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Sorry, hadn't had time to read fully and respond until now. Overall it looks like a case of option #2 (description only). You give an accurate enough ...

This is the kind of opinion that I meant to be covered by the first option, not the last.

That A intends for me to do X (i.e. "thinks that I should do X"), and that A is a person I expect to have the right idea of what I should do, constitu...

That's how I think of it, yeah, but it seems apparent that not everybody else does; and even those who do, who agree that they are fundamentally diffe...

The answer to all those questions is, as I said in my last post, trust, which NB is a word closely related to “truth”. If I ask you a technical questi...

That would be one of the middle two options, each of which considers there to be only one domain. But in that case I’m curious how one would character...

That difference doesn't seem to me (in my experience speaking and listening to people in my native English for a handful of decades) to be made by the...

If you're going so far as to claim this, that there's is no meaningful, pragmatic difference between indicative and imperative sentences, just some su...

I was differentiating there between a priori and a posteriori questions about language. You're talking about what particular words that particular peo...

It seems like we're talking about different things here. I'm not looking to assess what any particular words "really mean"; that's (if anything at all...

That presumes that they care to avoid behavior that's labelled that way, which in turn is to assume that they are a relativist, who already thinks tha...

I agree, now that I know you're an ethical naturalist, because I think the whole problem with ethical naturalism or any kind of ethical descriptivism ...

In those passages I'm using the first-person plural the way a mathematician would, or as philosophers sometimes do, the writer walking through a probl...

The point of that quote was that the senators voting on it, if they themselves are traitors, require 2/3 vote to STAY in congress, so they should need...

I'm too tired in the middle of the night now to connect this properly to the Trump impeachment, but someone whose knowledge I trust said in a chat ser...

It's not that one part of it is analytic and another is pragmatic, but that the whole thing lies at the interface between the two. Basically we're ask...

They’d probably agree to the “Anti-Democrat Party” at least.

Philosophical claims like we're discussing here are properly speaking neither descriptive nor prescriptive in the sense that claims about reality and ...

Such "limited relativity" is just universality plus uncertainty (which is what I'm advocating). It accepts that everything is either permissible or im...

Though mass is better defined in terms of energy than vice versa, and energy at a quantum level is about frequency and wavelength which in turn are al...

I find that, aside from simply allowing myself to ignore the meaningless craving for meaning that ontophobia brings on, the way to cultivate ontophili...

It doesn’t have to be entirely trial and error, you can use prior knowledge and expectations based on that to guide you. But yeah a bad outcome would ...

In the latter, I'm saying that there is nothing wrong with the state of affairs. There can still be something wrong with how we got to that state of a...

Then we're talking about different things. There's a whole stack of different questions in ethics, just like there are a stack of questions involved i...

Numbers are quantities, but shapes are qualities. Two similar triangles have the same qualities, the same shapes, but they may be of different sizes, ...

You could ask the exact same question about how we arrive at an unbiased position about what is real, since all data points about reality (observation...

Yes. I like to call them "onotophobia" (existential dread, angst, depair, etc) and "ontophilia" (peak or religious experiences).

And those people would quit their job and go homeless, or die. Those who don't evidently find the alternative superior.

But "why is that the end?" is a philosophical question itself. Did you miss the part earlier in this thread about distinguishing different kinds of "o...

Hedonism doesn't mean shortsightedness. We're going over this over in Darkneos' "Reason for Living" thread too. The reason why sustainability is good ...

There may not have been any 'popular uprising' factor to these events at all.

At the job I lost a year ago (and still haven't replaced), which I had for 8 years prior, I would routinely beat the everliving shit out of myself, wi...

I’m not sure what you mean by that. That is a part of the deontological side of my ethics. That’s not what I mean, no. Look to the descriptive side of...

That doesn't follow. There's a less useful sense of "objective" (transcendent) and a less useful sense of "subjective" (relative), but those aren't ea...

I disagree, as I’ve seen the other used quite a lot too — but prevalence isn’t really important for our purposes here. It seems like with many terms t...

Objectivity as in universality is nothing more than the limit of increasing inter-subjectivity. I like to distinguish between two senses of “objective...

Yes, but they put up with that suffering only to avoid even greater suffering, and in the hopes of some small pleasures along the way and even greater...

That's what I thought, and what I was talking about. When you're not making a moral assessment, but just an assessment about something like ice cream ...

So when you like one flavor of ice cream and someone else prefers a different flavor, you think that their opinion on ice cream is incorrect, rather t...

I think that might be more true for an existential, therapeutic, Continental style of philosophy than it is the more aloof Analytic style. I was not g...

The negatives are things they don’t like. It’s the not liking that gives a reason not to do it. If you do it, you’ll like it a little, and then end up...

You assume that there is something more to morality than just ensuring that people feel good rather than bad.

It sounds like the part of my model that still hasn’t gotten through to you is my differentiation between appetites and desires or intentions, which i...

That's what I just said. Because we've gone over and over and over and over and over this a zillion times and I'm tired of struggling to figure out ex...

It is handy if someone hangs around the marketplace to buy things from people looking to sell and sell things to people looking to buy, so that I don’...

If I have a bunch of pencils but no paper, and you have a bunch of paper but no pencils, we can together create value for each other by trading some p...

That’s not selling something you don’t own. More comparable would be renting a house and selling it to someone. How could you even do that? It’s not y...

For my part I think it generally ought to be illegal to sell anything you don’t own.

I think this just shows how you’re importing something much more to the sense of “objective” than I am, because all I mean by “objective” is that it’s...

No, but neither would I recommend what I did earlier to someone who specifically wants to be a Kant scholar. If someone else wanted to figure out what...