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The most interesting debates are those in which the terms are defined over the course of the discussion. So, no, defining terms up front will only ser...

That's an enlightenment notion, probably due to Kant. Too much of what is human is irrational for rationality to be considered intrinsic to humanity. ...

Not seeing it. One would expose the naturalistic fallacy using an open question - suppose we have an act that we agree is rational. It is still open t...

You ought take the word logical out of the OP, too. I'm not seeing the reification. Wouldn't that be more like asking what shape The Good has? Or how ...

Only in the title.

These are both informal fallacies, not logical fallacies.

Play with it a bit, and you may find that T-sentences exactly capture what you are saying here.

Probably just as well.

But that's not right. At the best you could claim a procedure was needed to justify belief in A. But the error here has you replacing redundancy with ...

Yep. You are right.

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All of them.

Learning what courage is, is bedrock.

Think of the article as an admonition not to do ethics but to act; following Wittgenstein in not looking to the meaning of ethical terms but to what o...

Roughly, getting on with it. Showing the fly the way out of the bottle.

Sure - Ramsey has one demonstrate one's understanding of "the cat is on the mat" by making use of it. That's not an objection to what I have said. I'm...

Dude, help me here.... "A" is true IFF A" is equivalent to it being the case that "A" is true IFF A"... So we have "A" is true IFF A" iff "A" is true ...

Well, the point of virtue ethics was to avoid rules, so... I agree; that's where she is going - ethics as conceptual analysis. Neat.

That one I could go with. Virtue ethics strikes me as providing a much richer environment for teaching than, say, deontology. Compare punishing someon...

And your mum wears army boots. Quality, this chat.

So getting back on to the topic of virtue... Why not just say that courage is worthy of cultivation - and if you disagree, that's not a fact about cou...

If that's all you mean, then that's fine. My beef is with Meta's tedious assertion that every accepted proposition has a justification. But fuck him. ...

Yeah, it is. Unless you want to indulge in special pleading - arguing that it can't be a proposition because it doesn't do what you expect proposition...

Doubtless; I have honours and a masters, and have been studying philosophy for over forty years. But I could lean some more. So, educate me.

What could possibly count as a reason here?

Rather, it's outside of rationality - like "I prefer vanilla".

Rubbish.

All I'm doing here is pointing out that "how de we know that the cat is on the mat?" and "How do we know that 'the cat is on the mat' is true?" are pr...

IT was false for them, too. They were what We In The Trade call wrong.

The JTB account is described as so much farting, in the last few lines of the Theaetetus account from whence it came. I think it better to treat knowl...

Here's a fine fly-bottle. A Seagull who writes eloquently, yet without knowing. I put it to you that you know plenty of cool stuff, but philosophy tel...

I'm afraid that your question is far too clever to be understood. Is it much ado about nothing?

Pretty much. Two distinct questions: what is truth? What do we know? The answer to the first question: "p" is true IFF p. And that is all there is to ...

Well... it's simpler than any other? I don't see any substance in your reply.

'Twas once commonly asserted that the sun is the centre of the cosmos.

It's apparent from discussion elsewhere that infinity holds a terror for you that I, and I think most others, do not share. Arguably Aristotle sort to...

Giving them some sort of priority, on the other hand, certainly takes up considerable energy. Hare and Socrates concluded that weakness of the will wa...

Nice. So Moore had supposed that "ethical knowledge rests on a capacity for an intuitive grasp of fundamental ethical truths for which we can give no ...

Sweeet. Cheers.

He called her "Old Man" - an honorific gender reassignment. It should not be necessary to defend a Wittgensteinian reading of her essay. I'd been intr...

“Modern Moral Philosophy,” Philosophy, 33 (1958) Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, Oxford: Basil Bl...

Yes, I agree...

Cheers!

Yep. Kant gets owned.

Does anyone have a better PDF? Uncopyable and unsearchable, it's like I was an undergrad again...

Yeah, nuh. Following Wittgenstein, I don't think that this counts as further analysis; because the criteria are not listable - she mentions family res...

Point being, this seems to me to show the poverty of deontology - it is moral to do otherwise then what the rules say.

Well, it's not going to hurt for us to understand how minds work if our aim is to tell folk what to do with them...

Or perhaps it is the lack of competent foreplay.