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Yep. And I criticised it as an inadequate account of the being of chickens. What next?

Nuh. Science doesn't assume that. That's just you. Ah, you agree with Einstein. But it ain't so. And that's all a matter of historical record.

...a thesis that has been both falsified and shown to be unnecessary.

The problem is basically in (1), where you set up an erroneous picture of causality. Have a think about Has physics ever been deterministic?

It's far worse than that: people have no choice but to construct their own meaning. Hence the angst that comes from simply being. And yes, authenticit...

Yep. A bit too messianic for my taste, but something like that.

Yep. Meaning is built from experience, but it builds into the future. Claiming that life is meaningless misunderstands what meaning is. Life is meanin...

It seems to me that this shows time to be incidental here - a point I made earlier. The difference between being-in-itself and being-for-itself is in ...

Its not quite the liar's paradox; more like a twisted Godel sentence that shows itself to be inherently urndecdeable. Nor is self-reference the proble...

So parsing this into Sartre's ontology, being-in-itself is explicitly definable, while being-for-itself is a process of self-definition - or more clea...

Stay safe.

Yep. Goes with the job. Ok, I'll leave off that - seems the thread is headed off into pragmatics anyway. Let me know what you decide about the undecid...

Exactly that: it is your decision that determines what you choose. If you decide eating babies is wrong, but you do it because god commands it, then y...

Indeed, but At the least we need a way of distinguishing your mooted statements that are neither true nor false from other sentences that are mere non...

Yes, but there is a deeper point here, and yes it originates in the Euthyphro. There's a gap between what god commands and what we do, a point at whic...

No.

Yep; if I say "private language argument" I'll lose my audience...

"is good" is generally take to mean what one ought do, yes.

So, the two chess claims below are both true: 1. The bishop moves diagonally 2. The bishop moves orthogonally. No.

But that's wrong. Morality is not found by looking to the scriptures, but in deciding what you will do next. Even if the scriptures are the word of go...

What a pity.

No. I mean "true" You can't play chess unless you take it as granted that the bishop moves on the one colour. You can't shut the door unless you posit...

That doesn't follow. Meaning is built - it is what you do. And what you do, you do together with other people. Creating meaning is inherently a commun...

That's what I'm questioning. It's the naturalistic fallacy as much as the Euthyphro. Consider the open question: is it right to eat babies? You know t...

There's a large literature on the truth value of metaphysical statements. The notion that metaphysical statements are neither true nor false won't bar...

Why? What you suggest concerning babies is immoral, even if god commands it.

Don't treat meaning as if it were something you find. It's not. It's something you build.

Isn't it open to you here to say that god is wrong? Wouldn't this be a situation in which the moral thing to do would be to condemn god? This by way o...

But we do know that Thor is a fairytale.

But a lie is false. @"T Clark"'s question is about statements the truth of which are indeterminate. A lie does not have an indeterminate truth value. ...

Yep. Aesthetics?

It's interesting to watch her wander around the coop; she's never not had company. One wonders what, if any, sense of absence is there when she doesn'...

Me too. "This statement is true and it is not possible to determine that this statement is true" seems to be determinately false. "This statement is t...

Much the same as the distinction between calling a chook "it" or "her". Depends whether it/she is your dinner or your pet*. I dragged out my old SOD t...

I replied to the bits you wrote that I found interesting. I also made my exit, only to come back for Wayfarer, not you. I'm content with my contributi...

Yep.

That implies that he says a lot in a small space. My impression is rather that he says very little, but in the most obtuse fashion. So: ...all this an...

The distinction you made seems to me to be worthwhile. That it is not a distinction generally made strikes me as neither here nor there. If you want t...

@"Wayfarer": you seem to be channelling Sartre's being-in-itself and being-for-itself. Sartre strikes me as far clearer in his analysis and more astut...

But... Hmm.

SO true!

Can such a statement be constructed? "This statement is true or it is not possible to determine that this statement is true". If the statement is fals...

Thank you for your astute reply. My presence on this thread is indicative of how unsettling I find Heidegger. I don't know what to do with him. There ...

, I don't see how what you have said here helps. Indeed, such stuff is easy to find. Why? Heidegger’s Feeble Excuses The Trouble with Martin Mahon O’B...

A bit of recursion - what it is to me for that thing to be a pencil depends not only on my previous experience of pencils but what I do with the penci...

OK. The "as" structure is... seeing that x is p is seeing x as p, an intent. That intent is embedded in way of life, it's only understandable as a who...

Ah, we might allow angst. I do appreciate Waiting for Godot.

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Hmmm. His biography. The common wisdom was that the life of a philosopher is of no account in evaluating his ideas. Should that view be continued when...