Janus

"Nothing I do is premature!" he ejaculated before I had a chance to say a single word. :joke:

:up: Indeed, and it makes me wonder about just why people create unnecessary problems and refuse to let go of them. :confused:

I agree with that deletion would be preferable to closure. I think the latter should be a last resort, and only actioned where there is a tiny percent...

I was referring to this: There are two disagreements about rules I have with you. One is your assertion that rules are created in being formulated, an...

According to normal usage conventionally established patterns of behavior are rules. Think of the road rule: drive on the left hand side of the road (...

Language is not merely an individual habit, but a collectively evolved and utilized system. Of course there are patterns of usage, but without those t...

So, moderators are superior now, are they? How convenient! :joke:

No, of your whole sophistry.

Sorry to be harsh,Terrapin, but it wasn't a deflection it was a rejection. I don't have the patience for persistently intellectually dishonest interlo...

So, truth is not merely subjective or relative, then... I just don't believe you, Terrapin!

You're the one with no idea what an emoticon indicates; but by all means project away, and I'll leave you to it. :yawn:

Asperger's then?

If you can't at least paraphrase it from memory then your claim is completely empty. Why is it ridiculous to ask for textual support for a reference t...

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Well, please cite or quote the text, then. And explain what relevance truth being a property of propositions has to your relativist stance regarding t...

So you believe the different senses of 'fact' have never been acknowledged by any analytic philosophers, not even the 'ordinary language' philosophers...

Why should I respond to a litany of empty tendentious assertions. If you produce an argument that addresses any of what I have written, I'll consider ...

I already gave an example. The "so-called" rules of grammar. People can and do learn language and use it according to the rules (conventional syntacti...

That's true, they can. But it is arguable that parents who didn't have any feelings of care for their children would only care for them (in the sense ...

We do in fact. The encyclopedia is widely considered to be a compendium of facts, that is of true statements. So, 'fact' is an equivocal term which ca...

Rules need not be explicit. For example, the so-called rules of grammar were operative long before anyone analyzed actual language usage and explicitl...

Yes, but if humans didn't care about how they and others behaved then there wouldn't be morality in the first place. Morality is thus dependent on car...

You are conflating rules with the expression of rules; that's where you are going astray in your thinking.

But then there'd be nothing to care about either...

Ah, I see, I'm a bit slow in the mornings! Do you think we should we stop laughing and start caring, just to see what happens?

I meant the scenario that has been playing out in this thread. Which scenario are you referring to?

Of course, unsurprisingly, no attempt was made by @"Mww" to address or redress the logical error there! Likewise! It'd be tragic if it wasn't so funny...

The idea that there will be rocks in the future (barring some universal catastrophe) is no different than the idea that there were rocks prior to the ...

I cant see why truth-apt statements can't be made now, since humans are here now, about what would be the case if humans were no longer around.

Unfortunately for the conversation, I have little of idea what you are trying to say here. Are you saying there would be no truth statements if humans...

So are you trading on the idea that existence is an equivocal notion?

Given you've granted that there seems to be no reason to believe that unperceived objects cease to exist, I don't understand the motivation behind, or...

It is merely a logical one: there is no reason to believe that what is there depends on our perceptions; although obviously what we perceive to be the...

Yes, but that is a legal finding that, firstly, might not have obtained with another judge and jury. And so, secondly, it is not merely a question of ...

Your comment sounds like it reflects the outer limits of your ability to respond from the twilight zone of your prejudicial thinking. :joke:

It doesn't follow that time becomes "nothing", that conclusion is merely a dim reflection in the dark mirror of your prejudicial thinking. Time become...

You make some interesting points. The analogy of aesthetic principles with moral principles seems apt. Learning such sets of pedagogical or propadeuti...

I don't see why that conclusion doesn't follow, whether "directly " or otherwise, and nor do I see why you think morality has any bearing on non-volit...

Moral responsibility could of course be imputed to her by those that feel she is morally responsible. The point is that there can be no unequivocal un...

If it uses its own text will it use, for example, the English alphabet, or some other set of marks? The issue is that languages evolve organically via...

Legal responsibility and moral responsibility are not the same.

Will that thinking be done in their native language? If not, then how else?

Languages are not private; this is true simply on account of the fact that their origins and evolution are public. A completely private language would...

And the robot that is going to fornicate your arse?

You say we have no right to interfere in the lives of animals, but we are causing extinctions, and if your argument that it is good to end suffering i...

No, I have heard the term used referring, I take it, to Kripke's take on Wittgenstein, but I haven't looked into it. :smile:

Yes, why not? If the notion of essences is rejected, then the "family resemblance" idea would seem to be the only contender to take its place everywhe...

Why can following a rule not be understood only by oneself (as opposed to understandable only to oneself)? Explain your reasons for thinking that (if ...

All examples of rule-following will not be subject to exactly the same logic, that is there is no essence of rule-following just as there is no essenc...

Do you believe that one person could create a complex alternate private language without using the public language they already speak? I don't believe...