Yes. It is generally held by most people I would guess, that moral statements (eg "murder is wrong") have the form of: X act instantiates the property...
That's like arguing "x is a good movie" is synonymous with "one ought watch x movie." One's an ascription of a property "good", the other is a prescri...
"X is morally wrong" is not synonymous with "X ought not be done." One is an ought and the other is an is. There's this common idea that you cannot de...
Why? What is the connection between, "x is morally wrong", and "one ought not do x"? You act like the connection is obvious, so you should be able to ...
Clearly not. GID/gender dysphoria is a terrible disorder to have, with an awful prognosis. Apparently 41 percent attempt suicide at some point. Being ...
This argument doesn't work because evolution has no teleology. It's not that organisms ought reproduce, it's just that those that do are more likely t...
Not if you're doing philosophy. If you can't pinpoint a flaw in the reasoning, then what ought follow is skepticism towards your already held conclusi...
No idea! Naive realism strikes me as incoherent, on any sort of reflection. But our perceptions have this sort of 'naive realist' quality to them. It ...
The world is shit, I'd press it in a heartbeat. I'd even go as far as saying you have an ethical obligation to push it. For all those people suffering...
http://imgur.com/V7fbufr The blue on the top face of the cube on the left, is the same colour as the yellow on the top face of the cube on the right. ...
Woops, that's what I meant! Does my mind need to be perceived by another in order for it to exist? No, so why would it be any different for other mind...
My answer is, "what forest?" As in, if there's nobody around then there's not even a forest. However, the forest in this case is an assumption or axio...
I think part of it has to do with the (mostly white) progressive condescension towards 'dark people' basically. They see Muslims as a group of oppress...
Because black people commit more crimes. You seem to think courts just let white people off because they're white and punish the blacks for the same c...
In what way is the state of affairs any different to the proposition which expresses it? State of affairs: the cup is red Proposition: "the cup is red...
Just splitting hairs here but this is not entirely true. Check out this illusion for example, the same wavelength of orange is striking our retinas bu...
Is the state of affairs anything other than the sum total of all the propositions the linguistic community hold to be true? What actuay is the "state-...
I don't buy the notion that what's causing the disproportionate rates of drug arrests between blacks and whites is simply racist cops. There's many ot...
I don't think direct realists deny perception exists. If you believe that there is a world, and in that world there is a brain, and in that brain is a...
I don't think it would be correct to say "the earth exists" is not true. Because a non existent proposition can't have a truth value. It's more like, ...
Is it a mind dependent truth that truth is mind dependent? Say there were no minds, would truth therefore be mind-independent instead, or truth just w...
That's indirect realism though. Camera = body/eye. Roll of film = brain. Image is on the film, which is located within the body. It doesn't matter how...
You are arguing that when someone says an object is "transparent" or ''see-through'', what they mean is that the object has a property which enables s...
I have visual experiences in my dreams. But regardless we DO see hallucinations and illusions. You conveniently skipped over these. No, there's a huge...
Yawn... I really don't know you're having such trouble with reading comprehension. I have *repeatedly* stated in this thread that physically transpare...
Your diagram is not correct because you forgot the refraction of the light caused by the water, and Light B continues to travel below the water, becau...
If it's created within a physical brain, then the brain that is creating your conscious experience cannot be located within your head, rather your ent...
I'm not quite sure what you mean. If I'm understanding the question right, I would say that no, it being dark does not allow you to 'see-through' the ...
I agree, indirect realism logically collapses into idealism. Because the external/physical world for the indirect realist doesn't really have an expla...
You do realize hallucinations, illusions, and dreams exist, right? Do you also see there being no sense in asserting the existence of hallucinations? ...
Would you agree that this would entail indirect realism/representationalism? As in, the visual cortex internally generates a visual field experience, ...
I'm quite certain Descartes thought the 'thinking thing/substance' actually existed, and wasn't just some non-existent abstraction he falsely believed...
It doesn't really matter though. Whether glass is see-through or not is not dependent on the amount of people who treat "transparency" as a synonym of...
I look at it like, purposes only apply to individual ends and aims. I eat because it am hungry, find warmth because I'm cold, do activities because I'...
We don't really live for any particular reason. That we continue to live is more a side effect of satisfying our competing needs and desires (eg food ...
There's definitely a sense of moral superiority (or, smugness) coming from the left. Like you say, a lot of leftists were thinking that only bad immor...
We could draw a distinction between ontological ownership, and experiential ownership. So an ownerless experience would have no ontological 'owner' (e...
That's what I gave: "This is what we mean by 'see-through'. Whatever is behind the transparent object is what's being seen. The same thing which we wo...
That it is the very same object which is being seen, window or not. It's the same road being seen whether a windscreen is fitted in ones car or not. S...
But, doesn't something have to be already in existence that's experiencing those memories and that sense of unity. Otherwise it would be like, no self...
What strawman? I'm arguing against the idea that clear things are see-through. Again, this theory can be discussed without arguing over physical theor...
Quit your mansplaining, it's triggering me! I think what's going is that these "progressive" cry-bullies are preying on (mostly white) people's desire...
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