There is a kind of materialistic presupposition here (for lack of a better word) that draws a hard boundary between impersonal physical facts like ski...
You make it sound like there is a dichotomy between the naturalistic fallacy on the one hand and moral skepticism (denying the reality of moral facts)...
Well, that's the point of summaries, in a way: to enable readers to jump to the conclusion of whether to commit to reading a largish text or to pass. ...
Technically, they have, according to the very criterion of proof that you give in the first sentence - that is to say, the epistemic standards of proo...
I don't think that's an issue above and beyond the old realist/non-realist divide. Non-realists simply mean something different than realists when the...
I fail to see the difference. We are expressing a commitment to the existence of something from the variable's domain. So in what sense are we not mak...
The way ? would typically be used would be to say things like "?x (x?R, f(x) = 0)", that is to say, "equation f(x) = 0 has a real solution." The way y...
This reading is inconsistent with how ? is actually used in mathematical texts, at least the ones I am familiar with (which would be math textbooks mo...
Hexagrams are arrangements of six Yin/Yang lines, making for 26 = 64 possible hexagrams . DNA codons are arrangements of three bases, and there are fo...
Meh, that idea is at least a hundred years old, and has been the subject of a body of evolutionary, anthropological and cognitive research (some in su...
I don't know how these numbers were calculated. It would be impossible to do a comparison with other countries based on money income, because Soviet c...
What interested me about this was not the paper, nor the fact that a retired comp. sci. prof would start writing such papers, but the journal that pub...
I was going to respond, but as I was thinking about what I was going to say, I remembered that I already made similar points in this thread, which you...
So the problem that you identify is that scientific and engineering communication requires a common language. But whatever lingua franca happens to be...
This group and this artist are amazing! Roomful of Teeth perform Caroline Shaw's 'Partita for 8 Voices' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDVMtnaB28E Ro...
Geoffrey Scarre's writes in "Utilitarianism" (Routledge, 1996) that "most forms of utilitarianism are welfarist, concerned that lives should flourish ...
It is, of course, utilitarian in a general sense - not quite in the way Bentham and other classical utilitarians framed it, but then few modern propon...
It is a variant of utilitarianism, with some pop-science thrown in. The general approach was formulated by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century, and sin...
I am not "you-all." I don't care for Biden. But I am not of an opinion that if I can't get what I want right fucking now, then let the world burn and ...
What reality? For all I know, those "intellectuals" are strawmen, a figment of your imagination. You ranted a bunch, but didn't identify the target of...
Well, exactly, there is nothing wrong with the syntax of the sentence, it is only its semantic content that seems to be a problem. But in order to com...
I don't think so. On the surface, the meaning is clear: First, the sentence asserts that something (presumably a proposition) is false. That's not a p...
Why not? You are just restating your position, but you are not giving reasons for it. What the liar sentence claims is the truth value of a sentence, ...
Try these terms on Google Scholar search (or whatever citation index that is available to you). Here are works just from the last 1.5 years: https://s...
Don't get hung up on this; there's more than one way to present data, depending on what you want to highlight. Posters are a distinct category, becaus...
Would It help to put it this way? 2/3 registered users have never posted Of those who have posted, 2/3 have under 10 posts Or if you like pies (who do...
Correct me if I am wrong, but my impression was that much of our brain's processing power is dedicated to mundane subconscious tasks like visual proce...
Well, this assumes that the determination of a "natural kind" is to be made by means of a reduction to the neurological framework and then checking wh...
Corrected one figure: 95% of posters have < 626 posts (was 130). Added stat drive-bys. Note that "posters" are a subset of "users," and posters with <...
Sure, both the disposition of being in love and the associated behaviors and social context are blurry. But so are all things psychological and social...
Your discussion with @"Dawnstorm" is along the same lines as the one we've been having (my position being largely in line with Dawnstorm's), but I am ...
Yes, they are. We don't just put together a random collection of things and give it a name; we group things for a reason. This isn't an exact science,...
With this I was just trying to restate my position without appearing to contradict myself, i.e. without appearing to refer to some state of affairs th...
Like I said, I meant only ordinary, colloquial senses of right/wrong, true/false. Formal analyses of truth, I feel, rarely touch on matters of human i...
OK. First, rules of communication and social rules, like rules for purchasing goods, are not necessarily moral. Knowingly transgressing such rules can...
Continuing from above, it seems to me that often what motivates moral realism/objectivism is almost like a language confusion. When we affirm somethin...
I don't agree with Isaac that what is moral is But I probably shouldn't hijack the thread to debate the point. I don't have a problem with the rest th...
Communication is all about mutual understanding. Being able to reduce an informal concept in some chosen scientific framework is not a requirement for...
Then why single out biology? Why not geology, for example? - we know that building in a seismically active zone has certain adverse and lethal effects...
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