The moral code "Doing X harms others, therefore X is morally wrong" can be described. But, how can you justify in words why that X harming others is m...
Why is one difference more philosophically important than another difference? Life may be common throughout the Universe, and H.sapiens may not be the...
No. Intuitively doing something that makes sense Sometimes people do things intuitively because it makes sense at the time. Sometimes these acts are i...
There are examples now showing an animal's ability to grasp what might be. From Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates From Are crows ...
If a moral code didn't make sense, it wouldn't be followed. A moral code can be a set of principles of ethical conduct established by an individual fo...
Stealing doesn't make sense to me, therefore I avoid stealing. I wouldn't conclude that my avoiding stealing because of my subjective belief that stea...
P1 Humans are part of nature P2 An individual human can make a judgment as to what is good or evil P3 There is no consistent judgment across all indiv...
:smile: Plenty to take on board and food for thought. There is plenty to say, but limiting myself to Wittgenstein. In TLP 6.421, does Wittgenstein wri...
Of course not. That is why the underlined declaration is immediately followed by my argument, hopefully valid. But I hope that underlining the declara...
The imprisoned person may feel angry, but this would be an emotion, not a subjective judgement by the prisoner. Being imprisoned would be an objective...
Humans are a part of nature and not separate to it Humans are a part of nature and not separate to it. Particular features of human existence, such as...
Humans make subjective not objective judgements. There are no general agreement as to foundational objective judgments. Killing may be wrong, but then...
Whether mankind is a part of nature or separate to it has important consequences, specifically in whether mankind's relationship with nature is open t...
Mankind falls from a nature where there is no better or worse, no truth or falsity, no right or wrong, no morality and no ethics. Mankind is a part of...
The fact that a word may have more than one meaning does not make the word meaningless Most words have more than one meaning. For example, "heavy" can...
True, but doesn't mean that mankind is not a part of nature. I agree that if I was parachuted into a different natural environment, such as the Sahara...
As mankind is a part of nature, not separate to it, mankind's relationship with nature is outside any judgment of better or worse. Mankind is part of ...
:up: I'm going through various sources, including Dr Matt Williams' breakdown of how an essay may be graded, which I found useful. However, I feel tha...
I have a content in mind, but I want to learn how to express this content within the format of a formal philosophical essay. The content is one thing,...
Thank you for your replies, but am now off on holiday. Perhaps deflationary towards truth. As the SEP article on Truth writes ========================...
Thankyou for the fun thread, but several days of sunshine abroad beckon. Recognition and Judgement Frege says force is separate to content. I take thi...
True, and he also believed in the existence of an external world. =============================================================================== As y...
Frege's "content" surely does not mean any possible proposition, but only those propositions that are capable of being judged true, which means only t...
I was thinking about how we learn the meaning of a word. When we see something that is named "apple", this has to be repeated several times before we ...
"Think" exists in my mind as an imagined sound. =============================================================================== When I hear the sound ...
There are many definitions of "truth" (SEP - Truth) My favourite is a correspondence between something that exists in the mind and something that exis...
I agree that all these exist in the mind "I", "think" and "p". But I can hold in my mind two separate thoughts, "I need to buy some bread" and "Paris ...
To my understanding: In my terms, Frege is a Direct Realist in that he believes that force is separate to content. For example, in the world apples ex...
Are you saying that if we start with a preconceived notion of the truth, and this is supported by observations, then this shows that our preconceived ...
I agree, observations and reasoning are important. Plato’s explanation of knowledge as justified true belief has stood for thousands of years. The que...
Self-consciousness is inside the "I" not the "I think" Consider "I think p". Where exactly is the self-conscious part? It is the "I" that is self-cons...
To my understanding: For Frege, perhaps it is more the case that force is separate to content, rather than force is separable from content. As I see i...
As I see it: Every act of thinking requires an object being thought about and a subject doing the thinking. In every act of thinking, the "think" is a...
Zero-knowledge proof In general, the more observations the better one's conclusion ought to be. However, in practice, most people are entrenched in th...
Why not? A propositional attitude is a mental state towards a proposition (Wikipedia - Propositional attitude). I know is a mental state towards the p...
I don't think it challenges the think1/think2 distinction, but only extends it. As I see it, I have knowledge about things inside my mind, and have be...
The problem is that Material Logic is an inductive logic, where the conclusion may be likely but not certain Premise 1: The sun has risen every day fo...
No sense of thought is being appealed to. I can only have knowledge of things inside my mind, such as pain. Everything outside my mind can only be a b...
Yes. If I said "I think the oak tree is shedding its leaves" I would sound more uncertain than if I had said "the oak tree is shedding its leaves". ==...
On the one hand I saw Santa Claus in person at Hamley's Regent Street store when I was very young, yet have never seen Barak Obama. On the other hand,...
"I think" and "p" If we want to distinguish between the mental event and the propositional sense, between the act of thinking and the something being ...
I could prove "the moon exists", as the moon exists external to me, but I couldn't prove that "I know I think the moon exists", as my knowing that I t...
I know my hand hurts. In the absence of telepathy, it is impossible for me to either prove or verify to you that my hand hurts. I know my hand hurts r...
If I hear someone saying "the oak tree is shedding its leaves", as it is impossible to know what is in someone else's mind, I cannot know whether they...
Photograph of a tree I see a photograph. I see particular shapes and colours which I recognise as a tree. There is the form of a particular tree that ...
If your brain moves from the living room to the kitchen, does your mind remain in the living room? A tree has the form of a tree. What is the content ...
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