I didn't mean everything was "made of statements".. I'll lead you to something, but first let me take the route there.. Why do you think the Tractaria...
Right, but that's not "the whole world"- the overriding ontology though, true. So, okay, getting back to evolution and history of universe, you said: ...
Wait, metaphysics is about the "whole" world, now? Really? So when someone refers to the "Metaphysics of X", and it's only part of the world, that is ...
The problem with that sentiment is when you are doing a sort of "origin story" of "whence language". In a way, the species' evolutionary history and i...
Can't I just say that he was confusing the two forms of truth? Actually, there might be three things being confused.. 1) The ability to parse the mean...
That itself is a (possibly not true) assertion. This doesn't make sense to me. Does he mean that E=MC2 is somehow intuitive to us? Or that "that parti...
I figured the answer would look something like this. What is the "know" here though? Meaning of words (denotation), meaning of statements (declarative...
Fine, can you articulate his idea of truth without reference to more obscure ideas that obfuscate it? Just speak plainly.. In a couple sentences, what...
@"fdrake" I think these questions revolve around the difference between meaning versus the "states of affairs". Once you understand that connection, y...
Perhaps this is why philosophy of language should not be examined in a vacuum. For example, I realized I had a reply in another thread that perhaps ha...
This doesn't make sense to me. It is primarily because we share the same language that we can understand the language. It is because the primary langu...
You were the one who mentioned "unique and original properties of human beings", implying that those exist. If those properties exist, then the very l...
Yet these words need shared meaning between individuals for this to be achieved. It need not be ectoplasm, but it needs an inter-subjectivity whereby ...
The 80s year war between Spanish Empire and Dutch was indeed a long and bloody one, no doubt. In some ways, the modern ideas of smaller nation states ...
Eh, I'm not going down a rabbit hole, but I'm just going to separate the "Troubles" from other parts of the history, as the part that started around t...
You can't save everything. If you see abandoned dogs running around, sometimes you can try to see if you can catch them and send to shelter, sometimes...
I think the spectrum/standard for extreme violence still stands by comparing the three scenarios here, that is to say in all cases (Basque, Troubles, ...
Good points.. I've been thinking about this a bit.. I noticed that there are probably degrees of response to oppression depending on the intensity and...
But surely culture influences individuals, no? Conservatives love this point. So do liberals, but in their own way (exaggerated "Wokeness" and "religi...
When can you condemn a cultural practice? Is all violent resistance justified because someone perceives it to be justified? If Pieter was a Netherland...
Yes, but we must extricate the kind of violence (what it's aimed at, who is allowed to be harmed), and also answer the questions at hand.. to distill ...
So a question I might ask is why for example, and this is controversial, is terrorism, that is to say, purposeful targeting of civilians to strike ter...
Yeah, this is true. It could be subtle things. It's generally when cultures clash that these become prominent. And then what is cultural, and what is ...
I see what you're saying, but there is also common sense. Three year olds are still pretty young. Not realizing that if the dominant culture has many ...
I don't think I was confusing the two. Virtue-building is a part of a culture of a philosophical school of thought. Ok so in your view "societal habit...
I think it would be an ironic if a social justice warrior ended up being a soft bigot in regards for peoples capacity for agency based on subculture, ...
Can that contribute to self-fulfilling prophecy? Is that itself treating others as having less agency? Should there be two tiers of morality- one fir ...
Three year olds in a busy urban street? Trust who? Do you just argue to argue? I’m sure a lot of religious practices had no discernible origin and lat...
I wasn’t necessarily thinking religious practice though there could be just no reason for it (except post facto). I was thinking more like three year ...
Ok so what if there was no logic, it's literally mimetic in that everyone's ancestors did it from way back when? Edit: That is to say, functionally sp...
It seems to be the case this is what happens in multicultural societies or when dealing cross-culturally. If let's say a subgroup individual does X "b...
Right, well you made it seem by knowing the logic, the intolerance will go away. But what if knowing the logic makes no difference or even makes it wo...
That's an interesting point. Is it the job to educate, or let them be? This is a classic case of cultural relativism, or better/worse cultural practic...
I like that.. To add to this.. I notice that with minority subgroups people like to use contingent forces that make people act a certain way. For the ...
I mean where is the dividing line. In some ways, religions can be seen as a philosophy, no? One can even enter a religious community rather than being...
I'm not quite sure though.. Can we distill that 3 year olds running in the street, just like the roaming dogs example, be considered unsafe for the ki...
This bypasses my question, and doubles down even. It is assumed "virtue building" such as a program that one might enter into as an Aristotlean or Sto...
Want to elaborate? Provide a quote or example from Rawls, and what you see as problematic with it? So is culture akin to addiction in that it is a mec...
Good points. I guess I should amend this that religion is PART of the culture. In fact, I think that it is indeed part of the definition of what would...
Ok, so how do you know which is attributed to which? Should it be condemned if it is cultural, or is culture sacrosanct? To what extent? Let's say tha...
True yes, can you cite any specific cases of this being done accurately? True enough. And they intertwine to some extent. But what would be factors yo...
This is essentially my question :D. But it's also, WHEN can we distill that it is cultural vs. other factors? The first is more of an axiological ques...
I mean a classic example here is gang culture in the US. This is tied with so many things- racial oppression, socio-economic oppression, and cultural ...
But even more perplexing, why would a supreme deity need things like "a game of justice of right and wrong to be carried out by various lower beings w...
Ok, so I am just going to refer you again to the post I made to Tom Storm here, as all of this was addressed in some way: https://thephilosophyforum.c...
You ignored almost every argument I made in the last two posts.. Go back and read again and come back and do better if you want me to take you serious...
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