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You will ruin the pretence of victimhood saying things like that.

Taking on the extreme, as is my want: Reasoning employed in service of a prior commitment doesn't count as philosophical reasoning. For Christians phi...

In knitting terms, the set up hasn't changed much. Each row is a time t, and has a colour, p, and the row you are presently knitting is row n, but the...

Now some considerations of the model - how the logic is to be interpreted. There is a sequence of times, t?, t?, t?... forming a set T, with one of th...

If I may, there's an ambiguity in "realism" that needs sorting. There are varieties of moral realism which suppose that moral facts are much the same ...

The article now turns to applying this schema to other examples, starting with temporal logic - the grammar of time. Some explanations. P - past exist...

So your overall point is that those five interactions didn't "contend with (your) view"? I don't follow that at all. They might not be what you were e...

Yes, I did: Yes, I did: And so on. I'm sorry you haven't been able to follow these connections. This is how threads of this sort become echo chambers,...

That's an extraordinary claim. Taking on the role of the victim in the face of overwhelming critique is a cheap, purely rhetorical move.

Of the very same post: So it was a substantive post that did not help forward the conversation. Perhaps the problem is not with my post?

Well, again, that's because you are not discussing an alternative to gender studies, but foreclosing on it. Your claim that gender is just biological ...

It might not be obvious where this break of symmetry originates. It is built in. In the knitting analogue, we only ever add rows, never deleting them....

The intuition sometimes has to give way to the logic; but with practice the intuition can change to match the logic. The definition of a particular se...

Yep. A general criticism of Liberalism is that in allowing all views, it fails to provide any guidance; that it devalues value. Liberalism concerns it...

Sure. But doesn't your argument take steps beyond this? Either to human behaviour being determined by biological adaptation, such that we have no capa...

Indeed, I did. Somewhere away from mere tradition and the Grand Ethic we might find the piecemeal improvement of individual human lives.

I'm glad you found the paper interesting. So we agree there is (or perhaps may be) a logical basis for the is/ought distinction? The other point of co...

This seems to me to touch on my questioning of the veracity of Bob's Neo-Aristotelianism . My vague recollections of Aristotle do not much cohere with...

Are you telling me that you read the wrong books? I think Iv'e mentioned that previously. :wink: But the account you gave, , aligns well enough with m...

On the grounds that "ought" has a social aspect, yes. Small steps. Not what I want but what we want.

You think we should be dancing?

I think that might be a misinterpretation... the things about which we never have anything good to say are very often the things we love most. That Ce...

When you go shopping, you take a list of the things that you want. When you receive a receipt at the check out, you will get a list of the very same t...

It's an interesting place, but stay away from Bali - full of drunk Aussies and Russians.

Years in the planning, over in seconds, thanks to the vigilance of the mods, no damage done - their evil plan to abduct us all to... whatever it was.....

Lurking for four years? Or hacked? I suppose we'll never know.

So efficient! :hearts: :hearts: :strong: :party:

We're being attacked by indonesia!

Indeed, the removal of homosexuality from the DSM is a fine example of a moral move that was not just despite, but against, conservative Cristian dogm...

So, if I've again understood all that, mental illness is not only a social label, but includes a measure of human flourishing. Looks fine to me. I've ...

Looks like this thread is revealing itself as the Conservative Christian echo chamber that it at first pretended not to be. No doubt it will go for an...

So is a thing unnatural because it is not "oriented to God", as you seemed to first say, or because it is contrary to a things internal order... Or ar...

As Tim asks, It appears that there is here also a variant on the Euthyphro... I dropped some of this into GPT and uninvited, it proffered the followin...

Seems to be what was referenced by . Eating of the fruit supposedly introduced the unnatural...? The problem of what is natural and unnatural seems mo...

The problem remains - if everything has a divine origin, then how could something be unnatural?

One might go a step further and puzzle over how anything could be unnatural, given that presumably nothing can occur that is against the will of an om...

If I've understood all that, you are saying that what is natural is what god wills? Well, at least the divine origin of the normative is explicit here...

@"Bob Ross"'s account does not appear to do justice to neo-Aristotelianism. He uses the language of Aristotle, but a neo-Aristotelian such as Kit Fine...

...argues against pointing to external sources by pointing to an external source...

Take a look at my present thread on Russell's paper. It is on exactly that topic. Oh, you can't do that, that's "gish gallop". I take it that you now ...

So which is it, am I presenting too much, or not enough? Here's the guts of it: You and Bob are using an anachronistic ontology in an attempt to defen...

Philosophy as a team sport...?

This is another vexatious post from Leon. Yes, my posts contain "oughts". But no, I do not derive those "oughts" from an "is". And witness: Another ex...

Good question. Thanks for following along. On a glance, the second horn of the dilemma is that if Fa v ?xGx is not universal, we have as an example of...

This just hit my in-tray, from the Australasian Association of Philosophy - a workshop at Uni of Singapore.

Yes, indeed, and are part of the prompt for this thread rather than just accepting the article. First feature: Fa and ?x(x?a v Fx) are equivalent. The...

We seem to now be playing "posts last wins". The logical law I referenced was Humes' Law - the illicit move from ought to is. But you rejection of pos...

That's hitting the nail on the head, it seems. The philosophy here is being forced to be the handmaid of faith. The rejection of core aspects of logic...

The etymology of "bigot" is unclear, but etymonline rejects the suggestion that it derives from "By god", preferring instead to link it to "Beguine", ...

:up: It's extraordinary stuff.