Banno

How does logic help?

Curiosity. How can you tell when you have made an error?

How do you know you have made an error?

Do you ever make mistakes? Get it wrong?

So is it consciousness that allows you to know the truth, not observation and logic.

How do you know that what you observe is the truth?

SO when you observe reality, you observe what you observe.

And reality is what you observe?

SO, what is reason?

How do you know that?

Not really. The usual trimester arrangement - around Week 24 or 25 - will do for most purposes, using viability as the main criterion.

Drop the "necessarily". It's immoral. It's immoral because it puts the "needs" of a cyst ahead of those of a human. As if a cyst had needs. But see th...

And some do not define fetus to include the "baby".

A blastocyst does not have rights.

Just to be clear, those who oppose free choice on the part of a woman wishing to put an early end to an unwanted pregnancy are acting immorally.

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Hm. The length of the metre is rigidly designated by the name "metre". "The length of this stick" is a definite description. Keep the quotes in, to sh...

@"Wallows" Let's go over the Barcan formula. (x) ??(x) ? ?(x)?(x) If: everything necessarily has a particular property. Then: necessarily, everything ...

No, it isn't. The description is not a rigid designator. In some possible world, Wallows is a a fat plump man living at the North Pole, who knows whet...

A fictional fat plump man living at the North Pole, who knows whether you've been a good or bad, and rewards accordingly with coal or presents. The be...

Antigonish.

Think that through for me. What sort of stipulation would allow us to bring Santa Clause into existence?

I don't see that this counts against stipulation as a way of avoiding the multitudinous issues of transworld identity. I can posit new individuals: Su...

I'll come out and say what others are thinking: this is nonsense.

You will have to explain this to me.

That's a modbot question, isn't it. Because it isn't. Now I think this one of the advantages of his system.

Did you read the final paragraph?

If an assumption of the argument is wrong, it's not worth following the argument.

Lower predicate logic, including existential quantification, is included in Kripke's semantics. The Barcan formula is not a thesis of his system.

(Judith Thomson) A Blastocyst is not a person.

I was referring to your argument, in the post I was replying to. No mention of the involvement of the woman.

Seriously? I think your discounting of the woman is grossly immoral. What kind of blindness could bring you to think like that?

Again, here, the woman receives no mention. Why?

You might want to reconsider your bedfellow. Or are you comfortable with misogyny?

A neat word that denies the humanity of the woman involved. Disgusting.

Is abortion to be regretted? Of course, as any medical procedure would be best unneeded.

"Woman" is mentioned once in your cited article. "mother" is not mentioned. Nor "Parent". So, tell me if I am wrong, but the article you cite appears ...

:brow: Passion has its place.

The woman who has the Blastocyst is the one who should decide what to do with it. There is no question that she is alive and able to make the decision...

Whence your moral principles?

What pisses me off most about the choice debate is the insincerity of the antagonists. The reason you want to ban abortion is nothing to do with fair ...

Rubbish. Murder is illegal killing. So it is only murder if it counts as illegal, and if it counts as killing. The circularity of your argument marks ...

The philology in this thread is far more valuable than the philosophy.

"Have": to possess. I have 37 slaves. But more than 37 people have been to Russia. SO, the title is true.

Same goes if you are saying that you know about the pain first hand, while we know about it second or even third hand. THat's differences in the justi...

It can be true that Prothero has a pain in his toe. Are you asking is you cannot share this? no, because of course you could tell us that you have a p...

But I have nothing in my back account.

Well, yes, it is commonly done. Each time you ask me to pas the salt, we check our agreement on there being salt. This conversation checks our agreeme...

Oh, yeah. There are plenty of things of which we are certain, but of which we ought not claim knowledge. This is because knowledge requires (on one co...

Well, yes. To believe ? is to think that ? is true. Recall Moore's performative contradiction: "I believe ?, but ? is not true". The "on that basis al...