no, and you're changing the topic. I can't discuss this with you anymore because you're just not listening. Analogy: me: apples are not oranges You: b...
No, she is sentient, but she doesn't need to be sapient. They are similar looking words, but they don't mean the same thing - that's not how language ...
You're just out of your intellectual depth, that's all. Swim back up the shallow end with the toddlers and you'll be fine. And you're confusing 'liste...
I don't know why you feel the need to tell me about my own argument. But it is 'true' (not 'may well be true' - is true) that most moral philosophers ...
First, why don't you agree with my assessment? It is correct. What, you think the Euthyphro is not the main basis upon which contemporary moral philos...
We've gone through this already. According to your view - which you clearly don't understand - if Joe values (values - VALUES - values, values. V. A.L...
Your argument is unsound. Obviously so. My argument is sound. Moral values are not made of our values. Again, for the umpteenth time, if they were, th...
Well I am skeptical about that. I can't argue with someone whose comprehension skills are so poor they don't understand my first premise. Your fake hu...
I know that's why I said it was weak rather than invalid. Weak because it has a conclusion that we have evidence is false and a premise that has no su...
I don't know what you mean by 'take on board'. I'm happy to abandon my conclusion the instant someone shows me what's wrong with the argument. So you ...
One of my arguments proves the exact opposite - that Reason, not I, not you, is the way, the truth and the light (though that's not how I'd express it...
No, I don't think anyone has accepted that premise. What do you think that shows? That I am up against quality interlocutors or people who don't reali...
And many - perhaps the bulk - think, like you, that if they say something then it is true. So, you say - and that's all you do, just say - that I have...
And I think what is also clear is that many think that if they do not understand something, that is sufficient to have established that it does not ma...
Something that has been explained not clearly at all can be explained more clearly. So, it is entirely consistent if - if - my explanations lack clari...
Oh, you want some now do you?! He is asking questions to which the answers are blindly obvious. For example, here is the first premise that he is havi...
No, no, no. You understand perfectly well, or you don't but then, like I say, I have no interest in engaging with you as it will be nothing but frustr...
Anyway, you are either a tedious troll and are exploiting the human default of taking people at face value, or your comprehension skills are beyond my...
What on earth is a null set and how can it be that you will only understand me if I express myself in terms of null sets? Imagine you order a pizza an...
Reason. According to Reason. So, if it is your opinion that 2 + 3 = 9876543, but this appears self-evidently false to virtually everyone else, then yo...
Well that's a weak argument and its first premise is garbled. Note, you need to say that if morality is YOUR mental dispositions, otherwise the second...
Yes, do you understand that you're not a god and your opinions don't determine what's true. Show me that the premise is false by constructing an argum...
How many times have I made it clear that you need to address my premises, not just say things. Once more, my premise 2 says this: "If I value somethin...
Why do you keep talking like you're an authority on these things? You thought my argument was invalid, didn't you? Be honest. And then you decided it ...
You don't understand the point of the cheese example either. Here it is again: 1. If my cheese is made of my thoughts, then if I think there is some c...
So, to recap, you now accept that my argument is valid. Something I've been repeating ad nauseum. You have tried to take issue with premise 2. But you...
Again, we're not talking about opinions. Here's an argument that is obviously sound: 1. If my cheese is made of my thoughts, then if I think there is ...
No it isn't. It is self-evident that you cannot make an act right or good by either issuing a prescription to yourself to do it, or by just valuing yo...
You don't seem to understand. If Himmler's values are moral values, then if he values gassing Jews and Homosexuals it will actually be morally good fo...
But now you're not addressing the argument. Premise 2 says "If I value something, it is not necessarily morally valuable". Opinions have not been ment...
There is, for instance, little doubt that Himmler fully approved of gassing Jews and homosexuals. Indeed, so much so that he approved of gassing himse...
Because the reason of most of those who reflect on this represents that to be the case. If I value hitting someone, that does not mean it is morally g...
So, to respond to this, I think if most moral philosophers - or, well, just most people who carefully reflect on the matter - get the impression that ...
I think they don't agree with my conclusion because they are not aware of my argument and/or they think that that there is better evidence that the co...
And now imagine that there is someone who is kind, and generous and honest but who is not loved by any human - not the object of any other human's val...
If you value something - and I take it that you do value some things - then what you are doing is 'valuing' something. It is an activity that you, a s...
Yes. So? 1, If Gold is water, then if Gold is heated it will turn to steam 2. If Gold is heated it will not turn to steam 3. Therefore Gold is not wat...
So another way of making the argument would be this: 1. if being morally valuable consisted in being the object of one of my valuings, then if somethi...
It seems to me that you are getting hung up on the 'full stop' - that 'full stop' just expresses their categorical nature. That is, when something is ...
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