It might appear as if he is saying that these are things that we can know. That we can be wise. But we are not wise. We do not know these first princi...
Wittgenstein, of course, should not be faulted for what Wittgensteinians say and do. This happens to every thinker who has a large following. The reli...
Wittgenstein was not responsible for the linguistic turn in philosophy. Recent scholarship has begun to pay more attention to his discussion of seeing...
There is aspect to this that I agree with. He says very little about the history of philosophy. Some claim he had little knowledge of it. Plato is an ...
Speculation about first things is not knowledge. The reason is simple. We have no experience of the beginning or origins. Knowledge begins with the se...
Where he does not make a distinction must be looked at in light of where he does. The text hangs together as a whole. How are we to understand this? C...
If you are talking about the SEP link to "Moral Anti-Realism", this is the whole of what is says about moral subjectivism: This is a good example of t...
There is no agreed upon standard as to what moral subjectivism means. From the article you cited on moral anti-realism, (another term without an agree...
You just said it! The problem is that moral subjectivism is not a specific position. Here is a current overview of the literature. Here different type...
What I am conveying and what you take it to mean are not the same. I am not denying moral subjectivism. I am questioning the value of the terminology....
The facts of the world are the facts of reality, the world and reality are the same. There are not my facts or your facts, they are the facts. They re...
What I am denying is that thinking constricted by select definition of terms leads to what is true at best. Rather than appeal to a definition we shou...
The world and reality are not distinguished by the existence or non-existence of negative facts. (4.0621) If 'p' exists in the world then 'not p' does...
Am I wrong to assume you are using it because you agree with it? You say: This is a belief about ethical claims. While it is clear that the truth of 2...
Moral judgments can be stated in propositional form, but this does not mean that they are propositions. We do not regard something as right or wrong o...
What you said is: By the latter you are referring to what you call "type 1" propositions and give 2+2=4 as the paradigm example. You go on to say: The...
Your premise that the activity of ethical reasoning is like mathematical reasoning is an opinion, a belief. It is shared by some but rejected by other...
(2.06) To state the obvious, non-existing states of affairs do not exist. Reality does not contain non-existing facts. 2.06 includes the parenthetical...
Compare this to: (2.04) The purpose is, at least in part, to exclude ethical and aesthetic propositions from what is the case. They do not refer to ho...
In your imagination you can make this pizza, but this pizza does not exist in the world. It is not real. In order to conflate them there must be some ...
I don't know if you are trying to avoid addressing the problems raised by declaring them out of bounds or if you are simply unable to see what is at i...
I took the tone of the thread to be serious. I find any serious attempt to think about ethics in terms of the construction and assault on categories c...
What I am questioning is the claim that some as yet unspecified set of obligations are binding. I am also asking how it is determined that these moral...
Should the moral proposition, 'you must not abort a fetus but carry it to term' be binding? What makes this proposition either true or false? By what ...
I think the problem is that those who attempt to reduce moral deliberation to some set of self consistent propositions forget that what is at issue is...
I think that within these constraints there is still some degree of play and freedom. There are from time to time those who are able to see beyond the...
The facts are in the world.(1.13) A picture of the facts is in the world. The picture represents a possible situation (2.202) What is represented, how...
Certainly not unique but it does point to something that has been covered. Whatever the "real truth" might be, it is not something we possess and not ...
Your definition of moral subjectivism misses the mark because it rests on two questionable assumptions: 1. That moral beliefs are adequately addressed...
All facts are in logical space. (1.13) Logic underlies and makes possible both fact and pictures or representation of facts. 'Atomic fact' is an infel...
Right. That is why I asked: and: When you say: and follow this with the example of 'always' then 'always' is being treated as a kind of thing with its...
I am questioning that assumption. The problem is that when working with that assumption leads one to find what may not be there to find. And if not he...
The assumption is that if there are various particulars of some kind then there must be some one thing that underlies them all by virtue of which they...
In a letter to John Taylor he says: The two parties at that time were the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans. He was a member of the Federalis...
There is a difference between a moral norm that in some way promotes cooperation and a strategy to promote cooperation via moral norms. The same norm ...
John Adams is quoted but his position if far more subtle than this naked attempt at a power grab. In John Adams' "Thoughts on Government" he asks: and...
I do think that there are members of the court who have an agenda. It is not that they are on Trump's side but that they see Trump as useful to their ...
I think it is the other way around. If, as you claim, then you must provide evidence and not just arguments supporting your hypothesis. Just claiming ...
I missed the fact that there was a thread on the Supreme Court. If I was aware of that I would not have started a new thread. I though you meant I sho...
So in other words no empirical evidence. Cooperation is too thin and insubstantial to stand as a moral strategy. And many who cooperate to conspire ar...
Evidence of morality? I agree, but I think Mark is saying something more than this. Being a social animal is not a principle that underlies and encode...
You say more than that: a) and: b) a) Wittgenstein does not say that the picture that presents the facts is something in the mind b) A fact does not p...
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