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Yep. Basic stuff. Odd, the reactions it elicits.

So justice is not reducible to thermodynamics.

yep. There’s also a sort of latent animism in some of our expressions in that we do attribute intent to things around us as well as to people.

Sure. There are cases in which one does not have the answer before one encounters the problem. That's kinda my point. Making decisions is not always a...

Well, I suspect that will go along with your scientism. Of course, I don't think it is I who is not in the game. You do not appear to even see the eth...

Well, the interminable nature of discussions of trams and trolleys might show us how easily any principle can be undermined. Principles seem reasonabl...

To which I might only add that ethics may be of more help here than physics. For while physics tells us what is the case, ethics acknowledges that we ...

Yep. Nuh. It's much more complex than that. If anything, it's Catholic... Not a strong recommendation in my opinion.

Seems pretty clear. Yep. Folk hereabouts regularly confuse something's existing with something being known (believed, shown...) to exist. It's very ba...

http://www.tsladventures.net/uploads/4/9/8/1/49819821/equal-vs-fair_orig.webp How does it make sense to ask which of these is closest to thermodynamic...

Fairness is not something you we come across in the world. It's something you we do in the world. (Edited for )

Only if we make it so.

"Q"? https://warpgatenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Q-Returns-Star-Trek-COVER.jpg

Cheers.

I bet you are fun at parties :wink: Note that god is by all accounts necessary. Hence, a contingent god is not god. If it is not necessary that there ...

It does say that ??p ? ?p. Hence if ~?p, it follows that ~??p. If god is not necessary, then god is not possible. If god is not necessary, then god is...

If, in S5, if god is possible then god is necessary, Gödel's ontological proof shows that god is not possible in S5. Not what the Op wanted. :wink:

There's something oddly inconsistent in the implicit claim that we ought not expect others to follow any moral precept. How is that not, thereby, itse...

:smirk: I don't think you are wrong. But I do think what you have said is incomplete. As is what I have said. Edit: Do you also read Master Kong?

Well, not entirely. Sometimes it also depends on what others want.

:roll: Given a choice of extremes, must we always choose the one or the other? No, we can reject both, accepting the complexity of our situation.

I should add that of course there is some truth in the OP. Much of morality is about coercive control. And why shouldn't you do what you want? A quest...

Well, no. It's pieces from p.207 and §258 of Philosophical Investigations. It's not Kripke. It's pretty much straight Wittgenstein. All I did was chan...

The level of awareness espoused in this thread is that of the eight-year-old decrying "you're not the boss of me!". Sure. But when you grow up you mig...

On intrinsic nature. The temptation to say "I see it like this", pointing to the same thing for "it" and "this". Always get rid of the idea of the pri...

What's that, then?

Any readable proof of Cantor's Theorem will contain at most a finite number of characters. Yet it shows can be used to show* that there are numbers se...

Nicely phrase. Our new chum is propounding much more than is supported by the maths. Here and elsewhere.

https://wikileaks.org/-Leaks-.html

Hmm.

Sure. What this argument purports to show is that a natural language has no fixed cardinality. And this is what we might expect, if natural language i...

You seem to have missed the argument presented. It shows that such a list would have no fixed cardinality. Ok.

Why should we suppose that natural languages are only countably infinite? Consider: A convolute argument, perhaps, but it shows that one must do more ...

"You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment" See also https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/#Gdel , and the conclu...

Well, looks a bit... overstated. Aren't these the "initial conditions"...? These are the Peano axioms: Zero is a natural number. Every natural number ...

Faith requires belief despite the evidence. Evidence is the Devil's doing.

Of course one consideration is the quality of the life one misses in being dead. Hence euthanasia. Death is not always undesirable.

Consider this list of actions performed on a football field. 1. Player A kicks the ball from the half to Player B. 2. Player B kicks the ball to playe...

Interesting that you cite the paper in which Floyd argues that Wittgenstein had a much better grasp of Gödel than is often supposed. And there is this...

That is a contentious issue, as I've pointed out. An individual can kick a ball into a net; but can't score a goal. Scoring a goal requires that they ...

Sociology only tells us what we have done. Ethics is about what we do next. Ethics is not about how the world is, but what we should do about it. Some...

Hmm. A preference for orange juice does not have the same impact on others as a preference for murder. Again, ethics is about how we relate to others....

There seems to be something oddly passive in supposing that ethics be based on experience. As if you were nothing but an observer. Ethics and aestheti...

Sure. I agree. "RRBGGGRWW" gives a neat compression of the image. Provided one has the context in which to unpack it. Provided one knows that the lett...

, phasers function using a rare element called plotonium. It allows them to eliminate whatever, and only whatever, the writer desires.

An odd thing to say. There is a physical basis for dividing the pipe in to blue and red, after all, and for dividing the tree into trunk and branches....

Is it? A sentence is a string of words, and so at the least is not as abstract as something like "the thing that is common to 'it is raining' and 'il ...

I TL;DR'd it on ChatGPT and got No apparent thesis.

Yep. So, to make a start on Understanding On Certainty, Moyal-Sharrock, the contention there is something like that hinges are not belief-that, but be...