And so to Vrana's objection. One of the ways of setting out a obligation in first order logic os to simply incorporate an opperator, O. Op is then jus...
Sure. There's plenty more going on, including no small amount of self-deception. But not with you and I of course, only with them. And is it maladapti...
It's always more complicated, yep. I'd more or less go along with Davidson here, as a default position. Se the paragraph in his bio on problems of irr...
We are in the main made aware that we are lying to ourselves by the discrepancy between what we say is the case and what others say is the case. The p...
Harry could never get past seeing language as nothing but reference, which made his posts somewhat monotonous and off-point. But I pretty much concur ...
Thanks for pointing to Hack's essay. The brief historical account of recent formal logic was particularly amusing in its account of Davidson's program...
In pondering the next part of the essay, I've come across How to Prove Hume’s Law, a more recent paper. That paper was downloaded 300 time last month....
Not quite since, FPp might tell us something that will be true in the future - that the past will not have changed; so it is also about the past. It's...
The Missus met his Missus once. Apparently Mrs Cheney was polite enough, although she had several large friends who wore dark sunglasses inside, had o...
Perhaps. But what you said was that the right was not an entitlement. If what you are saying is that rights are social institutions, well so is langua...
Perhaps. But that does not mean that folk do not have rights. And still appears very odd; as if one could have a right but not an entitlement -- pictu...
If "the entitlement to any right is solely dependent on the specific political environment in which this right is claimed", then there is an entitleme...
I did. I prefer honey. But there is something to be said for the caramel in brown sugar. But point taken - my apologies. I'd already said as much to H...
Back at the beginning, you presumed that there was someone asking a question. So it's no surprise that you can conclude that someone exists. Asking a ...
So we have a lesson about the difference between illocutionary force and propositional content. Cool. The conclusion of the OP, that all belief is irr...
For you, it seems so. It remains that the church goer might do otherwise, that they, not another, are responsible for their acts. That one's first lan...
Would you? I'd be on the phone, since you would not be the sort pf person who should have a dog. But if you want ice cream, I'll not stop you. There's...
Why not? Why should we deny someone something they want...? ...and there is were we start to do ethics. So again, your decisions are yours alone; but ...
Well, what do you think? Did you answer that? - if so, I missed it. And it's pretty much pivotal. If you think it bad to kick puppies, then we agree, ...
So that's not how I should read ?? You are not saying that either god made it so, or the big bang made it so, or the laws of nature made it so, and so...
Since you plainly haven't understood, I am trying to understand what I'm arguing against. Go back to the origin of the conversation, the question of w...
Not at all. But someone who sees morality as a set of rules might think that. A church cannot function as the source of one's personal morals unless t...
What happened here is that Millard noted that we may have irrational thoughts (his step 2 and 3) then equated thinking and believing (step one) and co...
Well, no, since it is very much about the other. That's what the comment about ethical solipsism fits. The bolded "we". And sure, bad people do make d...
Thanks, but don't feel obligated. This is as much. or more, me writing my own notes as it is seeking comment. I want a clear idea of how the logic rel...
Russell now moves on to considering another application of the barrier to entailment, that of the impossibility of deriving an ought from an is. The m...
What do you think? What do you want, a world were puppy-kicking is a legitimate pastime, or one in which it leads to a reprobation? Realism is the vie...
Seems odd to suppose that only those with authority can decide on your rights. They might well deny you your rights; but if they can deny you your rig...
You haven't, and perhaps can't, recognise the uses to which those terms are put, because it undermines your whole philosophy. Here it is again: "Sex" ...
No, not the Euthyphro. To say of something that it is good is to adopt an attitude towards it, not to discover a previously unnoticed property it has....
You were not asked to influence them. You were asked if what they were doing is right. You have an answer to that already. Similarly, that if there ar...
A cop out. Who else is going to do it for you? But you don't have to answer, because the answer you give is not really about them. It's about you. Fol...
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