Before you so quickly give the thumbs up, look at what Leon is saying. I gave reference to a thread that leads to a book and a whole literature that s...
It's not baseless. You would oblige others to express only your attitudes. Have a think about why folk might draw this sort of comparison, even if unj...
Why am I not surprised. I suppose you have your "reasons", the upshot being that your attitudes amount to natural law. Now a "bigot" is someone "obsti...
One analogue might be knitting. John starts with green wool, so the first row is green, and so is the second, and the third. So far all the rows are g...
It'd been in the greenhouse for a few years, with some success, but it proved ungainly and unmanageable, so I've found it a place on a north wall. I d...
The US has an infatuation with free speech not found elsewhere. Or rather, it pretends to allow anyone to say what they please, the practical outcome ...
Again, I did not report this thread. And I am here, presenting arguments. And again, you would make this a thread about me, fabricating responses inst...
My apologies - that was not intentional. Jamal will do as he pleases. I was simply wishing to stay out of his way. I did no such thing. However to be ...
Your show of kindness is admirable. It should be made explicit that the views advocated in the OP are not only fraught with philosophical difficulties...
And so to the central argument. Definition 1 sets out what is meant by extending a model. A model, again, is a bunch of individuals that have been ass...
Gobbledegook. Buried somewhere in there is the simple notion that it is people who interpret computer output, not computers. Fine. Except when a compu...
I'm here, Bob. Happy to continue - I held off because it looked to me as if might be about to do something in accord with the guidelines, but it seems...
I stopped past to see what was happening while I had lunch, (Mediterranean Kofta, olives, cheese and kewpie in a wrap) and I'm still here... I've move...
Sure. But you conclude that there fore we cannot choose between traditions. That doesn't follow. The choice may not be objective - what choice is? - b...
Are you saying we ought not respect tradition? Of course not. That you did not use the word is irrelevant. It is a normative list, pretending to be fa...
What's interesting - or suspicious - is that what it has said is pretty much along the lines of my conversations with it about Davidson and Wittgenste...
The lie here, over this whole thread, is that you are making a choice and advocating an attitude, while pretending that it is the inevitable consequen...
I think Frank's answer is better in a way... I'm suspicious about how close GPT's answer is to the one I woudl have given... "To “understand” truth, i...
Then maybe you might benefit from reading more widely on liberalism? There's a strong liberalism in many forms of christianity, for a start, and a lib...
So to some detail on Section Two. Russell cites "you can’t get a universal sentence from particular ones" as the paradigmatic case, and sets about def...
The interplay between traditions remains unaddressed. Reason or violence? From over here, it looks as if the problems had in the USA at present are a ...
I did opt for fried. A sturdy wholemeal, which will do the requisite soaking and allow one to raise the bread from plate to mouth without soiling one'...
But why? Why not test Zionism against Mohism? How do you move from "This is what we do" to "this is what we ought do?" without falling to the Naturali...
A good argument, and one I have myself borrowed, after Austin, in defence of analytic approaches to language: But let's look at what you have said, an...
Again, quite inaccurate. Liberalism uses - invented - strong notions of positive freedom. There's a line from Kant and freedom as autonomy, through Ro...
Yes! In Wittgenstein's terms, it can't (yet) participate in the "form of life". In Searle's terms, it doesn't share in the "background". But I'm less ...
Yep. Notice that you are here stipulating that whatever a bunch of circuits does, it's not thinking... Which is fine, and I agree; but we ought keep i...
No, you are not. I can lead you to the water, and so on. Read some modal logic. Or read my many many posts on the topic. Essences are stipulated, not ...
Superficially, one might think that the difference between an AI is exactly that we do have private, hidden intent; and the AI doesn't. Something like...
The natural language use of "necessary" is ambiguous. And "it must be the case that..." is not quite the same as "It is necessarily the case that..." ...
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