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SO suppose we do this, developing a set of Criteria. Suppose that some break-off group of Fundamentalist Christians set up a new organisation that mee...

I had thought from your last few comments towards me that you had decided it was fine to just stipulate a definition and be done with it. So you think...

First Aid Manual 11th Edition, Red Cross.

Can you link a source?

Excellent input. It seems we can reject the case for China being the source of the problems. So I'll go to my original position, that it is incompeten...

Broken link. Yes, the lack of symmetry struck me, too, and is symptomatic of the power structure, as you suggest - not just violence, but the threat t...

Indeed, this is a contentious and interesting issue. There is nothing like a consensus on the issue. A feminist group with which I have a long associa...

Knowledge is about how to do things. Wisdom is about what to do.

You are demonstrating that it is a political act in each post you present. Authoritarianism relies on pretending the world is clearly cut by distinct ...

An observation, not an argument.

More: http://www.erd.gov.lk/images/DebtStock2019.jpg China's part is not great. The bulk is $US: http://www.erd.gov.lk/images/DebtStock2019_Currencies...

Well, see 4. Sri Lanka and the BRI. Don't ascribe to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

Sri Lanka has been counted as lower-middle income. The country had experienced an annual GDP growth of 6.4 percent from 2003 to 2012. That's better th...

It might be more interesting to get @"Nickolasgaspar"'s opinion here. He has explained how we are caused to act for our own wellbeing, and that as a r...

Case in point.

There need be no necessary and sufficient conditions in place for us to be able to use a word; indeed, there rarely are. This is what is meant by the ...

So the conclusion here is that the Sri Lankans should have taken out crop insurance? Then I think you missed the point.

"Wellbeing" is fine; like "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" it covers much of what we do want. And yes, we do usually choose wellbeing....

So your claim now is that people do not make choices? Is that really where you would go?

Suppose I agree that we do see wellbeing. The ethical question is, ought we? And this is what no amount of scientific evidence can address.

Well, no. You are refusing to address the main criticism of your argument: Why ought we seek wellbeing? Good to see you are doing some research on the...

SO that's a "no", then. You do not understand the is/ought distinction. So you have not understood, yet alone directly addressed, the main ethical obj...

That thread wasn't moved. you said which as I mentioned before is spot on.

All right, it's porridge (Genus) without sugar (differentia).

I dunno. This conversation seems absurd. As if the writer of the article, or the other folk who posted here, or I, did not think "what we need are the...

The religious one, yes, by definition. That's the thing about stipulating definitions. They make philosophy so much easier.

Cheers. GO back to this, if you would: Do you understand the is/ought distinction? DO you agree that there is a difference in kind between saying how ...

No. It's exactly right. Show me were it goes wrong.

Meh. They are an indication that I am eating dinner and watching the news. Maybe tomorrow.

But it appears that porridge is the common factor in religions - the real religions. Of course, if you go and consider the religions that do not inclu...

I know you do not agree with this example, but do you understand it? That the argument is that there is an evaluation in between "Rape occurs" and "Ra...

You are still skipping the evaluation, or are pretending it isn't there.

Point is, and you seem to have missed this, it is unclear as to whether you have applied the rules correctly. You have simply stipulated that religion...

, SO you are just an authoritarian with regard to definitions. How ordinary.

So back to the methodological point: you are saying that if Taoism does not admit to deities, it is not a religion, and that's an end to the discussio...

But your rules say "1. A definition must set out the essential attributes of the thing defined" not "There should be a deity/deities"; so I am asking ...

Well, no. So, take (i)There should be a deity/deities. Taoism and Buddhism do not have a deity at the centre of their considerations. So are they reli...

This is more sympathetic: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris

See if this helps you understand what is going on here: Sam Harris is wrong about science and morality

That's gold.

How? What is it you think we need to do? How do we move forward? What's your next step?

So show us how it is done.

Indeed. This is where the ethics begins.

SO, going back to the article, isn't it an attempt at your first step?

So, if we do pay attention to these rules, we can provide such a definition? Well, set them out, so we may proceed.

Are you blaming the poor posters? Why should one assume that there might be such a thing as a good definition? I think the problem is rather that a "g...

At the risk of dragging the thread back to the OP, the section on the history of the concept was interesting. Religio moved from being scrupulous in f...

Most are still there. Some were moved to the longe, others apparently removed. Again, the list was intended as a reference for topical discussion. It ...

Sci-fi, yes. Trek, a bit, but Babylon 5 and The Expanse are more my cup of tea. I like a decently long arc, something Trek never got right; and those ...