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Meh. We constructed the sentence, just now. It is set up so that if it is understood, it can't be wrong. But "There is gold in those hills" is not set...

"There is gold in Boorara" is true iff there is gold in Boorara. So it would still be true that there is gold in Boorara if and only if there were sti...

That "2+2=4" is true becasue we make it so - we constructed that sentence so that it is true. But "There's gold in them there hills" is not true only ...

, Compare those two posts and we see how you give with one and take back with the other. The first hints that there are not things that are different ...

Take a careful look at what is being implied in the discussion here. Do you think that, that there is gold in the ground at Boorara is dependent on th...

This is a good question. We can take it a step further by asking how we would know that we have the correct definition of "good". supose that you are ...

Cheers. Do you agree that it at least can be veiled theology?

Nor do I. I said it is often veiled theology.

Cheers. Tell me, what does this simple, deceptive phrase do? What sort of thing is the world as it is?

Meh. You haven't yet.

Fucksake. "Wholly evolved" as in having reached an endpoint or "wholly evolved" as in only owing to evolution and nothing else. I'm losing interest qu...

Odd. Seems we haven't cleared up the word "whole". So do you mean "whole" as in evolved to an end point or "whole" as in only evolution serves as an e...

Ah. teleology.

Ok. What?

So you have given up on working out what we ought do, and decided that we only do what we evolved to do? Wholly? As opposed to partially? Or are you a...

Ah, good. So many folk think otherwise these days. what was the truth I presumed? I don't think so. You said you could not find moral principles in an...

Ah, so your reason doesn't give you reasons? Odd. Cheers. so we agree that evolution does not tell us what to do, but ethics is about what we ought ch...

I'm not sure how you are using that term. But the paradox you speak of relies on much the same error you made in thinking that becasue you could not f...

Well, you would think that... it's what you evolved to think. Ah, reasons, not causes. Then we might choose to do otherwise than what evolution says?

Presumably you evolved so as to say that...

Seems to me that that's becasue you pretty much have missed the point. Keep going. There are times when we talk about what is the case. We talk about ...

Are they saying that it is not the case that "reality is real"? Do they deny the reality of neurones? How do they reconcile that with their day job? W...

What is it that you think this video shows?

Neuroscientists that deny the reality of neurones?

This, , is Waif's strong doctrine. If you press it's logic, he will deny it, stepping back to some merely transcendental reality.

You were earlier defending logical monism, weren't you? Do I recall correctly? So is there a pattern here of seeking the Grand Narrative? One Explanat...

Candidly, evolution is appealing becasue it offers folk a way to avoid responsibility for their choices.

So forget about what is good or not good, and instead focus on what to do. After all, wasn't the reason for trying to work out what was good, precisel...

...and if evolution can explain anything we chose to do, it explains nothing. ?

Did you? Perhaps your erudite post made the explanation recondite. So what was it, again?

It's sentences that are true or false.

You wanted to draw a symmetry between "true" and "good". If there were such a symmetry, then there would be a schema for "good" that is equivalent to ...

Then don't say anything. There is a difference between something's being the case and something being said to be the case. Pretty simple, but apparent...

You do not need to appeal to evolution to maintain this. That you are writing using a language shows that you are embedded in a culture, along with al...

That's a relief, becasue you were apparently proposing that evolution take on the role of handing down our commandments. Replacing god with evolution ...

You claimed, I made a precise logical point about the difference between "true" and "good". I pointed out that "p" is true IFF p, but that there is no...

You asked And answered What is your claim here? That there is no variation in out behaviour? Or perhaps that we do not make choices? If either of thes...

At the very least you have assumed that there is both mind and time. Time passes when you are asleep. In what does this process of thinking take place...

Can you explain the difference?

A variant of the chariot of the passions - Phaedrus? ...and now you are starting to do ethics...

Becasue it is the right thing to do... Well, humans have a habit of not doing what is supposedly 'determined". Here's the point again, lest it be lost...

And it might well be that our moral duty is to fight against this supposed hard-wiring. We might deconstruct society, or remove ourselves from it for ...

It's a good argument... But we can write "p" is true iff p. Nothing works in a similar way for good. So it looks as if there are differences between t...

Yes to the first, no the the last. It is open to us to ask if we ought remain social. "Virtue signalling" is not an argument. It is the libertarian's ...

I don't see how. Why should we do as evolution says?

You are not obligated to answer my criticisms of your beliefs. . But they will still be here, even if you don't.

Cheers. Well, no. There are examples of folk who have turned their back on society and walked away. Check out the biography of Mark May. Perhaps we ou...

The retort "you are virtue signalling" is quite insipid. It is much the same as the child's outraged cry of "You can't tell me what to do!"

I'll ask the question again. Ought we try to become "the highest level of being human"; or ought we do what is good? Or are they the same?

Well, yes, that's kinda the point. Yep. With the consequences set out in the SEP article: Some do. Good for them. The question of whether they are rig...