"Writing a rule" would be to formulate a rule; so any written rule is a formulation. Moral intuitions or moral behaviors could be codified as rules; s...
Of course not all formulations are codes of conduct, but all codes of conduct are formulations, at least insofar as they are made explicit. I count so...
But what if space were "layered" such that two or more things could be superimposed over one another at the same place and time. That would not seem t...
The idea, though, is that there is an actuality which we could, in principle, experience and know more comprehensively, that what we now experience an...
I haven't said anything about "showing how any statement can have a dierct correspondence to the world of actuality"; whatever "showing" in such a con...
Easier if you just answer the question: for you do any things other than formulations count as morality? It depends on how you define "moral" and "goo...
The question is whether only formulations (which are obviously dependent upon language, since nothing can be formulated without language) count as "mo...
We know from experience that two things cannot be in the same place at the same time. Although even that fact is conceptually and/or linguistically me...
No, when we say a proposition is true we are saying that it accords with reality, not merely that we believe it accords with reality. If I say that it...
I think it's not a matter of knowing which things can be put in the category "true", but of defining what criteria justify anything being in that cate...
I think "physical" is a clear concept, though. It is "what can be sensed, detected by instruments, and measured". I think science is much more than th...
People may justifiably think they know the way things really are. This is not problematic when it comes to everyday observable matters; whether it is ...
If it could be tested in principle then it could be true or false. Those who say string theory is not even wrong are claiming, whether rightly or not,...
The way 'truth' is most commonly used is simply that it consists in what says how things really are. In other words its logic is one of correspondence...
If truth is a property of statements, and there were no statements prior to the advent of humanity, how could there have been truths prior to the adve...
The nature of the game is that there are no fixed rules, just as in the natural environment with the interactions between predator and prey. The idea ...
Nothing you said there contradicts anything I have said. Are you claiming that indigenous cultures were not constrained by natural processes, or that ...
The problem is that science does not have any viable solutions to the replacement of fossil fuels, other than nuclear, which would be hugely risky, an...
Do you have any examples of cultures where this has not been the case? Of course those who are smarter will gain power. The only hope for humanity wou...
Yes, I wasn't implying that humanity ought to overuse resources, but just that that is precisely what will happen absent any coordinated intelligent r...
No, it's in the nature of all species to overuse whatever resources they can. It's only on account of fossil fuels that humans have been able to "chea...
Rapid technological progress MAY occur if a species has mastered symbolic language use AND finds an available cheap (in terms of energy invested to ac...
Now you're being silly; cowardice is not discretion, just as courage is not foolhardiness, and everyone who is capable of thinking about it even super...
I don't agree. If the vast majority of people, cross-culturally, think that a quality is virtuous, then it is virtuous. Likewise if such a majority th...
The addendum to that is that something would be unjust in a cross-cultural sense if all (or the vast majority) of people intuitively felt it was unjus...
I think you misundertsood @"A Seagull". ( It's easy to do: I've misunderstood many seagulls!). A Seagull did not say that for some proposition to be t...
But we do know what it means, just as much as we know what any category means. The usual objection is that we don't know what it "really" means, whate...
Yes, ethics and morals are entirely matters of tradition/ consensus, and it is not possible to examine those from some "higher" perspective in order t...
All I'm saying is that there is, for all intents and purposes, determinate physical stuff, it's an epistemological claim, and I'm not trying to suppor...
I think that's right, at least regarding the Wittgenstein of the Tractatus. Later Wittgenstein would say that, for example, overarching ethical, aesth...
That sounds right. There may be many answers to a question, as the question might be considered in various contexts, but in any given context it would...
I did say re Derrida's rejection of metaphysics "unless I am mistaken", so I haven't made any blanket claim such as Wayfer has re Dennett.. As to ther...
Wittgenstein here says nothing about how many ways in which askable questions can be answered, though; that is whether there is "one true answer" to a...
I'm not treating any distinction as absolute. What we have been discussing is the question as to what can plausibly, coherently and consistently be sa...
Surely science deals with the material or physical world, though; the world as revealed to us by the senses (or augmented senses)? What else could it ...
There is no point quoting Searle's opinion of Dennett's views on consciousness; you should quote Dennett himself. Have you actually read Dennett or ev...
OK, but if you are not going to support any claim that there are two radically different substances or realms or dimensions, or whatever term you want...
Dennett is constantly mischaracterized by @"Wayfarer"; he doesn't deny the reality of consciousness, he just says that it is not what we think it is. ...
Ok, so if I pronounce it with similar emphases to 'hypodermic', that is "hypo-thesis", then I should use 'a' instead of 'an'? I guess it makes sense t...
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