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Interpretation. Within a language that's how it goes. From one language to another... Davidson's project was to take English and interpret it in first...

Do you wish the Wittgenstein language-as-use stuff to be discussed here? I'm aware that, as entertainment, it has been overdone,

And yet it moves.

I'm saying no more than that your description does not work.

OK, if you prefer, if you do not treat it as continuous, you get a whole bunch of philosophers playing silly buggers with it. :joke:

But we already made the point that it is continuous.

You've lost me entirely.

Why would you think that?

Then it doesn't depend on it. Maths is just language. We can choose any description we want for movement. You choose descriptions that do not work, an...

How's that?

Notice that counting and passing through are not the same?

Tough. It is possible to travel a metre. I've even done it a few times. Bet you have, too. SO there is something wrong with your account. Now, why do ...

OK. End of problem. Which paradox is next?

Well then, let's drop that assumption. End pf paradox?

Where's that fit? Are you wanting to treat distance over time as discontinuous? That'd be novel.

SO you understand the idea of an infinite number of steps with a finite sum? How does that not solve the paradox?

I might ask that more generally. Is it the case that those here who maintain there is a paradox have studied limits and differential calculus? Let's s...

I don't follow what you are claiming here. May I ask, have you studied differential calculus and limits?

Yep. That's not a problem. ½+¼+?+...=1.

But that assumption is made in the description of the problem.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/253831

:chin: Sure. I wasn't paying that any attention. Ought I?

An approximation? Your differential calculus is different to mine, then.

Wolfram.

Which?

Differential Calculus. Problem solved.

Good post. That belief and truth are distinct is something that ought be maintained in ethics as elsewhere.

:grin:

That's a curious sort of logical yoga you are doing there.

Two poached eggs; not my own, but free range from a local farm. Still runny. Salt and olive oil, not butter. I find it more flavoursome. Mediterranean...

Thank you. Actually, I was poaching a couple of eggs for breakfast. And the toast just popped.

Yep. That's what happens to a critique when you only look at part of it.

Rank thinks that the existence of a piece of tissue that is parasitic on a person permits us to tell that person what to do. That's immoral. It's obsc...

It might be that it is time for someone to point out the poverty of relativism to the community. While this thread was started in order to show folk t...

And they would be wrong. See my dismissal of relativism above.

Your obsession with objective and subjective. I don't think these terms work as well as you suggest. That's good. So it's like "The cat is on the mat"...

Relativism. I don't thing this works, because of the nature of moral judgements. "I ought not kick the puppy" is not the same as "no one ought kick th...

Yep.

Take a look at With luck, the last thread on abortion., in which copious argument is used by @"Rank Amateur" in defence of the immoral claim that a pi...

Sure. Apply the open question... Are well-being and good the very same? Could one have well-being and yet not be good? Could one be good and yet not h...

Then have a go at answering your question yourself.

Yep. I'm more or less agreeing that it is an odd question - asking for support for their being something "wrong with them" where that's not about the ...

Think about why you used this pejorative. What word might you choose instead? Beliefs? Decision? Judgement?

No; the decision is up to the woman parasitised by the foetus.

My argument in full: A woman has far greater moral worth than a piece of tissue. That you need more than this to suport your point is one way you demo...

You bemoan repetition... then you reply by repeating yourself. Here's the rub: A woman has far greater moral worth than a piece of tissue. Let that be...

...and still you do not see the poverty of your reply. Indeed, it is tiresome. You seek to treat the foetus as if it were distinct from the woman. It ...

Indeed, I am passionate. What makes your argument sinful is that it pretends to show that the life of a piece of tissue is valuable without mention of...

You are reduces to an argument from popularity? Yep, those god-fearing priests and bishops have such a high regard for the sanctity of childhood; I'll...

Don't take me for a fool. What are "People like us" if not people? The argument revolves around personhood. The pretence that it does not is part of w...