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I would wait for the child to be saved.

The kind of deontology I endorse is Ross' intuitionism, which acknowledges the importance of consequences. SEP page: https://plato.stanford.edu/entrie...

It seems to me that the right to life is more important than the right to not be offended. This does not 'bring it down to numbers'. I disagree. Utili...

1. Why not? It seems plausible that some rights are more important than others. 2. Prove is a very strong word to use in debates like this. But it doe...

I'm not an empiricist, but here's how I imagine an empiricist will respond: Though all knowledge is derived from experience, we don't need to have dir...

By most fundamental I mean which comes first; which one is the bedrock.

The original question was which comes first, meaning where to start. I don't recall asking which branch is the most important.

Why do we keep coming back to the tree analogy? If philosophy has to be holistic, then shouldn't it include a metaphilosophical theory that shows us w...

Well there is the family of liar paradoxes, which some would say shows a "contradiction" in the classical laws of logic. I tend to agree with this. I ...

Except during the winter. The tree analogy is not an infallible way of depicting how philosophy works. So how about instead of "branches" we say "subf...

Maybe not, but it needs roots. Let's not take the tree analogy too far though.

Which logical axioms should we accept? I think that depends on what you mean by some element of truth. Newtonian mechanics is wrong but useful. Pictur...

This is why I am not outright saying one of these fields should be first. It seems like metaphysics/epistemology depend on logic, but logic depends on...

This is an interesting question that I think about quite often. A lot of people may say that the reason humans are more valuable than animals is our c...

Let's just say I don't necessarily agree that logic is first. It seems that if we want our logical system to be justified/true we will need to employ ...

This is a philosophy forum. So naturally my next question is: why?

There are several conflicting systems of logic. For example, dialetheism denies the law of non-contradiction. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/diale...

Earlier you said This seems to be implying skepticism. I would agree with you that the existence or non existence of a god likely can't be derived thr...

So we don't have hope against defeating skepticism? Interesting. Do you mind explaining?

But how do we know that we have the correct answers? How do we go about investigating reality (epistemology)?

My question would be how do we know we have the correct system of logic? Wouldn't we have to do epistemology first?

You are right; my example is not a good one. But the way I see it, no beliefs/truths are self-evident. This is probably true, but adopting beliefs wou...

As I explained previously, I only say how things appear to me. This allows for a conversation. axiom: a statement or proposition which is regarded as ...

Again, I'm not asserting my statements/positions as definitely true. This is how it appears to me. INCLUDING THIS. Maybe you shouldn't. But the axioms...

I do not know this. I could be wrong. However, skeptics like me do not assert as true what we're saying. We just explain how it appears to us to be ab...

Good point. But I am also skeptical of the linear thinking; I use probably because I'm hardwired that way. I don't necessarily think that propositions...

My stance is that I do not know anything, but I (really) want to have knowledge, so I continue the search. I wouldn't say that nothing has meaning, be...

You seem to be using modus ponens to support modus ponens. 1) If that is your definition of justified, then modus ponens is entirely justified. 2) Tha...

This is how I am choosing to use the word. Again, this is how I am using the word. Because I don't know. And no I don't know that I don't know. Maybe ...

By justified I mean entailing that a person can believe the proposition and stay rational. The justification is what connects a belief to whether or n...

I'd say we're using simple questioning to argue that deductive logic is flawed. However, if deductive logic shows that deductive logic is flawed, then...

Yes but the point is that modus ponens is not justified in the first place.

The tortoise is not being intransigent; it seems that he is exploiting a weakness in the rules. Or I guess you could say he is questioning the game it...

Deductive logic seems to require modus ponens to justify modus ponens. As in: 1) If a rule of inference is truth-preserving, then it is an acceptable ...

You're right, I cannot force you to agree the sky is blue. That doesn't necessarily mean there is a defect; maybe there is a defect in the method of a...

It seems that the tortoise is revealing a problem with deduction, specifically modus ponens. In order to accept Z you must accept modus ponens (C). Th...