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Fair enough. You still don't need zero to distinguish between positive and negative numbers though. What matters is use, application. You use positive...

If you don't have zero than a negative number is simply a number less than one. No contradiction there.

Thread has now devolved into yet another mudfight among spoilt brats, so it will be closed and I will leave Jamalrob to deal with the OP by PM. Grow u...

How to ask the right questions; and maybe more importantly, how to recognize bad ones - the combat against transcendental stupidity.

There's no reason to treat this 'determination' in a different way than laws: whatever objects do, their behaviour must abide by such and such inviola...

Samuel Moyn, historian and critic of human rights: "The mere fact of Christian universalism is no argument for awarding credit to the religion for the...

The OP misunderstands the nature of universality at play in the 'laws of nature'. The so-called laws must be understood negatively, as limits which ca...

Does the study capture etiology? Does it attribute the mental issues to any particular range of factors, or factors in combination with each other?

@"Janus" - this is what I meant by incongruence. Is this 'wrong', an error in reasoning? One wants to say - reason departed long ago. This is a differ...

The problem is not with your argument; it is with its relevance (to morality). Irrelevance is much worse than error. One can correct an error. Relevan...

Ah, I should have asked: only cognitive? But yes, the body changes everything. Enminded bodies. And once you have enminded bodies, morality must becom...

Mine would not be suited to children. It would involve a trolly. And it would not be pretty.

Ah, I missed the God stuff. But then, the conceptual problems set in even before the equation of God with the 'subject'. See the sneaky edit of my las...

I know I know. I just had a moment when I thought - is this what non-philosophers think we do all the time? One can only be struck by the total incong...

The OP is like toy morality. Like a My First Morality Playset™ that you give to undergrads to play with, before slowly introducing them to the things ...

Not at all. That other people are wholly absent from your line of thought is not so much a problem as a symptom of a deeper one. When it comes to fore...

Yep. Also others as people: with bodies, capacities, life histories, social situations, desires, and the rest of it. Minds? The least of it.

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For an attempt to grasp morality, other people, or rather any account of relations between people - the very stuff of morality - seems conspicuously a...

Wikipedia is a good first stop: a place to go to find out where to go next. It's also better for some things than others - it's fantastic for history ...

I've split all the comments regarding Wikipedia into its own thread, which can be found here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/6653/on-the-va...

Two things I guess: first, that identity politics is a 'subclass' of the politics of recognition, and does not exhaust it. One can be recognized for o...

Imagine rolling a ball in a straight line. If space itself is curved, the 'straight line' itself will be bent. Or obversely, if you really wanted the ...

There isn't any corner either: the corner's moved with the space. Or: the space moving is the corner moving. (I edited by posted in response to your e...

This discussion was merged into The Ethics of Eating Meat

There's no rule. But that's half the problem: the equivocation and indistinction, intended or not, between the two senses of 'identity politics'. I me...

Nah they're all fucking idiots.

Probably.

Maybe. But that doesn't seem borne out by the rather, er, unstudied opinions held by many here.

Couldn't say. Although I like to imagine that its something to do with watching certain people squirm.

Apparently this is hard for some people.

Because what happens is basically a confusion of process for product: identities (black, woman, gay, American) are results, products of an articulatio...

:up: You'd think so, but then people in this thread :groan:

Identity politics isn't just politics, that's the point. You'll excuse me if I take the word of a political scientist over some internet rando.

As they say in math, shut up and show your work. No work, no play.

You don't have 'doubts', you can't even get the grammar right, let alone the logic.

Trash, again, as usual.

As distinct from what? Instruments which don't follow Newtons laws? Like you have a choice? What are you talking about?

If a relatively benign phrase like that seems like too much to you, you shouldn't be studying philosophy. That something is 'in the air' is, if anythi...

There are no 'instruments which are Newtonian'.

This is meaningless.

Don't use a chronometer. Use a ruler, a sand timer, a spring, and a weight. Kids do this in early high school.

What does that even mean?

You can show they are true by running the experiments. You need the equipment. You can't prove them by thought alone.

This isn't an arbitrary quibble about a priori meanings. It matters how identity politics is understood, because its conflation with politics as such ...

Haidt's almost there but he goes wrong at the last minute. He properly recognizes, to begin with, that politics is the space of competing claims. He a...

This is not at all a good definition of identity politics. Identity politics is not at all about groups promoting particular interests over general on...

That much is clear.