No, you don't. You try to bully objections into submission. ...those are just from a quick scroll down the present page. What I don't get is, why have...
Witti also concluded that there was nothing to be said about such mysteries. They are not so much stated beliefs as sentiments; to be seen in music an...
Why? After all, values do not need to be rationally established, defended or challenged... A value looks like a prime candidate for a hinge propositio...
We're not talking about Aoife Jones, but what it is like to be Aoife Jones. To misquote Wittgenstein, suppose that what it is like to be Aoife Jones c...
Hence, a clear distinction might be made between a belief and a sentiment, using "belief" for what may be stated and "sentiment" for what is not so cl...
Is there? How could you possibly know this? Is there a "something it is like to be Aoife Jones"? Or is being Aoife Jones subject to continual change? ...
Meh. I was thinking more of hinge proposition as a foundation. If you are using "natural law" to mean "justification" then you are misusing the term "...
Yeah - so that's a fancy way to say "the stuff we agree on". But knowledge is not just the stuff we agree on. ...not if those acts are inconsistent - ...
I enjoyed that post. A bit of a shame that it is posed in religious terms, though. What Armstrong is describing is a 'world-picture" which can be unde...
That is written as a conclusion..."So..."; but it doesn't follow. Indeed, it's unclear what objectification of belief might amount to. To believe some...
Agreed; and to push this, I'll conjecture that any proposition might be taken as a hinge proposition in some language game. That is, given some propos...
Metaphysician Undercover misunderstands many things. One of those things is that a hinge proposition has its status only as a part of a language game....
The truth of a hinge proposition derives from its status as foundational to the language game in which it is involved. Hence, if one changes the langu...
I'm still reading the article. Seeking continuity, I have in mind the notion of logical space from Tractatus when considering the relation between lan...
To be sure, I don't think that the first and last of your three questions are philosophical. There's a few associated conceptual issues, but they are ...
@"RussellA", looking back over your posts, it seems to me that you are looking at these arguments with only part of Wittgenstein's analysis of meaning...
...and you are now doing metaethics. Metaethics is the examination, not of moral codes, but of the thought and language used to express them. It's not...
Well, I did say "for those tempted to comment..." The OP is deliberately abrasive, and quite misguided. A look at the articles I cite will quickly sho...
Hmm. , yep. For those tempted to comment on this OP, there is a clear, erudite summation of metaethics, in the SEP article. Have a read of that first....
I've been very (indeed, unusually) clear as to the way I am using 'physicalism' here. Notice that this is not contrary to the view that, say, literatu...
As pointed out by others, god doesn't exist, the notion of free will is confused, and when you die, you cease to exist. These mooted philosophical mys...
So the question is, what more is there than physicalism? Is that what you are asking? Literature. Poetry. Ethics. Psychology. Anthropology. Gardening....
Sure, it's an amusement. It's not the whole story. Consider: Do you see that this is not physics, but physicalism? Bohm has no physical description of...
180 and I are aware of this. Stoicism and Buddhism have mush to recommend. Their virtue is not to be found in their metaethics, though. It is found in...
Physicalism ought be avoided. Physicalism is the view that only the description of the world provided by physicists is true. Physicalism is an all-and...
I've replied to this so often that I use the reply for my Bio: I note the use of internal and external in you examples. You have reinforced my suspici...
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