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Yes. I didn't mean to suggest they were empty of content or insight.

It does make a lot of effort to give their claims an empirical backing though, eg: The 'uniformly' there is important. I'm too ignorant of the data to...

This is slightly off topic I suppose, but I started reading through the article @"ssu" linked, and I absolutely love this: that's such a huge fuck you...

So, possible world semantics applies to propositions. We evaluate a proposition at a collection of worlds with some relation on them that captures the...

The usual way you deal with bracketed expressions are by axiomatising how products interact with sums and how products interact with products. The sum...

Dunno. If your world is sufficiently messy to have moral norms in the same category as 'paradigms' in Wittgenstein, then we can't ensure that they're ...

I think PWS is a red herring here. The relevant question to me seems to be if we take moral norms as part of the background, how can we ensure that th...

Another general remark. If you consider Wittgenstein's discussion of the meter stick in the PI, when it is used as a standard of measurement it neithe...

10365 = 5*10^0+6*10^1+3*10^2+0*10^3+1*10^4 so d_0 =5, d_1=6, d_2=3, d_3=0, d_5=1 can do the same for any number. That's what it means to write somethi...

Maybe living in accord with newly posited values, or a new system to evaluate norms, doesn't make much sense from this perspective since it is overemp...

3xVy( y = x <-> Gy); therefore 3x3yVz ( ~ (x = y) & (z = x V z = y)) <-> 3xVy( y = x <-> ~ Gy) = \exists x \forall y (y=x \leftrightarrow Gy) \vdash \...

No, no, enthymeme reminds me of urethra.

This helps me sleep.

Ad hominem. Facts don't care about your feelings.

Special pleading. False dilemma. ;)

Right, so I finally have some purchase on the construction in section 2 §2. This post will be heavily edited to include diagrams later. Anyone more ex...

@"jamalrob" @"Baden" @"StreetlightX" If having a sticked resources thread is a good idea, advise we include: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, arti...

A stickied list of logical fallacies probably wouldn't help... But maybe if we zoom out a bit, a stickied list of philosophical resources would probab...

It reminds me of urethra for some reason. Spoils it a touch for me.

At least you seem to recognise the limitations of syllogistic form when arguing for a point. :P This is why a fallacy list is a stupid idea. The most ...

On his way down the slippery slope to the straw man festival, the one true Scotsman felt a rumble in his tummy, he had forgotten to eat today and thus...

Yes, but who's who?

You're making the same arguments you were in the previous thread.

There's definitely a romanticism in Heidegger about normativity, there are heroic figures who realise their own destiny by grasping their finitude, an...

Mind needs to put more effort into post formatting or mind will soon receive mod attention.

So, if you can background anything, and it depends on the context, why is it legitimate to background 'is good', 'ought' etc /after/ their relation to...

It looks to me like you want to have your cake and eat it too, though. You once wrote 'The problem with quietism isn't the quiet, it's the ism', but y...

What stops you from applying this argument to almost anything, though? You can place everything in 'the background' for some purpose or in some contex...

Please break up your post into paragraphs.

You want consistency in definition, you've seen definitions from the WHO and the Oxford English Dictionary that conflict with yours. You're a person o...

Hm. I wasn't aware that the WHO was a leftist institution. It has a good reputation for non-partisanship and factual accuracy. Which do you think is m...

Define "I", "have", "equivalence", "consistent", "certain", "defined", "language", "able" etc. We generally do not need definitions to talk plainly ab...

Redundancy is bad in formats with word limits. It's generally good to say the same thing in a few different ways while writing pedagogically.

That's a lot clearer to me, thanks.

Let me get this straight, make sure I understand. Zeno's paradox can be stated as follows 'In order to travel a distance of 1 meter, you must first tr...

I didn't say what I said to undermine all notions of hierarchical organisation, I said it to undermine ones involving, even analogically, an outdated ...

Just as a point of convenience, if you highlight a section from someone's post (from top to bottom of the desired section), you can click the 'quote' ...

The study that hypothesised alpha wolves based on wolf behaviour only used captive wolves. Wild wolves don't actually have the same social stratificat...

I agree with this, yes. But I think there's a pretty big distinction between the function of an imperative - how it imparts a norm and that it imparts...

The alpha thing, like iron and spinach turned out not to be true. Unfortunately both became popular and well cited enough to enter popular culture.

Aye. I figured that 'triad' would be less obscure than 'ternary predicate'. I don't have any goals here other than to brainfart into the thread, and I...

I will inform the Language Police all over the world to remove gendered constructions, people all over France need to know that whether a river has a ...

I hope this wasn't directed at me, I tried so hard to put my analytic philosophy goggles on!

I think I have to be picky here and say that it's quite a lot different to have 'ought' ranging over activities like killing and commands like 'Do not...

Just some thoughts. It looks to me like 'One ought not kill' and 'One ought follow the imperative 'do not kill'' might actually work through different...

I was playing about with modular arithmetic, mod 10 mod 100 etc, and I kept adding the remainders together. I completely forgot to write the number ou...

It depends who you're talking to, really. Marxist discourse can actually be pretty against what it sees as 'identity politics', though instead of comp...

Yep. And the lessened probability of being a Czech and a winner from the general population of ticket buyers would be P(W & C)=P(W)P(C) and P(C)<1.

The probability of a Czech person winning the lottery in the US is P(winning & being Czech), which is less likely because there are less Czechs than p...

No. It is easy to prove though. Even numbers take the form 2k for some k (whole k). Take two even numbers 2n and 2m for any n and m. The sum is 2n+2m,...