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With respect to my definition, just to help you understand it, what would be demonstrably good about helping others, sharing ideas, etc. (and assuming...

Objective value is the idea of value occurring in the world independently of any particular individual valuing something. In other words, the idea of ...

Hmm, I sure haven't been talking about language and meaning, aside from my comment about "shared meaning." So this is a good example of why your appro...

In other words, "the whole reason for adopting non-existent objects is to explain how we can say true things about objects that don't exist" is false....

Just trying to get into the spirit of the thread.

We don't "adopt" non-existent objects for fictions?

Why would it hinge on whether they play the same theoretical role in some manner though?

Let me just start there for a moment. Why wouldn't consistent/inconsistent be a principled, non-question-begging distinction?

If one examines neodialectic narrative of fallacies, one is faced with a choice: either accept neocultural discourse or conclude that truth is intrins...

Art doesn't have anything to do with objective value, meaning, etc.

I wouldn't say that you're necessarily "pretending that there is a God." You could be referring to other folks' ideas and beliefs per se, or you could...

Imagine what a troll king he would have been if he'd lived in the age of the Internet.

Again, were ARE mere objects. It's just that some objects think and have desires and so on.

We're using the words in the same way. I don't believe that the idea of "just becoming" is coherent. And in my view, the idea of positing "just energy...

Well, literally, humans are animals, and we're all objects,and morality, what it's right to do, etc. are subjective, but sure, I agree with not treati...

Ohhhkay . . . so maybe try to make clear the "non-everyday sense" you're asking about? Whatever that might be? Personally I'm not comfortable speaking...

Obviously I don't agree with that insofar as we're talking about respect, which is typically a component of the definition of "human dignity." Yes. Th...

Well, first, it's just that I don't automatically want respect. In other words, I don't believe that anyone is or should be treated as if they're obli...

There's a popular sense of "nihilism," which is found in most dictionaries, where it refers to a belief that there is no objective/factual value, mean...

I only want others to respect me if they feel I've earned their respect. What I care about far more than respect are: (1) Laissez-fairism; that I'm al...

Whatever a particular individual values is what makes anything worthwhile. If we identify where valuing takes place, identify what it is, we realize t...

If someone asked in that way I'd ask them why something has to be eternal to be worthwhile in their view. That seems like a very odd disposition that ...

Wait, I'm a nihilist in the sense that I don't believe there is any objective morality, meaning, value, etc.--no facts about that stuff beyond facts a...

Could you explain that more?

We've taken dignity way too far. We've reached a point where we basically think it should be enforced, at least via social pressure, which is ridiculo...

Sure, it's understandable you'd feel that way.

Yes I know that for a matter of fact, without the slightest doubt at all. It's not at all a "scientific discovery." No science has ever suggested othe...

One important thing for trying to translate formal logic into English is to remember that for ~P -> ~H, for example One scenario in which that's true ...

Ah. Obviously I don't agree with that. What I stated is what the facts are, There are plenty of reasons to believe it, no good reasons to doubt it, an...

You're right. I made a mistake and read it as (~V->~H)

Don't hate it, I just think we haven't done a very good job figuring out how to measure it, and the entire prospect of being able to measure it in any...

In terms of informal logic, by the way--that is, the English version of the argument, where we're paying attention to English semantics, etc., the arg...

Not a valid argument. Validity obtains when it's impossible for all of the premises to be true and the conclusion false. That's the definition of vali...

I kept meaning to get back to you but I got distracted by a bunch of other posts. Anyway... This is much less detailed than what I explained above. Ar...

In my view the world is dynamic ("becoming"/changing), but it's not nothing that's dynamic, there has to be something ("being") that is changing, or t...

By the way, certainly some people might have difficulty sorting out what is mental phenomena and what is other stuff, might have difficulty sorting ou...

Or you realize that things like purpose and moral judgments are things that individual persons do. That doesn't amount to there being no purpose(s) or...

The adults I bother to spend time with play plenty.

I consider back and forths, where we might ask and answer questions in a focused manner (so relatively short, one point at a time, as if we were havin...

Yes. It couldn't be more clear in my view. Mental phenomena are such as thoughts, ideas, concepts, etc. They're only first-person observable. They're ...

A problem with the question is the word "decisions." "Decisions" in many contexts has a connotation of mental deliberation (or at the very least what ...

You'd have to explain that a bit more. For one, there seems to be an ontological difference between those two, no?

Yes, because moral stances are simply individual's mental states, which aren't third-person observable.

I wish this board had a "like" button. We wouldn't need a "dislike" button.

So it doesn't sound like you think you're simply referring to brain activity per se, especially if you're using a phrase like "unconscious-mind-though...

Well, a "self-aware axiom" doesn't make any sense in my view. People are the "things" that are aware (well, or creatures with sufficiently complex bra...

I wasn't saying that other people would necessarily agree with me. I can try to teach them to the extent that they're teachable, but past that, I don'...

But I was just asking you how you were thinking about it.

All you're saying there is that there is brain activity? Or are you saying that the brain activity in question is something in the vein of thinking, d...

Where is that coming from? If "better" for you amounts to "being wrong about how this works," sure, then that would perhaps be better for you.