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Well, saying that it's morally wrong, etc. you'd presumably say is stronger. What I'm saying is that "it's morally wrong" IS just a statement of one's...

I went through this in detail in above (or in the thread where we first discussed this if it wasn't this thread). Deutsch definies simulation in terms...

That I'd agree with. However, re this: The way you say that is that what we should or ought to prefer, on your view, is either the interpersonal behav...

Which, per your answers above, amounts to: "To say there is no moral truth is to say that all stances are equally valid to (a) moral truth." That does...

I thought it was claiming that a universal computing device can simulate every physical process? Not every physical process involves a machine, unless...

I wouldn't say he's making any sort of claim about objective ethics or anything being always wrong (to everyone or whatever) in that section of that p...

Okay, but you don't believe that the view I'm espousing would wind up saying that all stances are "equally valid to a moral truth" do you? After all, ...

Do you understand the "to what" or "to whom" question?

Thanks for the clarification. No I don't believe there's any way to support the idea that anything is "always wrong" without qualification. After all,...

You're not answering my question though. You brought up an objection based on what you take to be an "equal validity" implication. I'm challenging tha...

They're equally valid to what or to whom? In other words, what determines validity, that is, just what is it that makes something valid?

Because the CTD principle isn't supposed to be only about machines, is it?

I don't understand the sense of "I can't" you're using there. Of course you could make food laws, or art laws, or anything like that. Those sorts of l...

I'm not sure what you're asking. As I said, we certainly make moral judgments. Realizing that they're ways that we feel about interpersonal behavior d...

It's not that one is "explaining away" moral judgments, or that we're getting rid of things like an intuition that rape is wrong. It's that we're reco...

I like how you respond to that, but completely ignore the problem that Deutsch only defines "computational equivalence" for machines in the paper that...

I don't buy that there are any objective moral values or that there is such a thing as objective moral progress.

Meanwhile my impression of MWI is that it's ad hoc to preserve determinism.

Well, if you are passing moral judgment on inaction, I don't personally agree with that. My view there isn't so popular--a lot of people would say tha...

This paragraph isn't at all clear to me, unless for some reason--though Lord knows what reason--you'd be reading "consensus" as necessarily referring ...

Individuals always do. Those individuals can agree or disagree with other individuals, and this winds up impacting whether something is allowed practi...

Seems like a lot of words to maybe just say that you'd only attribute moral goodness to the neighbor on the right in this situation. I'm not sure if y...

How would intersubjectivity--assuming that it refers to anything more significant than "people can interact with and agree with each other," which I d...

At first I was wondering, "Well, where the heck do you think that language came from if not humans?" But then I realized that you were simply taking i...

I can't remember much about it at this point other than I quite enjoyed it. I only saw it once. I should watch it again too. The vast majority of film...

Wait, so "definition" on your account doesn't refer to consensus usage, and/or you're now saying that ("on your account") you can't make sense of some...

The conventional definition of propositions in contemporary analytic philosophy is that they are the meanings of declarative sentences.

I'll get to the other stuff, but I want to just sort this one little thing out first. If "definition" on your account refers to some consensus usage, ...

Okay, but if you can understand that, how would it make sense to say that "definition" necessarily amounts to a report of what most people (at least o...

When someone says, "I will define 'tomato' as 'to move with rapid, jerky motions,'" do you simply say that the person is making no sense, or can you u...

Replaying GTA IV at the moment. Aside from a couple arcady things--and mainly pinball at that, I tend to just (re)play one game at a time.

I'm an atheist. I don't say that anything "defining our human situation" stems from "logical causes" (and I certainly do not say that it "descends fro...

I'd need to change the example to a situation where it couldn't be reasonably known by the average person that performing some action put someone's li...

I'd say that your dog having two ears is a truthmaker for P. Your dog alone isn't enough to entail that P. After all, your dog might only have one ear...

It just doesn't make sense to me what sort of bad this is if not morally bad.

There's no classification for the first? Morally bad for the latter in your view, and _____ bad for the former?

I don't agree with this premise. Morality has to do with both intentions and actions, where actions can be contrary to intentions. Killing someone whe...

I'm not sure I'm following your comment. Something else other than what caused you to make the claim you mean?

Wouldn't some set of facts cause one to make the claim though?

Correct. That's the case on my view.

I think not, too. But a lot of people think so. Hence folks on my side saying that there is no such (objective) thing.

Logical causes?? What the hell sort of logic are you supposed to be doing? Is this some kind of wacky pomo course? Not enough prepositional phrases. A...

This. Sounds like utter balderdash. Also, re the exam question, "Develop to its conclusion" doesn't make any sense in context, and neither does "desce...

On my view, that's false, because on my view what it is for a proposition to be true is for someone to actively make a judgment about its relation (to...

I'd have to read the Fox and Bigelow he references, but Fraser's comments following "a truth-maker is a thing the very existence of which entails that...

Yeah, I'm reading through the SEP article now. . . it's not very well-written in my opinion, but I'm slogging through it.

This.

That's related to what I said in my initial post of this thread: The way that's worded in the SEP, at least going by what you're quoting, isn't clear ...

Yeah, they're mentally devised (of course--after all, it's not like they just independently appear on paper or wherever), but unlike meanings, they're...

Great point