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It depends on what I am doing and how it affects others.

He is your standard run of the mill myopic libertarian.

Once again: What you choose to do and not do affects others. It is because of this that you cannot be left alone. The only way what you do would not a...

This is close to my own practice and to how philosophy was practiced in the Socratic schools, but, as I am sure you know, this does not describe the p...

What you fail to recognize is that you are not alone. What you choose to do and not do affects others. It is possible to live in isolation, but you ch...

The point is that it is a flaccid designator. It seems as if there are three different issues under discussion here: 1) Whatever distinction the OP is...

I do not know anything about all possible worlds and very little about the actual world we live in, but I see no problem with this: a molecule of wate...

It is not a matter of how I want to use the term water, it is the common usage for the stuff that comes out of the tap, the stuff in lakes and rivers ...

I don't think so. From Stanford: My claim is that H20 is not in all cases the same object as water. The molecular structure can differ. H20 always has...

How about the denial of the basic human right to life by those who have no regard for the lives of others and refuse to follow simple safety precautio...

That may be but it is evident that many do.

Covid is not selective. Anyone who avoids getting it benefits. Those around them to whom it may spread benefit. Business benefits by not having a work...

This depends on the assumptions about human beings that you bring to the question. If you ascribe to some theory of social atomism, that is, radical a...

Well, you could explain his line of thought, but you have no interest in doing so. Or, I could spend some time reading Kripke, but I have no interest ...

Necessary in the same sense that a dog is necessarily a mammal, but a mammal is not necessarily a dog. I cannot say what would or would not be if the ...

You are projecting. I attempt to defend my position, but I do not get emotionally wrapped up in it. It makes no difference at all to me whether you ag...

Freedom without constraint not restraint.

By us I assume you include yourself. Start with that. What makes you so defensive? If you say that it is because others are, you are not being honest ...

Does that not happen where you are from? then The family is a social structure with rules and differences in power. It is not freedom without constrai...

Society is a group of people. Here we are talking about a politically structured society. The state of nature is a fiction created by social contract ...

The object of a rigid designator is the same. If water is the same object as H20 they could be used interchangeably. They cannot. The molecular struct...

Yes, but water is not necessarily H20

From my second post:

And this is why just any water will not do in the chem lab. What you take H2O to mean based on the use you are familiar with is not the concept, not t...

You are talking about contemporary liberalism. Modern Liberalism refers to the classic philosophers of natural rights.

The difference is that I am asking for definitions of specific technical terms. Terms that do not have one single agreed upon usage. Hence I asked you...

We were discussing the passage by Blanc that you cited, not Marx. Modern liberalism and individualism are the same thing - the freedom and rights of t...

Man is born into a society not a "state of nature". Depending on where you life, you may have no choice but to pay taxes, no choice but to keep your p...

Nope. Not interested. From the link you provided: In the example I gave both the designation and meaning are different, that is, both the extension an...

And how does that relate to water and H20? Yes, but that does not tell me what it means to you.

This is not meant literally as is clear from what he goes on to say. Man is taken out of society in the sense that he recognizes no authority but his ...

What does he say? I am not asking you to point to a book or article. What do you understand this to mean?

Water and H20 can mean two different things and refer to two different objects. But to tell the truth I don't know what the issue being raised in the ...

H20 is water, but water is not necessarily H20. If I go into a lab to do an experiment and I am instructed to add H20 and open the tap and add water, ...

I saw a comic once about two guys having lunch. One says I'll have H20 and the other guy says I'll have H20 too. In the next panel he's dead.

If by logic you mean bivalent logic then you run into problem with its application to the world since the world does not divide neatly into either/or ...

He may be confident he will not be executed, but despite his confidence, if the judge is true to her word he will be executed. He has no way of knowin...

Upon reconsideration: Friday can be eliminated. Thursday would be a surprise only if he lived past Wednesday. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday would all...

If the executioner shows up Friday he will be surprised because he has already ruled it out. The same goes for every other day.

Socrates is trying to persuade Protarchus to change his way of life. It is not likely that he would persuade him using a rigorous logic argument. The ...

They do not contain Forms, but this is generally correct. I don't see what you are objecting to. Qualities and essences are not the same thing. The Fo...

I agree. This is why I said in another post: I would think it worth identifying them before declaring them spurious. ... But those policies and practi...

That may be the way you regard it, but there have been many prominent philosophers both past and present who do not agree with you.

It shifts in both directions. For example, many of Reagan's policies are now regarded as liberal. Right. The pendulum swings in both directions. It is...

He does not deny it. Plato makes it quite clear. He says that we find the Forms in the world of our experience unalloyed but mixed together. The Greek...

Socrates is talking to and about Protarchus. So again, yes it is about this person, about what he says and does, but this is not to engage in a fallac...

How do these differ from forms? They are found in combination in the world we live in, the world of our experience.

If we are talking about politics then we must talk about rhetorical ploys. It is important to see how much political rhetoric informs our views of pol...

The preferred terms these days are radical left, socialist (Trump throws in radical before socialist for good measure) and Marxist, and occasionally p...