As pointed out already, these promises are implications of – implicit in – human eusociality. Tell me how we are eusocial without them in the absence ...
Do you agree with Searle's concept of promises as institutional facts in which oughts are entailed? Insofar as we humans are a eusocial species, it se...
Your incomprehension exceeds even your otten poor reasoning, G. Neither "multiverse" nor "many worlds" are "scientific postulations". :sweat: Again, s...
It's a way of begging the question, that is, continuously pushing further back, or deferring, an answer e.g. "origin of universe?" god. "origin of god...
"Reconcile with atheism"? Before that, it's question-begging (or an infinite regress) – doesn't make sense logically, ontologically or scientifically....
IIRC, H. Frankfurt describes bullshitting as – I paraphrase – complete self-serving disregard for the true/false distinction especially in (demogogic)...
I ask because you think "bullshitting" is "mostly detrimental to ethics" which makes no more sense than saying 'dyscalculia is mostly detrimental to m...
What you wrote doesn't make sense to me so I can't "disagree" with what you've written. For instance, Frankfurt's talking about political discourse, n...
I don't see how positing an "a priori" "first cause" "unmoved mover" entity explains anything (let alone "everything') more than occult non-explanatio...
Unless one is an anti-social sociopath, thereby lacks (common) empathy, I don't think "being ethical", as you put it, is difficult. Practice, however,...
Yes. 'Volitions' (i.e. more veto than volo) are only infrequent interruptions in involuntary systems, reflexes & habits (i.e. embodiment). I suspect, ...
Thanks. My memory is pretty good but often I confiirm quotes, etc with Google rather than pulling books or whatever from my stacks. A lifetime of stud...
This post is nonsense. C'mon, try harder to address what your interlocators are actually saying. Don't waste anybody's time. Read my objections to you...
I "understand" his Incompleteness theorems only while I'm reading them or a learned synopsis of them. I guess I'm "stuck" at not being an adequate eno...
If not an epicurean god, then I would be a god that uses 'my godly power' to do only one thing: by fiat I'd remove every anti-social pathology / aptit...
:smirk: Thanks. And in the spirit of @"Amity"'s OP, a George Harrison 'song of hope' (or joy in a minor key) as interpreted by Nina Simone https://m.y...
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." ~Emma Goldman "Hope as a feeling?" Pacifer, or placebo, for fear "Hope as an action?" ...
My shorthand: to understand is to, explicitly or implicitly, contextualize discourses (i.e. narratives, maps, models), actions or events in order to o...
I think you're way off. Schrödinger's cat thought-experiment was proposed in order to show that quantum theory (re: superposition, measurement problem...
Norms are useful or not useful for some purpose; they are not truth-claims in any sense. A moral statement like "torture is wrong" is, to my way of th...
I've always thought that "multiverse" is a wildly extrapolated misunderstanding of Hugh Everett's many worlds interpretation of the interference patte...
Apparently, it hasn't occurred to you, Toothless, that "moral realism" is incoherent (re: assumption that moral statements are empirical propositions)...
Verificationism (i.e. Logical Positivism) doesn't make such distinctions and designates as "cognitively meaningless" all statements – utterances – whi...
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