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If consciousness is not the product of the brain, there seems to be two options: Occasionalism, which holds that there is no causal relationship betwe...

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I'd have to try to find where he said it, but from my memory Wittgenstein wasn't necessarily saying that philosophy was "amazing" (especially since he...

Not sure I understand what you're asking.

Kant said the prior triad, and Wittgenstein affirmed the awe of perennial questions.

In the words of Julio Cabrera, philosophy is like my oxygen. Most everything else is nuisance. Part of what attracts me so much to philosophy is its l...

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away. Emil Cioran, All Gall i...

According to Philip Nitschke (not Nietzsche), supplying aging citizens with easy means for a painless suicide will actually increase life expectancy a...

...from the thread, yes. Go make another thread if you want to shit on Feyerabend.

Why would I, when that would just distract from the point of this thread?

Yes, Feser's arguments are not focused on the temporal cosmological arguments but are focused on hierarchical arguments.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Aquinas didn't say an infinite regress was impossible? I thought he actually specifically said that it could no...

Why are you changing the topic of discussion? just wants other theorists that are similar to Feyerabend.

It is a decent introductory book, but I felt Chalmer's take on Feyerabend was far too short (only a measly seven-or-so pages) and failed to charitably...

You've responded by merely asserting mathematics is objective while morality is not. This discussion keeps going in circles.

Yeah but also mathematics, which isn't scientific strictly. No. We never "perceive amounts", since we need to already have the concept of amounts befo...

Scientific testing involves the use of mathematics that have already been discovered by synthetic a priori analysis.

That may be true, but how does this alter morality's truth value? And after all, many scientists and mathematicians are deeply amazed by the beauty of...

From the a priori intuition that killing people needlessly is wrong.

LOL no, I'd make the conclusion that killing this person was wrong.

I am not a solipsist by any means. How is 5+5=10 different from saying murder is wrong?

How do we demonstrate mathematical law, and how is this different to moral law?

Can you explain to me what you see to be the difference between mathematics and morality in terms of objectivity, and why the former is objectively re...

Feyerabend is so good man, and really funny too. He's ultimately concerned mostly about morality.

He's all about keeping science separated from state so as to maintain human freedom and liberty.

Yet Descartes specifically argued that an evil demon could be tricking us into believing 2+2=4. Do you understand what I mean when I say "intuitive"? ...

Are you familiar with Paul Feyerabend? Sounds like you'd like some of his stuff.

Now you're begging the question, though. In what way is demonstrating a mathematical proof different than demonstrating a moral proof? Yes, I am makin...

Look, I've already demonstrated to you that morality can come in the form of valid logical syllogisms, and that the premises are what are being doubte...

The same could be said about mathematics. You keep going in circles, assuming mathematics is objective and empirical. Just because you disagree with a...

Are you not familiar with moral proofs? Moral principles are cognitive and can be manipulated in logic. We can make proofs. The question is whether or...

No, once again, mathematics is synthetic a priori. We don't "see" numbers. We don't "see" math. Nowhere in the sense data are you going to find that. ...

No, I don't think beliefs change reality. But I don't think you quite understand that it's not obvious to me, based on what you've said, that mathemat...

How do you know this? Again, you're just asserting the objectivity of mathematics. In the same way you would check mathematical proofs. By thinking ab...

But we check statements like 5+5=11 by thinking. You're just assuming mathematics is objective, but it is the person themselves that has to think abou...

How cryptic...

How do we perceive amounts? Pretty sure we're given sense data and our mental faculties organize it. Do you think we perceive space and time?

How do I know what two, three, and five objects are, though? I must already have numbers as an a priori concept before.

Basically, moral principles are a priori and can be manipulated into valid logical inferences, operating similarly to mathematical axioms. Many people...

How do we do this? I'm stressing that mathematics is synthetic a priori, not synthetic a posteriori. We don't do mathematical experiments, at least no...

You keep asserting this but I've denied this every time. I just see moral principles as on basically the same level as mathematical principles. Forget...

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It's not a fact, it's just a useless and sneaky way for a lot of people to escape having to justify their beliefs by pretending to be the "null positi...

Just because people can be mistaken in moral beliefs or moral perceptions doesn't mean morality isn't objective. People disagree about things all the ...

The point is that agnostic atheism/theism complicates matters unnecessarily. We just want to know what you believe, not how "confidently" you believe ...

No, agnosticism in philosophy is the lack of any belief on the matter. This is why agnostic atheism and agnostic theism are logically incoherent. Don'...

You don't "hear" the calling of the face of a victim? You don't "hear" the inner voice of your conscience telling you to do something? You don't see m...

I am only saying that morality oftentimes takes the form of a command-from-afar. I'm providing a phenomenological description of our experience of mor...

I'm hesitant to answer this. I'm only describing what it's like. It's a command from the Other, whether that be God, a victim's face, or whatever. Aga...

Sure, I'll give one. Morality is given to us in the form of a command-from-afar, as something we ought to do. It is not an expression of an emotion, a...