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We don't. Mistakes are frequent, there's rarely agreement about edge cases and the boundaries (fuzzy as they are) are redrawn all the time in many cas...
June 26, 2020 at 08:01
I suggested that a while back. The response, I think, was that it would best be done by the OP, as in "please keep responses related to the text", but...
June 26, 2020 at 07:44
When I first read this I actually thought you were joking. I can't believe you seriously think that current discussions are the result of an excessive...
June 26, 2020 at 06:56
OK, so that's Paul Logan judged...next. You've got another ten thousand or so to go.
June 26, 2020 at 06:39
I don't think I would. I think empiricism about the external world is something which cannot really be doubted, so I don't think it requires a justifi...
June 26, 2020 at 06:35
I don't see why, especially when that's not possible. There are some mitigating circumstances that can be said of virtually all the protestors. The bi...
June 25, 2020 at 18:18
Right, so in the case of victims of years of systemic racism, what does that acknowledgement consist of? It's not sufficient (having established mitig...
June 25, 2020 at 17:33
...in a discussion about massively fatal systemic racism. Fixed it for you.
June 25, 2020 at 17:24
Are you suggesting that we have absolutely no means at our disposal to assess the degree to which someone's actions are constrained by their circumsta...
June 25, 2020 at 17:09
You said it grounds western civilization, you neither mentioned, nor presented any argument that it did so rationally.
June 25, 2020 at 17:06
So another of your core principles is that there's a clandestine second way to resolve conflicts of opinion which you're going to leave out of your co...
June 25, 2020 at 17:01
Really? So your argument for why you think it should be that way is "that's the way it is". Conservative philosophy in a nutshell. Oh, ...I don't, kno...
June 25, 2020 at 16:59
Indeed, last time I got punched I took full responsibility for leaving my face in the way of his fist, I just don't know why these snowflakes don't ju...
June 25, 2020 at 16:56
Do you see where it's confusing?
June 25, 2020 at 16:53
I'm not sure why he's condemning or speaking out about any kind of violence, surely it's just the responsibility of the violent actor? We're all prima...
June 25, 2020 at 16:51
Uh huh... Why? We've just established that there are external factors, so that the activities of some sub-group, result from a combination of the choi...
June 25, 2020 at 16:46
Why. Why the hell does 'that group' become accountable for its actions and not the whole of society? Are you suggesting they're a completely causally ...
June 25, 2020 at 16:18
Whether hedonic experience equates to moral 'good' and 'bad' is the matter in dispute. You cannot resolve that issue using the method you outlined bec...
June 25, 2020 at 16:14
Not in the sense 'bad' is used when talking about morals. In that sense, some people think pain is 'good' (retribution, just suffering, self-flagellat...
June 25, 2020 at 16:08
1. The prior distribution is not evidence, it is the distribution in the absence of evidence, when no option is more likely than the other. 2. The sec...
June 25, 2020 at 15:56
Basically sums it up nicely. @"Devans99", could you do me a favour and 'just not believe' there could be any less than ten grand in my savings account...
June 25, 2020 at 15:43
I ought to clarify ('ought'...se what I did there!) that I'm still using the very first constraint we put in place here (since we haven't mentioned it...
June 25, 2020 at 14:03
No, only under your (2) and (3). Where 'evil' just is 'that which we ought not to do', your (1), we don't need an external reason to not do it, and so...
June 25, 2020 at 13:53
Yeah, to a large extent. I think we need this factor in the equation, we simply can't explain the astonishing correlation otherwise between most moral...
June 25, 2020 at 13:36
Can they not all be true? Does 'evil' have to pick out the same one thing each time it's used? Notwithstanding, each one clearly still has questions, ...
June 25, 2020 at 12:40
Well, for one we could do exactly the same work within those incompatible approaches as we were going to do inclusively. Divine command theorists, I p...
June 25, 2020 at 11:12
Not wasted necessarily, but at times misguided, like much of philosophy. I think there's a lot valuable met-ethical discussion about the kinds of thin...
June 25, 2020 at 11:02
What makes you think this is the case?
June 25, 2020 at 10:59
Yep, I think you could. We can't avoid the fact that Mary thinks John is wrong and John thinks Mary is wrong. That is a state of affairs which we have...
June 25, 2020 at 10:44
Yes I think you could, but @"Banno" beat me to the method. I think you'd be able to tell the divine command theorist that they're using the word 'evil...
June 25, 2020 at 09:49
I think you're conflating 'understand' with 'agree'. One of the options is that what you're saying doesn't make sense. If it doesn't make sense there'...
June 25, 2020 at 07:00
Yes, but there's is not a shared phenomenal experience that pain is 'bad'. Many people seems to expect the use of the term 'bad' to do something other...
June 25, 2020 at 06:51
Yep, thought I'd regret it. More "I'm arguing that..." where what you mean is "I'm saying that...". Pointing to even more people saying it does not tu...
June 25, 2020 at 06:49
It's pretty evident I think that the matter of things 'seeming' some way or other ('good' or 'bad' in this case) is exactly the kind of matter where t...
June 25, 2020 at 06:39
So by what should the correctness of answers to these questions be judged, if not common phenomenal experience (which we've just established is scienc...
June 25, 2020 at 06:30
I shall probably regret asking this, but to satisfy my curiosity, why can things which are in minds not be efficacious and predictive?
June 25, 2020 at 06:26
I quite like olives.
June 25, 2020 at 06:21
This hits the nail on the head. Something is done by using the terms 'good' and 'evil'. The task of moral philosophy is to clarify what that might be....
June 25, 2020 at 06:18
Well then you're describing science, not philosophy. Science models phenomena and judges those models by their correlation which the sorts of phenomen...
June 25, 2020 at 06:09
What possible reason could you have to believe that experiential phenomena are a 'common scale', when virtually all the evidence we have seems to poin...
June 25, 2020 at 05:55
No, I'm not talking about the mere gathering of other people's thoughts. I'm talking about the judgement of them. How do you know they are wrong? Even...
June 25, 2020 at 05:41
Note also the idiosyncratic (to put it kindly) use of probability. Is it mathematics in general?
June 24, 2020 at 20:04
It's not the name of the process I'm interested in here. It's the fact that others will consider themselves to have gone through the same, or an equal...
June 24, 2020 at 19:50
How do you determine a logical error, in cases where your interlocutor claims there is no error? How do you determine who is correct? How do you deter...
June 24, 2020 at 18:55
@"Devans99" Another way of looking at the issue. How did you learn maths? You must, at some point, have faced the necessity to be told something is th...
June 24, 2020 at 18:41
One can deduce anything from any premises. I'm asking you how, in cases where others have deduced something different, you determine which is correct ...
June 24, 2020 at 18:38
What method are you using to assess whether someone has successfully shown you you're wrong?
June 24, 2020 at 18:27
It's got nothing to do bias. People definitely told you where your error was, and you definitely did not believe them. You can't claim that didn't hap...
June 24, 2020 at 18:21
Five people rebutted that maths. They all told you where the error was. You refused to believe them. That's the point. If you're just going to refuse ...
June 24, 2020 at 17:57
You posted the exact same argument 5 month ago where no fewer than five expert mathematicians told you that probabilities are not calculated like that...
June 24, 2020 at 17:41