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Understood - Please forgive the rhetorical flourish. There's a bit of the logic that I think interesting, but that is in danger of being overlooked; a...

IF you do not wish your ideas to be critiqued, don't post them.

It is otherwise stated. indeed, that's the point of OC.

I've no idea what a "Rowena" is. Don't you feel the least bit uncomfortable at repeatedly resorting to ad homs?

I did. You can't see it. That's how discussion with you goes. Three rebuttals, each unmet: From @"T H E", that morality is a social phenomena, not an ...

Well, no. It's not exclusively about competition, as what you've said might seem to imply. Individuals can and do also cooperate. Talk of a "right" to...

Yep. Your standard ad hom. Yawn.

:grin: I guess this is what makes Mww interesting...

Meh. Your standard response. The metaphor you disparage is from Philosophical Investigations, with a long history in philosophical circles. But you wo...

Evolution just happens - there are no "better" generations. Nor is it chaotic, in that there is a clear order to the process by which it occurs. Juxta...

Cheers. Your comment together with serve to undermine the OP. This is a misguided metaphor. Better, the feeling of pain is itself the pain. Morality i...

The law has nothing to do with morality... isn't that obvious? Any correspondence between the Law and the Good is surely coincidental...

Yep. Moral proscriptions are post hoc. It's not you who is confused.

Arguably it is not a British trait but Celtic. Celtic humour is ripe with irony, as seen in the self-deprecation that is simply not understood in 'mer...

Why do you ask?

You're vacillating.

Well, there's an interesting question for them.

The remark was directed at Mww's response: Mww is returning to Cartesian foundations: "it remains that foundation walls are not carried by the house; ...

Pretty much. yes, it is an extraordinary insight, undermining much of what passes for moral theorising hereabouts. Try using it next time someone tell...

@"RussellA", you've no comment for this thread? The sceptic thinks he can step outside not just the framework at hand, but all frameworks altogether.

What? As in, I've no clear idea of what you are claiming. Should that have been 'Well, the term "use" defines analyticity...' as in, are you claiming ...

It's wrong. What observation backs your belief that 2+2=4? Or your belief that you have a pain in your foot?

Beliefs are considered reliable when they are justified. One form of justification is observation. Faith is belief despite the lack of justification. ...

Further, coherentism as an epistemological notion holds that what is true is what is coherent with the (vaguely defined) consensus of beliefs. In Witt...

Obviously, although there are relevant differences. It seems unlikely that Wittgenstein would have rejected analyticity, although he doesn't make use ...

, I'm pretty much in concord with this, of course. The cynic in me supposes that Grayling needs philosophy to continue, since it is his bread and butt...

Despite sharing many of your health considerations, and there being no local cases, I had the AstraZeneca yesterday. I was simply not willing to incre...

You might read them and discover for yourself.

It's not just that one is socially embedded. Morality and ethics are about how one is to relate to others. The OP ignores this.

This puts me in mind of the various threads on Wittgenstein's response to scepticism; it's not at all unreasonable to doubt this or that, but it is qu...

Of course, rather than all this conspiracy bumf, it just could be that the 'dominant narrative' is roughly right... Yeah, I know, that's not going to ...

I'm booked in to receive the Astrazeneca vaccine later today. I've had a look around the research and can see no reason not to, and plenty of reason i...

As if you could! Do you need to do your own trials? What information are you missing? A quick search of the net will bring up the relevant data. Perha...

So... for you philosophy is only about setting out definitions? That's not right.

You called? Isaac captures the reason I don't bother with your threads. It is worth pointing out, if only in the interests of forum quality.

His house is below yours, dug in? Must have some clever waterproofing. Wonder where the stormwater from you and your other neighbours runs. Just sayin...

Learn not to think of the world in terms of winners and losers. Go hang out with disabled folk for a while, or the terminally ill. Get some perspectiv...

I am saying that when you treat a statement as a hinge in the relevant way, it is not subject to doubt, and hence cannot participate in the game of as...

I really must complain about the off-topic posts here. All this stuff about ignorance. Anyway, chickens will clear an area of ground down to the dirt,...

Part VI Does Wittgenstein confuse idealism with scepticism? Idealism is scepticism towards what Moore called an external world, in the source text Pro...

I'd simply flip this, saying that it is good to raise the quality of someone's life, and bad to reduce it. Much of what you have said still follows, b...

Ah, well, perhaps we part here on our understanding of the text. For OC10 leads to A child though they knew 12x12 = 128. Where did they go wrong? Ther...

It was He of the overenthusiastic moustache who most famously pointed out that Christianity was for losers. He was also enthusiastic about Great Men, ...

But there was also something attractive, something almost human, in the Pythonesque reference to a Dromedary.

Should have bought chickens.

Sure. But foremost in the demerits is that it is wrong. The good is not definable. It is a simple term, it is not analysable.

Yeah. The salient bit of that post is

A better explanation is that the difference between "camel" and "rope" in written Aramaic is very slight. The camel entered via an inattentive scribe.

Are people getting more ignorant? Getting? Seems so.

Why ought one seek a better quality of life? Perhaps one ought seek a lower quality of life, say in order to increase such virtues as stamina and resi...