I am just trying to figure out what's what. I am not sure what you mean by a 'true' or 'absolute' morality - it implies right at the get go that there...
In the OP I explained how I am using the terms 'subjective' and 'objective'. To say that something is 'subjective' is to say something about what it i...
Because they have the same meaning. I assume basic comprehension skills on the part of others. They all mean exactly the same thing. Like I say, I am ...
No, I am not 'deciding it', I am judging it. And you can judge it too. So, take Superman and Clark Kent. They're one and the same person. Consequently...
Hm, I would say that premise 2 is false. It seems to me that what you're doing is treating the idea of 'logical impossibility' as synonymous with the ...
As I have explained numerous times, it is valid. Premise 1 says that if moral valuings and my valuings are one and the same. Sheesh. I am not going th...
You can. Buy a cake. Eat it. Who's telling you these things? I think that's false, but even if it was true it wouldn't challenge anything in my argume...
Ah, I see. Well, that's false - but whatever. Just focus on the argument and stop trying to analyse me or I'll tell my mum. That's exactly what I'm bl...
Why do you think that's true? Surely the truth is that some important things are self-evident and some important things are not? It is self-evident - ...
I interpreted it to mean that the observer is made of observations - that what the observer observes constitutes the observer. That's not a 'puerile' ...
They do - they illuminate a bit too well! I took that quote, the one you and others think is profound and worth marvelling at - and I showed that it w...
Oh, I think I've captured it pretty bloody well, if I do say so myself. Politeness - and I am polite to a t - led to circumstances arising in which I ...
Ah, you took up meditation eh? Isn't that what those of us with greater self-awareness and less self-importance call "sitting around doing nothing"? I...
Oh, I see. I took "the observer is the observed" to mean the observer is the observed, a thesis that would have the upshot that a moment ago I was a t...
Not sure what you're talking about. Someone quoted someone and said of the quote that it was a gem of wisdom. Yet what it said was quite absurd. Manif...
Yes. And? I observe some fingers on a keyboard. Am I some fingers on a keyboard? No. I am an observer - a mind - I am not some fingers on a keyboard. ...
So, erm, I am currently observing a pair of hands on a keyboard. That means I am a pair of hands on a keyboard? I mean, I'm not. So what he's said is ...
So? Philosophy isn't diplomacy and the truth isn't democratic. None of the criticisms offered thus far work. Not my fault, they just don't. Demonstrab...
No, completely false. Your criticisms have been poor. You have gone to great lengths to try and show that my argument is invalid. You failed. The argu...
No, that view is the least plausible of all. For a community is not a subject and so it cannot value anything. Second, this argument adds another head...
I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you drunk? Aw diddums. Philosophy isn't therapy and the truth sometimes hurts. The argument establishes ...
Er, yes, I did not use the word 'non-ampliative' there, did I? I don't know what it means. Is a non-ampliative argument a very quiet one? But my point...
Is there a symbol for 'crappy' in your pigeon logic language? It just strikes me as odd that someone who clearly fancies themselves as a logician - an...
I would never say such a thing, given I haven't the foggiest what 'non-ampliative' means. I don't use words I don't understand. No doubt you'll try an...
Yet I can argue and you can't. Let's remember that you were sure - quite sure - this argument was invalid: 1. If moral values are my values, then if I...
Well, that seems entirely fitting to me, for I shit all over everyone. Once more, your only hope - and obviously I think it is a vain one - of refutin...
Didn't catch this reply earlier: No, it establishes its conclusion - it establishes that moral values are not my values. Or yours. Now run the same ar...
So two meals can't be identical? It is called qualitative identity rather than quantitative identity. Imagine two acts that are identical in terms of ...
Squiggle squoggle. Gibberish. By your own admission you never took logic 101. Here's that quote from you that I am currently having tatooed across my ...
Omg, this is just too painful. No, there can't be 'other factors'. The whole point is that the two acts are identical in every way apart from that one...
Oh my goodness!! Focus. First, a wholly non-moral example. Imagine two physical objects. Two, note, not one. But imagine that these objects occupy the...
Yes, moral intuitions - a subset of our rational intuitions - are 'about' morality, but they are not morality itself. Just as I cannot make an act rig...
no it doesn't. It just means that when I stipulate that the two acts are identical in all respects apart from spatially and/or temporally I am not sti...
Yes, don't quote yourself - not a reputable source and just a little bit narcissistic. Anyway, I am now off to play a game of chess with a cat - which...
Like I say, I can't argue with someone like you. That's not to your credit - it jus means you're not sufficiently aware of the norms of consistency fo...
I don't know what you mean by 'rational knowledge'. But a rational intuition is another name for a representation of the faculty of reason. Take the v...
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