Banno

§89 - if you will permit me to take my own advice... My favourite reply to the recurrent thread "What is time?" is "I'll tell you later". Sometimes th...

?88 Wittgenstien was an engineer. This mechanical metaphor is worth paying attention to. The engine only does work when the clutch is engaged; languag...

Nothing I do is premature.

Meh - I have two that are easily twice that, on this forum.

Yep.

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Presumably, in order to do this, there are sets.

Yep.

Why care about them rather than kick them? We can do that now, with them.

How you gonna do necessity without PWS? What is necessity if not being true in all possible worlds? Best semantics around, says I. So, if we are going...

Yep; all that. So now what? How we gonna tell them what to do?

Same place, from the other side:

A couple of threads ago I was going in the other direction... :grin:

That is oxymoronic. Logic is grammar. Grammar is not subconscious.

Because I am not as easily pleased as you?

Sweet, isn't it? But of course we need to analyse it. First approximation: the only place one can act is now. One can have acted, in which case all on...

Ok. I’ve just thrown an argument at myself that should have been hurled by others in another thread. The knights will not suffice. There should be mor...

There’s a seperation between legal and moral, sure. But they are not independent, one hopes.

OK, a Knight of Faith?

The will to power.

Too obscure, or a lack of @"Sam26". Moved and edited.

Volition has a role in everything we do. Identifying some event that involves a human being as not involving volition... I'm dubious. Should my friend...

This might be a trap... Kripke's approach is quite different. Once the length is fixed, it is fixed in all possible worlds. Ought we consider possible...

Indeed. I agree. Actually that's an excellent post. I'm left nonplussed. You've brought together many of the bits that were floating around in this an...

But Banno, if what is right is found by intuition, then there's no way for a person to distinguish between something actually being right and it merel...

The tea incident is related in Duty of Genius; the husband had exclaimed "Do not ask; give". I take this to show meaning as use.

Let me know what you think.

New thread, taking this in yet another direction...

I'm under no obligation to reply to every post here. I want to follow a particular line of thought, and it seems to me that your views are of no help ...

Again I will point out that the conclusion in paragraph two does not follow directly from paragraph one. Remember that the point at hand was that Mora...

The previous thread on Moore was obliquely about intuitionism. So is this one. There's a piece of apocryphal about Wittgenstein visiting a Fellow, who...

I don't think so - the herd is rarely right. Perhaps ethics is not about identifying moral rules.

Yes. If the will to power is transcending rules, should Nietzsche move past even his own rules?

Sure. But was she moral responsible? The family of the casualty thought so.

Good question. I'm borrowing vague notions from European thinking. Help me out.

I had a friend who killed someone in a car accident. It seems they were stung by a wasp and lost control. Nevertheless they were held responsible for ...

All of which makes the rule public.

Going back to this... what Moli said applies further afield than just Kant. Following a moral rule is seen in the doing, not the saying, and yet we ca...

...continued The same goes for other existential approaches. I have some sympathy for the view sometimes set as existence precedes essence, although I...

Go for it; I'm just not sure what it might look like.

I'm following Wittgenstein. As I said at the beginning of this thread, I'm going to take that for granted. I'm not interested in defending or rearguin...

...continued Oppose this to a public sensation... say feeling shame. When one feels shame one ought seek vengeance. This could count as a moral princi...

And others... The discussion could involve both cases; after all both are mentioned in the PI; but also we are not here restricted to the PI. Your int...

A family resemblance of rule-following? Cool!

Have you looked at Kripkenstein? This is not unlike his account.

I am puzzling over what it might mean to be self-directed. It can't be following a rule understood only by oneself. And acting in an arbitrary or acci...

Threading forward. A feature at the bottom of a post that links to quotes from that post made in other posts. So I don't have to scan through pages of...

Well, then we would see. But your conclusion does not follow. One can think one is following a rule and yet not be. What is going on in ones head will...

This is a neat rendering. The point of behaving ethically is not to say but to show. But if that's so, how important are moral rules? Can we Do withou...