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You keep giving examples of different answers people might give to different morals questions and concluding that therefore nobody is any more right o...

You gave an example of a disagreement, but that in no way demonstrates that there isn't a right or wrong answer. There are frequent disagreements abou...

Yes, each later type of relativism assumes the previous types. Descriptive: "People disagree about what's moral or immoral..." Meta-ethical: "...and n...

I was talking about two different forms of sentence: S1: "P but X doesn't believe P." S2: "X says P but X doesn't believe P." You're talking about the...

Neither a finite life not infinite life have any more or less meaning than the other. Even if you had infinite life after this one (or if this one jus...

Psychopathy doesn't have to have implications on behavior. Psychopaths can behave morally even if they don't have the empathy that drives people to be...

Well, there are multiple definitions, which is why we've invented different qualifying terms to distinguish between them. That article you linked seem...

Right, so the original sentence isn't of the form "X says P but X doesn't believe P". It's just of the form "P but X doesn't believe P". The former fo...

For a moment I thought you were going to make the same analogy I do: Don’t try to stand on the bottom. There is no bottom, the sea is infinitely deep....

There are more than just two things to be differentiated here. Besides descriptive relativism, there are also meta-ethical relativism, which is what C...

The sentence isn't "I say it's raining, but I don't believe it's raining", it's just "It's raining, but I don't believe it's raining." If you say "It'...

My girlfriend similarly asked why anyone would say anything like the statement in question, and I said in response that they wouldn’t, because it woul...

I’m not sure if you’re asking me about that specific scenario regarding the beauty of a bride? I would say she looks beautiful, but not because it’s s...

Take things that obviously weren’t intended as though I actually said them if you want, that just makes you look bad, not me. (Is that “plain English”...

As usual.

In my system of logic, I like to use the gerund for what you’re calling “statements”, things devoid of illocutionary force, to make it more clear that...

Go ahead and argue in bad faith, that makes you look bad, not me.

As I've said, I consider my position the common-sense position, merely shored up against bad philosophy. Like the kinds that say nothing is actually m...

I’m not going to repeat something you can just scroll up and read.

Right, but then you speak of desire as though it’s synonymous with appetite. Name any event, or state of affairs. Asking about that event or state of ...

Yes. Have you not been following the rest of the thread?

...no definition of philosophy would be complete without demarcating it from those other fields, showing where the line lies between philosophy and so...

enormous step in entirely the writing direction

Actual Satanists (not evangelical boogiemen) seem to value freethought knowledge and individual freedom over being a follower either doctrinally or mo...

The objects of moral questions are not ourselves. They are phenomena in the world. We evaluate the morality of those phenomena through our experiences...

I’m not at all doing away with persuasion. I’m simply noting that you can persuade someone that something is (or was, or will be) as much as you can p...

That's just your subjective opinion. (But that doesn't mean it can't be incorrect).

That doesn't mean it can't be correct.

Empiricism is inherently "subjective" in that sense too (it's about what observations are made by what kinds of observers in what circumstances), and ...

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I think a quick and general answer would be that philosophy is about the fundamental topics that lie at the core of all other fields of inquiry, broad...

I would like to hear if anyone else here thinks that “I believe...” strengthens rather than weakens an assertion, because that sounds very unusual to ...

I don’t see any pragmatic defect on the part of those by my account. The extra bits besides just “I believe P” are adding back in (some of) the impres...

The existence of disagreement doesn’t make something subjective. Physicists disagree about whether M-theory or loop quantum gravity is a better theory...

Except even the theoretical justice of democracy (in one form or another; that’s a broad umbrella there) is not a settled matter. Political philosophy...

Those aren't contrary things. The crocodile tears are a behavior, and so part of others' experiences. They can improve others' experiences, if they fe...

I suspect that the negative light on "crocodile tears" is because of an implied deception, an attempt at manipulation -- making someone think you're s...

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I never said that logic and rhetoric are the entirety of communication, just that they are different and opposite aspects of it. Semantics is, as you ...

I can totally believe that X is true but that you don't believe X. That's the whole thing that makes this a paradox. There's nothing inconsistent abou...

As someone who has had them, :100: :up: :clap:

I meant (and thought I said) for impression to be the speech-act equivalent to ordinary full assertions, and expression to be something less than that...

It sounds like you are confused about the way in which I'm contrasting logic and rhetoric. I'm not saying that you can do only one or the other. Only ...

What is a "commitment within the language game" other than the same thing as what I've termed "impression"? When you take a stance, commit yourself to...

That's what I'm saying is fine with me. Taken as allegories, metaphors, teaching stories, I have no problem with these kinds of myths. There's a whole...

Were you going to vote "yes" before that, because you are an "objectivist" in some other sense ruled out by that definition? If so, what sense of "obj...

Porque no los dos? Yes.

In the process abandoning my process. What we should do and how to get people to do that are different things. Are you just saying it’s impossible and...

If people treated religion as just illustrative fictional stories and not as though it was conveying objective facts, I wouldn’t object to that at all...

We all have power to influence who is in power. Follow along in the other subthread with Oliver: every power structure depends ultimately on enough pe...