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Page 51, towards the bottom, part of his string of posts. Seemed quite apropos.

Oh. One of those New Age types, huh. Too modern for me. What do you think makes distinguishing necessary from contingent truths important? Like....why...

On this thread, the original rendering of a rigid designator representing morality, forwarded by creativesoul. I don’t know about rigid designator as ...

All you gotta do is ask yourself.....how many other worlds have I been to? None....probably....so universality is irrelevant. That leaves necessity. I...

Because the designator is not universal and necessary with respect to its representation, it isn’t rigid? The world ends if you don’t stop at the stop...

Yeah, and some stuff of genius can’t be taught.

I didn’t dumb it down, which means you’re just as smart in understanding it as I am in writing it.

Nope. Lots of books, lots of RAM.

There’s a lot of them, that’s for sure. Pick one, run with it.

Nope, just an interest, from Maxwell to Hawking, mostly. The really old and the really new, not so much.

If you stopped at the stop sign, the rigidity of the designator is validated. If you didn’t, the designator is no less rigid, but you disregarded it f...

Hmmm.......with only those two choices, guess which I’d pick. (Grin)

https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/kant-the-philosophy-of-law It’s long and drawn out, but the part you’re asking about is at the beginning.

“...The capacity of experiencing Pleasure or Pain on the occasion of a mental representation, is called ‘Feeling,’ because Pleasure and Pain contain o...

I’ve lost interest in this. The reductionism necessary to validate my argument is so far down in the weeds it couldn’t possibly pass the wtf test.

So.....Kant, because your report informs me that his “linguistic framework is utterly incapable of taking proper account of the distinction between th...

Thanks. Read most of the ten pages. I’m comfortable allowing rigid designator to stand as a distinctive representation of a concept. A stop sign can b...

Now that I understand your world-view having a Rouseauan flavor, I can see why not. Wouldn’t work at all, would it? I’m willing to meet in the middle,...

Another good point, and relates to what you said about Hume’s simplistic thinking. Hume was an empiricist, which makes explicit the principle of cause...

OK, so I should have said any discipline having to do with humans in this world demands something like it.

Agreed. Good thing about Hume...he wrote in good ol’ English, no translational ambiguities. What he wrote is what you get, and of no great difficulty ...

That’s fine. I think it worth bearing in mind, nevertheless, that any discipline predicated on non-contradiction demands something like it.

Interesting. How would you put it, and how does it make morality relative?

I see what you mean, wherein the realms of anthropology and morality tend to overlap, something like Janus’ civil intentionality. Virtue ethics. That’...

True enough. Rather Utopian, though, isn’t it? Idealistic? You’re asking for something history has never given, except in small pockets the rest of hu...

Is this what you were referring me to? Let's say hypothetically that the whole world is sat round a table deciding what 'The Law' should be........ (H...

If that is true, then it follows necessarily that lacking any evidence whatsoever, what was not so easy becomes impossible.

....... Last things first. Kant is how all the above even happened. You couldn’t have thought any of that without the machinations in your head. The i...

It’s a never ending reduction, seems like, doesn’t it? One does his duty when he doesn’t really want to, which is much more morally meritorious becaus...

I have no truck with moral objectivism; it’s actually an impossible view, simply because humans are fundamentally all the same, but our entire evoluti...

Yes. On here someplace was presented a scenario of a fully racist culture, with a single member’s instance of avowed non-racism, but without any visua...

I see it that way, yes. Morality is a fundamental condition of being human. It’s not a thing; it’s the name given to one of the things that makes us h...

I think that because Kant stipulates that morality is a fundamental human condition, and such morality in human form at least, is claimed to be predic...

If that is the case, then n as a prerequisite for m contradicts m being an effectively foundational stance. N can’t be both before and after m if m is...

One ideology in conflict with another doesn’t negate the rationality of the given maxim. It may be irrational to even have a conflict, but that is not...

I doubt I ever presented my thought “one should not kill” is not rational. Don’t know why I would, especially when it seems perfectly rational to me.

Yikes!! That’s a tough one, right there. Lemme see if I understand this the way you intended: ......too entrenched.....that’s me, in the writing of th...

LOL. Oh hell no, I don’t want to be famous. I use authority to make some points, but I grant that what I say of my own accord has no kind of authority...

Space and time?

Where do you see intention in Kantian moral philosophy? Or any brand, for that matter. I never gave it much thought, myself.

Yeah, The Good Professor took some serious flak for his conditions for maxims on lying. There are several references for the topic, and in typical Kan...

I’m aware, and I’ve already covered murder. Call it whatever you like, directly or indirectly, but you can bet your ass Tim wasn’t talking about me wh...

Yeah, I could have, but I was more interested in what she said.

Anscombe MMP, 1958) The categorical imperative is a misrepresentation. Anscombe actually said “...his rule on universalized maxims is useless without ...

Cool. Wasn’t aware of that. Thanks.

Wall of Sound.....as in Phil Specter? And his all-girl groups of the 60’s?

The question is not absurd *because* it removes the answer from psychology, which is the empirical doctrine of inclinations, and installs it into meta...

Ironic, isn’t it, that conceptions or ideas or even mere notions, intended to be so all-inclusive the induction principle cannot falsify them, can onl...

Yes, but there is still the question about a possible instantiation for it. If a society is of a certain moral persuasion, and a fully inculcated memb...

I gotta say, being an unabashed transcendentalist, if ANYBODY had said he’d said anything about Kant in general and the CI in particular, I would have...