Poor . Hanover assumed my argument was essentialist. It isn't. I did not claim all pro-lifers are religious, but pointed out the correlation. I am usi...
But if you agree that they are wrong, why would I need to justify that assertion to you? This thread has been predominately esoteric declamations abou...
You have the argument arse-about. It's not that their views are wrong becasue they supposedly come from god - although I would also support that view....
I don't think you are following this part of the argument. I say they are wrong. You and apparently agree, but refuse to put it in those terms. That d...
You can't see how ridiculous it is to say that you agree that it is relevant, but insist that it must be objectively relevant? This is ethics. It's ab...
I'll again point out that the interests and preferences of the person carrying are far more apparent than those of the zygot or cyst or foetus. This a...
Another one of these threads. The trouble is that the folk arguing so vehemently against direct realism have not understood where it stands. Those her...
, I'll again point out that the interests and preferences of the person carrying are much more apparent than those of the zygot or cyst or foetus. We ...
Nice quip. Sure. It's not so common now, given the aforementioned "eclecticism"– more of historical interest. Many years ago I made an attempt to cons...
Further on your point... That's part of what the Russell article in this thread is addressing - the idea being, roughly, that if we reached the sort o...
Well, theism is interesting. So take the sorts of arguments that treat existence as a first-order predicate - ?!. Free logic takes this seriously, but...
I doubt that the SEP article – co-authored by Russell – is much easier. I find the extensive use of acronyms unsettling. I'm not sure why the liar is ...
Applying one of the basic analytic tools, it's not at all clear here what "analytic philosophy" might be. Maybe we can find some facts. The PhilPapers...
It's muddled to think of analytic philosophy as a way of "doing" philosophy. It's more a set of tools. And there is a reason it is ubiquitous. They ar...
That's muddled. Morality is about how we relate to each other, and comes in to play as soon as you expect me to do something for you, or you for me. S...
I agree. But with the caveat that what you feel is very much to do with what you think, hence what you think can change what you feel as much as what ...
Well, no, not just logic. I'm "referencing" all the things that make a person more interesting and worthy of the "respect" you so value, in comparison...
My friend, it is you who are incessantly talking about me. Well, not much. Yep. Their arguments hereabouts do not do much to build that respect. Thank...
If you like. I value the woman's life over that of the foetus because she is much more capable and interesting. Others value the foetus over the inter...
An odd conclusion. That people make their own choices does not make those choices arbitrary. The preference angle can ground the choice between the wo...
Well, I think not. Thurman was "a Black 28-year-old mother to a young son who had dreams of becoming a nurse" who "died a painful, preventable death"....
You'd love that. Rather I take the flow of the argument here to be that there are a multiplicity of logics, to be applied in many and various cases. I...
So "there are no logical laws" becomes a logical law, with the obvious problematic. In the article Russel formalises logical laws as of the form ???: ...
That's hardly going to be clearer than "humanity" or "personhood". The reference to Singer went mostly un-noted, but there is something to the idea th...
It seems necessary to point out that one does not need an account of the essence of personhood in order to realise that a fluid-filled sack of tissue ...
I don't see why you would think that. Logical monism claim that there are logical laws that hold in absolutely all case. Logical pluralism claims that...
The image is of a sack of fluid. That's what a cyst is. There really is no point in discussing this with you when you deny what is before you. But go ...
You'd have to add the problem of which Wittgenstein, and not just Tractatus vs Investigations, but the differing accounts of each. His early belief in...
You are factually incorrect. Again. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Human_blastocyst.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
I'm not too sure what you want me to take from the stuff you quote. I went into some detail about extensionality - the topic of your quotes - earlier ...
A cyst is a sack of fluid. A sack of fluid has no moral standing. If you think otherwise, then present an argument. The emotional aspect here is found...
What is salient, for those with at least a modicum of wit, is that a blastocyst is a "thin-walled cavity", the reason that it is called a blastocyst; ...
Worth also pointing out that it is far from clear what "thoughts" are, yet the term is used with gay abandon throughout Martin's paper. There's reason...
It's worth, I hope, pointing out that this treats the "underlying logical form" as if it were found in, rather than intended by, an utterance. (3) req...
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