Wittgenstein is clear: "The mathematical proposition has, as it were officially, been given the stamp of incontestability. I.e.: 'Dispute about other ...
Interpretative differences are to be expected, but there really should be no disagreement over whether it is true that 2x2=4. One interpretive rule I ...
I think a better approach would be to let go of Moore's hand for a moment and look at what was said about mathematical propositions.They are hinge pro...
There is nothing unclear about the proposition: "It's false that 2+2=4." It is clearly false. What is unclear is how we could learn mathematics if mat...
We do not question their truth we accept it. Perhaps you get far enough that you will have to confront this: In order to understand this you should at...
12x12=144 is indubitable, but that does not mean that it is not true that 12x12=144. The truth or falsity of hinge concepts cannot be called into ques...
There is a good deal of disagreement as what stands as a hinge proposition, as a review of the literature shows. Part of the problem is a lack of exam...
I will leave, but my claim is not that it is the only example of a hinge proposition. It is the only example in the text specifically identified as su...
When you said in your first post: I did not think by "we" you meant you. This area of the forum, as the heading indicates, is for philosophical discus...
I think that you have grossly inflated the significance of what is nothing more than a statement of the obvious. More importantly, this traditional pi...
This is the only example of a hinge proposition that is given. This is what prompted him to put these thoughts down on paper, but he says addresses mu...
If you would prefer, we can put this off until you are further along in your analysis. As you know, the only example of a hinge proposition is a mathe...
By whose standards? Those who participated in the genocide of Native Americans and the Holocaust thought they were justified. They regarded those they...
I think this overstates the case. It is not that they can't be said to be true or false. They are accepted as true and further justification is not ne...
Have you not understood anything I have said? Of course I disagree. Since I am one of those people on Earth my views would likely be the same as every...
Not only do we not know the answer we do not even know if there is an answer. In either case, if we do not know the answer then whatever position we t...
You did not answer the question: If you cannot demonstrate this you cannot refute moral relativism. Our agreement that killing innocent babies is wron...
We do not ordinarily argue that 2+2=4. But when it comes to questions of morality there is a great deal of disagreement. So by what argument do you de...
The first thing I look for when interpreting a statement is to read it in context. Although this is attributed to Nietzsche, it appears he did not say...
In the introduction to "Outside Ethics" he says the essays are bound by: That particular way of thinking is one that is timeless and universal. His pa...
What I aim to do is make my role unnecessary, for the students to be able to do what I did and in some cases to do it better. What I want them to know...
On the one hand you claim that character and morality are of no importance and on the other when it is pointed out how they are factors in policy deli...
Yes, but the anonymity of online discuss can be problematic. While there are some who remain silent in class who feel comfortable speaking online, the...
It is not a matter of it being the result of character or morality but of the fact that they factor into one's own views on what that policy should be...
Not very far. I got side-tracked. I found a transcript of a class by Leo Strauss on the Rhetoric, started reading that and then got side tracked from ...
Your understanding of morality seems to be as impoverished as your understanding of character. The irony is that you object to Trump's putting childre...
Really? Did moral outrage have nothing to do with ending the Vietnam war? Do you think it is moral indifference that fuels efforts to reverse reproduc...
I was responding to your claims about character. Far from being the stuff of gossip magazines, TV reality shows, and children's fairytales, it is an e...
You are confusing character and personality. One can present a persona but one's character is, as the etymology of the word makes clear something very...
Yes, the character of the regime. I agree with Plato regarding the degeneration of democracy and tyranny. It is only in such a condition that someone ...
This makes no sense. It should be evident from my posts in this topic that I strongly oppose Trump and what he does. Everything he does is determined ...
Do you not see the disconnect? If Trump's interests were not limited to self-interest he would give a shit about such things and would not roll back r...
I agree. A true pathology would absolve him of responsibility. Rather than getting into the question of what is normal in its various senses I think i...
But you did raise the possibility of the deep state and it is an essential part of Trump's allegations of spying on him and it is supposed to have ope...
You, echoing Trump, call it a "Russian hoax" and yet the document you cite states in the preface that: Instead of dumping a 350 page document on us id...
Well then, what you are talking about are unconfirmed allegations, but you do not refer to it as allegations of spying but spying, as if the conclusio...
The facts are first, that you need to learn what the term counterintelligence means, and second, that the duty of intelligence agencies and their memb...
The title of the thread is misleading. Dignity is just one argument in favor of PAS. Pain and suffering is another. Although making decisions for mino...
This is a loaded question. I do not call reporting on what he said and did spying. Trump and his lap dog Barr may say otherwise but that don't make it...
Yes, from his point of view it is spying, biased investigators in the FBI, a Russian "hoax". How dare anyone attempt to shed light on his questionable...
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