@"Terrapin Station" I'm presuming you accept the principle of joint causal responsibility? That if more than one factor jointly causes a consequence t...
So an instruction booklet on badminton would be a source of morals? Since it provides conditions under which a particular move is right or wrong? Badm...
Primarily, this is supposed to be a discussion about the source of morals. No one has defined either what is meant by 'source', nor what is meant by '...
Depends on whether some idiot has placed it in the middle of the motorway so that people can sycophantically discuss how smooth the ride is. I'm not s...
Yep. I don't think I've ever read such meaningless nonsense. I've been tempted a few times to try and ask for some clarity, but it's been like trying ...
No I'm still not understanding the link, I'm sorry. We have complex technology, right, I get that bit. So our methods for achieving a goal are very co...
I don't doubt it. I also don't doubt in a society authoritarian enough to totally suppress free-speech, the inability to tour a lecture series is prob...
This presumes there is a binomial {with freedom of speech/without freedom of speech}. It's that framing which I dispute. The 'freedom' to speak one's ...
Yes well, "framing issues about politics", should cover everything I've said... and everything I'm likely to say in this and any similar debate, so I'...
I was only joking. It amused me that you'd managed to summarise everyone else's position, as if you'd read mine and just shook your head slowly. There...
Then I'm not quite seeing the exhaustive link you're making. It seems like 'free-speech' is being presented as some kind of unique pre-requisite to so...
Wow, that's quite a substantial claim, given the overthrow of basically any authoritarian political regime I can think of has happened by at least phy...
Exactly, which is just your view of the moral framework. If my moral framework justifies the use of force in situations like this, that is wrong, but ...
This^ is the massive leap. That we have a very complex methodology for achieving goal (shelter, food, social cooperation...) and that we teach that me...
Thanks for posting those links. The Aleksandar Hemon was a really good read. I've read few such close-up stories about watching a descent into fascism...
That's just a slightly longer restatement of your position. I asked why. What is it about political favouritism that is unfair? What is it about banni...
Yes, seems to be a regular confusion around here where "made an argument" is taken as a synonym for "said some things about". An argument is a set of ...
The point is not for nominalism to deny the use of universal terms, it's to describe them accurately as being a mental construction within individual ...
In what way does that distinguish it from any other philosophical position? Or your own statement for that matter, which is based on the semantics of ...
I'm probably sticking my neck out too far in this, but there's a considerable amount of artificial constraints placed around Wittgenstein's comments i...
I'm not suggesting that your arguments are refuted by the evidence. I'm saying that they are not particularly implied by it either, which means that y...
You'll have to walk me through how any of what you quoted leads to... I've read through it a couple of times, including the article, but I'm not seein...
As I said, I don't read the OP as saying anything other than our biology determines how we respond. It would be insane to argue that our biology liter...
So, if you were to 'reason' that four is more than two, you're saying a computer couldn’t successfully agree or disagree with that notion on the basis...
I've a lot of sympathy for the the approach you've outlined there, but a lot if what Wittgenstein has to say about what philosophy consists in seems t...
Why do you say that Wittgenstein circumscribes what 'a theory' is in this way? Most exegesis assumes these sections refer to philosophy in general, bu...
Yeah, I've had a few discussions with CS before.. It's just a matter of presenting what I can until the argument gets dismissed with some one-line qui...
As I read it, the OP was referring to our biology defining how we respond. So if our biology determines that we will seek the most rational argument, ...
Yes. That's the bloody point of a discussion forum. It's not your personal blog. Yes, I'm aware that you think that, now try to reason that conclusion...
Those are consequences or troubles arising from your position. They are not consequences of a strict adherence to nominalism. You have a burden to def...
But now we're back to 'fairness' again. Why do you think it would not be 'fair'? One cannot argue morality, there are no moral facts, only opinions. E...
What have institutions of learning got to do with it? You asked about cognition. Yes, in principle those types of learning happen often in the animal ...
But that's not what you said is it. What you said was... Learning in humans is different than say, crows, parrots, apes, monkeys, dolphins, and whales...
As @"Pattern-chaser" has already outlined above, all your subsequent questions are technical ones about mechanisms. If you're just going to assume hum...
How does having free will make one any more amenable to reason? With free wiil, you have two initial choices when presented with an argument in reason...
OK. When did the River Thames (for example) become 'that' river? It will have been a trickle at one point in the past. It would certainly have been in...
No. You have very clearly been arguing all along that morality (in respect of murder/rape/torture of members of your community) is near universal. I a...
But egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies have lasted for longer than any Western society by several hundred times. None of them had a hierarchical sy...
That's a very broad brush. Even Shapiro does not support zero welfare and he certainly claims to oppose fascism, so I think socialist leaning anti-fas...
As far as I'm aware, 9 people were arrested, so, pending further evidence we can only presume the actions of the remainder were considered by police t...
No, it's about the fact that when it comes to the right to speak at Berkeley, you play the nihilistic and say hat Berkeley is a private institution an...
Right, and yet you said that my position that there was no moral imperative to respect the law was "confused" and that... So, given your definition of...
Yes. Of course. How could I possibly know what is against the law unless I've researched the law? It's not generally written on signposts. And yes, of...
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