I noticed this. There are so many conceptual issues in that article. For a start, the brain cells did not "learn to play pong", they just avoided "a c...
Philosophy is difficult, and hence sometimes uncomfortable. While good grace is a virtue, so is being forthright. I'm forthright, you are frank, he is...
While I worry that further pursuing issues of volition and intentionality will lead us too far from the OP, I'll give potted answers to your questions...
Cheers. Anscombe was of course very familiar with Aristotle, however what she is doing in the article does not relate readily to your OP, and her targ...
That's not something I want to do. I would stand away from pragmatism and utilitarian approaches, since neither goes quite as far as is needed. Suppos...
I wondered the same thing, quietly. His first reply implies he thinks '"true Christian doctrine" futile', but the second implies that despite this it ...
No doubt this is so - but it might be a start. Perhaps cause is useful up until the point where we try to define and delineate it, philosophically spe...
Interesting, but I'm unsure how to address this. In a sense, the grammar just is what is useful here, looking to use rather than meaning. If it wasn't...
Hence 's continuing stream of ad homs. It's the congenital problem with the notion of "revealed" scripture. "It's the word of God, but only under my i...
I'll commend to you Anscombe's Causality and Determination. There's a discussion of it here. Rather than being either in the world or in the word, cau...
:razz: You don't have to pay heed to this curmudgeon. But would you be happy if all your posts elicited was nodding indulgence? I hope this is the wro...
That ellipsis is the important stuff. It is what can only be shown, and also what cannot be shared at all. Boundary policing? and all, for better or w...
And yet another ad hom post from you. nothing is new? Funny, that you repeat this accusation at all who disagree with you. Perhaps your writing lacks ...
, so far as I can see, you have not given a reply to this point. Nor addressed this directly. Your posts have reinforced the view that apologetics res...
Think I need to clarify what you mean here. On. a common, probably analytic, account, certainty is a "propositional attitude", in that it involves bot...
Sure, but unfortunately that is how it is often regarded. But your use of "certainty" is interesting. I use it as an attitude towards a proposition, a...
As you will be aware, there was once two branches of metaphysics: ontology and cosmology. Ontology studied "the nature of being", cosmology, the natur...
And yet we know this... so we know that things are different to how they appear; hence, we know that there is a way things are. That certainly does no...
Then what was your argument? Why should anyone accept scripture as a part of any philosophical reasoning? What is the True Christian Doctrine, apart f...
So is your argument that we cannot trust the gospels, but can trust what they say Yeshua ben Yosef said? And that's not problematic? Or is it that onl...
Which says nothing about what the world is like. "We only know what we know" tells us nothing. Theres' the danger of Stove's Gem, the view that one on...
I think there is much beyond that line of thinking, to do with what it is to be convinced by a proof. That a line of thinking does not lead to contrad...
The Rebel is yet another text to which I have not paid due attention. It seems to chime with my preferred moral parable, Tolstoy's Three Questions, in...
Yep, hence the sort of pan-psyche that @"Wayfarer" seemed to favour. And yet it stands refuted not just in what we do but in how we think. If other mi...
Yep. Seems to me that the notion of doctrine is of christian origin: One of the characteristic differences between classical and medieval thinking is ...
Blame Descartes. If the source of all certainty is "I think therefore I am", then all there is, is what I think. Mere logic cannot bring things into e...
I know. And yes, the difference between realism and idealism is not one that can be decided by observation or experiment. To my now unfashionable eye,...
Ok, so that three-tonne boulder is...? Whatever else it might be, it remains a three-tonne boulder. And it will remain a three-tonne boulder regardles...
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Yep. Pragmatism tends to avoid ethics, or attempt to subsume it into other areas - metaphysics and so on. Rawls is considered a pragmatist by some, so...
Well put. But of course, that's right - in that you can't prove that the floor does not cause you not to be standing on the floor below. It's not unli...
I don't think it incoherent so much as incomplete. After all, why not do what is useful? But deciding what is useful presupposes other stuff. Choosing...
Fair comment. Again, the notion that this or that part of philosophy is primary or fundamental is fraught, but that's the case with anything that migh...
I think your posts makes my point. Not that I understood what you said. Indeed, it's not clear to me that you said anything. A bit more: Well, yes. An...
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