Good advice. Let's look closer: First, the accusation of blasphemy covers a great deal more than a claim to divinity. To break the Law is blasphemy. J...
Let's look at a few examples: What is the propositional justification? As I read it, he intends the opposite. Looking and seeing does not require prop...
Rather than getting hung up on statements like "here is a hand", I think it would have been more effective to follow the example of Zen Master Lin-chi...
How does this relate to the fact of our having been on the moon or having hands? His having a hand is a commitment to a set of practices? The fact is,...
It is not one or the other, either the fact "alone" of landing on the moon "or" the system underlying the fact. We would remain doubtful if we were no...
At 108: Much had to change within the system for it to be certain that someone has been on the moon. This includes having landed on the moon and our b...
Saying the riverbed's bedrock is not the same things as saying: I suspect that his use of the river analogy intentionally points back to Heraclitus. H...
Right, Wittgenstein is not, but you said: If the only example he gives of a hinge propositions is true, then at least some hinge propositions are true...
Where does this article discuss mathematical propositions? The riverbed is not bedrock. It changes, sometimes slowly and other times rapidly. The axis...
Once again, you assume as answered what is in question. Whatever you might take his "general thinking" to be, he calls 12+12=144 a proposition and now...
Mathematics is certainly a part of our form of life and mathematics does have its language games, but this does not mean that mathematical proposition...
Your assumption that these are all terms referring to the same thing is questionable. The only thing that turns on bedrock, as Wittgenstein says, is t...
Where does he make the claim that we do not dispute 12+12=144 but it is not true or false that 12+12=144? Engineering calculations do not depend on la...
It is about the meaning of a term and how that meaning changed when interpreted by pagan ears. That change can be seen by looking at the relevant text...
You completely miss what is at issue in my criticism. Moral deliberation is not about accepting or abandoning or rejecting stipulated principles. It n...
Right! The attempt to formulate and justify rules is not based on rules. Or, in other words, moral deliberation must rest on something other than prin...
There is a difference between deliberating and rule following. There is a difference between an appeal to a moral principle and an ethics that has as ...
Thanks my friend. If I recall correctly we also discussed during this or another conversation the meaning of the kingdom being at hand. This can be ta...
The "establishment" is a nebulous term. There are elected and appointed officials who are active in their support on the environment. They are as much...
Yes. As I understand it, this was the genius of at least one strand of early Christianity guided by inspiration, the witnessing of the indwelling of s...
It should be obvious to anyone who understands what phronesis is that it involves thinking through ethical questions. Thinking through ethical questio...
I think it is an important question, but do not think it is for the purpose you suggest. I will address this generally, whether or not it applies in t...
? I have not said anything about Mormons. I pointed to the early Jesus movement prior to the establishment of the Catholic Church and the First Counci...
It seems that many here are under the mistaken impression that Christianity is and always was monolithic. The Church Fathers were were perhaps the fir...
So, you attack Rorty and retreat. You make claims about poetry but will not say what you think is the proper use of the term poetry, It is not up to m...
It certainly is a change but I am hesitant to call it an advance. What follows from this change? I don't think there is a single unified response to e...
His extended use of the term extends back to the Greeks. If might be helpful if you tell us how you think the term is proper used today. In the short ...
While I agree with the need for judicial change I think the blame for the current blatant judicial activism rests squarely on McConnell, Trump, and th...
His use of the extended sense of poetry is in line with the way the term was used prior to its modern restrictive sense. Poetry comes from the Greek t...
Trump is attempting to side-step the problem by leaving it up to the state. This makes it a matter of choice. It is a form of pernicious relativism - ...
According to you hinges: In that case existence is a belief. Outside our forms of life then nothing exists. The problem with this kind of idealism is ...
My experience is not yours but this is not a good reason to doubt that other people are conscious. Anesthesiology has developed into a science with ge...
Once again: Cognitive science is a new interdisciplinary science. The fact that it has not yet developed a generally accepted theory hardly serves as ...
What makes this so extraordinary is that Republicans under Trump regard Democrats as the enemy and do not dare cross party lines. If Trump loses we ar...
Right, the same assumption that in one form or another underlies: much of science. The point, however, is that for Sam there is a distinct, enduring, ...
Sam's claim that: and: is that there is a self distinct from the body.Out of body experience is not the experience of a non-differentiated, generalize...
Science does not operate according to unchanging truths and immutable doctrines. And this is entirely natural. A rejection of reductive materialism is...
Whatever your moral principles may be, in this thread you are beginning with moral principles. In addition, virtue ethics is often cited as an alterna...
It is not as if one day there are chemical constituents and the next that they have assembled themselves to form "life". There is not even a clear bor...
Throughout history, time after time, claims of the supernatural as the only viable "explanation" for a wide variety of phenomena have given way to nat...
Treating questionable stipulations as if they are established moral foundations can only lead to the collapse of the edifice. There is a difference be...
I agree. What needs to be examined is a) the assumption that there must be an agent, whether personal or impersonal, and b) the illusion that having p...
If you stipulated different moral principles then you might come to the opposite conclusion. This demonstrates the futility and impotence of moral del...
The question of whether Euthyphro acted justly is not answered directly in the dialogue, but I think it is clear that he was not the expert on piety a...
It is a matter of political expediency. In many ways analogous to politicians today who are beholden to the Religious Right attacking "woke culture", ...
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