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Well, yeah. But do you conclude that there is stuff that is not physical? 'Cause that does not follow.

YOu seem to want an ethical theory that will give you political power. That's not what ethics does.

It's not a bad assumption, if only for the purpose of checking out possibilities. Whta woudl be the alternative? There's no necessity here. Understand...

That puts me in the introduction. Where are you by contents?

What and where are you reading? Might be worth a chat.

@"Terrapin Station" might have some grounding if his were the only possibility. But it isn't. Numbers are something we do; they consist in our countin...

Then, since you are talking about a completely different thing to the rest of us, why should we pay you any attention? Why not treat your argument as ...

And here you are spinning the word "physical". I dunno. Elsewhere you say clever stuff.

This puzzles me. IS Terra's claim that the number 2 is a brain state? But that's nonsense, since it would mean that my 2 and your 2, being different b...

Discussion stops, but what do you do?

IF you erased that building, would you erase the UN? No. Special pleading.

SO - where is the United Nations?

SO for you a thing must have a location? Or perhaps having a location is a prerequisite for having a name? But why am I trying to guess what you mean?

Yes. It's like playing poker with someone who wants an explanation of why the Ace is the highest card.

As I recall, the problem with social contracts was the presumption of equality during the development phase; behind the veil of ignorance, in Rawls' t...

Well, get to the point.

Between the 49-digit and 51-digit integers.

That's just crap.

Not at all sure what you are saying here. I think we can be confident that there are fifty-digit integers that have not been written down or spoken.

But you do not see their worth, so you cannot see their worth. I can't fix that for you.

This is what I had in mind. It's easy to make such a mapping for countably infinite stuff. What about uncountably infinite stuff? Hnece: and Which see...

But that's not right. "Two" is a proper name. Same for any integer. There are integers that have never been thought or said. Hence there are proper na...

Notice that one of the things that distinguishes capabilities from other approaches to ethics is that it does not look to feelings - happiness, suffer...

That would be incorrect. Rather I've said all that need be said. You've set up a neat little word game, and you like to play it. Have fun.

Because an argument is of no use here.

Yep. That's apparent.

Then we're sunk.

Yeah. The paradox is in valuing a world without values, of preferring a world without preferences.

That was more directed at Harry than at you. How so?

It's a good page. It's the beings and doings that give value to life, and the enabling of these that sets up what it is we ought to do.

Craig Coombs was diagnosed with throat cancer five or six years ago. It had spread, giving him a year or so to live. So he decided that he would put a...

Because those things are worth doing, despite suffering. But I don't expect you to agree. Nor am I that interested in arguing the point.

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that's all.”

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Just noticed this. noice.

Not a matter of language use only; but certainly a matter of language use.

Yeah. Good point.

Perhaps we should. The tree is a marker, a shade, a topic of conversation, a good example of what it is to be useless. Say that it is useless, and by ...

Indeed. Yet here it is.

From another thread:

Here's an odd thing: the introduction of the words objective and subjective freezes ethics. So, don't.

You are still saying much more than you need to.

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

And the slithy toves

T'was brillig.

All of them. Doubtless.

Nuh. Seems to me you have much the same issue as Merk. ANd it's too difficult to make sense of your writing. So. Nuh.

Let him speak for himself. That is what he said.

Much better. SO what are you wanting to say?