off. Without getting into a big discussion re if there's a differen...

In my view, yes. The fact that it's common doesn't excuse it.

I have no idea what "the ends of the powerful" would refer to, even. Who are supposed to be "the powerful"? It's simply a "women's day." It's not a cr...

Okay. So how would you argue that "It's possible for my car to be parked on Main Street" would be a priori?

I don't want to get into mathematics because I don't see how that wouldn't turn into a big tangent about a different subject. (If you're really intere...

First, I don't even have any idea what you're referring to with "fact," because per your claims, you're neither using it in the state of affairs sense...

The fact that you are alive is the fact that your body is undergoing metabolism, cell division, etc.

Depends on the claim in question. "It's possible for my car to be parked on Main Street" is empirical. "It's necessary that every existent has a locat...

In my view a lot of the actions were immoral. What that refers to is the fact that I disapprove of the actions, that I "Boo" them. I'm not the only pe...

Some aspects I think are just an instrumental way to make predictions. I don't take them as making any sort of ontological commitment. Some interpreta...

Yeah, sorry--that's what I would do in response to what someone takes to be good evidence for it, where I don't agree that it works as evidence for it...

How could you think that being alive is not a process, for example? Are you alive if you're not experiencing metabolism? Cell division? How could you ...

Oops. Patronization fallacy. It's not that I'm unfamiliar with everything considered to be evidence for this. There is a ton of good evidence that men...

Sure, and definitely the latter is true. A lot of philosophy jargon departs from everyday speech. That's true in any field, really. But I don't know h...

I don't believe that there are masses of evidence pointing to the existence of unconscious mental phenomena, though. And you simply went with the old ...

I'm saying nothing at all about it being unconscious. Are you now claiming that we don't actually think meanings, that meanings are in no sense a cons...

Okay, so #1, there isn't zero evidence of mentality. #2, if we're going to posit existents for which there is zero empirical evidence of them, what wo...

You're not doing that (I'll refrain from using a colorful adjective) thing where you're (hopefully pretending to) reading me as saying something liter...

I'm talking about ontology. You don't do ontology by looking at how we conventionally use language, as I said two or three times above.

Yeah, "With respect to" -- in other words, "when it comes to," versus sentences that aren't themselves moral stances but are just about them in some w...

Examination is just a more rigorous approach to observation. The world is the arbiter.

Hence why I specified ethical/moral stances. I also said "opinions in this sense.". Those words aren't just decorations. They're there for a reason. "...

Yeah, you observe/examine/etc. the world

Re the source, people have a tendency to reject or at least be skeptical of difference, while being okay with sameness. This is rooted (phylogenetical...

Aside from the problem of reifying abstractions and positing some questionable definitions there, you don't actually present any sort of argument as t...

What I said there, except possibly for the bit about properties, is completely non-controversial in analytic philosophy. How would we have a fact that...

I've not been talking about definitions or what we call things, but what things are, regardless of definitions/what we call them. In short, I'm not ta...

That's about conventional language usage per se, though. Where manners of speaking are ubiquitous, and so on. That's different than doing ontology.

Correct. I think it's incoherent to say that anything exists, that there is any phenomenon that obtains, that does not have a location. That doesn't i...

There are only individual opinions in this realm. There are no moral/ethical truths with respect to particular stances. Various people can have the sa...

Performing = something an individual does. It's a process they have to engage in on a particular occasion.

The basis is simply that person A says "I reasonably supported assertion P," because person A sincerely feels that to be the case, whereas person B sa...

You responded to my question with a question.

There's no grammatical "error" there.

In my opinion, sure.

People aren't just letting others' expression be and not applying various social pressures, etc., are they?

No idea what that would be saying exactly. Only insofar as someone thinks about it associatively. If you use the word "meaning" for relations in gener...

So do you go by consensus or something?

Who gets to decide what's a reasonable support, though?

Sure. So what would be "the right way"?

And this seems like an odd comment when I had just said, and you just quoted "Evidence for this is problematic (epistemically), because even third-per...

Yeah, I'm not at all a fan of the way this board is moderated, but the vast majority of boards have moderation problems. Moderators tend to be control...

The point here would be that one thinks that the idea in question has things factually wrong, so "engaging in a productive way" with it would involve ...

For it to be an unconscious mental state, it can't be just any brain state. It has to be a mental state, just one that the subject is unaware of. It h...

In any event, by the way, let's say that some moral stance, m, is not foundational for S at time Tx, but some unconscious moral stance, n. is rather t...

No disagreement with this. But it's simply the case that one can state a foundational ethical stance, where there's not some other sentential reason b...

Those are ontological analyses of what the terms are conventionally referring to. People are naturally going to disagree on such things. There's no wa...