Same demonstration as given here (middle section). Sure is. It is one of the best ways to arrive at principles. E.g. "Knowledge implies justification"...
The problem with this view is, if words don't point to real things (concepts), then no proposition ever spoken can be objectively true, for truth mean...
Sure, but the same goes for senses. We know our perceptions from dreams to be false, from contradictions among our own perceptions or those from other...
Does it follow that your comment, made of nothing but words, is meaningless? :joke: Agreed. This is why it is so important to identify that real meani...
The dictionary is a good start, but you will notice that some definitions are not perfect for they do not state the essential properties; they only gi...
Both. I think it is applied because even your description of sifting the meaning from a proposition by context is still using the Socratic Method on a...
The raw data is also through our senses, because feelings are only triggered if we are aware of the events that cause them, and that awareness comes f...
, hello. Because we can prove that all meaningful words have essential properties. Then the fact that we are able to use all words in a meaningful sen...
But common usage IS the test used in the Socratic Method to verify or falsify a hypothesis definition. Thus we are not really in disagreement here. Th...
Sorry, late for the party, here is my 2 cents. I agree with Michael. Decision Theory is ? + ? There is no loss because the game is free. Choices are: ...
I accept your clarification. Now to find a flaw in the argument. I have an issue about the very subject of the argument: "words we are struggling to d...
Perception simply means information coming to us. The means by which it comes to us is not relevant; thus this can be through senses and feelings, as ...
Easy. Your intelligent philosophers can be wrong. Proof: Either the Socratic Method to find essences works or it doesn't. If it doesn't, then those in...
A thing does not need to be perceived through the 5 senses. It can be perceived through feelings, like moral feelings. You can perceive an act to be u...
I think the dispute lies in the true meaning of the word 'Logic'. The laws of logic are not contingent laws like man-made laws or even the laws of phy...
So your argument is an appeal to authority. Your point is valid but weak; and an equally weak and valid argument cancels it out: The fact is a lot of ...
Indeed, societies had slaves back then; but it is not uncommon to hear that some people treated their slaves with respect, more like servants. And it ...
, hello again. You may be right about the historical facts - I don't know my history too well. But God cannot change the laws of logic. A conclusion i...
The onus of proof is on the one that disputes the prima facie. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think up to this point, you have merely expressed an op...
, hello. I am just thinking out loud here. First, as per Aquinas, logical contradictions are not part of the omnipotence of God. We would then need to...
What would be examples of "good arguments" to judge the norms, if there is nothing higher than the norms? Up to now, I was just trying to get clarity ...
So to clarify your position, morality is relative to the social norms of the time. Does it follow that slavery was morally right at the time that soci...
Ethics has traditionally been called "practical reason", and is as such part of reason. The first principle of ethics is justice, or the Golden Rule, ...
Hello. When Socrates would say "I know that I know nothing", he was saying it as a bit of a joke. His point was that we should use critical thinking, ...
, hello. Why be rational? It is the starting point to epistemology. To side with Descartes, there are first principles which are simply indubitable. "...
, hello. I am sure human reason has its limits. But for things where reason is applicable, reason is infallible. Thus if Socrates was able to rational...
Sorry for late response. Real life got in the way for a moment. You mean to say "the fact that no one could find the essence of 'belief' in this forum...
I would not exclude the fourth possibility that you all just suck at it :joke: . But instead of trying to persuade that it doesn't work by the mere fa...
You don't find the essences from this, but you find that if we know that a rock is evidently not a duck, then a rock is missing some essential propert...
, hello. That it is troublesome and challenging, I have no doubt. But that essences exist is easy to prove. Virtually everyone can correctly identify ...
Hello. Texts? No idea. But here is what I know. Will is equivalent to intentions. And intention is essential to morality. If there is no freedom of in...
But would you agree that the function of art is to please? That is, if the particular art is not pleasing to the individual, then he would not obtain ...
Hello. Very true. My experience is that people often focus so much on deductive reasoning - logical inferences - that they forget about inductive reas...
The rational person does not claim to never be wrong. Rationality, like math, is in theory infallible in its applicable topics; although the person ap...
While it can be hard to call out a liar, I don't believe it is hard to tell apart bullshitters from truth-seekers. Truth-seekers are rational, that is...
As long as the intention is to aim for truth, then that is good enough. After which, even if truth is not found, the resulting errors can be called ho...
I admit that aside from my own experience, I don't know what people tend to choose in general. Therefore, as a descriptive view on truth vs rhetoric, ...
That may depend on the context. If I have a non-physiologically harmful condition like a headache which symptoms can be alleviated with a placebo, the...
Hello. Do whatever you want, as long as it is not unethical, that is, it does not break the Golden Rule of Ethics. But note, the Golden Rule is not th...
Hello. The long answer would require to define the term "art". The short answer is: If story-telling, music, and drawing/painting are all considered a...
People would choose the rhetorician because they also believe he is speaking the truth; but I don't believe people would choose mere rhetoric if they ...
A good philosophy will take into account both the thesis and antithesis, and resolve the paradox by finding a synthesis, that is, a principle that con...
This is part of the theme I have heard being called 'Truth vs Rhetoric'. Rhetoric is not a bad thing as such, and can be a really good thing when it s...
I am not sure I understand your point. Your three options, death, life sentence, and rehabilitation, appear to aim at answering the two questions abou...
Gotcha. For most arguments, finding the validity of the logic is not too hard. A trick is to replace the complicated terms with simple concrete ones, ...
Hello. I never learned pure abstract logic so I am a bit biased; but experience has shown me that nowadays, inductive reasoning is more needed than de...
Only deductive inferences, not the inductive ones. Yes, you would be closer than the person with the exact same rational skills but less skills in log...
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