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I don't think you see how you sound from an outsider perspective here. You sound like because he asked a lot of questions and answered his own questio...

See it's that attitude bolded that rubs me the wrong way. My first reaction is, "Oh is he!" followed by "Wow Socrates, you're so clever!". What I am t...

Fair enough. No doubt he runs a gamut of interesting questions. I’d just rather there be an explicitness to the kinds of things he is countering. A su...

Part of the problem there is what counts as an “individual”? Russell was caught up with the referent. What happens if it was found the referent was fi...

Okay, but @"Banno" I did admit as such that language as use can be confirmed experimentally with the bridging being a form of intentional learning, as...

What happened? I liked the emoji :razz: !

What pray tell is the error he has shown? Neither his language games argument nor his "silence" argument (from Tractatus), necessarily precludes provi...

I was reacting more to his not having a justification. Not sure I’m convinced about the realism implication. More this: Even if I had credentials as a...

That's not the issue it is trying to illustrate. Rather, the gun didn't exist before, and then it will exist. Not only that, the gun will be used let'...

Looking back it was about whether the locus should be at the individual or aggregate level. I was saying it applies in ethics but not as much politics...

Baloney. You didn't address the gun analogy, for example. Should you not give a shit if you see someone making a gun, and they have the intent to use ...

I am not referring to government but the people procreating the person... I was saying to NOS that we had the same heuristic but applied to completely...

:grin: I hope TPF Effect can be used and reused such that there is a causal connection back to its dubbing and can thus refer always to this effect.

In the context that we are speaking, the claim is that it is unjust to put someone in the compulsory situation in the first place.

In Kripkean fashion, I hereby dub the word TPF Effect for this phenomena: But that's the inherent problem with these forums, there is a sort of "forge...

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Well, this goes back to word games and sense and reference. I was playing with words here a bit. We are a "serf" to the burdens and overcoming of harm...

That is because you are conveniently overlooking how we use language, and what language confers. Modalities of possibilities exist. Some things can ne...

It's funny how we agree but in completely different realms. I would apply this to cases like starting a life for someone. Creating the conditions for ...

Yes! I agree! This is what I'm trying to say too. He starts at the midground and then thinks that is enough to justify his statements without backgrou...

A family interacts with the world around them. Presumably their house is on a land in a jurisdiction with water, gas, electricity, and amenities often...

But what I mean is, the law was not tailored for you specifically. Was it not made for more than one person? In fact, what happened if it pertained to...

Ok, and do you believe that laws are meant for a particular individual or set of individuals? If a set, can we label this set, society? If not why?

Do you believe that two parents and adopted children living in a household and subject to the parent's authority are considered a "family", or are the...

Well he still might be relevant here.. This seems more like the discussion we are having about intention. That is to say, our brains are primed for th...

:up: Yes, if I remember, he denies being a property dualist but it being somewhat unconvincing. And here is the proof: Renaming the process as physica...

Yes cool stuff. I didn't read all of it, but it seems like he is only focusing on institutional facts as distinct from other facts. Does he think that...

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0320 I think that article has interesting insights into shared meaning. As a species, languag...

Great question but it just opens up the door for writing a thesis on metaphysics and epistemology. And as you just said here: Essence brings up ideas ...

:up: Well, you bring up here as to "what" we really agree on as to what is problematic. I didn't say that either. Rather, both can be true. Kant and S...

Fair enough, replace the category "analytics" with "Russell" in particular. (Though early Witty follows him down the rabbit hole).

Indeed. Well, this to me speaks to a confused ontology. It is a cleaving to an empiricism that doesn't seem to be warranted. If everything that is tru...

I think Schopenhauer does not agree with Kant, especially this kind of thing: You can see where it starts to get precarious and ripe for ridicule. I m...

I mean, let's just skip the idea of pure conception then. I don't think his system completely falls without it. Categories allow for judgements once i...

Schopenhauer simplifies Kant in that he thought the categories were baroque and overcomplicating things. He thought that all we needed to consider for...

Eh, I don’t get why Russell structured his logic such that a non existent referent makes the statement false and not vacuously true. But maybe this is...

I gave a simplified answer here https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/834880

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I'd like to propose that both logicism and language-based approaches to resolving epistemic and ontological issues may not be the most productive aven...

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@"Banno" Agreed, which is why people who care about this stuff naturally gravitate to later Wittgenstein. Because then it's just about language games ...

So I do think deontology is more fitting than consequentialist theories for an ethical foundation. However, I think deontology itself has to be qualif...

But that is what I am questioning. I don't think this was puzzling to begin with. There exists a non-existent class (present King of France) for which...

Yes, which I thought it appropriate to bring up ideas of Kripke's modal approach, as that is exactly what his theory is arguing against. He didn't lik...

Sounds like Kripke. As long as the laws of causality and identity remain in play across all possible worlds, then the name that was dubbed for an indi...

Schopenhauer would argue the compassionate impulse of empathy is the foundation of ethics, in fact. If anything, understanding the language games (of ...

Inference. Why not believe everyone’s a zombie then? I’m not sure the implication but if it’s that humans only have access to mental events, I’d turn ...

Yes, that’s what I was getting at in my last post.

You speak of secondary consciousness. Primary consciousness is also "what it's likeness", but it is not conceptual or self-aware to the kind or degree...

Cool stuff, but I think it goes too far. Enthusiasm for the subject doesn't pull the rabbit out of the hat, unfortunately. That is to say abstraction ...