Never claimed it is. I claimed that we ascribe value judgments to it: as in, it is of value or not of value ... right / good or wrong / bad in this se...
Fair enough. We nevertheless do hold value judgements in regard to mental aberrations. For instance, is it right, or else good, that mental aberration...
In fairness to me, these are only forum postings, so they’re not as robust in their content as one might want of a comprehensive philosophy. My main i...
:up: Piggybacking on your example for a bit in terms of truth of value judgments: From the very simple: If I deem strawberry ice cream to be a bad ice...
:rofl: Since when has the popularity of beliefs become an accurate indicator of their truth-value? For all prom queen wannabees out there: the strivin...
Agreed. For what it's worth: In an idealistic sense, I find the notion of pure anarchy to be almost, if not fully, indistinguishable from the notions ...
To be more specific about what I wanted to say: Unlike any Stalinistic governance that ever was, I find that a sustained anarchy will require that no ...
Well said. As a kind of apropos, if one cares to think of it this way, social lesser animals also each have their own “unsigned social contracts”: a g...
What your posts seem to be asking for is some substantial argument for the occurrence of a universal good that is always existentially correct. Someth...
Just saw the video. It’s always possible that something important becomes lost in translation. Nevertheless, to me: 1) Consciousness is synonymous to ...
This does not address the question, wherein alternatives to choose among occur. So it's said, in my opinion, if there are no cognized alternatives to ...
I never claimed this, did I. Our (intentional) actions are always fully intended. But this does not signify that we are fully determined in what we en...
Speaking for myself, while I can respect your view, I’m still very much inclined to that of logical priority. I can't envision anything being inferred...
This topic of concern is not "your choices" but "you (as the agent which enacts your choices)". It's not your choices that are partly undetermined - y...
I don't follow the entailment proposed. As per existentialists such as Sartre, someone could hold a loaded gun to my head and tell me that if I don't ...
Can you elaborate? Do causes not determine their effects? I counter that with reference from the same SEP article previously linked to: https://plato....
Do you know of any established philosopher or philosophy that makes a distinction between “absolute free will” and “non-absolute free will”? To my kno...
Interesting; neither do I … but I did mistakenly presume that you did. A correction: Frankfurt’s examples and like cases are one’s in which one could ...
The overarching goal that facilitates you choosing between two alternative lesser goals (e.g., seeing a documentary or reading a book) could either be...
A person can and often enough does have conflicting wants ... these then being the alternatives we choose between. No. Our actions would yet be "free"...
By choosing between alternative potential intentions - like the intent to read a book or the intent to see a movie. Epistemologically, yes, of course....
Not quite. Intents are teleological processes, i.e. teloi, and not causal processes as the latter is understood in modernity via Hume's notion of caus...
If you take intents to be thoughts, then I might in this way alone agree: in so far as out choices are always in part determined by that which we inte...
In slight difference to 's answer, I find this to be quite a misguided conceptualization. The “I” in these propositions is not a thought contemplated ...
Well, the metaphysical ideas of identity and causality, for instance, are themselves abstracted from experience, and most (if not all) of these abstra...
Possibly subtle, but important: One cannot do both A and not-A at the same time of action in the same respect. Instead, one can only do either A or no...
In agreement, no, we don't and can't consciously think up the alternatives we choose between at each juncture wherein we sense ourselves to choose bet...
While I agree that all humans necessarily share a set of commonly held experience in order for human language to be of any use to us, linguistics migh...
In case you're not familiar with it, there is this: So it's said, this model can be accommodated for by both physicalism and at least certain types of...
You are again addressing the issue in terms of metaphysical worldviews rather than, as I specifically asked for, metaphysical concepts. So as to try t...
Can you point out any physicalist philosopher that accepts even so much as the possibility of teleological processes in the world? I so far can't. Rat...
It’s funny to me how the far more instinct-driven lesser animals are outcompeting us humans in terms of ethics regarding environmental sustenance, lea...
What I meant was that every physical entity we know of we deem to be constituted of other physical entities. I can’t think of any example to the contr...
Well, from my pov, we persons are more than our constituency of this and that material cause. Again, this going back to the theme of the OP. But yes, ...
What position would you hold in relation to this view intending a more precise, philosophical definition of materialism? In sum: In metaphysical essen...
Dude, like, in your decent into Cartesian doubts regarding other minds (given that the belief in other minds is not infallible on grounds of it all be...
On a hunch, are you trying to distill the semantic difference between “God” (effable by one and all) and “G-d” (written so as to not be effable) via a...
Though I acknowledge this will all be somewhat biased, in hopes of somewhat clarifying this issue philosophically: Some premises first. If granting th...
Whose? To put it mildly, I for one would like to have a go at them! (I mean, just take a look at what their simulation(s) consist of.) As to the matri...
As to entitlements: This too can be deemed to depict a fundamental truth of existing. Personally, I duly acknowledge this truth. But it must be taken ...
Missing something in relation to the overall worldview that I hold? Nah, you got it about right. Wasn’t aiming to argue for a particular worldview, th...
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