He didn't say that. He said this: And I addressed that. Bertrand Russell said "never trust a stupid man's report of what a clever man has said". Seems...
What? So, I make an argument - two arguments, in fact - and your response is to dismiss the entire project of using reasoned argument to find out abou...
Yes I can. You seem to be overlooking an obvious distinction: what's actually the case and what people believe to be the case. This world is a prison,...
Did you actually read the OP? What is wrong with you people? Rather than address the actual arguments you just decide the arguer is a misanthrope. Er,...
Okay, if you can't take it. Man has a view you can't accept, therefore that man needs counselling. The arrogance is breathtaking. Unhinged, one might ...
How do you get from antinatalism to pro-mortalism (the view that we ought to kill ourselves) 'without' attributing to the antinatalist a really stupid...
Because the signs constitutive of moral norms need to have a writer if they are truly to be signs and not just 'apparent' signs. The signs constitutiv...
I do not see your point. A sign, to be a sign, needs a sign writer, yes? "Keep out" is not a sign expressing someone's desire that I stay out unless s...
No. By that logic one could do anything to someone without their consent on the grounds that if they don't like it they can always kill themselves. Pl...
Your questions don't make much sense to me. Imagine I come across a freshly painted sign that says "keep out". I conclude that someone doesn't want me...
I do not see your point. I said most contemporary metaethicists are stupid, I didn't say most contemporary philosophers are stupid or that people who ...
Well, I think most contemporary metaethicists are very stupid. They either think that the natural world somehow wants us to do things, or they think P...
Yes, I know it is impossible to get their consent. That doesn't mean you can do without it. Let's say I like coercing other people. Well, the nature o...
The point of the agony case was to show that it is more important to prevent suffering than it is to preserve a species. Humans cause vast amounts of ...
The end of the human species would not be a bad thing, and even if it was, that wouldn't justify procreating in order to prevent it. The only people w...
Yes, that was the point. So pointing out that there are some who see no reason to believe things - such as my cat - was profoundly irrelevant. That's ...
Yes, but the argument he describes there seems as if it is the self-refutation argument, not the contradiction argument. And Hume's response to it see...
I do not know what you mean. Normative scepticism - that is, the view that there are no reasons to do or believe anything - is not self-contradictory....
Don't philosophers do this all the time? Not lie, I mean. But anticipate a range of objections to their own view, and then refute them. However, many ...
No, it's just accurate. The person who believes that normative scepticism is true, must also believe that there is no reason to believe that normative...
But who has made the argument you are addressing - so, the argument that radical scepticism contains a contradiction (as opposed to being self-refutin...
Well, I suppose what I'm saying is that you're conflating 'self-refuting' with 'contains a contradiction'. When philosophers dismiss radical scepticis...
It seems to me that you are arguing that there is no contradiction involved in the sceptical thesis and thus that the sceptical thesis is not self-ref...
Oh, get a room already. You know London? Where does it come from? Where does London come from? That's called a confused question that only a very conf...
So presumably you think that if a metaphor was used in philosophical investigations, then it is a good one regardless of what you're using it as a met...
Er, no, Banno. Just no. That would be a really stupid metaphor, as pain is individually subjective. The feeling of pain is the pain. The feeling of fa...
Well done for just ignoring the refutation and continuing to assert your theory. The theory you're asserting (not defending) is the metaethical theory...
No, you did not acknowledge it, you just made it in ignorance of the fact you were committing the very fallacy you had just mentioned. That's how inep...
You are conceptually confused. To 'feel' that x is wrong is to feel that it is proscribed. You are talking about the feeling, but the feeling isn't wh...
No, resentment plays no role at all. But, even if it did, that's to focus on my motives and not the quality of my arguments (something you seem unable...
That's surely confused. I am not the present moment. I exist in the present moment, but that doesn't mean that myself and the present moment are the s...
I think you are confusing a definition of moral good and bad with a view about what it is that all cases of moral goodness have in common apart from b...
You don't have to know you know something in order to know it. After all, if one did, then no one could know anything as to know something would knowi...
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