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Rude. So when did you agree to red?

No good deed goes unpunished. Further evidence of God's providence.

I'll have to take your word for it. But as @"Isaac" pointed out, there's more to red than "a complex constructive activity of perception". It's a soci...

I wonder if the Wampanoag people celebrate thanksgiving. Things did not work out all that well for them.

I already did that for another of your stray ideas, achieving nothing. The origin of what is now called the trolley problem is an article by Philippa ...

What is one supposed to do with sentences such as this? The sorry state is, that this is pretty much Wittgenstein's point in turning his chair. Someho...

So "ineffable" becomes a mere superlative. Fine. I was unable to follow your comments concerning Cantor and metaphor.

No, I didn't. I was making use of irony. Here, let me do it again: And yet... Apparently that is too great a task. A quick shift of the goal post in o...

Good. So we agree that blind folk are able to talk about colours.

Cool. Really? That surprises me. I associate with folk in the general disability community, where the implication that blind folk cannot understand co...

Cheers. They cannot tell what colour something is. But do they know the meaning of colour words? I take the answer to be "yes", and that consequently ...

That is, do you also agree with:

Well, teaching is showing. I say in addition that a blind person may enter into a conversation concerning colours, using colour words accurately, for ...

Ok. It might help if you stated what you think he is claiming.

Hmm. Isn't unprincipled lust more... interesting?

You have my sympathy. Try reading Austin's Sense and Sensibilia, or Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations... I'm sighted. Please explain to me i...

Ah - you edited your reply. The ineffable is about what cannot be said, not what cannot be done. A blind person cannot see that the cup is red. But yo...

The law of Conservation of Energy is bookkeeping. By definition a closed system is one in which energy is conserved. If a system has a net increase or...

On the account being considered, virtue is found in both social and individual behaviour, morality only in social behaviour.

Aww, won't play.

I don't understand that. What are "principles"?

Nice try, but it won't help.

Your posts are somewhat enigmatic. Do you have a specific point or question?

Yep. You got it. Enough rope. Yeah, it can. The cup is red.

Was there some sense in that scrambled post? I'm surprised. Cheers.

You seemed to miss the point. What is ineffable cannot be said. Yet a blind person can talk of colours. by that very fact, colours are not ineffable t...

Indeed, surprisingly apropos. However experience suggests caution. Let's consider an example - the diagonal argument, perhaps. So do we say that trans...

Blind folk use colour words correctly, but do not see colours. Yep. What is it that blind folk cannot say, yet sighted folk can? There is something bl...

I've recently been using the two words somewhat casually as interchangeable, only because it fits with the way others have been using them. But if pus...

Part thereof should be the getting on with it, that philosophical rumination is secondary to the doing.

True. One does not want a dissertation. Your castaway might well be able to find a better way to deal with their stress. Cutting oneself is not health...

Perhaps the upshot can best be seen as that talk about that of which we cannot speak is utterly useless, even in ethics. Better to turn your chair to ...

Something more? Well, the world is all that is the case. If it's the case, then it can be said. Hence the world is all that can be said. The world is ...

A large part of the OP is the little boy shaking the flytrap. Works every time. Nine pages and counting. If I weren't so distracted by the buzzing of ...

There is no determinate fact of the mater that the mountain is a mountain? You are throwing out the principle of identity? Or are you saying that, tha...

What is it you are claiming here? give folk enough rope...

Then is there a substantive point of disagreement here? It's a mountain.

:lol: Oh, I do hope you are not getting the wrong impression concerning philosophy... :wink:

Indeed, there might be a sort of catharsis in the realisation that this is not doable, and perhaps the absence of a something to which "ineffable" ref...

Ah, so Janus is neither arse-following, nor ass-following. Thanks for clearing that up.

So, what is it we can't say about mountains? I'm thinking that the "something" which gives rise to the human experience commonly referred to as "mount...

So where does that leave ?

And yet folk who are blind do use colour words, correctly. Pardon me, but your abelism is showing.

That was the 2009 survey... But yes, I am getting old.

So set out the contradiction. I'll address it.

No, I want you to realise that quantum mechanics does not apply to banking. Tellers do not rely on schrödinger's equations. Not something I should hav...

You argue for a difference in degree between a dislike of strawberry ice cream and a moral judgement. I think there's a difference of kind. A mere per...

Yes. the questions are not particularly clear. No one said it was.

Historically Kant did not do so well.

Someday we might play ball.