That post does not make much sense. Sure, I found an interesting tidbit in SEP. Yes, SEP is a proper name. Proper names can be used to pick out an ind...
So plumbing is incommensurable with origami. They say, as you say, totally different things. Sure, I've used the same argument, taking it from Mary Mi...
Good of you to raise "point of view". Bertt did the same sort of thing: But then he was puzzled by the idea that ethics is about what we ought to do.....
I'd like to go over the lectern example once again. There's a few things of note, that seem to have been missed by various posters. It's an example of...
Seems to me you want to make more of this than it will hold. Sure, it's a metaphor, a way to talk about counterfactuals. That's a turn of phrase in Kr...
Did you watch the second video, above? It shows why a piece of metal will feel colder than a book at the very same temperature. Meta's posts, as alway...
So on to the mind-body problem. The premise of the discussion is that "my pain" is a rigid designator. I think this mistaken, for reasons identified b...
In more philosophical terms, your account is that the extension of good is the very same as the extension of any of advantageous and pleasant and help...
That'll be because definitions are circular.... In particular, the question as to whether it is good to "preserve stable ongoing self-consistency of i...
Kantian or not, it's clear that @"bert1"'s account leads quickly to incoherence... He can't say for sure if even rape is not a good. While Bert may ha...
I think we again are not in disagreement. The wooden lectern is ipso facto necessarily wooden, yet that is understood only empirically. Unfortunately ...
I've suggested several times that possible worlds are a convenient way of dealing with counterfactuals. If you wish to call them a metaphor, go ahead....
SO justify that: what is it that Kripke is thinking? How does it differ from what I wrote? Set out your case. Correct me. Set the record straight. Put...
, if we all simply quoted or paraphrased, there would be no point to this thread. If you have a substantive reply, I'm all ears. But as it stands, you...
Moore supposes that one might wonder if that which is approved of is that which is good; and moreover, that this question makes sense. Yet if being ap...
The good is... Moore supposes that one might wonder if that which is willed is that which is good; and moreover, that this question makes sense. Yet i...
:grin: Good article. The emphasis on chance comes about when one tries explaining that evolution is not teleological. That gets twisted to the idea th...
There's the constant tendency to talk about the mooted pre-predicative, and as soon as one does one has left it and moved to the predicative. If what ...
I think it worth quoting the following at length, since it summarises the last few pages. At stake is no more than our choice in parsing a sentence. I...
So in some possible world, Hesperus has no properties, and hence Hesperus does not exist in that world. It doesn't follow that Hesperus does not exist...
Yep. More or less. Misusing "begs the question", Professor Dave Explains... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL54E5CzQ-A But, see also... https://www.y...
Indeed, it may be - something for another PhD, this time in the archaeology of ideas. Noted with interest your chat with , who seems to not have notic...
Oh, I hope so. Without checking, I have a recollection of his backing away a little bit from incommensurability, in Science in a free society, in resp...
Well, mightn't it? Does temperature equate to molecular kinetic energy? well, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drZe2cCu-mc Temperature is a physical ph...
Anyway, moving on quickly... The next bit is about heat, so we finally get to 's post. We might have had the sensation of heat without the motion of m...
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