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Do we? If you can't know my private subjective experience, you can't know that it is unique.

I'll question this: It seems to suppose that the preexisting aspect is represented in words and matched up against another preexisting aspect in anoth...

So the model is one of private subjective worlds interacting via language and non-verbal communication?

I think we are on the same page - I'd express this as that the private experience is irrelevant; it's that the language has a use that gives the utter...

Oh, Ok - I'll take your word for it. i suggest that any further talk fo qualia occur elsewhere - PM me? I don't wish to derail Glen's thread.

Wittgenstein, yes - and I am as much a student as you. Hmmm. I don't think love resides in the brain, so much as in the relationship between the lover...

I'm saying: that we might, or that we don't, is irrelevant. Isomorphism is not required. Anyway, too far off topic.

Isn't love a bit complex? Are you familiar with the notion of a family resemblance? "Love" would have to be such a term, avoiding definition... So why...

I agree. But in fairness I'll repeat my reply to your isomorphism. I effect, I agree with you, expect that you have the argument around the wrong way....

Oh, understood - and I agree. Instead of a new language, we might just modify the existing language... How could I tell that when you say "I just had ...

Thanks - much appreciated. The objection I have to qualia is quite specific: if they are private, then they can't be the subject of conversation. But ...

Have a peek at Anomalous Monism The idea is, contrary to Hanover's suggestion, that the mind is entirely the result of physical processes, but that no...

Davidson has another neat argument here... On the very idea of a conceptual scheme.

I think this needs a new thread... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/10249/intersubjectivity

...perhaps there are no strict laws explaining mental events - anomalous monism.

...it might be worth someone pointing out that this phrase is quite obscure...

If you like; my purpose was no more than to ensure that it was clear this moral position is not a deduction from evolutionary science. Perhaps you wou...

Perhaps; however the upshot of my questioning him is that he thinks there is an ought, albeit hidden in the word "correct". He does suppose that we ma...

If you like. I was just paraphrasing his "this is my considered opinion". Edit: I read your linked articles. While I agree with them in the main, ther...

, see The pretence is that there is a scientific account of what we ought do. But on analysis, it comes down to an expression of Counterpunch's person...

Well said. Instead, I'd say there is a very widespread assumption in modern culture that evolutionary biology replaced ethics in the sense of providin...

Sure. That doesn't answer the question. All you've said is that you have a preference for survival: "this is my considered opinion". The anti-natalist...

You are still making moral decisions. You have just decided not to call them good or bad.

There's a difference between mere preference and obligation. A preference is what I want; an obligation is what everyone ought want. So I prefer vanil...

Ah. Good. So "the human organism"(individual, species, genetic code...?) has a moral imperative to survive. Why? Edit: Perhaps I should put it this wa...

Given that @"counterpunch" claims to be telling us how things are, and not how they ought be, he isn't addressing morality. Hence my questions. In ord...

Another nice polemic. But you still have not confirmed or rejected my assessment that you think living things have a moral imperative to survive. Perr...

I don't think there's much disagreement then. Meditation is the analysis of the beetle in the box; whatever is said about it drops out of the discussi...

Nice polemic. (My bolding) Again, what is "correct" if not simply surviving? This is were the ought is inserted, is it not? So again, is you claim tha...

What is "correct", if not that the organism indeed survives? Is it that for you an organism ought survive? So your argument is that there is a univers...

I don't understand.

I'm a bit surprised to find you apparently agreeing with the anthropic principle here, after our chat on Knowledge, Belief, and Faith: Anthony Kenny. ...

They are separate and starkly different No, since both are statement and hence about things. We can take what ought be the case and make it the case. ...

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...those trapped by erroneous notions of meaning, who would benefit from looking at what is being done with the words they misuse.

Isn't the distinction obviously one of direction of fit? An "is" statement will be felicitous if what is said were modified to match what is the case....

We have some agreement. Kenny sets out faith in terms of adherence to "acceptance of the testimony of a sacred text or of a religious community" - top...

Frank, yep. See the word "know" in "If you don't know it's false"? Where'd it come from? But, hey, seems you understood what was said. Well done.

Keep in mind that both Australia and New Zealand have low community infection precisely because they locked down heavily and quickly. IF 'merica or th...

It's not reasonable to be certain of stuff that is false.

Well, yes. You might learn something.

I agree; alienation is not an appropriate response, let alone the only one. It's not the only conclusion a phenomenological program can reach. For ins...

That's still just naming, without explaining... but with bigger words.

Thanks for this, because it shows clearly the difficulty. It's as if one sort warrant to conclude that since the cat is projected onto "out there", th...

I suspect the problem is philosophy of religion where the participants don't know much about philosophy.

But the point of faith is that there is no warrant. Asking what would warrant faith is like asking the colour of economics.

A better rendering might be: Faith frequently does mean unwarranted certainty.

Something must be said about metaphor; so far the only comment was to support Kenny's discussion of the necessity of reading scriptures metaphorically...

Perhaps not... https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sheeple.png My reply is simply that Kenny describes faith in terms of lack or warrant; for the religious b...

If I understand this aright, it seems contradictory. It's agreeing that the world is always, already interpreted and yet saying that it does not relat...