I would agree with you in principle but disagree in practice. It is always better to have terrible ideas in the public domain as long as they can be r...
I think they did play a significant role but to the extend of providing security and oppressing rival parties. That did certainly help to provide a pl...
Democratic institutes do not ban a certain group to vote but ban parties that may be racist/fascist which may threaten democracy itself and the well b...
The transfer of power and responsibility is the key aspect of this conversation. If a leader of an extreme group continues to inspire his followers to...
I don't think l am dangerous and banning hate speech isn't even new. I won't even claim that it's my idea, l am here for discussion only and frankly l...
I think the gist of your argument is ; when we restrict hate speech and give government the power to do so, we may end up restricting legitimate speec...
If we look closely, you are in fact using k an arbitrary sub expression repeatedly. Let's say abcRefg where R is a relation or to simplify pRq, where ...
Except, none of them used hate speech to my knowledge. In the context of arguments before, we were arguing against letting leaders get away with incit...
In case of sets, we use natural numbers to determine the cardinality but putting that aside, l would say there is 1-1 correspondence between all real ...
I am really glad that you are willing to die for others and save their lives but everyone isn't. Even if you want the world to be like that, it is not...
I think that's a fair point. How about if a leader is in a position of authority where he uses those below his rank for heinous crimes. Do they really...
Failing to meet a contractual agreement is a form of deception and it falls under the general category of lying. If someone lies to you and you fall f...
I don't have any solid evidence of Hitler ordering killings as such that l can present here but it was a general understanding of the holocaust which ...
I think that's a fair point. The devil is in the details as always. The main problem that l see is deciding where the blurry line lies between cause a...
It would radically change the world because all it takes is a good orator appealing to a disfranchised people to get to power and commit atrocities.Ta...
Let's consider the famous case of sharon tate murder. Charles Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deat...
How about when we use the words like God, afterlife etc. A lot of words in our language do not correspond to anything in this world or any imaginable ...
:smile: I am late here. Let's consider the formalist view of math. I think that mathematics is primarily based on substitution where we replace a set ...
Once the maxim is made on the foundation Categorical imperative, it cannot give a maxim which we cannot rationally follow.Every moral act will be carr...
I agree with this idea that all maxims should be on the same ethical plane in a sense like parallel lines, they should never conflict with each other....
A good will is good under any circumstances and conditions but the categorical imperative can only be carried out by a good will. Changing the maxim b...
HIS ? l don't think anyone can claim that he is speaking for Kant after he is dead.All we have is reading his work and commenting on what we think are...
Rules can be explained without applying to any problem, for example addition is opposite to subtraction.We can describe general concepts. It is not a ...
When we say God exists, we say he exists unlike all the possible existence and the " long list of binary consideration ". You can argue that we don't ...
I think Kant talks of perfect duties and imperfect duties, one is a must and the other is optional. This is a big mess, simply beacuse we often get rh...
There is no logic involved here, you should try to use that term in its true sense.A conditional maxim is a contradiction in terms.We can throw away c...
We should not use metaphors when explaining something that is already difficult and dense. If the foundation fails, whatever the problem the walls ten...
I just read a little on presumed right to lie. Most arguments in favour of lying say one of these things. 1.Lying manipulates the situation and makes ...
Lets consider the statement " do not lie " Consider that you are a german living in nazi Germany and you are hiding a jew in your house. An officer of...
I am a bit on the asperger side, but l can sense that you are kidding. Are you talking about this series. 1/2 +1/4+1/8......till infinity =1 This conv...
Is wittgenstein simply saying that in f(x) and f(f(x)) the outer f perform different function in both of them and does he imply that a proposition can...
If you are using "and" as /\, the logical operator then yes but that was not my point.What l was trying to say was if L is a contradiction, then in cl...
If you want to treat prove as an object, but l don't think wittgenstein would allow it. Wittgenstein describe objects combining with each other as in ...
“I want you to realize that when I speak of a fact I do not mean a particular existing thing, such as Socrates or the rain or the sun. Socrates himsel...
It will be a different fact but the proposition will have a sense.Since you disagree with that reason for cats,table being accidental feature.How do y...
" Unfortunately, set theory fails to distinguish externally observed processes from internally constructed processes, hence the reason why finitists a...
Well squaring the circle was proved to be an impossible feat by proving pi was transcendental.Wittgenstein was a an advocate of math being our creatio...
I can see them being accidental in the sense that we could easily replace cat and table with dog and chair respectively.However this depends on how do...
How will you generate negative number using n+1 ? ( natural numbers are infinite nevertheless) My problems is with the use of infinity as a number in ...
Consider this proposition, "The cat is sitting on the table", can you point out the accidental and the essential feature. What are the particular ways...
Well just because there is a consensus in the community regarding it, does not follow that there is no moral obligation on an individual.Can you say t...
I have to disagree, he does mention what objects are in the tractatus. The question remains that are the names universals or particulars ? Can you cla...
Can you consider this arguement against an infinite set, What is the probability of an event happening over an infinite amount of events, it would be ...
I agree with everything but I was advocating, Well can l go a little further and say that many laws in the world, particularly those relating to sente...
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