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Okay--you had said, "Do you acknowledge that 'contradictory' means 'doesn't make sense'?" and then you asked, "Why is it a contradiction." I answered,...

It's not coincidental--coincidental means they're effectively "random" with respect to each other. That's not the case here. People interact, they inf...

It's a contradiction because that's the standard definition of contradiction: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contradiction https://en.wikipedia.org...

The problem is that if you know the possible moves in a manner to prompt "He's learned chess," then you know the rules . Are you simply saying that yo...

It's a problem for comments like: You were attempting to explain the earlier comments that I didn't understand, right?--with respect to (b)? But your ...

It's a contradiction and incoherent on my view to say that both x and not-x could obtain unequivocally.

The problem with that is that on my view, propositions, meaning and truth only are particular events in particular persons' brains (at particular time...

No, I'm not referring to "doesn't make sense" for "contradictory.". I'm simply referring to unequivocal assertion and negation: p & ~p. "The cat is on...

They didn't seem to be using "contradictory" any differently. The point is simply that just because something seems coherent to someone else, that doe...

You're not understanding what I'm asking you, and it suggests you didn't understand a lot of the earlier, longer post. You're asking for a sentence, p...

I obviously think it's incoherent. Numbers are located at persons' brains when the person is thinking of the number in question. It's not literally th...

Do you believe that we can avoid stating foundational moral stances, so that we could give a sentential reason, another moral stance that something is...

You'd think, being a god, that one would want to marry something more attractive than a church. Like maybe Jessica Alba.

Is this a good time to point out thar sets are something we make up, so they only exist insofar as someone is imagining them?

I've certainly run into people who have claimed that the notion of "obtaining contradictories" makes sense to them, and they seemed to be talking abou...

Maybe some chains from foundations to whatever "top floor" someone stated are much longer than two or three steps, but one thing that often happens is...

So, any moral stance whatsoever is either going to be foundational for someone (at least at that time, in that situation), or it might rationally rest...

Basing that on expectations re gift-giving is what's an overreaction.

Importance is subjective, too, by the way. (Not that you claimed otherwise, but just in case that's not clear.) Re this: I don't think it's okay to ne...

Yeah, you are. You may believe you're doing something else, you may have mistaken beliefs about what morality really is of course, but you're ultimate...

Well, although people can be conscious with parts of their brains removed or damaged. So that at least tells us that those parts, minus the missing/da...

Well, the only way I can really make sense of Dennett's distinction is that it's simply another term for third versus first-person perspectives. Maybe...

So obviously I do what every other single person on Earth does--I "intuit" how I feel about the behavior in question. Again, I can reason on top of th...

I don't believe that such things should at all hinge on age. They should hinge on ability.

I'd say that every bit of that is flawed, starting with the assumptions about serial numbers on tanks (at least in lieu of more information on that on...

People who would get divorced or have a heart attack <supposedly> just because of issues with gift-giving have far more serious mental and physical is...

I'll try to participate (although I haven't even started reading + commenting in either the Kripke or Schopenhauer threads yet . . . but I'll get ther...

I don't know if I've ever run into a brand of idealism that posits that (you can know or there only are) conscious ideas or minds. Maybe I just never ...

No, it's not that. I really am a free speech absolutist, where I realize that's going to include lots of expressions of lies, offensive remarks, sland...

I don't see this as a moral issue at all. Maybe it's an etiquette issue for some people, but there isn't much etiquette that I care about. Just read w...

But that's what I was saying. In other words someone could parse "intellect" as "mind"

"For sure" isn't something I ever worry about. I think it's very misconceived to worry about certainty. I think we know that being able to see, hear, ...

In my first post in this thread, which is the post you quoted and responded to already, I wrote this: "Morality boils down to individuals feeling howe...

The analogy doesn't work because there aren't any "rules of getting to work" akin to the rules of chess, especially with respect to what people have i...

No idea how what you quoted beneath this should have been reflected, in your opinion, in the Wikipedia excerpt I quoted. And "quite clearly" is not a ...

You don't seem to be understanding that I don't agree that it's coherent to say that there is anything not located in particular places and times. Tha...

Idealism that's not positing non-physical existents?

Very easily this is the more moral option in my view: Kidnap: High chance of pleasure (good), Low chance of suffering (Bad) You're asking my opinion, ...

But see that's not coherent to me. I don't think that the idea of existents with no location makes any sense really. With ghosts, yeah, they'd need to...

?? On my view the idea of there being anything divorced from time (and space/location for that matter) is incoherent. So on my view it's incoherent to...

But "these are the only possible moves the pawn can make" and so on are the rules.

Re the idea of it being coherent, it just seems like a set of words to me. What would "matter not subject to physical laws" be, exactly? Where would w...

Let's try it this way. On your account, we have, in temporal order (a) the antecedent conditions of the agent (b) the agent's reasons for doing x (c) ...

Without getting into the many issues I have with that, it doesn't seem to be specifying a different sort of freedom, with a focus on what exactly "fre...

Okay, that makes some sense, I suppose, although "perceiving" seems like a weird word to use, and "conscious control over yourself" seems redundant in...

Yeah, I agree with your objections about that. Sam's "cup" example didn't cut it, because using "cup" in sentences that people don't have a problem wi...

What it picks out, for the learner, is whatever the learner takes it to pick out. Again, that can be refined via numerous examples, which help the lea...

What different sort of freedom would you say we intuitively ascribe to the will? (Do I do this if I don't know the answer to it)?

Ignoring whether there's some set of utterances, where we've empirically established the commonality of the same, that we're calling the "ordinary con...

What in the world? Obviously you'd have to explain "cannot be called free without 'raping the concept'" and "transcendental freedom (defined in terms ...