If you ever had studied {the Bible}, or given any time to reading analyses by people who have, you wouldn't be saying it's "just their opinion." I hav...
No, I haven't. Never seriously studied English literature. Any interest in actually addressing the argument, or is there anything else about my academ...
A colleague of mine in the history department used to complain that they'd set a question like "Explain how the Whig reforms affected religious tolera...
Thought it would be, seems to be a recurring theme. You do know what an analogy is? It's not meant to be the same in every way, it's just for highligh...
Yes, and there's millions and millions of pages explaining how the bible or the quoran are true and worth following writtenby expert theologians (undo...
No, that's not the way categorisation works, we continue to divide things by their differences. Believing that the majority must be right about race i...
This is not a relevant point on its own. Cats are not dogs, that doesn't mean they're not both hairy. The fact alone that we're not talking about race...
It doesn't matter if its 'popular' opinion or the 'opinion' of some selected group (in this case art critics and academics). The danger remains the sa...
I don't have any art 'given' to me. I'm not sure I understand your reference. I get the idea that artists make art whatever, that's a given. But we're...
But this is the exact point I'm interested in. The actual mechanics behind keeping a bridge up are complex beyond my level of understanding, but the m...
No problem. I too will have to duck out for a while because I'm afraid CS's writing makes me want to smash my phone and I can't really afford to do th...
Yes, maybe. What you're adding to that without due cause is that this 'source' is only the source of the majority. Why is it not also the source of th...
Woah. So in the nineteenth century someone who believed that black people were of equal value to whites was "wrong"? What kind of bullshit argument is...
Fair a start this is a statistical inevitability, they've been around longer than these Michael Bay films that are being referred to (I should confess...
Absolutely and fundamentally not, no. And I've already explained why. We do not normally treat things most people feel as objective truth and with ver...
It doesn't. Moral relativism explains how some humans do think torturing babies for fun is OK (by positing that there must therefore be no objective m...
The conclusion doesn't follow from the premise. The fact that "an overwhelming number of human consciences would have the same moral judgment." does n...
So. I'm arguing with your approach of presuming that because you think it is fallacious, it is therefore fallacious and no further argument is require...
Yes, we know what apodeictic means. What we're missing is your argument for why moral position are such truths. You just keep re-stating your belief t...
Well, I expect my wife cares (sometimes). I don't understand why you're asking these weird questions. Of course other people care if I'm murdered. The...
Yeah, some people do, some care only to have a set of beliefs about the world which make them happy enough to get through the day. I can get on with e...
I thought that's what you probably had in mind, and I have no problem calling those thing 'learning' but... I'm not sure I'm so content with what seem...
Why on earth would we have no complaint? I think I speak for all the relativists who've posted here in saying that we do not want to be murdered. The ...
Maybe. I'm not too beholden to my negativity about the effectiveness of reason to want to dismiss the idea entirely, though I might have sounded that ...
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at here, maybe the "different standards" bit is confusing me. When I use 'learn' I generally mean the ac...
Personally... By erring on the side of caution. Something I think storytellers and artists intuitively got for the vast majority of human history. As ...
I never mentioned that anything should be done about it, let alone government intervention. I'm appealing to makers and consumers of art, not demandin...
If anyone has corroborated Dickens' account by comparing it to others, adjusting for bias, checking material facts etc., then it is that work of corro...
I didn't say it should, I said I think it has. A different proposition. The reason I think it has is in the post. It has the potential to cause social...
One strong memory I have from school is one time in English when we "did" Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, and the teacher gave this long spiel about ho...
I think your point about optimism vs pessimism was very salient, perhaps explaining more about our disagreement than you even intended by it. You talk...
No, rhetoric is a sure sign that one is a human being who's capable of expressing themselves in ways more diverse than making a series of barely conne...
Why on earth would I consent to have one if I didn't want one? Again, you've completely lost me here. I don't consent to be murdered because I don't w...
Does it? Can't they? Strange... You seemed to just somehow know all the other facts, what's eluding you about this one, have you lost your direct line...
The point was not to establish uncontested truth. The point was to show that your presumption is open to question and that the method you use to resol...
You weren't referencing metaphysics, you were making statements about how the brains of animals work. The statement I objected to the introduction of ...
Yeah, I know, but next time you need a doctor I bet you'll go see one who has empirical evidence rather than ask your mate what they reckon is wrong w...
If you are an expert in animal psychology, then please ignore the following, otherwise... We're very much stepping outside of the bounds of philosophy...
Well, yes, obviously. Am I supposed to guess in advance when you are clear enough to stop. You posted on a philosophy forum, it's not unreasonable to ...
Well then I think I have my answer as to the question of the amount of effort you are prepared to accept within your use of the word 'could'. Up to, b...
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