How? They're different claims. In saying that there is a correct answer I am doing no more than expressing my belief that moral claims are truth apt. ...
They don't seem to me to contradict. "Sometimes the numbers matter; sometimes the numbers do not matter" are consistent statements. These contradict: ...
Ah, I forgot - you're a time waster and don't read what I write and can't argue for anything. Yes, I believe what I write. Now, kindly do what I asked...
I disagree, for either 'intuition' is synonymous with 'deliverance of our reason', or it means something else. If it means something else, how would i...
I don't doubt that, but I don't think the rightness of an act is a always a function of the goodness of its consequences. Sometimes it is, sometimes i...
How many times? First, it is not a mistake to personify Reason. I have now provided - it feels like about 100 times - an argument that demonstrates Re...
This is a reply to the opening post. I am an antinatalist of Bob's kind (that is, I think procreation is prima facie immoral, but may nevertheless be ...
You just assume I am taking it for granted. Reasons. Provide reasons not to - that is, actually try arguin for something. You haven't argued anything,...
But this forum is a place for arguments. You're not presenting any. I don't see the relevance to the question (and thoughts aren't 'made' of language,...
But you still seem to me be talking 'about' arguments rather than making them. You say this: But I made a case for my view, and once more you are mere...
Cases can be made for anything. What matters is the quality of the case, not its mere existence. Who are you attacking here? Where have I said that th...
Learn to distinguish between actual and potential infinities. Take rage. Some people are enraging. And the more you interact with some people, the ang...
No, that's not my claim. Look, I laid the arguments out. Why is an 'infinite regress' a problem? Because.....you can't have actual infinities. So, the...
Question begging. Look it up. It's what you're doing. Tasks involving infinite steps are, indeed, impossible. That doesn't mean tasks are impossible. ...
That's obviously question begging. You can't have actual infinities, so time is 'not' a dimension. The same applies to space. You don't solve one prob...
No, even if there are no agents, you cannot have an infinite amount of anything. You don't make 'infinity' a problem just by adding 'task' to it. Agai...
Yes, that argument is valid and sound. Like mine. I mean, I assume you accept that cheese is not a dimension? And I assume you acknowledge that the ar...
Er, no. It is the impossibility of an actual infinity that makes an infinite task impossible!! Numbers aren't things. There aren't an actual infinity ...
No, why is an infinite regress a problem? It is a problem because you can't have an actual infinity of anything. For example, consider the first cause...
What's philosophy? Answer: it's using reason to investigate reality. What's its value? Answer: first, the question itself presupposes the value of phi...
Hmm, I still don't see a difference: if time is a stuff, then there is an infinite amount of past earlier than now, and an infinite amount of future l...
Ah, and then the condescension. So, just to be clear: you've said my arguments appear circular and to go nowhere. None of them are circular. They all ...
Well, they don't go nowhere either! I mean, what you're saying is just plain false. I've argued that morality is made of a god's - Reason's - attitude...
It 'does' lead to an infinite regress. It's true that there's at least one additional reason to think that time is not a substance (a reason to do wit...
Yes, they're not. Your fingers aren't what you think they are - if they were what you think they are, that is, objects extended in space, then they wo...
No they don't - show me an argument of mine that is circular - they're just difficult questions to answer and you're clearly impatient. Note too, what...
But first, you're assuming time is a stuff or dimension, despite the arguments that appear to demonstrate that it isn't. So you're clinging to a pictu...
No, I didn't just 'say so' - I've made arguments. You're not engaging with them - you're just expressing vague sceptical concerns about the whole proj...
It certainly is absurd. But the absurdity is no more or less than the absurdities that arise from taking actual infinities to be a reality. So, once m...
You don't seem to be getting the point. I am not saying that there is no more to reality than what I am aware of. I am saying that no actual infinitie...
Oh, so dimensions are made of lines? I just drew some lines - I just created a dimension did I? Utter, utter tripe. You don't grasp the basic point - ...
And you sound very patronising. Yes, and that's a mistake. They're not doing the same thing - that's why 'science' exists as a distinct discipline. Th...
Er no, that actually 'is' true. There's what a person 'is' and then there's what they get up to. Distinct theories. Arguments? Question begging - you'...
No I am not because those are not theses about what time is, but about 'behaviour'. For instance, a theory - no matter how complex - about how someone...
Look, you're going to say I am playing with words no matter what I argue - or rather, if or when I argue for something you disagree with. Basically, y...
Hilbert was a mathematician. Hilbert's hotel was a thought experiment he devised to underline the absurdity of thinking actual infinities can exist. B...
Sorry, I am being too subtle for you. I am saying it is not a 'thing'. Exactly what numbers are is itself a fraught philosophical issue, but no-one ap...
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