Janus

That's true I had forgotten that.

I didn't know that; sounds interesting, though. Would you elaborate?

Yes, indeed, it seems we are! Is that a first?

We are addressing only the logic of our own thinking about truth. And the logic of our thinking about truth tells us that a statement about the future...

I didn't really understand most of what you wrote, so I will just try to focus on this passage. What you seem to be ignoring is entropy; which is the ...

OK, I think I see where you are coming from with the 'turkey thang' now. You seem to be relating the idea of truth to the idea of our knowing of it. L...

We have an idea that truth in its fullest dimension must be objective because it seems illogical to think that truth could be subjective. If truth wer...

I understand that energy is conserved, and that it does always "remain as energy" But, why would it not be correct to say that potential energy is act...

Your debasement does though!

I still don't understand why you say that. I didn't say it was objectively the case that there are other worlds; I said that it is objectively the cas...

I believe that it is objectively the case that either there are other worlds or there are not. No interpretation is involved in what is objectively th...

If you are objectively real in your world, then why not the alternative versions of you in their worlds? I am still not seeing what the objection is.

Fair enough I suppose, but I can't see what the "point in agreement with Hume" that Russell made has to do with the nature of truth or determinism. If...

Likewise. :smile:

I googled and got this first: "William Rankine (1820–1872) Scotland: first mention of "potential energy" as distinguished from "actual energy". Since ...

I still don't understand why you think the "endless series of parallel universes" should not be considered objectively real even if it would be differ...

The turning of the turbine is working getting done. The powering of lights and appliances is work getting done. You still don't seem to understand the...

Why would you say that?

Potential energy is the potential to get work done, actual energy is the getting of work done; in any actual doing of work some of the energy is "wast...

I agree with this answer. A promise could be both true and false in different senses. But we are still left with the issue about whether a promise, un...

I missed this response of yours. I remember reading something by Bertrand Russell where he claimed that statements about what will happen in the futur...

This is simplistic and not apposite because I acknowledge that my moral judgements are determined by how I understand general positions on whatever is...

It's not a matter of getting it or not. I want to see whether Terrapin can come up with a plausible real life example of what he has been complaining ...

If you are a moral relativist that says that moral judgements can be wrong or right relative only to individuals, then your judgement cannot be wrong ...

It'd help if you gave an example.

Redundant.

I was wondering whether you know you are a moral relativist, but in any case, I've just explained it to you, so we're all good.

If reason is and should be slave to the passions then you cannot be in the wrong (in matters that are not empirically decidable) if you feel you are r...

I completely agree with you that people don't pigeonhole themselves via someone else's assumption they pigeon hole themselves via identifying their st...

I didn't think you were referring to me with the insulting epithets and would not care if you were. I agree with you that suitably intelligent people ...

So does that mean you are a Fistist? You can't be a Fistist if you don't agree with fisting!

Trouble is not everyone conforms to your specification of what it means to be intelligent, so a pragmatically minded person will take pains to avoid s...

Well, if it's true that some people form first impressions and are too stubborn to change their minds later, then you should be smart enough to know t...

Nah, it doesn't work: it's just a bad analogy. That'd be like saying that you had the general bilateral symmetry that enables your body to develop two...

If you explained yourself in the first instance as "I am an F-ist in everything but I don't accept e" there would not be a problem. Why create unneces...

It's not a good analogy because even if you were born without legs, the general bilaterally symmetry that allows for two legs will be there; it would ...

The fault is yours if you proclaim that you are an "F-ist" without accepting everything that goes along with "F-ism" as it is commonly understood. No ...

If "F-ism' is generally associated with a range of characteristics, all of which your standpoint does not exemplify, then you should not present yours...

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Yourself?

You make the usual mistake of thinking it is all a matter of opinion, and this is shallow thinking, as well as being the definition of sophistry. Winn...

No, it involves cunninglinguistics. No one wants to be caught in flagrante delicto.

Anything can be called anything either correctly or incorrectly. Traditionally the Sophists were those in Ancient Greece who taught the art of rhetori...

You don't know?

There is no adequate response to sophistry other than to call it out. No argument will do the job because the response from a sophist will always be m...

I think that's just bullshit; but I already knew you would say that. Have you found a good Sophistry Forum yet? Some are better than others. :rofl:

I agree! Plus it's funny and I like it! :cool:

I have not denied that there are qualities relative to the human condition embodied in art works and in moral stances and acts that make them better o...

Energy is both the capacity to do work and the force that gets work done. The first is potential energy and the second is kinetic energy. I'm not sure...

Earlier I responded to your first statement above by saying that promises are not true or false in a propositional sense, but that they may be true pr...