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Thank you.

Yep. You have difficulty with logic. Believing that folk only ever get what they deserve requires great faith.

It doesn't say anything about what we ought do, so isn't intended to be "workable". It's a bit of frippery, like the OP.

Isn't that like "why does 1+1 equal 2"?

You're trying to shift the ground. Your claim was that what you get is what you desire. showed that to be incorrect.

Gobbledegook, attempting to make an excuse to not be responsible for one's choices.

Layered shite is still shite.

That's an excellent reply. You get what you desire? So that if you get poor outcomes, it's becasue that is what you desire? And I suppose that those w...

Hu? (Edit: Oh, "Are". OK. )

Determinism is debatable even in physics. Complexity theory, uncertainty and stochastic calculations all serve to undermine the supposed Newtonian not...

Your experience is as valid as anyone's. It is worth considering what can be said about what we ought do as well as what I ought do. How should we set...

That's the right response to the OP. Cheers. That might be so, but it is important not to conclude that what is the right thing to do is what makes yo...

Poland seems to be the country best positioned to lead Europe against Russian imperialism. GB put itself out of contention with Brexit. France and Ger...

Yep.

All of that might be the case, and I more or less agree with you in regard to cooperation. There is more consideration of the ethical in your reply th...

Then you are choosing not to make ethical considerations. You assume that how things are is how they ought be, a recipe for stagnation. Why ought one ...

Sure. Ought we? The point is that "one ought do good" is no more informative than "one ought do what one ought do" or "doing good is good".

It's pretty clear that "good" in the OP is being used in the sense of "having moral virtue" and not "Desired or approved of".

How does it ignore human nature, and how is it akin to "Do this because I said so"?

But you ought sell all your worldly goods and donate them to charity. You also ought be self-reliant, which depends on your having worldly goods. You ...

Are you saying this is invalid? I don't think so. Substituting (p ? JBp) for Kp we get. ~p?~?(p ? JBp) ?? ?(p ? JBp) ? p, which is valid. You keep rep...

Well, here's that search: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=most+domestic+violence+initiated+by+women Folk reading on can check for...

Yeah. I wasn't gonna say that. Might be time for a check up for some.

Trouble is distinguishing what we know from what we just believe. The difference is truth.

I'm pretty confident it isn't. As do I. offered a rational strategy, but was dismissed rather summarily. Feels seem to be what folk want, rather than ...

Trouble with identity again. The argument against reincarnation seems applicable here - in what sense was the person in the Irish Cottage the same as ...

Yep. God explains everything, and hence is useless for any sort of clarification.

Yep. You repeat stuff I've already addressed. Only a certain interpretation of realism implies that BIV is possible. That interpretation is not the on...

Oh, ok. My mistake. So a theist might attempt to adopt a modified Tarski, such that "p" is true IFF p is willed by god. It might be more honourable if...

Cheers. Obvious stuff. Notice that did not address the more pressing critique, that yet again, we have someone claiming that what is the case is what ...

There's a bunch of stuff that needs to be separated out here. There is a relevance argument against BIV. You take Realism ? ?BIV, which i thinks is ov...

Things are not true because we judge them to be true. Judgement is still a propositional attitude, a relation between the state of affairs and the jud...

What it tells us is that one cannot derive ethical principles from evolution. If what you are espousing is some combination of pragmatism and construc...

Ownership is not love. Domestic violence statistics do not support your account. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d23e06f601c90a591ccdd...

It is difficult to get a purchase on what Leon is proposing. We have that "the cat is on the mat" is true IFF the cat is on the mat. One hopes that we...

While the inferences you have used appear correct, I'm not convinced that ]?p?q((p ? (q ? ¬Kq)) ? (p ? ?Kp)) is as helpful to antirealism as you supos...

If you must. Christianity contributed an emphasis on charity to ethical thinking. But if this is only another thread about supposed Christian ethics, ...

It remains entirely possible that we are merely the recipients of extraordinary luck. But if what it take for us to be here is extraordinary luck, the...

Is that anything more than the tautologous "what is good is what we seek, and what is bad is what we avoid"? How. And if so, then says that what we se...

No, I don't. You are confusing the sentence with its extension. There would be gold in Boorara, even if there were no folk around to know that there w...

What could this be saying? What is an "existence predication"? Quantification? Or just predication? Are you just saying that any predication has a tru...

Folk only advocate it until it is pointed out. Then they drop it.

Yas, saying some thing is human is different to saying humans are worth not killing. Can you set out why you think this problematic?

I'm not really interested in what Aristotle said, so much as what he argued. That is, that Aristotle said this or that doesn't carry much weight for m...

Moral realism is the view that ethical statements are either true or false. It is opposed to such notions as emotivism, which sees them as neither tru...

Sure. Not sure why you feel the need to point this out. I agree, at least tentatively, with Devitt that Realism is not an explicit doctrine of truth. ...

Isn't this just saying that what we know must be consistent? That's compatible with realism. It also looks compatible with the SKP: p???Kp; and KK: ?(...

So now you have real, existing and being. A proper muddle. Of course it is. An animal is just a way for red blood cells to make more red blood cells. ...

Looks to be another example of your altering an argument to an unrecognisable degree. No, the argument is not an induction. It is a deduction. There i...

@"Michael" The paraconsistent revision (SEP 3.5) is interesting, and again I would not dismiss it offhandedly. It's a reminder that knowledge remains ...