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I did not say there are no true propositions. Clearly there are. I said I think it is possible for there to be no true propositions. There's a world o...
November 30, 2019 at 20:52
Yes, I too worry about that and so made avoiding such equivocation a priority. However, it seems to me that such equivocation is what proponents of ot...
November 30, 2019 at 20:49
No, I don't see how anything I have said implies that. I think it is possible for there to be no true propositions. If that's inconsistent with my vie...
November 30, 2019 at 20:42
I agree that in order for a proposition to be true, there has to be a proposition (for that is self-evident to my reason and to the reason of virtuall...
November 30, 2019 at 20:39
The conclusion of my case is not that truth is constituted by some assertion of ours, but rather of Reason. So, it is when Reason - not you or I - ass...
November 30, 2019 at 20:26
What do you mean?
November 30, 2019 at 20:22
The OP was started by me and you're free to ignore it. You are not experiencing oppression. And try to keep in check the oh so common desire to ban th...
November 30, 2019 at 20:20
But in the OP I provided an argument that appears to refute your view. For I provided an argument in support of the view that a proposition is true wh...
November 30, 2019 at 19:57
It depends on what the quality is. For example, take the quality of self-approval. Well, clearly if someone does not value a quality in themselves tha...
November 30, 2019 at 19:54
How? I have argued that what it is for a proposition to be true is for Reason to be asserting that its contents are the case. How can that possibly be...
November 30, 2019 at 02:55
I am sure that works wonders on drunks in bars, but I know what those words mean and it's nonsense. Something can be true and no-one believe it, and s...
November 30, 2019 at 02:55
That's not a definition. Water is H2o is not a 'definition' of water, for instance.
November 30, 2019 at 02:50
No, not until you show me their relevance to the question. Whatever answer I give, it has no bearing on the credibility of my answer to the question "...
November 30, 2019 at 02:48
Er, what? I'm talking about 'truth'. I have said nothing whatsoever about beliefs and language. Nothing.
November 30, 2019 at 02:46
I haven't defined truth, so you're attacking a straw man. Until you provide some kind of an argument, that's like saying "truth is green" or "truth is...
November 30, 2019 at 02:45
Yes, that's my point - my point. So, you can't reject my argument on the grounds that I am appealing to reason, then, can you? Or that reason is unrel...
November 30, 2019 at 02:35
Please defend that claim without appealing to reason (which is impossible, of course, but that's the point - either you're just asserting things, whic...
November 30, 2019 at 02:29
Then you are not as reasonable as I am. I think our reason is our only guide to what's true. You, I suspect, like to put yourself in the mix as well a...
November 30, 2019 at 02:27
Yes, if you disagree - and are reasonable - you will make a case against my claim, rather than simply point out that I have made it. You can't make an...
November 30, 2019 at 01:42
That's the next question. It is the question it is appropriate to ask if my answer to the "what is truth?" question - namely that 'truth' is the prope...
November 30, 2019 at 00:34
I don't see the relevance. The question I am trying to answer is "what is truth?" Why truth is important is a distinct question. If you don't even kno...
November 30, 2019 at 00:17
And of course, as I have proposed an answer - namely, that truth is whatever Reason asserts to be the case - then we can sketch an answer to your ques...
November 30, 2019 at 00:12
To have a hope of answering those questions, we have to answer my one first.
November 30, 2019 at 00:08
Yes, I have read some of Benatar's work. And the philosopher Hugh Lafollette has written an article making essentially the same case I have made. Yes,...
November 29, 2019 at 21:23
I do not think this makes a big difference where justifying licencing is concerned. We licence pilots because of the terrible harm a totally incompete...
November 27, 2019 at 01:09
No, that's sometimes the reason, but it is not the reason being mooted in this case.
November 26, 2019 at 21:01
The policy does not have to make substantial assumptions about what the best kind of parenting involves, only what the worst kind involves. Just as dr...
November 26, 2019 at 20:58
I think the details would be for psychologists to sort out, not philosophers - but whatever criteria need to be met for adoption could just be applied...
November 26, 2019 at 20:53
Plus, to get the focus back on procreation (rather than on the issue of the justifiability of any and all licencing) - is there any reason why we shou...
November 26, 2019 at 03:34
That's quite an extreme position - and if you're opposed to licensing reproduction on grounds that would include being opposed to licensing pilots and...
November 26, 2019 at 03:21
You're against all licensing? There is really no substantial difference between licensing something and saying that 'doing this without satisfying cer...
November 26, 2019 at 01:36
Yes, I am aware of that - I am an idealist of Berkeley's sort. But he never made the above argument against physical reality (his argument was differe...
November 24, 2019 at 22:26
I am saying that much of what Stoics say is not philosophical, but psychological. However, I am not saying that 'all' of what they say is. Far from it...
November 24, 2019 at 19:33
More quotes. Can't you put things in your own words?
November 24, 2019 at 06:03
I used your mind as an example of something simple - something unextended. But I am not thereby saying that you caused all else to exist, only that so...
November 24, 2019 at 05:59
No, Stoics also make the first - Socrates famously maintained that all wrongdoing was a product of ignorance and Zeno followed him in that belief. Plu...
November 24, 2019 at 01:05
You haven't followed the argument (or you have dismissed it as a 'rhetorical device'). The argument establishes the existence of simple things. If any...
November 23, 2019 at 22:48
It matters not just what someone says, but when they say it. You had already started to be rude at that point - started to talk about me, not the argu...
November 23, 2019 at 22:46
It has some premises in common, certainly. But the cosmological argument has 'Therefore, God exists" as its conclusion, whereas I am arguing that no p...
November 23, 2019 at 22:23
Yes, possibly, but then the Stoic makes their stand on grief banal. So, for instance, in reality it would appear that grief is sometimes rational, som...
November 23, 2019 at 22:07
My claim is not that Stoics are therapists, or that Stoicism is therapy, but that it is either therapy, or a collection of true, but banal ethical inj...
November 23, 2019 at 22:00
So, let's just be clear - because I'm getting a bit sick of the ugly combination of ignorance and self-righteous indignation that so many of you lot i...
November 23, 2019 at 21:20
er, no. They are all true. But thanks for your input.
November 23, 2019 at 20:09
I do not see a problem, just a dogma that - to those who cleave to it - generates a problem. Our reason gives us insight into the norms of Reason - th...
November 23, 2019 at 05:32
Hmm, I am not sure I follow. Perhaps I should say that I do not think anything exists with necessity, including God - I am a sceptic about necessity. ...
November 23, 2019 at 05:18
Hmm, I would say that the credibility of the claim that no extended thing can causally interact with an unextended thing is about the same as the clai...
November 23, 2019 at 00:28
I agree that the weakest premise in the argument is the one that asserts that extended things can only causally interact with other extended things. B...
November 22, 2019 at 22:46
And there's also no reason why a philosopher can't bake a cake or lay a wall. Not sure what your point is. No, why on earth would I go to therapy?
November 21, 2019 at 23:37
Why are they distinct disciplines? Psychologists often make philosophical assumptions (often unnecessarily), and philosophers sometimes make psycholog...
November 21, 2019 at 23:17
Me. Just then. It is not a non-sequitur. It is just a fact. Why do you think psychology and philosophy are distinct disciplines?
November 21, 2019 at 23:11