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But what is real depends on what is not real. On context. The photo is an accurate representation of the flower as seen with UV light. your asking if ...

Thank you for expressing so much more adroitly the view I had attempted to set out previously. I've re-read Feyerabend - Against Method and Science in...

"Subjectivity"? Whenever you see that word, ask what it is doing. No, it's about intentionality; the genuine note is made with the intent of building ...

I saw what you did there. :up:

Cheers.

At an AAP event last week, I was stuck by how much of the work, and especially the best work, was being done in collaborations, across multiple fields...

I was thinking of examples, an then The article uses Austin's approach, even talking of misfires.

Good article. You should consider starting a thread specifically on it. It might be fun.

Yep. It wasn't something I considered studying, and perhaps I should have. it's such clever stuff. It's pleasing that folk take an interest in philoso...

Interesting how much angst this simply issue causes folk. It shows how deeply logical empiricism has seeped into the thinking of our engineers. Perhap...

Ok, so here is my point: Now we have been through this discussion, set out where this goes astray.

Maybe your answer is not as clear as you think. But keep working on it. edit: The T-sentence is exactly about truth. It does not address belief. Again...

Rhetoric? It's not a sentiment; it's an observation about English. "The sky is blue" is true if and only if the sky is blue. Acceleration due to gravi...

Now you are confusing truth with certainty. Sure, you can act without being certain. So you are not certain that folk ought not keep slaves - perhaps ...

So you are not confident in your conviction that folk ought not keep slaves. Ok. You are not being asked to be certain beyond any doubt. You are being...

Sure - you can believe it or not. The example is chosen because it is so commonly believed. Like the puppies or eating babies. So do you think it is t...

...and now do you not see that the context is important?

So, where does my deduction, given above, go astray? Set it out. It seems to me to be no more than a T-sentence. If one accepts that one ought not kee...

Interesting, Yes, something like that, tracing the influence Austin had on his students by examining what they did and said. :grin: This is evident in...

That much is obvious, and not just from Kant. Our understanding of perception has progressed somewhat in the time since he wrote anything substantive....

This has come up a few times. And yet, one ought not keep slaves. It is therefore true that "One ought not keep slaves". And hence, if truth is corres...

Up you get, then.

Have a read of this: A Stanford professor says science shows free will doesn’t exist. Here’s why he’s mistaken Here's the conclusion: Observation, and...

You might have chosen a better example.

Interesting article. I like the modal approach, but it might be overly formal. I think your Astrology point shows that the article does not apply to i...

I can't offer much more. Ayer was more politically active, supporting the Labor movement and advocating decriminalisation of Homosexuality. Biographer...

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/V3kAAOSw08Fe6vWO/s-l1600.jpg I'm presuming the tanks are empty. The horse could not possibly pull that many full tanks.

I came into this thread simply to point out that there are moral truths. Like all these discussions, the conversation has gone off in a dozen differen...

Can you explain your thinking?

Yep.

Let's do that again. It's a question of taste if it only applies to you - Bob likes vanilla. It's a question of morality if it applies to everyone - E...

I hope that is not what is suggesting. I certainly don't read what he has said in that way. There's all sorts of situations in which it is entirely re...

For my dollars, moral certainty is a furphy. No algorithms for deriving moral facts. Only heuristics, and then only if you have time. There's just mak...

...that was indeed my line of enquiry....

@"Jamal", or any one else, I assume that since ChatGPT uses Common Crawl, our brilliance on this forum forms part of the dataset on which it operates?

You still don't get it.

Ah, I see you had much the same thought.

Given the accusation of a conservatism so strong that it refused to engage at all with politics, this is a point that it might be worth following up o...

Direction of fit, again, in addition to ambiguities and hedging and so on. I'm piggybacking on that term, which was used b y others; my main interest ...

Sure. Analytically, verification is other folk, or the same folk at other times, testing and agreeing with the proposition. I don't see any prima faci...

Well, that's right. The mooted brute fact is “it is wrong to harm people.” At issue is whether this is to be accepted as it stands, or if it needs to ...

Well, Searle and others have made the claim that Austin only took a passing interest in Wittgenstein, and the stuff about doubt is mostly in On Certai...

Yep. That's the answer to Demanding a justification for a brute fact is... incongruous. Indicative of a misunderstanding of brute. But there are folk ...

What?

Obvious special pleading.

If I may... Situations in which a greater harm is avoided? That reinforces, rather than contradicts, the brute fact.

That's a pretty dogmatic thing to say. You're missing the grammatical point. But then you have a particularly jaded view of humanity. Morality is irre...

You use "realist" as if realists were a block who all have the one opinion.

Well done. Interesting format. Again I'm noticing how much this presages Wittgenstein. This time the discussion of doubt in On Certainty, with "hedgin...

So we have some agreement. That's one, negative, way to view what is going on. Another more positive way is to see those claims as tentative, looking ...