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Well, that's kind of what I (and @"Galuchat") have been saying, I don't think the evidence is on your side there. It's doubtful that anyone has such a...
February 09, 2020 at 12:59
Not sure I follow you. If I hold a theory that it is morally good to murder my wife on the basis of the perceived consequences, then I am making two c...
February 09, 2020 at 12:07
Yes. The idea that moral decision-making is anything other than a fairly tangled mess of highly context-specific techniques is just wishful thinking. ...
February 09, 2020 at 11:48
You don't think chimpanzees have a culture?
February 09, 2020 at 11:16
But all creatures like us are embedded in a culture, so how would you know that angry behaviour isn't also the product of culture, learned during chil...
February 09, 2020 at 10:23
But primates spend the vast majority of their time not-angry too, so why make anything other than the presumption that they too suppress one potential...
February 09, 2020 at 09:46
I see. Wouldn't you say that seeing as acting civilly despite our emotional state is the thing which we do most often, that has most prima facae justi...
February 09, 2020 at 09:30
Sure. I was trying to clarify your use of 'tendency'. I've always used it to mean 'a typical or repeated habit, action or belief' so to have it associ...
February 09, 2020 at 09:24
Well, if we have a tendency to anger then we'd be angry most of the time. That's what tendency means. Otherwise we'd have a tendency to non-anger woul...
February 09, 2020 at 09:15
Are you saying most people are angry most of the time? That seems a stretch. Most people I meet aren't angry most of the time.
February 09, 2020 at 08:36
@"csalisbury" Just wanted to say thanks for posting these. I haven't got anything insightful to say about them, I just don't have an artistic bone in ...
February 09, 2020 at 08:02
And this is exactly why we need psychology if morality is going to be discussed in these terms. This is pseudo-scientific myth-making. I'm not saying ...
February 09, 2020 at 07:44
What would ""for" ourselves" even mean in this context? Being 'for' something is about objectives, but you're not talking about objectives here (you a...
February 09, 2020 at 07:28
True, but with the Orion and duck/rabbit examples we are able to talk in the meta-language about the matter from which they're constructed. That's wha...
February 09, 2020 at 07:22
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And sometimes for "that has been checked by methods we both approve of", and sometimes for "I really, really believe that", and sometimes for "I reall...
February 09, 2020 at 06:53
1. Schools are little better than Stalinist boot camps and all of them should be abolished immediately. Children neither need nor benefit from a forma...
February 09, 2020 at 06:46
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I'm not getting anything out of the Tarski I'm reading, I'm afraid. All I'm coming across is that chasm between formal languages that Tarski was talki...
February 08, 2020 at 18:10
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Yeah, I trust your logic. I obviously can't accept the excluded middle though, following any language-based analysis of 'true' and 'false'. Not(true) ...
February 08, 2020 at 16:09
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There'd be no one to say anything of "there are dinosaurs", so I don't think it would be false. It just wouldn't be labelled either way. To say "the c...
February 08, 2020 at 14:19
So doing as little as you can possibly get away with is your definition of an utmost humble servant?
February 08, 2020 at 09:26
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OK. I have had a look at T-sentence stuff before and couldn't make the jump from formal languages to real languages, but I'm prepared give it another ...
February 08, 2020 at 08:24
It was Cambodia, not Vietnam, and the man already had land (the most expensive bit of that whole system in our country) without which the whole interv...
February 08, 2020 at 07:56
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Right. We're probably approaching this problem differently then. I'm quite a strong "meaning is use" person. I gathered from some of your previous pos...
February 08, 2020 at 07:38
I'm (semi-)retired now, but I used to do research in social psychology. My wife's a child psychologist though, which is where my annoyance came from a...
February 08, 2020 at 07:27
Did I once ask you what the rules say? I asked you why you chose to err on the side of doing as little as you can get away with. I didn't ask you how ...
February 07, 2020 at 17:04
So, if any conclusion is premature at this point, why have you opted to err on the side of doing as little as possible for your fellow man? Is that wh...
February 07, 2020 at 15:49
Still not answering the question then. I'm not going to ask again, I think it's now quite clear to all that you're just using your religion as post ho...
February 07, 2020 at 14:42
Why would I forward the question to someone who is used to working on jurisprudential advisories? I'm not remotely interested in the answer. As I've s...
February 07, 2020 at 10:22
I didn't ask for a list (endless or not), and I didn't ask what Islam actually has to say on the matter. I'm asking about your personal justification ...
February 07, 2020 at 09:40
Right. I'm just asking for the scriptual support for that statement. That's all. You keep saying how you follow written systems where you don't just m...
February 07, 2020 at 08:42
So explain to me the logic of your argument from the disputed post. You said Clearly implying that I didn't already have it in my 'overheated mind'. Y...
February 07, 2020 at 08:25
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You're missing the quotations marks (the issue which I stated with. I probably should be putting this in some sort of notation which will make it clea...
February 07, 2020 at 07:59
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We would say it was false for them, they wouldn't. Its what "we in the trade" call wrong, not what "they at the time" call wrong. Note, I'm not going ...
February 06, 2020 at 22:32
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Yes, but not by us, nit by the ones for whom "the sun is the centre of the cosmos" is false. We would never say that (and mean it), and it is us for w...
February 06, 2020 at 20:41
So you don't even know what the instruction means? How do you know how to treat your neighbours, the needy etc if you don't even know what "do good" m...
February 06, 2020 at 20:29
I didn't ask you about charity. I asked you about the clear instruction to "do good". Are you saying that the sum total of what the Quran considers co...
February 06, 2020 at 19:34
Where's you're scriptural support for opposing the general instruction to "do good" which is not so curtailed in that section? I've literally just cit...
February 06, 2020 at 19:02
Allah (SWT) says in the Quran: “ do good to parents, and to relatives and orphans, and the needy, and the near neighbour and the distant neighbour and...
February 06, 2020 at 18:28
1. Anthropologists Paul Aspelin and David Price tried to replicate Lévi-Strauss's findings on the Nabikwara and found that he hadn't identified their ...
February 06, 2020 at 12:35
Cheers. I thought that was the case. I knew she was responsible for my copy of Philosophical Investigations and so must have had some close ties, but ...
February 06, 2020 at 10:16
It's not the autonomy that's in question. It's what is 'moral'. The references to Wittgenstein are - for me - suffused through the whole thing. The wa...
February 06, 2020 at 10:12
It's not an 'exploration/ though, is it? It's a manifesto. An exploration takes evidence and reason from both sides to try and draw conclusions. You'r...
February 06, 2020 at 10:03
I wasn't asking for evidence that politics and life were not in a good state. I was asking for evidence that watered-down policies make no 'progress'....
February 06, 2020 at 09:07
I'm pretty sure it doesn't say. I agree with what @"Banno" has already hinted at, that Anscombe assumed a good deal of Wittgenstein in the paper witho...
February 06, 2020 at 09:02
Yeah, seconded. It's really annoying - I though it was just me. She says (and I would quote if I wasn't too lazy to write it out), that the list is no...
February 06, 2020 at 08:11
Page two paragraph four (sorry, can't cut and paste at the moment).
February 06, 2020 at 07:50
You've just introduced the word 'natural' there without any warrant at all. Show me the evidence that the tendencies the millennium development goals ...
February 06, 2020 at 07:46
You've missed/dodged the actual issue. If you're claiming we have free-will, then something within us must cause us to choose to act according to 'evi...
February 06, 2020 at 07:38
OK, so the first thing you'd need is some evidence of this. What is the 'progress' you'd like to see (what is the real-world measure of it) and why ar...
February 06, 2020 at 07:28
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I didn't say they were, I'm only asking how you would justify such a theory of truth. You said a proposition is 'true' IIF {that proposition}, "A" is ...
February 06, 2020 at 07:22