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There can be no such thing, because a hinge is a proposition and all propositions can be stated. But apart from that, I think we agree.

Thank you for the link. The article begins in a faltering fashion, but is well worth reading. There is a clarity in Strawson's exposition that I found...

And if it is, it remains the core of morality. Yes, it's a messy business.

Queer, that you could garner this from my post.

Yes, it is. It's a sentence-type we in the trade call a question. The aim of using a question is to elicit further information. But in vain, for it se...

:grin: But you won't trust me, and I wont trust you...

...just a note to say that this conversation between you two has made my life worthwhile.

SteveMinjares, here, a blatant appeal to authority for you: Kenny and Aquinas... http://www.lib.csu.ru/ER/ER_Philosophy/?????_??????????/???????/CUP/K...

Again, all you are doing is prevaricating between trust and faith. It's a common rhetorical ploy, using faith to mean trust, then sliding into belief ...

Hey, respect for the Greek dude who married the German woman who nominally rules the Land of Hope and Glory... Even if he wasn't a king.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DruCG3LJiiU Obviously.

Oh, the Rule ofLaw is doubtless a good thing; at least you know what to expect. Mostly. Jefferson, the Founding Fathers... to whom patriarchal obsequi...

And...?

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/10481/define-morality/p1 Christians fail to see the immorality of their creed and acts. They presume they ha...

It's odd, that fidelity - as in monogamy - features so prominently in @"SteveMinjares"'s musings. Commitment and trust would feature more prominently ...

Never thought otherwise. Don't you think it would be good to be able to trust folk? (That italicised word is not at all loaded, honest... trust me!)

, Now there's a real moral problem - lack of trust.

That should have been we've broken the thread, again.

:rofl: The best definition of "state" that I know of is "those who have a monopoly on coercion". Yes, the state is reliant on authority. Excessive? De...

Yep; you'd have to trust him. Were's your courage now?

Hmm. https://thephilosophyforum.com/profile/discussions/10073/ernest-meyer Think I might stop here. I somehow doubt that reasoned conversation is what...

It was a serious point. Excessive reliance on authority has led him astray. Simple respect for others should prevent him hitting you. That is one of t...

You've broken the thread, again.

Looks like you need to work on your relationship with your son.

Give the dynamite to the fat man and let him decide.

What would be?

Any of these will do. It's simply a matter of convention or convenience as to which we choose.

Indeed; and yet one set of equations says c is a fixed limit, the other that it is not. Only one of these can be correct. It's not the latter. Physics...

Well, no. The real question is "What should I do, now, in this situation?". Assessing moral reasoning - deontology - is in danger of becoming a post-h...

Or not.

The Euthyphro Problem, but with "higher law" in the place of god. Appealing to a higher law never achieves legitimacy. Morality is a separate consider...

Knowledge is not individual, Meta. It is shared.

There's much care to be taken in doing philosophy. There's a difference between reality and belief. Belief is what you take to be true. Reality is wha...

What? That't be having a loving and trusting relationship, not faith. Faith is a form of believe, but as I said, it;s not just unjustified belief, it'...

Didn't think you could. It's making the speed of light no longer a constant that will let you down, because then it would no longer be a mere translat...

...and yet you base your behaviour around the cup still being where you put it... If someone asked you were the cup is, would you say "in the cupboard...

There's an article in Philosophy Now this month on this topic... I don't think that when someone says "Charity is good" they mean exactly the same thi...

Yeah, I agree - I was mistaken.

How could such a mind have a language? But language is needed in order to propose "I think therefore I am". More broadly, that conclusion comes at the...

Thanks. So we have this: The second premiss is surely a contradiction, no? SO yes, it is a bad argument. But it's far from the only argument against s...

So you could continue on without further rationalising? Well, go for it. I couldn't.

Where? Here's a of Outlines of Pyrronism; where is this argument?

You have a choice?

Then it should be no problem for you to show us these transformations. Physics without the mathematics is mysticism. Or worse, Psychoceramics. Odd, th...

There's stuff we don't know anything about. When folk talk about that stuff, despite not knowing anything about it, they are being mystical. Honest fo...

A system is a description. It is a logical error to ask if this or that description is necessary.

There seems to be only you and I. And I'm not to sure about you...

But a law may be good or it may be bad. That is, a law's being enacted does not make the acts it circumscribes morally right. Morality is a separate c...

Well, no. I can talk to you, and hence make use of your senses, as well as your sense, common or otherwise. Isn't this the same question as, "Does the...

Wouldn't it have been simpler to point out that this leads directly to a contradiction, and hence is invalid? More interestingly, who are the Greeks a...