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On Searle, I wrote: So where does Tomasello differ to Searle, what sort of evidence is there, as opposed to hypothesising, and how does that fit in wi...

I thought I had posted a reply to this... it mustn't have uploaded. Or I may have reneged just before clicking... Astrology would be true if the words...

Fine.While I couldn't see how your ideas could be understood in a coherent fashion, it was fun making up a couple of counterexamples.

We can write from the point of view of those who see the rabbit, or those who see the duck. That's being "situated" because we are able to contrast th...

Thanks for attempting to clarify. I rather think the argument has left your syllogisms behind. I'm also not that bothered with whether you call it ant...

I'm happy for "Everyone likes coffee" to be false. It still has a truth value. Well, yes. If everyone likes coffee, then it is a fact that everyone li...

Again, we cannot reason about ethics unless we acknowledge that ethical statements have truth values. We are repeating an argument that occurred after...

This seems to me to be the nub of our differences. Opinions are not meaningless. If they are logically indistinguishable from moral truths (they are n...

Certainly not. I don't think I've made any such claim. Cite me. Nor is that an implication of what has been said - if it is, show your argument. No. D...

It remains that we can and do commonly assign truth values to normative statements. We also use these truth values to perform deductions. The oddity h...

They are all well-formed sentences of English. What's eccentric here, if anything, is the insistence that there can be no moral truths. "Should"? The ...

Mine look more like this... https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61UX+Y0EcLL._AC_SX679_.jpg

This needs to be said far too frequently, and surprisingly most often to those who advocate some form of empiricism...

Yes, we need at least P2-A*1i and P2-A*1ii... :grimace:

and My bolding. Again, "true fact" is redundant. P2-A* (fucksake!) is not an argument, it is an assertion. As has already been explained.

We all agree to the fact that coffee is delicious, and a great way to start the day. Despite the fact that cockroaches are disgusting and terrifying, ...

Ah - I see someone else did comment on the question begging. Played swapsies. No point in being at the bottom when you can be at the top.

So Austin is not an ordinary language philosopher. Thank you for that, Russell, since it shows so clearly that you are not paying attention, but makin...

:lol: Can you provide an example of a truth that is not a fact? Or perhaps a fact that is not true?

I’m no closer to following you. What is it you are arguing for? Edit. Or perhaps I might ask if and how you suppose the op argument works? Because it ...

So you end up with two commensurate theories yet with incommensurate terms? How?

I've read that twice, and I can hear you thinking from here, but can you tell me were all this went? What have you decided? It seems to be something l...

P2 is "P2: T is a normative fact.". That is, "T is true adn T is normative". To be a fact is just to be true. And to be true is just to be a fact. S1:...

...ism, ism, ism. All we are saying is give peace a chance. But no one listens to Lennon any more. I don't really care what label folk put on the titu...

Yep.

This is the sort of post that requires either five thousand words or something brusque and undiplomatic. I don't have time for five thousand words. Th...

The absence of explicit Ethics in Austin is regrettable. It created a vacuum which was temporarily filled by Hare, but in a way that was ultimately no...

Candidly, that's all motherhood and apple pie handwaving. Can give us some substantive contribution from Tomasello relevant to this discussion?

Thank you for your substantive and thoughtful contribution. I'm not sure I've followed your case, so I'll make a few more general points, in order to ...

Yes, or rather, Schema include the standard by which they are to be assessed.

Yep. Mostly because that is what Davidson uses elsewhere, generating a theory of meaning. Thank you. it's a missed subtly. Well, not all that subtle, ...

I'm confident that Austin thought in such strategic terms. Well spotted. Aspects of logical positivism seem to have taken root elsewhere, as is appare...

You've made this claim a few times now. What do they have to say about incommensurability? What's the evidence?

Totally? Do you really want to use that word, particularly after saying "It does seem that can be reconstructed as a mathematical approximation of New...

No ambiguity. If it is a fact, it is true. If it is not true, it is not a fact. Yes, as in But saying they are facts has implications. Cheers. It's pr...

"One ought not pick one's nose" has six words... not morally binding. "One ought not pick one's nose" is true... then you ought not pick your nose. So...

Can I point to Carlo Rovelli, Aristotle’s Physics: a Physicist’s Look, which I think @"Moliere" pointed out to me. It is a quite excellent example of ...

Yet, Hence in some way T says "One ought A" hence it is true that one ought A also says "one ought A". I don't see an escape. "T" is true IFF T. "T" i...

Oh, is that now? Weird rituals.

Seems too strong to me. A moral realist need only claim that "one ought not harm another" is either true or false. A moral antirealist claims that it ...

Hmm. I'm dubious. "One ought not pick one's nose" is normative. Supose it is a fact. Then it is a true. Then how is "It is true that one ought not pic...

Puzzling.

The retreat into subjectivity. Subjective or objective "One ought not kick puppies for fun" is true, and that's its salient feature. But those not und...

You diagnosed the issue as lack of clarity. I showed that to be erroneous.

I wasn't showing how to derive an ought from an is, but to disprove your suggestion that colloquial speech is very imprecise.

Command-c? Keep in mind that it was Apple who invented this keyboard command. It's Windows that has the command wrong.

Yep. "fragile" tells us how to act towards the parcel - if you work for Qantas, it tells you to use it for basketball practice. "Is" statements can te...

I'm tease the poor thinking hereabouts with Searle's argument. I do agree that there is a difference between what is the case and what ought be the ca...

If you like. But that has no impact on the derivation - which commences with an "is" and finishes with an "ought". If your claim is that here is an im...

Yep. The point was to show the error of your The post is about your misuse of "ambiguity'.