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So two acts must be spatially and/or temporally identical in order to be morally identical? In order to claim that two acts are not morally identical,...
September 29, 2019 at 00:40
Right back at you one more time. Laughably false, as I have demonstrated over and over. I will not bother to go back and quote myself again; as someon...
September 28, 2019 at 21:40
Here is what I actually said: Arguments cannot be settled solely on the basis of rational intuitions, because they are not uniform; different people h...
September 28, 2019 at 21:08
Mathematics in general does not require a "foundation" at all, and certainly need not be treated as Platonic, as if its objects "exist" in some immate...
September 28, 2019 at 17:20
That is not the business of pure mathematics, but of applied mathematics within all the other sciences--including philosophy.
September 28, 2019 at 16:59
Fitness for the office is up to the judgment of the voters. Evidence sufficient to establish beyond a reasonable doubt the commission of "Treason, Bri...
September 28, 2019 at 16:54
The relevant language is not in a mere statute, it is in the Constitution itself; and it does not say "high crimes, misdemeanors, and other," it says ...
September 28, 2019 at 14:53
Mathematics is the science that draws necessary conclusions about hypothetical states of affairs. Pure mathematics does not concern itself at all with...
September 28, 2019 at 14:46
Indeed. Should we reveal the big secret that in any valid deductive argument, there is nothing in the conclusion that is not already entailed by the p...
September 28, 2019 at 14:38
This presupposes that intentions and consequences are "non-moral respects." Does anyone actually believe that?
September 28, 2019 at 14:35
It was quite obvious all along that my statement entailed the negation of your #1, and therefore the negation of your conclusion--i.e., the unsoundnes...
September 28, 2019 at 14:31
Nixon resigned before he could be impeached. Clinton was impeached for perjury--lying under oath, which most people agree qualifies under "high Crimes...
September 28, 2019 at 01:47
On the contrary, my #2 is not substantively different from what I have been repeatedly saying all along: In other words ...
September 28, 2019 at 01:38
The only Republicans who matter are those in the Senate, and how they personally feel about Donald Trump is a relatively small part of the equation. U...
September 28, 2019 at 00:53
Impeachment is not a finding of guilty nor a conviction, it is merely a formal accusation. The House is the equivalent of a grand jury, ascertaining w...
September 28, 2019 at 00:44
How many times do I have to repeat that I deny your #1 because I reject the definitions of terms that it presupposes? Here is my deductively valid arg...
September 28, 2019 at 00:37
I agree, there is a sense in which the House has the power of impeachment for any reason. However, the OP calls for "removal of a government official,...
September 28, 2019 at 00:02
That seems like a response prompted by emotion, not logic. I am simply pointing out the constitutional requirement for removal from office. Unless the...
September 27, 2019 at 23:52
I agree that Donald Trump is an immoral, dishonest, and obnoxious person. However, none of the items that you mentioned--even taken together--qualify ...
September 27, 2019 at 23:44
No more so than your definition of "valuable" as "being valued." As I keep pointing out, the debate is not about the arguments, but the premisses--in ...
September 27, 2019 at 23:39
Sure, but the OP did not offer any of those allegations; just that "the public is overwhelmingly dissatisfied with his/her performance."
September 27, 2019 at 23:17
Yes, and we call that process an election, which will take place in just over 13 months. Public dissatisfaction with the President's performance, no m...
September 27, 2019 at 22:01
No, for something to be intrinsically morally valuable is for it to have that property regardless of whether anyone actually values it at all. No, the...
September 27, 2019 at 21:38
No, as I have pointed out repeatedly, you have presupposed that by defining the terms accordingly. An objectivist maintains instead that some things a...
September 27, 2019 at 20:32
There is indeed a difference between "real" and "existing" in metaphysics, but this is not it. I find Charles Sanders Peirce's definitions especially ...
September 26, 2019 at 23:56
Cantor wrongly thought that the real numbers constitute a continuum, but as I noted previously, they can only constitute an infinite collection--one w...
September 26, 2019 at 18:40
There is no "proof" in induction, only evidence. Induction is really the last step in inquiry, although it is ultimately cyclical. First is retroducti...
September 26, 2019 at 16:03
Lots of people believe things without justification that happen to be true. That is why the standard modern definition of knowledge is justified true ...
September 26, 2019 at 13:57
I agree with , in the sense that a deductive proof can only ever provide certainty about a hypothetical state of affairs. Whether any given hypothesis...
September 26, 2019 at 13:53
No, justification is about why someone believes a proposition, while truth is about whether that proposition represents reality. Besides, if justifica...
September 26, 2019 at 03:02
If I rejected your argument by simply claiming that I could not make sense of it, what would be your response? I am confident that if I were to constr...
September 26, 2019 at 02:52
September 26, 2019 at 02:37
Nonsense, that is not what it means to be an objectivist. Rather, as I have stated repeatedly, an objectivist rejects #1 because "being valuable" does...
September 26, 2019 at 02:18
Not at all. As I said, what begs the question is a premiss that already entails the conclusion by itself. A proper syllogism requires both premisses i...
September 26, 2019 at 01:47
Anything that one premiss entails by itself, without the addition of a second premiss, is effectively asserted by it. With that in mind, consider the ...
September 26, 2019 at 01:08
It depends on how we define "moral values." If we mean values that have a moral aspect, then certainly some of your values and my values are moral val...
September 25, 2019 at 23:25
In that case, the entire argument seems unnecessary. Everyone presumably knows that you and I are not Superman, and I doubt that there are very many p...
September 25, 2019 at 20:04
As usual, the debate is not about the validity of the reasoning, but rather the truth of the premisses. The truth of #2, and thus the soundness of the...
September 25, 2019 at 18:04
Excellent, and I agree with you that justification can be based on the absence of counterexamples. It is what Charles Sanders Peirce called "crude ind...
September 25, 2019 at 12:50
"Proof" has the connotation of rigorous demonstration. We believe all kinds of things for which we do not have "proof" in this strict sense, but we ne...
September 25, 2019 at 03:00
You are still conflating justification with truth, and consequently ascribing views to both of us that we did not state and do not hold. Proofs are su...
September 25, 2019 at 02:52
No, a proof is sufficient but NOT necessary. A true proposition is true regardless of whether humans ever construct a proof for it. One more time: a p...
September 24, 2019 at 15:36
No, my question demonstrates that a proof is not necessary for a proposition to be true. It is self-refuting to claim otherwise, unless you can provid...
September 24, 2019 at 14:13
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September 24, 2019 at 02:11
I have tried having polite discussions with you in this and other threads today, but you have promptly and persistently resorted to baseless assumptio...
September 24, 2019 at 02:02
How do you know that, if the ball was always on it? Maybe that is just the natural shape of the cushion, and the ball has nothing to do with it. Suppo...
September 24, 2019 at 01:53
Indeed, immutability is one of the standard attributes of God in classical theism. Of course, treating God as a "subject" and a "mind" is rather anthr...
September 24, 2019 at 01:05
I think that the argument as formulated relies heavily on the definition of "design," which probably needs to be stipulated. If "design" is used in a ...
September 24, 2019 at 00:50
If the cushion has always been indented, then it is not being indented, it simply is indented. No, not if I knew that the cushion had always been inde...
September 24, 2019 at 00:23