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In a universe consisting of nothing, would 1 + 1 = 2? It would not be empirically verifiable. It would not be intuitively obvious, since the notion of...

But this is merely a logical relationship. Tyrannosaurus rex were the largest living land animals to ever exist. Therefore, if the Tyrannosaurus rex s...

Oh? I thought you just clarified a few days ago that claims about chess, the most arbitrary sort of system, were true? They are not alike. The truth o...

So in a world without minds, would a complete taxonomy of this world included oughts and values?

:chin: Yeah, I think you're right.

"Coldplay" is one of those names I've heard in the periphery without connecting it to songs. I looked them up. AFAICT, Coldplay are the innovators of ...

After thinking some more, here is a formulation of the problem I have with "ultimate" moral propositions: Every "should", "ought", and value propositi...

Fair enough. Mundane claims: It would be too much of a stretch to claim that "I have an apple in my pocket" depends on this or that system. For our pu...

It is true of chess. It is part of the definition of chess. But there is no sense that it is true beyond chess. Outside of chess it is false, or nonse...

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Call it a "brute proposition", then. The point is that everyday moral propositions seeming to be truth apt carries no evidentiary weight whatsoever. T...

There is a difference. Suppose that Kant was ultimately successful and the categorical imperative was the moral lodestone of the world. Everyday moral...

Or there could be no such true brute facts such as the categorical imperative. Or, such ultimate moral propositions may not be truth-apt, while everyd...

Generally not. "I ought to get out of bed because otherwise I will be late for work" is not a moral judgement, it is purely pragmatic. Only something ...

But then it is no longer a brute fact, no? The categorical imperative explains why one ought not to X. Or are you saying the categorical imperative it...

Propositions about the rules of chess may be true or false. The rules of chess may not be. Try harder. :roll: Supercilious blowhard.

You are just playing with words. This is not the same meaning as the "true" we are discussing. H If moral claims aren't true by virtue of moral rules/...

So then you agree, the rules of chess themselves cannot be "true". What would it mean for the claim "You cannot move a pawn backward" to be true "in r...

What does it mean for the rules of chess to be "true"? Can a games rules be "false"? The rules exist. The may be followed, broken, or ignored. But how...

How does one discover and verify such brute facts? (Sorry for butting in, feel free to quote if this has already been gone over, I certainly haven't r...

I agree. People don't go around thinking they are making tautological claims. They generally think they are making claims about reality. Which of thes...

Exactly. Subjectively, we don't think, "Jack was being, in an honest way." Rather, "being honest" is a unit of meaning, that happens to be expressed i...

I really hope that is not what is dissuading you from writing. We try to keep these "competitions" as friendly and light as possible. There is no cash...

Again, the English is "Jack was being honest to Jill about his gambling addiction".

Actually it is, as was pointed out, the form is "being honest"; when "Jack was being honest", "being honest" was what Jack was doing. On the other han...

I can definitely see how you might be tempted to think that. But I think there is a strong distinction: touch informs about the external world, while ...

Personally I view emotions as akin to the other senses. In my count, there are 7 senses: the 5 traditional senses, the bodily sensations (pain, pleasu...

You disagree, and think that offhand comments in a rando student essay and an open source British high school textbook are strong sources? Or that the...

Your google-sourced sources are... weak. What do you think of the wiki?

And others... I doubt the OP is asking about English grammar. Rather, she is asking of this something, "honesty" * Is it fundamentally a thing? Someth...

Hi Leontiskos, thanks for making this point, it is crucial. It is precisely here that I am an error theorist. People go around all the time making doc...

There is a core confusion which I think is making progress on this topic impossible. The question is not whether moral statements are truth-apt. They ...

Deontology merely means a rules-based ethical system. The word itself does not imply a specific set of rules. A ruleset which included "Above everythi...

Someone who values their own self-perceived "respect" so much that would condemn an innocent to a terrible death for its sake, operates under a deeply...

I would say there is not one universal "honest mindset". People are honest for various reasons: * A sense of moral obligation to be honest * A sense o...

Wow, 3 already! I'm impressed. People here don't seem to know the meaning of procrastination. I see nothing wrong with sharing a prompt, if that's wha...

Stupidity is just poor functioning, compared to a perceived norm, of one or several components of the voluntary portion of the central nervous system.

This is the worst definition (though commonly, this formulation supposedly defines insanity), followed by the reason why it is the worst definition.

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This is a "philosophical" account of morality whose connection to lived reality is dubious at best. For a more reasonable approach see here

What a monumentally inept analogy, it doesn't begin to make any sense. Israel's special and exclusive history of grievance gives it special and exclus...

A As sanctioned by whom? God? Or have you given yourselves license to do the sanctioning as well? How many such tragedies has Israel perpetrated in tu...

In fact, animals also exhibit moral behavior. Isn't the most natural explanation that it is instinctive? Wouldn't it be incredibly odd if a highly coo...

Yes, that was my point

"One cannot move pawns backwards" Is true within the context of the social practice of chess. Moreover, it is the social practice of chess that makes ...

What kind of sick joke makes restraint from massacring helpless and innocent civilians, leveling their city, while talking like genocidal maniacs, an ...

Haha, I did have a queasy feeling about it. "One cannot transmute lead into gold using chemistry."

Do you believe in social realities? I can guarantee you behave as if you do. After all, nation, money, property, family, company, are all social reali...

Even if we take natural language philosophy seriously, there is a nuance of natural language that seems to be missing in your analysis: Statements can...

Of course, you can choose to ignore the voting. Comments are the more valuable form of participation,especially from an actual published author! Peopl...