Depends on your philosophical preference. It is usually considered irrational to claim a truth that is technically merely a possibility. A.) To say an...
Who ARE you???? That was the most interesting read I’ve had in ages. You’ve taken the mind, the reality of which nobody knows anything about, and tran...
That something will happen is fine, one could say he knows something will happen, because it is impossible nothing will happen, barring extremes, whic...
Your latest post is exactly what I’ve been saying about your thought experiment since pg 5. You demand acceptance the rock will still exist, but here ...
You aren’t hearing me. You said of blue, the measurable properties x and y means it’s blue. That doesn’t make any sense at all to a guy who claims a t...
Yes, understood and agreed, in principle. Nonetheless, if we were herein engaged in common meanings, we would be writing newspaper articles instead of...
You have GOT to be the WORST epistemological realist EVER!!! There are some unconfirmed truths; but these are necessary truths, the contradictions of ...
Before science there were humans that perceived blue things. Before geometry there were humans that perceived equi-sided formations. Even if we can sa...
Yeah, the counterfeiter made the Kantian “better calculation”, and if never found out, there is reason to suspect he was quite thoroughly pleased with...
Ok. So if some properties are measured, some meaning follows necessarily from those measurements, but the meaning itself is not a measurement. If that...
So you’re a realist. I’m sorry, does it hurt? They got remedies for that these days, ya know. (Grin) So what kind of realist are you? Scientific reali...
Nahhh... the easy stuff is done; morality is subjective, mentally located, if that is how one thinks of it. Philosophy, never one to leave well enough...
Absolutely. I can dig it. Still, as written, it is all hypothetical. What needs to be done now is turn that into a theory. Nobody’s gonna give a crap ...
The binary approach in question here, is the subjective/objective dichotomy, which is not required for *obtaining* individual morality. It is required...
They don’t. They can’t. That which does, is anthropological whatevers. No judgement whatsoever, whether puppies, tea cups, hot stoves, love and marria...
For the obtaining of morality it could well be one place and another, as long as they are of the same kind, which of course they must be. But that’s n...
You wrote this while I was writing. This I agree with: where and how morality obtains has no need of the binary approach, other than serve as the reas...
(“It” being the subjective/objective dichotomy) If that is true, how does the subjective/objective dichotomy fail, when subsequently described as cons...
Kant is notoriously hard to grasp, so right off the top, I shouldn’t present myself as an expert by any means. That being said, I haven’t found anythi...
We was all just wondering if you’d been......rehabilitated. ,,,,from missing the point that practicing morality presupposes its inception. We aren’t g...
Maybe one of the forms will be a true or false quiz..... ......even if “good” is undefinable, and even if “goodness” is not derivable from naturalisti...
“.....In whatsoever mode, or by whatsoever means, our knowledge may relate to objects, it is at least quite clear that the only manner in which it imm...
I call your superior model and raise you a superior theory. I know, because I’ve tasted my thumb. In the interest of science, I assure you. Which does...
Certainly everyone has an equal claim, but that which satisfies the claim does not necessarily satisfy the being of equal. It would seem that the more...
Yeah, but if you are aware of Aristotle well enough to come up with eudaemonia, I shall assume you are just as aware there is something antecedent to ...
On logically minded Platonists understanding reason as being prescriptive...agreed. On people in general ordinarily understanding reason as being pres...
The was no specific reference to Kant in the OP, but now that the reference has been made with respect to Kant and the transcendent/transcendental dis...
Page 24 has calls for evidence, but not for whether this puppy crap is wrong or not. The call is for the morality grounding the judgement that this pu...
OK. You’re just saying there is a condition where there are possible objects yet unthought. If that’s right, then I can say, sure, there’s millions of...
That works....interpret the meaning of it. You said you could conceive an unconceivable object. I’ve been wondering ever since how I would do that. It...
Is there another way to say “I can conceive an unconceived object”? Kantian idealism isn’t the idealism of Berkeley or Descartes, but it is a necessar...
Guy across the street threw the snow from his driveway into the street because he didn’t want the road treatment chemicals on his lawn. He told the co...
Quite right. I should think a determination made on the basis of good with an expected return is an empirical good. (you scratch my back, I’ll scratch...
Hey. Good to have your comment, thanks. That both Lady Jane and Tom want to avoid bad circumstances is the very root of the entire moral issue. There ...
Evidence of misunderstanding.......Yeah, I’ll go with that. What can I say. When I talk about my morality, I speak from knowledge. I KNOW the conditio...
(Chuckles to self) Ehhhhh......Mr. Potatohead. That’s just me being really confused. It’s your experiment, so the onus is on me to grasp the intent of...
Cool. If god is no less real the Johnson’s stone, then we’ll at least get to see what he looks like, the reality of a stone being common to everybody....
“The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” tacitly presupposes a third party observer outside the parameters of the thought experiment constructed from mo...
Agreed. I’m the above. The directly above anyway. Would you re-write the part about logically problematic and relate it to something specific in the a...
Remember....I’m a reductionist. Your parameters are all humans have disappeared. I am human so I’ve disappeared. If I’ve disappeared, even if I exist ...
The problem with the argument, taken from a myriad of manufactured moral dilemmas: If I am the one who claims, and I claim it is immoral for the Engin...
Leave off the adverb qualifying dependent. Thoughts and belief don’t “exist”; they are merely names given to participants in a strictly human mental p...
I’m not going to do that. I trust you are smart enough, and I know I am, to conform to established meanings in terminology so oft-used. That being sai...
You’re engaged in a philosophical dialectic. If you don’t understand the terms of common use within the context of that dialectic, you shouldn’t be he...
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