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@"Hanover", how goes your reading of Austin? I saw your interaction with @"Michael", and suspect we have some agreement as to where his account falls ...

Ask Lucifer... Worth considering in terms of "flourishing", to see how it doesn't help. We could feed the pup or eat it. Both incur flourishing. Which...

Nice. Consider this: "acting rightly is acting in accordance with the structure of reality itself". This is much stronger than the simple "X is good I...

"Infinite" means "not finite", not "not countable". And to be countable is to have an injection into ?; or equivalently, to have a bijection with a su...

Indeed, and in so doing hope to close themselves off from the Euthyphro by asserting a supposed brute fact that god's will and what is good are the ve...

Now many integers are there between zero and five?

Yep. But some things are of your own choosing. And convincing yourself that you had no choice when you plainly might have done otherwise is... unwise?...

Yes, there is something unsettling in such certainty... the denial that one might have chosen otherwise. Luther excusing his own sins.

Here's the "argument" from the OP: It invokes an impressive number of non sequiturs. But let's set those aside and instead note that choosing to follo...

Yep. It's a common Christian response to the Euthyphro. Why ought we adopt that game? The argument you present relocates the normative element into a ...

If you think Meta has convincingly shown that numbers do not exist, then I suppose that's an end to this discussion. And to mathematics. But I hope yo...

You presume the sequence "this is the case" is followed by a judgement "this ought be the case", then show that this is muddled. Yep. That sequence is...

Yep. Even if we had before us is the undoubted word of god, it does not follow that we ought do as he says. It remains open for us to do as the book s...

There's a cut missing in these considerations. One that has been known to philosophers for a centuries, but hasn't transferred to the general consciou...

Well, I'm pleased you had a read. I suspect the trouble might be that you want a theory of inner states, while Austin wants to show that the philosoph...

Same thing. Again, not my problem that you don't understand this. Very sloppy work. Platonism is not the claim that symbols refer to something, but th...

No, Meta. Quantification or assigning a value does not require Platonic commitment. A value can ‘have being’ within a formal system, a constructive fr...

Platonism is indeed unacceptable, but quantification is not platonic. Sad you can't see that. Quantification does not require Platonic commitment; it ...

More often, having nailed their flag to the mast, they will double down.

Nice work.

...or you have an awe surfeit. Awe is not an argument.

You want I should be awe struck into agreement? Nuh.

Well, no, it isn't. The bits and pieces around me have a place in there as well. Be they quantum fluctuations or cups and cats. Your jump from "neural...

Ok. but "More word smithing" says nothing. I suppose it's just more word smithing. Or is it that you hung your flag on the "indirect realist" mast, th...

I've tried to follow what you are doing here, but scattered inaccuracies and errors make it very difficult. I gather you want to Cantor’s argument int...

, , yes, Maria Corina Machado is playing trump almost as well as does Putin.

Well put. "I gave you a fact" , not noticing how the "fact" is the result of his own attitudes and presumptions.

That's the point at issue. The thing about an hallucination or dream is exactly that there is no something. An hallucination is defined precisely by t...

:meh:

Good. See Oli, your craving for certainty is not a firm grounding for belief.

To be is to be the value of a bound variable. ? and ? are cases in point. In maths, Quine's rule fits: existence is not discovered by metaphysical int...

Yes., well phrased Although we might differ a bit on the extensibility of maths. It's just extending the way we talk about numbers. What started with ...

I loved teaching this stuff to third and fourth grade kids. The Biggest Number game; they say "A hundred ", reply "A hundred and one"; they say "A mil...

We don't need much ontology. Quantification will suffice.

It seems very odd to need a proof that god exists in order to do the right thing.

I'm not sure I know what that might mean; but I do hear my wife's voice, through the telephone. That's indirect, in comparison to when she is in the r...

maybe see https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/1034678 The causal chain remains the same, but our attention (the blanket) can be placed i...

Interestingly, this is pretty much the reply I owe you from that other discussion. Good reply.

"Is" and "of" are not the same word.

Well, he at the least served as a poor example, showing us that the theory that there are two populations does not have a truth value.

I prefer "conceptual clarification"... I clarify concepts, you smith words, he makes shit up... :wink: Yes. I quite agree. A moment for the departed; ...

Ben only asserts. Watch, you'll see.

Well, that's a start. No. I'm denying that what we experience is that flood of electrical data. Rather, having an experience is having that flood of e...

There's a category error that involves thinking that because we can't start at one and write down every subsequent natural number, they don't exist. 1...

SO your response not by presenting an argument but by reasserting your error. Ok. Having a "content of experience" presupposes a container–contained p...

It will help if you reply to what I say, rather than what you want me to have said.

No. The content of my experience is the cat, the ship, the smell of coffee. Not my neural processes, and not my neural representations. That, if we mu...

No. Humans do not experience neural representations; experience is having neural representations. You are not separate from your neural processes.

Frank turns up at our laboratory, and we are unable to categorise him into one population or the other. Michael wants to maintain that there are never...

“Direct realism” is not a position that emerged from philosophers asking how perception is best understood, so much as a reaction to dialectical press...