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DO we go there...? I don't think they have any thing in common. It's just that, mostly, "the cup is on the shelf" if and only if "la taza está en el e...

Sure, pragmatism pretends to drop the notion of truth in the hope of working instead only with belief. But one does not have to drop the notion of tru...

Where does "apprehended" get you? We do have a pretty good notion of how to use propositions or statements. Their grammar is a commonplace, and is wel...

It seems worth pointing out that there is not a lot that hangs on the word "propositional" in "propositional attitude". It's an historical term, comin...

"The cup is in the cupboard" is a statement (dropping the word proposition, which seems to be causing difficulty). . What would make it a belief? Isn'...

Sure. I think it important not to promote the myth that the biggest bastard always wins. It isn't so, nor is it true that violence always wins.

It doesn't always work like that. If the "toughest" is a bit of a dick, the others will gang up and throw him out. Happens in chimp and gorilla tribes...

Cheers. Strikes me as simply good method. What is it that makes it specifically pragmatic?

So what you are describing in the method you set out presupposes that we already know stuff. I assume the process is iterative?

No more than that "P" is a reference to P, and not P itself.

That's a phrase that is thrown around with gay abandon, as if it were understood. What is seems to mean is that we ascribe beliefs to creatures that d...

There are unknowns. Unless you, along with other anti-realists, know everything? In which case I will bow and take my leave...

...akin in the regard that you and Kant insist on talking about that of which you cannot say anything.

You'll perhaps be aware that I've a generally anti-philosophical approach. So I think that there's a fundamental methodological error in starting by d...

We were taking about What is the case is what can be placed into propositional form. That's what "what is the case" means. If you have an alternate me...

Hmm. I suppose the problem I see here is the singular: Goal, not goals. Both deontology and utilitarianism seek what we might too tightly call an algo...

If they could not, then how is it a proposition? You seem tone deaf to the point here, which is that propositions can be stated. While one can have a ...

Sure. It remains that the point of ethics is to act.

A new car.

Which is to say very little; perhaps that they were consistent. And again, the point is to act.

If one is talking about propositional knowledge, then pretty much. I don't see a viable alternative.

It's good to see you working through the issues. I suspect that my critiquing what you have to say would do little but get on your goat. A point of cl...

Charity.

But Tractatus: 1, the world is all that is the case. Hence the world is limited to what is the case, to what can be stated. This is not an observation...

It seems not.

In social gatherings of academic philosophers, it is a Faux pas to raise philosophical issues.

It's been explained to Harry before.

Philosophy is an affliction.

Sure. So follow through on that example. We have, perhaps, an awe inspiring cave, which someone decides to destroy. Sure, destruction fo the cave is a...

Mead. Hmm. Hadn't considered his ideas in quite a while. Most of us have an inner voice, but if you're part of the minority who doesn't, this could be...

Is it? So much the worse for ethical doctrines, then. I con't imagine a worse way of dealing with an ethical issue than asking an armchair theorist wi...

I'm not sure of that. Notions of self develop by understanding one's self in relation to the other. Hence one's own agency is only understood in contr...

I don't agree. As I have argued, a priori intuitions or any such introspection will not survive contact. Hence virtue ethics - but that's a longer sto...

Abolition is a dreadful idea. Folk need to drink. :wink:

A claim argued: But you appear to be having comprehension issues.

No, he doesn't. He denies that it is the foundation of ethics. And He's right.

Sure. So is art, science, politics, horse racing... The question is, what is particular to ethics. Ethics is not about what one wants. That's just app...

Headline on the ABC: "planning underway to deal with teacher shortages" It's next week. We've known this was coming for years. That's what I call plan...

Yep. You clearly state that which @"god must be atheist" has failed to grasp.

The "most accessible possible examination" is your interaction with others, which is there for all to see. An attempt to base ethics on private self-r...

Wittgenstein did not think such questions unimportant. Indeed, for him they had the utmost import. He was simply honest, acknowledging that they are u...

Almost. Names are social. They work because of their use amongst a group of people, not one. Describing them as mental cannot work because it misses t...

It's a pity you think that. Sure, we have feelings. One's own feelings are all well and good, and you might do well to work towards feeling good rathe...

SO, what is it that evolution says we ought to do? The good thing is, you can pick anything, and it will fit.

You haven't understood the point...

Nothing to do with Dennett's "Quining Qualia"

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No. Two arguments: 1. It has the structure of an all-and-some doctrine; for any behaviour there is some evolutionary advantage. Hence it provides and ...