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Relativism collapses to nihilism, yep. If that was your point.

Trump didn’t even get a plurality of votes, so in a sense he really wasn’t voted into office. Nobody is saying that Trump didn't successfully navigate...

The Democrats have not moved to the left. Everyone has moved to the right, it’s just that Republicans have moved so much further to the right that rel...

It sounds like you’re agreeing that transcendentalism as I mean it, at least as regards morality, does demand fideism as I mean it (because you have t...

I argue specifically against utilitarianism later. Utilitarianism does share hedonic altruism in common with my ethics, but they otherwise differ sign...

I've updated the structure of this essay to group the bits about what I'm not against immediately following the corresponding bits about what I am aga...

I've updated the structure of this essay to group the bits about what I'm not against immediately following the corresponding bits about what I am aga...

That makes me sad. I'm very attached to the "Codex" title, having been working on this project under that name for almost a decade and a half now. It'...

I'm not understanding Buttigeig's sudden surge in popularity. From what I can tell he seems like a pretty mainstream Democrat, so I'm not seeing what ...

I meant to reply to that part too, and just forgot. Yes, I agree that there is no hard distinction between events that are means and events that are e...

I've modified the relevant passage slightly to try to help clarify this: Also, I notice in quoting you here that you included the word "individual" in...

That’s correct. I see it as like valid inferences, and the normal bidirectional view of ends justifying means as like the fallacy of affirming the con...

This distinction between discovery and creation is actually very relevant to mathematicism. I hold that there isn't really a strong distinction betwee...

Do you think "speculative" is really applicable to the moral aspect of the position I'm against? To my ear that sounds specifically about what might b...

Thanks again. I've just made minor edits to the essay to make sure I don't say "transcendental", only "transcendent" or "transcendentalism", except in...

Thanks, that's exactly what I was asking Wayfarer for, so that helps a lot. Do you think I should rename the position that I'm against (and the essay ...

This bit seems confused on two fronts, and I wonder if you misspoke. For means to invalidate ends sounds like it's saying that some ends have to be gi...

These two statements seem to be in contradiction. To me, math is real, and all ideas are reducible to math upon sufficient analysis. I agree completel...

I'm asking you to show me where he says that, because I don't remember seeing that distinction (between transcendent and transcendental) anywhere that...

That quote doesn't mention "transcendent". You're saying Kant distinguishes between "transcendent" and "transcendental", but the quote only mentions "...

I don't say anything at all about transcendental idealism, just that Kant juxtaposes transcendental things with empirical things, and that's the parti...

So long as the only alternative isn't A Hard Place this sounds fine to me.

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I haven't been watching most of this thread until a page or so ago, so have anybody linked this yet? It pretty much covers all the bases: https://en.w...

What you're saying about your beliefs doesn't sound like anything contradicting either Plato or Tegmark. Sorry I don't have a reference like that hand...

Now who's telling people what they really are? Someone who thinks they know that God does or doesn't exist is not an agnostic. Hard agnostics (who thi...

Abstention from judgement would be 2 but not 3. They're soft atheists. If they abstain from judgement from lack of knowledge, they're also agnostics. ...

Okay Humpty Dumpty, you use words to mean whatever you want them to mean and the rest of us will come to some kind of mutual agreement about that so w...

Thanks for the feedback, but I think perhaps you read a bit too quickly and are seeing what you expect rather than what I say. I'm not objecting to Ka...

Also, how is that really any different than the two-party system that we have in the US, when push comes to shove? Each of our two major political par...

If you want to exclude all talk about beliefs, knowledge, etc, and just talk about the possible facts of the matter, then there are only two options: ...

Plato does think they are actually existing, but in some different realm from the physical things that exist in space and time, sometimes half-jokingl...

I don't disagree with any of that, my point that simply splitting the two mainstream parties each in half would not be a stable situation (because fir...

Pobody's nerfect. (Trite sound bites in response to genuine pleas for compassion or understanding are bad, m'kay, but also automatic villainizing of p...

Okay, then here are some ideas. Give them names. (I'll give you mine too). Those who affirm the existence of god. (theists) Those who don't affirm the...

Yep. That's why consequentialism is wrong. Ends can't justify means. (But they can falsify them).

I feel like I saw it in some kind of popular science publication. I don't think I was even aware of arXiv yet back then, if it even existed. But my me...

Weird, I could swear that that paper was from 2002 or earlier, as I clearly remember referencing it in a college paper I wrote in early 2002.

Welcome to the club. :-) You should post in this poll thread if you haven't already. (Also I could use some more educated eyes of at this project if y...

I don’t know about the drama behind this thread, but I think it does touch on an interesting philosophical topic. I think that the term “disability” i...

I’m a mathematicist (what Tegmark’s MUH is a form of) and a modal realist and a physicalist and a panpsychist, myself. As I understand modal realism, ...

MUH is not incompatible with physicalism (it just reframes what physical things are), and if physicalism is compatible with phenomenal consciousness (...

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What the people actually want is a libertarian-conservative party and a socialist-progressive party. It would be great if that was what we had because...

Bear in mind that depleting the trusts for Medicare or SS doesn’t mean that there is no more money to fund them. Both are meant to be funded on an ong...

Having been through the academic world: nope. An atheist is just someone who doesn't affirm that god exists. People who deny that god exists are, obvi...

My question exactly.

That’s not what scientism is. Scientism is the combination of that position and the position that discerning facts about the world is all there is to ...

Apparently you don't know what "agnostic" means either. This is fun </sarcasm>. Belief in God (or gods). Well the principle of bivalence disagrees. Th...

Yes they are. That's what words mean.