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That's pivotal here. The discussion of truth in the OP is set as if it were an analysis, but isn't. It's statements that are true or false. Synthesis ...

And self-contradictory. Synthesis knows god is unknowable, and quite a few other things about this unknown... But coherence is apparently not importan...

I mean, learn to stand up for yourself.

Me, too. I suspect it isn't consistent.

Maybe. I think Luke has a persistent misunderstanding about what others, like Isaac, mean by "private".

Yep; and since social, public and hence not private.

That wouldn't help. Go over it again. You made the claim that Isaac didn't have any arguments to offer against the privacy of subjective experience; t...

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'Mercans. Fucksake. You may be right. Walk down the streets of Melbourne without a mask and folk will yell things like "Put a mask on, you fuckin' dic...

Bullshit. They are selfish dicks.

It's also ethics they don't understand. Ethics involves care for others; that seems to be beyond their comprehension.

Again, it's descriptions that are consistent, not worlds. IF the description is inconsistent, you need a better description. On the contrary, chaos an...

...this is a purely rhetorical move. If there were no arguments presented here against the privacy of subjective experience, what have you been doing ...

That's philosophy of the worst sort. On a par with Lewis Carol and Spike Milligan, but they knew they were writing nonsense.

If there is no argument, why are you arguing? How are you arguing?

If I said there were thousands of people with Covid-19 in Africa, you'd counter with "Then name one!".

After thirty pages - If you have not seen an argument, why are you still here? Your attitude is disingenuous. It doesn't match your actions.

As I said, you describe a power imbalance. You might do well to change that.

...as if you were to claim "my left and right belong only to me; you have a left and right, but they are different to mine; I can never know what your...

My argument is somewhere in the first twenty-odd pages. You read it, because you replied to it. It's as if we were talking about left and right as com...

So much the worse for them. You describe a power imbalance in which you are the one asked to make the justification. Flip that around; seek a justific...

33 pages and you claim you still haven't seen an argument? Disingenuous.

...then why bother reading your post?

This does not remove the basic problem: what to do next. Ought one to love god? Saying "yes - because god says so" is quite circular.

Because that's how language works. The question is not "is the world consistent?" but "is that a consistent description?" - and if it is not, then we ...

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I don't think this works. Consider an example fo a contradiction - light being both a wave and a particle; the speed of light being the same in any di...

...and what was it you think you said?

"1" does not refer to anything.

Yes, there are. They just have older bodies. But you entirely missed the point that sometimes what you ought do is to put yourself in danger. Indeed, ...

A religious person must choose to follow what they think is the will of god, or to turn against it. They might think they have avoided making a choice...

For those who can only think in terms of "...isms", I'm saying that the OP sets out ethics as if it were only deontology, and further that virtue ethi...

No, I had Hume in mind.

You talk as if "the ancients" were all in agreement; and also as if they had some authority beyond mere precedence.

That analysis goes much further back than Quine. The OP formulates its question in terms of the subjective and the objective. That approach is fraught...

That strikes me as confused. There is a difference between what is the case and what ought be the case. This is a difference in direction of fit. You ...

There once was a group of Arabic ex-slaves so bereft of common decency that they had to write down a set of rules in order to remember how to behave a...

Is it? A contradiction is when one statement is the negation of another, yet both are asserted. Is nature is made up of statements? That's what you se...

Someone who doubts that the bishop always remains on the same coloured squares isn't a leading epistemologist; they have just misunderstood the rules ...

The mistake in the OP is to think in terms of objective/subjective rather than is/ought.

Children write the funniest things.

You can answer the big questions before the little questions of which they are composed? Well, good for you.

Well, I'll agree to disagree. Too many nouns for my taste.

We've lost an occasional flock. A few years back we had "Death in the night" visit us once every few months - one chicken would disappear, without fus...

All in the brain? No, the opposite - it's a public enterprise!

Language is a common structure for the stuff we do. Replace meaning with what we do with words. Then your "implicit assumption" is just that we do thi...

Not if meaning is just what you do with words.

Here's the referential theory of meaning again. Seems to be a key point of disagreement. I don't think that the meaning of a sentence is given by the ...

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Meh. Pragmatism predates the linguistic turn, so that's not right.