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And I think you'd be incredibly naive to assume things that you don't have evidence for.

And where is "their own inter-referring context"?

Opinion. No value judgments, no statements a la "this is better than that," etc. are objective/factual. The value judgments can be based on a lot of o...

Well, let's try it and see.

Being offended is a problem for the offended in my view, not a problem for the offender. I look at it as akin to people having temper tantrums or road...

Even with the particular case in Georgia, you can't just assume that a higher percentage of minority ballots were discarded because they were minority...

I'm serious, though.

No, not how you'd say they're demonstrated. What you think the ontological source of them is--basiscally, where do you think it comes from? So you're ...

I drive with the flow of traffic. Holy cow. When I encounter people like this online, I'd love to meet them in person, because I just can't imagine ho...

The problem with "suffering" is that people seem to use it for such a wide variety of things. And they always seem to want to use it with a negative c...

Sure. I won't ask you to give any examples, because it's difficult enough to search for something particular in a thread we were just participating in...

Also, by the way, what would you say that has to do with aboutness? X is about y?

And in your view the source of those facts is?

Not my scheme. It's a fact confirmed by many police I know. It's not something broadly generalized and unspecific, it's about speed limits, and as I p...

Do you mean on message boards, or are you talking about writing from philosophers a la professional journals, books written by professors, etc.?

If no one is pulled over for driving over the speed limit in that area, then it's effectively not illegal. And in fact, all of the poilce that I know,...

Sometimes folks (philosophers and others) try to basically "wave away" an issue by claiming that it's only a terminological dispute. As if they're imp...

Why don't you just drive with the flow of traffic?

What intrigued me was the very weird way you were using the terms, so that "I like anchovies" is objective in your view, it's an objective fact, and i...

In any event, are there any psych or other medical professionals who believe that depression is caused by particular beliefs rather than being a brain...

Not that it's good for those 300 million people, but if that number is correct, then less than 5% of people in the world suffer from depression. I wou...

What's the mistake you mentioned earlier? And I would say that no claims are objective, by the way. And that's the case even if you're using this defi...

Well, there isn't a fact regardless of what the person who likes anchovies can know, is there? Aside from that, though, sure. It's a fact that people ...

That's not the standard sense relevant to philosophy, but we can ignore that for a moment and pretend that it is. So let's go with that definition for...

There's a common colloquial misunderstanding of subjective/objective that the terms have something to do with, or are at least very strongly correlate...

Here's a definition from Merriam-Webster, for example: "of, relating to, or being an object, phenomenon, or condition in the realm of sensible experie...

If that's how you're using the term "objective" okay, but that's not how I'm using it, and it's not a standard way to use that term. But you can use t...

It's an identity, not (just) a correlation. Mental states are identical to brain states. I don't believe that the idea of nonphysical existents is eve...

So, can "I like x" be verified non-mentally? It would depend on just what we're referring to by verifying it, right? Re this: There are senses in whic...

All I'm doing with the terms is picking out whether something is a mental phenomenon or not. If it's something that one's brain is doing via the subse...

Water and the study of water are different, right? But that doesn't imply that just any old thing is water. It's just that what water is isn't determi...

It's a claim about how the speaker feels about x. That is indeed telling us something about the speaker. But it's a judgment--how one feels about some...

Yeah, as I noted it's not that I think the idea is inherently flawed, it's that most power relation talk, in practice, has severe problems (because it...

"I like anchovies" is a judgment because it is the person's verdict, assessment or evaluation of anchovies; they're telling us how they feel about anc...

Physics and logic are two different things. So, the properties of ice aren't actually logically entailed by physical facts. Rather, the properties of ...

Again, "Of course, some folks will say that I'm way off base in the above, but that's just the idea, isn't it?"

Basically, yes. It's a critical thinking toolkit. Expecting philosophy to build up some big cache of conclusions that have widespread consensus throug...

As if anyone wrote anything resembling "Those are the same claim."

?? There are thousands of years of philosophy "intellectualizing"/analyzing ethical questions. So I'm not sure how we can say that it's not possible. ...

You had said: Then you said that "logic discussions" would be an example. I asked: "And what that's about is not determined by how people think of it,...

Because you're saying something crazy/something that makes no sense. I don't know if you're trolling or if you're really that confused.

C'mon, man--am I not typing English? What does that have to do with logical entailment?

Every judgment is a factual claim in that sense. Either you do feel however you said (that something is delicious for example) or you do not. I can fe...

A lot of people would be willing to live on Mars. Not everyone, but there would be more people than could be accomodated.

"I like x" is a judgment.

In your initial post you said: And then you say: Okay, why social conditioning? What sort of social conditioning? What does the fact that you feel an ...

What does that have to do with logical entailment? You're making a metaphysical statement there. You're not saying anything about logic.

Okay, so if it's a group of people why are we focusing on urges to be social, to connect with people as if that would be something we'd need to make a...

So it's not a fact that the speaker has made a judgment that he/she likes anchovies?

It seems like you're thinking that just one person would move to Mars. It would be a group of people.