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I’m not talking about what some self-identified group of supernaturalists say about themselves, rather I am saying something about belief in the super...

Only to the same degree that claims about reality could also be said to be about psychological states. There is a very plausible sense in which an ord...

I was hoping this thread would be more on the culture war between what I'd colloquially term the "Silicon Valley Libertarian" and the "Social Justice ...

That math is a bit over my head tonight, but as I understand it time is always up in a Penrose diagram, yes, even a tiling one.

I don’t know that seeding life on other worlds would be an ethical thing to do. It would be a cosmic version of invasive species, and disrupt other ec...

I'm glad you chimed in here! I was hoping you would elaborate. On your system as an example here. Can you give a few examples of views on different su...

Wow okay, that's not even "descriptivism" as I've ever seen it, and I have no idea how you can manage to communicate on a first-order level much less ...

In other words, they are inconsistent and biased, not treating the same things in the same contexts the same way regardless of the individuals involve...

I quoted what you agreed was prima facie too. You said "apparently normative statements" yourself; they appear normative to you too, but you think tha...

I am not saying to appeal to authorities. This is the mistake that so-called "descriptivists" always make: assuming there cannot be objectivity withou...

I'm not saying to extrapolate from the trends of actual models we have to project what the final correct model will end up being at the infinitely far...

I didn't say anything about them being context-independent. The empirical observations that constitute synthetic a posteriori facts are context-depend...

Prima facie they are attempts at asserting that something actually ought to be some way or other. You yourself in this same post say: I say to just ta...

When people disagree about what words rightly mean, we must have some method of deciding who is correct, if we are to salvage the possibility of any a...

Norms are not facts, yes, but that is a difference only of direction of fit (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direction_of_fit), which says nothing at ...

Yes, and I do equally advocate keeping in mind the possibility of losing. But that just means not being arrogant about your current play: it’s always ...

Being at the unattainable limit of that series, it is independent of anybody’s particular mind. It is composed entirely of mind-accessible stuff, but ...

This reminds me of a way I’ve sometimes got phrased my compatibilist position: free will is like self-parenting. Your parents can influence the choice...

I mean that considering the explainability of every particular thing to be unsettled (each thing might be explainable or it might not) is the least as...

No, non-cognitivism is using words in a way where truth isn’t even something that applies to them, because they’re not trying to convey literal truths...

If it does not at first appear regular, even just to one individual, or does not appear accessible to all individuals equally, then we need to figure ...

I do mean it in the same sense it is used in calculus, something that a series asymptotically approaches, but I don’t mean it to be the exact sense of...

Yeah, I figured that was what you meant, and that is the kind of “blended” objectivity-subjectivity that I see incorporated on both sides, neither emp...

Not quite. Objectivity, as in making an objective claim, a claim that something is objectively correct, is binary. Either you are saying that this opi...

No, that’s just me being fast and loose with trying to translate an ordinary “there is a lake there” sentence into the weird way you phrased the analo...

@"Baden" I’m pretty sure tilda here is christian2017 evading his ban, as this “11 forms” thing is a stock phrase he used to repeat over and over.

It sounds then like you are using the same words to refer to something different than I am. Rather than arguing about whose use of the word “moral” is...

It’s redundant to a descriptive explanation, sure. The point is there are things to do other than describe. To insist only on describing is just to ig...

My feelings Those are your experiences. my neurological wiring That’s a cause, not a reason. unconscious following of social norms That’s “because som...

But on what grounds does your behavior toward them seem good or bad, if not either their experiences, or because someone else just said so?

And to add to what Enai said, in any case there is no center.

You keep making some kind of category error in talking like these things can come apart, like the "good" and "bad" in "feels good or bad" is a differe...

The true and the good, like always. But no from-on-high declaration of what is absolutely true or what is absolutely good, what you must believe or wh...

Thank you for that great analysis! Overall I mostly agree with your reading, but there's some finicky little details where I think differently about t...

Be ironic toward the made-up hifalutin' nonsense, and be authentic toward the simple, fallible things of genuine value. Try for truth, try to do good,...

Honestly, I suspect that someone who thinks they’re going to be in over their head would make a better forum participant than someone who thinks they ...

Oh and additionally, on the relationship between the sciences (physical and ethical), philosophy, and both math and art, I wrote elsewhere something e...

I remember this from the cursory study of Peirce that I have done, and I remember remarking on how it’s almost perfectly half of my own structure of p...

Something can have the opposite direction of fit without therefore being arbitrary. One could declare arbitrary laws of reality too; religions do that...

Moral law isn't supposed to be explanatory. It's not descriptive, but prescriptive.

It's not embedded as in tacit or implicit, I explicitly say we pragmatically must make such an assumption, because to do otherwise is simply to give u...

Completely true, but what is empiricism if not appeal to the things we have in common between our sensory experiences, and a commitment to sorting out...

All actual circles, obviously. None of which are perfectly identical to that ideal circle, but the thing they have in common with each other that make...

There is another user here, bert1, who knows a lot about panpsychism and can discuss it in a very articulate way. I’m pinging him to come join this co...

Paging @"bert1", Dr. Bert1 to the green panpsychist thread please. Your assistance is needed.

To the extent that that is true, I would say the exact same thing about reality. Humans seems to have a lot of the same subjective experiences and to ...

Is not any pair of objects an instance of the number 2? In any case, etymologically “abstract” means “pulled apart”, so I think the OP example of brea...

It is possible I misunderstood the word “architectonic”. In any case, epistemology is but one subfield of philosophy. I suppose one could approach all...

I’m not sure what you mean here by top-down and bottom-uo. I would describe science as a bottom-up process the way I mean those words: it’s a decentra...

Blame (the act of blaming, not the mere attribution of someone as the cause of something ) is never morally deserved, but can sometimes be an effectiv...