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The issue there, though, just becomes whether it would be possible to develop some personal cryptographic code that no one could crack. I don't know h...

Take it out of the argument if it's not relevant.

There can't be private criteria for the private rule because?

This strikes me as nonsensical. One cannot give a "meaningful definition" a priori to an immediate sensation because it would be a tautology (so what?...

One of the many problems with the private language argument is that it's not at all clear what "in principle understandable" versus "in principle not ...

Wait--that's different than whether we can dream things we haven't already experienced. I'd definitely say that dreams are a conscious phenomenon.

Ah, so not agreeing that concepts are (necessarily) linguistic becomes important here. Are you referring to infants, by the way? When I talk about fee...

I don't know why people say things like that. It always seems agenda-oriented to me, almost in the way that people hold on to religious or political b...

I don't just mean that there are things that are absent in my dreams. I mean that the phenomenal quality of everything present in my dreams is nothing...

You mean how to literally be a computer programmer? Because empathy isn't about literally having the other person's perspective.

Insofar as that stuff might have increased, I think that developments that people see often see as positive are just as much to blame--namely, social ...

In my opinion, it's rather a continuum, with varying degrees of control/influence possible. And control/influence can be developed, but that's also on...

I wouldn't say that any desire has anything to do with morality. (In other words, desires themselves aren't what we (should) judge to be moral or not....

What are some examples of that for you?

The certainty fetish. There's therapy for that. :joke:

In other words, from an observer's perspective, if we pretend we're behaviorists, and necessarily we're talking about parsing behavior that we can't a...

You can stipulate that you're going to use the word "rule" so that it necessarily isn't something that pertains to just one person, but that doesn't s...

Unless we want to know what we're referring to ontologically re something being valuable. That is, we want to know what's going on ontologically to ma...

That's simply terminological whims. The different terms aren't picking out different phenomena. They're simply different terms.

Cool. Hence the utility of empathy.

No mathematical objects, equations, arguments, proofs, etc. exist unless they're made explicit. That means that a number like 5,628,901,782,332,415,51...

Are you still in the process of formulating your views? (If you were thinking me, I'm a guy rapidly approaching 60, and a lot of my views have been th...

We don't agree re concepts being language constructs, but what I'm interested in is what you're taking to be evidence of morality existing outside of/...

Say wha? In other words, the reason he picks one over the other is because of his preferences. You don't have to personally query his preferences to m...

Understanding different perspectives is useful information.

No, because that's not the sort of thing that a scientific theory can determine, really. All science can do is make observations of what is and attemp...

The whole gist of your argument is that it doesn't literally give you another person's perspective, but that's a misunderstanding of the idea.

I don't think you're really looking for a logical argument, because a simple logical argument can always just take the form of a modus ponens: If it's...

So can you be explicit about what you're referring to re true/false/valid with empathy? What sort of thing might we be saying is true or not?

Empathy isn't about finding correct answers to mathematics and science questions. It's about understanding feelings and situations and decisions and a...

Falsehood and truth about what, exactly?

A question that I don't expect you to answer in public, but what's going on in your life in general? Are you living someplace you'd like to live? Doin...

Unless there's evidence otherwise, I'd assume that Case is the source for this.

I'd mind not having it here, too, if anyone else wants to have it here. But sure, I might have it in another thread as well.

Proofs work relative to the systems we've set up. That's different than inventing proofs wholesale --in other words, we can and do discover them a la ...

I think it's more that individuals develop moral stances, though I'd agree that they're born with preconditions or dispositions that make it more like...

Yeah, multiverses are seen as upshots of the mathematics used to make predictions for things like quantum mechanics and cosmological inflation (for ex...

You're expecting empathy to amount to literally seeing something as someone else, but that's neither possible nor the idea of it.

So you believe that concepts somehow exist prior to people constructing them?

The only way you'd guess that is by not being very familiar with academic philosophy. "Ethics" is conventionally the name used for the field of philos...

Ethics is a synonym for morality. "Ethics" comes from Greek. "Morality" from Latin.

That's another way of referring to the rather loose fantasizing based on reifying mathematical conventions that I'm talking about. Not to mention the ...

It's a mystery to me what that might be saying/what it might amount to. Likes/dislikes arise from metacognitive endeavors? No idea there, either. Like...

That's the whole point.

Yes, all mathematical and logical proofs are an example.

It's not my view, but it's a pretty standard view for Christians.

https://answersingenesis.org/who-is-god/can-we-understand-gods-ways/

You'd never know with certainty, but that's a truism about empirical claims period. That's why empirical claims aren't provable. And that's why falsif...

I'm a nominalist a la believing that there are no real abstracts.

Calcuating how many different possible games can be isn't the same thing as there being those games. You calculate how many different possible game th...