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:sweat: Critic & amanuensis agree! :clap:

I think it's irrelevant to ethics (re: "goodness").

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Or consider anomalous monism instead.

Well if you'd bothered to read my posts on this thread, especially https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/769109 then you'd not be so surpr...

"Defining real" by what every definition necessarily presupposes ...? :chin:

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"Two wrongs don't make things right", they just make doing wrong costly and self-defeating. If not 'win-win' (sustainable justice), then 'lose-lose' (...

I don't claim anywhere that "GE Moore's definition of good is circular." Ask Shawn or Banno or ... My objection to positive definitions of good ("valu...

Go ask Moore..In the meanwhile ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/768887

May I suggest ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/768786 :chin:

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:sparkle: Happy 2023 ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/699384 :smirk:

... in the spirit of a haiku :smirk:

Random (stochastic) events are unpredictable but unpredictable events are not necessarily (or usually) random. Events can have effects. "Chance" is a ...

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Well, then, how do you know "Sally is good"? By what criterion are you making that judgment? Well, for starters, whatever it is, "good" is categorical...

Check out the recommendation in which "my idea" is explored in speculative fiction (@ my first post on this thread).

:lol: Absolutely not.

Whatever evaluative context you choose to specify e.g. ethics, aesthetics, economics, religion, engineering / building trades, etc the answer to "what...

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Reread my first post on this thread where I respond to Moore specifically (i.e. the open-question argument). As I point out, in ethics I think "defini...

This is why I refer to it as an (optimal) effect of a (beneficial) Technological Singularity which, for me, is the sufficient condition for 'world gov...

:lol: Typical willfully pathetic misreading just to evade the inconvenient questions raised in what I wrote. Yeah, okay, Happy New Year to you too, Gn...

Is it that "Sally is good" because you prefer her or do you "prefer Sally" because she is good? :chin:

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion." ~Spinoza Stick with @"busycuttingthecrap" since I'm not ...

What meaning isn't?

Ok. :roll:

:clap: :100: Yep, can't shake my attachment to CDs & DVDs (the way I shook off vinyl and tape over thirty years ago).

Answering this question depends on a specific evaluative context. This might not be true of bad. For instance: I think we know what is bad for our spe...

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Exactly. :up: @"Mikie" seems to have missed (or deliberately misread) this point.

Ok.

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Understanding before happiness ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/768538

Read "the Presocratics", Plato's early-middle Socratic Dialogues, Aristotle, Epicurus, Sextus Empiricus, Lucretius, Epictetus ...

As I've said previously ... or "happiness before truth", which is not necessarily to the exclusion of "truth".

Ah yes, such as Yeshua's two Miriams – "The Virgin Mother" and "the Magdalene" – no doubt, Bataille's archetypal double. Thanks for reading. :cool:

My rule of thumb: rational is inferential (algorithmic) and reasonable contextual (adaptive), they are complementary but do not entail one another.

I'm a sucker for intriguing ghost stories. Which "Civil War" by the way trapped her voice in that mirror? So few words raising so many questions; it w...

It's difficult, mi amigo, only to the degree one lacks scientific and historical literacies, applied numeracy, intellectual integrity (i.e. humility t...

I like the magic mirror held up to this "place". Gave me good chuckle. Sorry to read you so late but I'm only now get around ro reading through all of...

A great reading! Many thanks, Tobias. :cool: Thank you, thank you! :smile:

Don't hold your breath, amigo. :smirk:

I think this dilemma comes down to "Which is most reasonable to prioritize: happiness, knowledge or understanding? and which is least reasonable?" For...

Global "one world" government will have to wait until the advent of an irreversible Technological Singularity that brings about a sustainable Post-Sca...

@"Agent Smith" :yawn: So, by this concept, nature – the universe / multiverse – is merely the physical aspect of a greater, non-physical entity (deity...