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Here it is again: A refusal to recognise the answer when it is set out before them. It reeks of some sort of anti-intellectualism, or at least anti-ex...

True enough. More than that, there seems also to be a resistance to learning about infinity - hence flimsy response "If all the rooms are filled you c...

Morality is not algorithmic. Same answer for . There's no criteria, like virtue ethics or capability framework, that will work in all cases for all qu...

Some folk supose that thinking of morals as made but not found devalues them, as if they were as a result arbitrary. On the contrary, it makes our act...

Your somewhat cryptic assertions don't seem to show anything. A group of humans sits around a primordial campfire chewing on bison. One of them says, ...

There are an infinity of intervals before Achilles passes the tortoise, each one half the time of the previous, and so with a finite sum. The process ...

It's not that meaning is use. Explanations in terms of meaning invariably reach a point were one asks the meaning of "meaning" or some such, running a...

A poor argument, if that's what this is. Devine command and evolutionary necessity do not cover all the options. This also makes the mistake of thinki...

But what of ethics?

I'm not seeing a difference. Won't you also have to explain what a side and an angle are? How would you do that? Is your point that red is a simple an...

Nice video. If you were right then you could specify who does not get a room. In the first case, each individual is assigned to the room one more than...

They don't. The continuum is not just a set of points.

Yep. You can't. Between any two points you select, there are infinitely many more points. There are only countably many whole numbers, but far more po...

As I said, I can’t help you.

A koch snowflake has a finite area but an infinite boundary. Odd, that. Very nice.

I see you haven't understood. I doubt I can help. If it is continuous, the by that very fact it is not discreet.

While I'm not at all sure of the wisdom of answering here, you can divide it - into bits of the continuum, which are themselves continuous. A general ...

A continuous path is not reducible to a mere sequence of points; rather, it is a unified whole in which limits make sense without requiring traversal ...

No, it doesn't.

Who here thinks there is no difference between what they want and what is right?

Nothing said implies it isn't. But not to the thoughts and feelings of the doer alone.

Hence non-cognitivism rather then emotivism, and the implication that one must think about the situation and not only about one's emotional response. ...

You sure about that 'because'? First off, murder is unlawful killing. Some ways of killing are not unlawful. Is murder wrong becasue it is killing or ...

, , Why should there be only one thing that "drives" our actions or has the "primary role"? Isn't it entirely possible for that some act be emotional ...

Is your point that Zeno treats motion as a series of steps, while both physics and maths treat it as continuous? I'll go along with that.

Ok. If that works for you. I really don't care. Seems parochial.

Thanks, that makes your point clearer. So type theory can be used to give a clear account of what is analytic and what is synthetic. This is different...

It's what you do, not what you feel or think, that counts, isn't it?

Perhaps bead eight is square. In that case, and given that our domain is just the beads, "...is square" and '...is eight" are extensionally equivalent...

, The ambiguities around "emotion" are perhaps the reason that the view Tom is espousing is no more often called non-cognitivism, placing the emphasis...

yes, indeed. That was said with some irony. But the disruptive emperor requires novel strategies.

Yes. It's about how we want things to be. It's not that emotivism is wrong so much as that it doesn't properly recognise the difference between what I...

Trump wants to take over Ukraine's power supply. And he is looking to expand the Union. Zelenskyy might consider calling Trump's bluff by offering Ukr...

Back to the Binding of Isaac. The replies assumed that I was holding god culpable for the torture of a child. But god, being god, does what it is nece...

Ok, but then my point still stands. One can't derive any consequent from "boo stealing!". At the very least a moral statement worthy of the name needs...

Yep. "stealing is immoral" is a much harder problem. Why are they the only options? What are the other options? And these two do not appear to be mutu...

Not something with which I am familiar. But in intuitionistic type theory, isn't a theorem synthetic if its truth depends on constructive proof rather...

Lord, preserve us from strong men.

“Necessary“ should probably be used in its quite specific modal fashion. “Absolute“ is pretty ill defined, and probably a nonsense word. It would be i...

Yep. The bedrock metaphor is not as good as the riverbed metaphor. The bed remains relatively fixed.

Whether it is true is a very different question to whether it is truth-apt.

Yep. But others here do not have that excuse.

Yep. The force of some statements is "Things are thus". We change the words to match how the world is. The force of some other statements is "Things s...

Two points: moral statements are statements, and statements are generally truth apt - the sort of thing that is either true or false. And if they are ...

Odd. It is true that stealing is wrong. "Stealing is wrong" is false.

And yet they are. It goes with the territory of "statement" :down: :down:

Yep. The distance covered is finite. The flip side of that is that the time taken for each step is zero at infinity, so while there are a mooted infin...

Not a location I recognise. :meh: Good night.

And you are not born into an abyss.

Bootstrapping.