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Moral statements have a truth value - they are true or false; as opposed to being, perhaps, mere expressions of one's opinion, grunts of appreciation ...

It wasn't on my to do list, but I'm not disinterested. So part 1, Moore is supposing that moral statements have a truth value, and that this truth val...

Well, see, if you assume this, or take it as a given, then it'll be hard to see why Kripke denies it. His approach is that it is worth reconsidering t...

Perhaps it would be useful to work through Moore’s Moral Philosophy? At least then we would have before us a common text that's not too long.

I don't think this conversation is worth the bother. Thanks.

Just sense and reference. So an open question supposedly shows that, even if some naturalist term picks out the very same things as "good", we have a ...

Perhaps, but I'd characterise it as mistaking the extension of "good" for it's intension. That's the error the Open Question outs.

Hmm. Just the usual stuff. Davidson, on the very idea of a conceptual scheme, A nice derangement of epitaphs and The Anomalism of the Mental Midgley, ...

let's see if I have understood you. So... we know stuff only by induction or by deduction? You're saying there are truths that have no proof from expe...

Just giving folk a chance to grind their axes.

No so much. It's just that the sentences under consideration do not imply a contradiction. Your definition would only work for axiomatic systems. This...

Quite right. That's @"Metaphysician Undercover"'s error. But given that a posteriori we know that heat = the movement of molecules, then it's the same...

Did that. And here she is!

Tiff is still going through difficult times. I'm sure you will all join us in looking forward to her return.

Really? What ethnicity or other cultural subgroup did it demean? I'll claim it as a cultural birthright.

Then comes:"But, all we need to talk about here is this: Is everything that is necessary knowable a priori or known a priori?" and the comments on Gol...

It's consistent yet violates the law of identity? Well, if it violates the law of identity, then it is by that very fact not consistent. But we know i...

The possible world in which I have slippers on is not the one in which I have slippers off. Whether you like it or not, this is not a contradiction. T...

Yeah, it is me. That's implicit in "I might have put my slippers on". It's a sentence about me, not about someone else. And from there, your account g...

I wasn't complaining; only setting out the facts...

Twisting the threads to suit your own aggrandisement... The lost wandered aimlessly, yet a chosen few found themselves in a bar in Amsterdam somewhere...

Sure, but it had no value until the diaspora. If you prefer, Paul left us in the hands of the evil ones, but Jamal gave us this place... I dunno. I go...

The shoutbox is sacred, pointing back to previous incarnations of the forum. It was there on the front page, and much more immediate, a place for less...

I'm not sure where to go with that. There are certainly issues here. On the one side I've got Davidson's argument in On the Very Idea... and on the ot...

Balls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t22hkF0A6h8&t=198s Nasty fuckers.

Indeed, I fed "rice ball sparkle" into the OpenAI playground and got back There's a notable absence of any mention of rice. But RiceBallRiceBallUp pro...

@"Jamal", worth feedback to Plushforums?

Fair enough. I don't think it's me. In several posts you mistook other theorems for A=A. So take But P??P is invalid, and hence it cannot be an"reform...

Here again is the issue of transworld identity. Kripke's answer is now the standard response. I might have put my slippers on. I didn't. One way to ex...

Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the molecules of a substance. In chemistry and physics, heat is the quantity of energy avail...

Well maybe we can focus on this for a bit, at the risk of being off-topic. The law of identity, like any law of logic, is a way of talking. Asking for...

it's good that here we are actually referring to Principia. A note, if you would. If A=B, if they are the very same thing, then extensionally, any pro...

It has a more agreeable aroma than it's more popular cousin.

Yep.

Anyway, if we were to continue with the theme of reference, we might go to one of Donellan's papers, for more about why descriptions are not how refer...

Damn. Seems about right. Counterfactual situations show that names do not refer in virtue of the properties or the descriptions of some object or indi...

Perhaps; and example would be useful. I can't think of one, although perhaps something along the lines of Donellan's man with a martini would work. Bu...

What is difficult to maintain, after understanding Kripke's arguments, is that objects are constituted by essential properties.

Cool. You might find something interesting in the SEP article Reference. It lists four intertwined theories of reference: 1. Descriptions 2. Causal 3....

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/11175/philosophical-plumbing-mary-midgley/p1

It's a recurring theme in her writing, but try Philosophical Plumbing.

Ok. We agree it's odd. Good.

, Thanks! Yeah, but why? I gather the (y) gets processed before the math? Seems odd. Isn't spacing supposed to be irrelevant in Mathjax?

Ok. No more talk of ethics in a thread about defining good.

An odd case: \exists (x)(Px ) \exists (y)( Py)(x=y) It shoudl be \exists (x)(Px ) \exists ( y)( Py)(x=y) It's \exists (x)(Px ) \exists ( y)( Py)(x=y) ...

Sorry, that was a bit rude. I've been feeding various posts in to see what results, including my own, and found it uncanny.

TL;DR: on the Open AI Playground gave Is that accurate?

I think those you mention understand that. They will also understand that there is an area of discourse around what is good and what is not, around wh...

In reply to you, yes, indeed. Then why do you insist on engaging? You are, after all, on this thread, replying to my posts, and you need not be. That'...