I think Banno is correct here. "Experience of remembering" is a more detailed reference to what is present in the instance of someone "remembering." I...
Some of the statements made in the OP are, but they just don't mean what the OP says they do. I pick one to show you what I mean. "Beauty is only rela...
I've got a long post to finish, but I'll just point this out now: by the measure being applied to Muslims in these sorts of threads, Christianity, or ...
The various comments the Muslim community being distinct from the Australian one, dog whistles about our identity bring lost to migrant (and Muslim) i...
Morrison, Dutton, the Liberal party, et al, have been terrible with respect to the postion of Muslims in the Australian community. Their rhetoric and ...
Spinoza does clearly disregard God has any particular traits which characterise a creator or particular forces the world. It's the major distinction o...
I was just talking about Wayfarer's metaphysical error. There is nothing wrong with suggesting instances of things we don't obsevre have the same prop...
That's only a realism-- the presence of a distinct entity measured at that instance-- it doesn't suppose anything about the rest of reality, particula...
It's true: when we encounter objects, we use our perceptual system. The appearance is our response to the outside, to the thing we are encountering. A...
I don't think you do, at least if your argument against "thought policing" is of the usual form, that is, directed at any serious moral demand upon wh...
The idea, for example, that certain ways of thinking about others ought to be avoided. I mean this in the serious moral sense. Many "modern progressiv...
I understand andrewk to be saying "moderate progressives" are making some sensible arguments about society, people and their relationships. He is then...
That's exactly the issue though: such a God is not a causer at all. Since God is the most perfect simple, unaltered over time and beyond contingent ev...
What are the "extreme" positions of those in the "SJW" movement you are referring to? We can then relate these to the "moderates" andrewk is talking a...
I know that's that argument, my point is it doesn't make sense. If our prayer is to be answered, something or some being act in the world, to produce ...
There's a nice addendum to that: since God is the one granting prayers under this account, then anyone who acts to give me what I pray for will be God...
My answer was directed directly at the question. The most prominent accusation of "authoritarianism" ("You are not letting people think what they want...
In terms of the people of the centre making the same criticism, they are banding together with the hard right to avoid criticism and rejection of hard...
GR is not really a plot book. The overall plot is only slowly revealed through the stories of many different characters, which link up to get a full p...
That doesn't help them because the contradiction is in their own "axiom"-- they claim an existing being while also saying that being is nothing at all...
You turn it back on them, what exactly would such a deistic god even be? How can one clam there is an existing being, yet ascribe no sort of existence...
Properly stated, yes. Claims about a theistic god existing involve an empirical claim, they suppose the presence of a existing existing entity with em...
He was suggesting the complaint was improper because the "PC" in the case, health and safety laws, are justified. In other words, his Nan should only ...
Yes, since he's referring to the instance of someone referring to health and safety laws, rather than "PC" as the various expectations on speech and t...
No, I'm saying you've misread the meaning of the entire set. He's not attacking the use social responses (which Fooloso4 is talking about) termed "pol...
If it's from the set I know, Lee was making fun of people who complain "political correctness has gone mad." The joke was about the absurdity of compl...
Does one debate whether murder, torture, lying or stealing are wrong? Insofar as the major conflict is occurring between politically aligned groups, t...
It's exactly observation, in the human sense, which is removed in that picture. The sodium and chlorine atoms aren't having human experience of observ...
Kant makes almost exactly this argument, but goes even further. (You can tell them whatever you want, outright lie, since they are only interested in ...
The moral significance is a proposition or a status claimed in a truth context. A world where an action is moral is different to one in which it is no...
We can further show the issue by examining this question. Anything I encounter in my experience, by virtue of being my mental state, is mental insofar...
You've misread Kant here. He's giving an empirically realist account in this context, in which phenomena are as they appear (or would appear if we wer...
But they aren't different. When we make an empirical observation, all the external evidence is only given if our judgements are correct. If the phenom...
The point is the moral significance is distinct from our act of judgement. It works much the same way as our accounts of empirical objects. Every time...
Well, I'm saying they are more than just connotations about things people care about. The harms in question are facts of that subject, whether the sub...
That's because the subjective impact has a logical independent from the desire or wishes of a subject. I can desire or wish to smoke, but that doesn't...
The point of morality is the presence of a normative judgement. When we engage in morality, we are identifying a normative meaning to ourselves which ...
Janus hasn't said anything about being statistically common being a reason for something valuable. In the posts I've read, they talked in terms of har...
The problem is the arguments are so weak, there is nothing worthwhile to them at all. This is what is obnoxious about both sidesism. When the Left get...
Facts are consituted in meaning. Any given fact has a meaning, some sort of relation to other facts. When we talk about a fact, our words refer to it ...
I wasn't ignoring it. My point was it didn't apply: I wasn't trying to describe stepping from one idea to other. I was talking about is what having an...
Meaning is not independent of its idea. When I have an idea about something, be it a state, a mathematical relationship or an ethical significance, it...
Because it the same argument... You understand the meaning of our descriptions to be nothing more than our fictions which have nothing to do with desc...
You do it all the time when people describe certain things or features of things (ethics, mathematical relationships, meaning of idea/concept/language...
When you take a position that abstraction to an idea (i.e. you have an idea about something) amounts to reification. So when we talk about, for exampl...
That's implied by your position. If my ideas and concepts have nothing to do with any thing in the external world, how can any of the states of the wo...
Agreed. I was saying the amount of fallacies present in the text don't affect the truth claims. One just reads it and focuses in on the truth claims, ...
I wasn't saying you committed a "red herring" fallacy. My point was the idea that lots of fallacies make it hard to discern a truth claim was mistaken...
This is a red-herring because the garbage of it being fallacious is unrelated to its truth claim. In this respect, it's no more difficult to sort thro...
That's not really doubt. "Reasonable doubt" is actually an evidence/knowledge based claim. If we take the concept of "reasonable doubt" in law, for ex...
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