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what you take out of q you have to take out of q throughout, obviously. So if you take the word 'necessary' out of the firstime premise it has to come...
September 25, 2019 at 18:23
Are you claiming I am wrong?
September 25, 2019 at 12:31
Yet I recognise that your argument was invalid and you don't. You know, the one that went if P, then Q; not R, therefore not P. Hmm. What does that te...
September 25, 2019 at 12:26
Nope. Not a clue.
September 25, 2019 at 12:19
It isn't valid as it stands, as you'd know if you knew anything about how to argue. My answer to your question: depends. For instance, this argument i...
September 25, 2019 at 12:19
But can something that lacks any physical features have a gender? or do you have to have a physical body to have a gender? That is, can a mind alone h...
September 25, 2019 at 12:16
Answer my question and I'll answer yours.
September 25, 2019 at 12:14
Hmm, I think bringing God into it muddies the waters. What I'm sympathetic to is Descartes' idea that being omnipotent involves being able to do anyth...
September 25, 2019 at 11:56
I thought mine was better. At least I wrote it myself rather than quoting a Victorian paedo.
September 25, 2019 at 11:45
No, second premise is gibberish. But well done for trying. Should say "If Bartricks says P is self-evident, P is not necessarily self-evident", not "I...
September 25, 2019 at 11:42
Poetry now?!? Okay, here's one: "If p, then q. Oh what to do? The argument doesn't lead where I want it to. No matter. No worry. I know what to do: I'...
September 25, 2019 at 11:02
the argument didn't mention God. Anyway, I find self righteousness insufferable. Byeeee
September 25, 2019 at 09:41
I am interested in what it would take for someone to be genderless. Can, for instance, someone who is immaterial have a gender? That is, can there be ...
September 25, 2019 at 05:09
You think it is idiotic to think this argument is valid: 1. If turnip is wife, then if wife at market necessarily turnip at market 2. If wife at marke...
September 25, 2019 at 04:25
To move things on, and because nobody here seems to think there's even a problem called the Euthyphro, I will make another objection to my own view, o...
September 25, 2019 at 04:16
Er, no. What I need is what I've got. If moral values are my values, then if I value something necessarily it is morally valuable. If turnip is wife, ...
September 25, 2019 at 03:19
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man will be considered a fool
September 25, 2019 at 03:13
What have I said that is nonsense? Where have you argued anything at all? All you do is assert and think that's good enough. All filler, no killer. Wh...
September 25, 2019 at 03:02
To help underscore how important the word 'necessary' is in the argument and how utterly indispensable it is, could you explain to me why you want it ...
September 25, 2019 at 02:56
that is your view. Say it and it will be so. Your view. A view well represented hete. You don't seem to have any arguments for anything. Yet you're no...
September 25, 2019 at 01:29
To avoid this derailing, here is the objection this thread is about: 1. If moral values are the values of a subject, then moral values are contingent ...
September 25, 2019 at 00:36
I don't think you're in a position to judge what is and is not interesting from a philosophical perspective. Clue: it isn't constitutively determined ...
September 25, 2019 at 00:12
The less they know, the less they know it. No, not "certainly a minority', but "the majority". You really don't know what you're talking about, yet yo...
September 25, 2019 at 00:09
That's because you don't hang out with people competent in these matters. They don't tend to mill about in the park. Anyway, if you prefer to talk abo...
September 24, 2019 at 23:24
Er, yes, I said that. Me. My argument is that for something to be morally valuable is for it to be the object of a valuing relation. That's my view. B...
September 24, 2019 at 23:18
Erm, this thread is about that problem. So, I'm addressing it here! That problem - or supposed problem - is the Euthyphro. A problem that is addressed...
September 24, 2019 at 23:07
You wouldn't know coherence if it built a house in your bottom. My view is coherent. To show it to be incoherent you'd need to show it to contain a co...
September 24, 2019 at 23:03
You really think you're in a position to lecture me on reading carefully? Again: you attributed to me an argument I did not make! I did not argue that...
September 24, 2019 at 23:00
No, absolutely not - the word necessary is, well, necessary. If I am superman, then if superman goes to the grocery necessarily I go, because I am he....
September 24, 2019 at 22:40
I didn't mention God. My argument entails that moral values are the values of a single subject. Not necessarily God. And the argument - the Euthyphro ...
September 24, 2019 at 22:22
This isn't about the dialogue. This is about the criticism - that is standardly titled 'the Euthyphro' of 'the Euthyphro problem' or 'the Euthyphro di...
September 24, 2019 at 22:18
I think 2 is false too. But it is not clearly false. It appears clearly true. Again, I stress, I reject 2. But I accept that it appears to be true. Im...
September 24, 2019 at 22:11
That is absolutely not the argument I made! I think moral values ARE contingent. Yes, moral values are not the values of just anyone, but just one per...
September 24, 2019 at 22:03
I think the problem with you lot is that you in your minds - but not in my posts - you are confusing moral values with things such as moral judgements...
September 24, 2019 at 06:22
They are the same. Change "bag of turnips" for "moral values". Then change "wife" to "my values". It then follows that as moral values and my values a...
September 24, 2019 at 06:17
Oh, I was just imagining lots of chickens about the place.
September 24, 2019 at 06:15
There's also a chicken on it.
September 24, 2019 at 05:39
What about this argument , or did I went wrong again? 1. If picture in paper of General Mszveslescvi - war criminal wanted for atrocities committed du...
September 24, 2019 at 05:21
It is the same argument. There is only one me. I'll put it in terms you understand. 1. if bag of turnips is wife, then if wife go market, necessarily ...
September 24, 2019 at 04:58
I have answered lots of your questions, and I still think they are not in good faith. Anyway, be so good as to answer some of mine. Do you think this ...
September 24, 2019 at 04:45
I don't understand your question or its relevance to the OP. The argument I am considering is this: 1. If moral values are the values of a subject, th...
September 24, 2019 at 03:21
Bit pervy.
September 24, 2019 at 02:52
Citation please. I get places much faster by never stopping at red lights. It works until you have a major accident.
September 24, 2019 at 02:48
Citation please. If you ask me a question, you want something from me - an answer. Well, if you want something from me, you do the work - you're the w...
September 24, 2019 at 02:41
If you're asking a question, then you want me to give you something. So you do the work. Now, provide citations in support of all of your claims pleas...
September 24, 2019 at 02:39
That's a claim. Citation please.
September 24, 2019 at 02:37
You tell me. I'm living by your rules for a bit. I've just put some food up my nose.
September 24, 2019 at 02:26
That's another claim. Citation please.
September 24, 2019 at 02:24
Citation in support of that please. It's a claim. Support it.
September 24, 2019 at 02:21
Citation please.
September 24, 2019 at 02:19