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Here's were Arendt's "banality of evil" is pertinent. One might well anticipate a future Eichmann justifying himself in the terms used in the OP: "I w...

Here are the two problems with the view espoused by @"Mark S". 1. Regardless of how sophisticated it might be, no description of what we do can imply ...

So, oddly, you are now saying that it is not the case that we ought cooperate? I'm not too keen on the term, but that looks rather mote-and-bailly. So...

Well, Sartre suggests that existence proceeds essence - that one determines one's own "nature". I offer this only in order to point out that it is not...

What hostility? As for living in harmony with one's nature, that leaves much hanging. Should one live in harmony with one's nature, as a Stoic might s...

I dunno if there is much point. Whatever I say will sound condescending. I presume you are at least aware of the discussion of is-ought in Ethics... w...

To you, if you like: there's a free sample next to you. I can provide as many as you need.

I have a regular supply of apples that don't exist, which I will happily on-sell.

Verbal fumbling.

, Interesting that you mention Philippa Foot, a philosopher who perhaps above all others showed us the intractable nature of moral questions. You say ...

Just checking the pretence that science tells us what we ought to do, highlighting a point you yourself made, that "...the science of morality cannot ...

Sure. If... Ought we want to live harmoniously in a community?

Ninth thread on the same topic; same problem as the first thread:

Is that all? Come on, ChatGPT was nearly up to the excellence of your "conchiosness explained"...

Obscure joke, had to share. I wondered who Quine had in mind with "Wyman" in his "On What There Is"; if Quine had some particular philosopher in mind,...

Ah, so there is no reason or explanation for your actions. That helps make sense of your posts.

Right, OK. You have one idea; and it's a bad one.

Sure, one's actions are not determined by the law. But one can chose to follow the law, or not; and the law sets out what folk will do with you next. ...

When folk hereabouts think rocks conscious, evidence is extraneous. Laugh and walk away.

Hmm. Things are not the same since you dropped The Guardian for The Spectator.

It's not as if our theologically inclined brethren have a monopoly on metaphor and allegory, and certainly not on wisdom. Interestingly it was Graylin...

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Ok, then, let's cut to the chase. You can't have a cure for something that is not an illness.

Well, then, pass it by. But it seems to me that what's missed is a structure within which to articulate the issue at hand. Looking for a cure is norma...

There's an extensive philosophical literature on disability. The social model of disability has a prime place, for both political and historical reaso...

8÷2(2+2)= 16

@"Jamal", you've now got five threads fixed at the top of the main page. That's a lot of screen space. Perhaps it would be worth consolidating the Joi...

Socrates in Disneyland... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgh4wm3aKzo

An odd implication of holding that there are no unproven truths is that we know everything. How? Well, anything that is unproven is by that fact untru...

You don't think there can be unproven truths? And you don't want any critique of your views? Ok, Alkis. That's one way to for you to have certainty.

Seems to me that both of these express a belief - a relation between a person and a proposition. If someone asserts that god exists, and yet there is ...

That's addressed in the correlations section further down.

They are interesting results. All I am using them for here is to show that, in contrast to the contention of the article mentioned in the OP, there is...

Supposing that one could provide a definition of truth is supposing that somehow truth is analysable, that it has components that might be identified....

:roll: Not seeing it. My conclusion is that you have misunderstood something in the notion of antirealism.

Can you explain to me how "ontological antirealism" differs from what you think I am talking about. I'm not seeing it.

Sure, there are various positions. The issue here is that Sartwell would have us think that antirealism is a consensus in analytic philosophy. It isn'...

I've settled on the use of realism for views that hold there to be things that are true and yet unknown. This is both an ontological view and a choice...

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Can you offer any support for this?

My critique is of Sartwell, not of you.

The objections refer to beliefs, and not to truths? Then can you give an account, in your pragmatic terms, of the difference between something's being...

I'm glad you understand that. Sartwell, in presenting such a sweeping history in a few hundred words, does not make such distinctions. Contrary to the...

So analytic method is different to linguistic method?

If you like. There's distinctions between anaytic, linguistic and ordinary language philosophy that remain unconsidered. But your approach would also ...

, : Three Classic Objections and Responses

But - to a large extent it does; property and mortgages and promises all rely on language, and are real. So some things are true in virtue of language...

And not sentences? I don't see how that could work. Of course. Sure. If you mean that all facts are true - well, yes. "Map onto a state of the world"....

Sure, truth and meaning are closely involved with each other. Still, it is statements that are true or false, and belief is quite different from truth...

See if this helps. It's statements that are true or false. Being true is what statements are used for, in the main. We understand what it is for a sta...