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I'm not convinced that any of what you suggest would be possible, except maybe for the most rudimentary language. In any case the possibility cannot b...

What happens when you encounter a vehicle with numbers that add to a prime, and whose driver is not of Slav descent? What will you do? In other words,...

You can only follow a rule that involves criteria of which you were aware at the time of applying the rule I would say. If you knew that the numbers o...

I don't think you are addressing the same issue as I was. Imagine you wanted to create a new private language; how would you specify what the words of...

Try to imagine for a moment that for Nietzsche "criteria for correctness" were irrelevant. It's just like aesthetics where there can be no definitive ...

What exactly do you mean by "private rule" though? A rule that no one else could understand, or merely a rule that no one else does understand because...

If Nietzsche had his own set of rules to live by, and told no one what those rules were. then his set of rules would be understood only by himself. If...

I don't know why you would want to avoid talk about feeling. Compassion and empathy are fundamentally feelings no matter how conceptually elaborated t...

Firstly, mathematics is not reducible to logic (Whitehead and Russell tried that). Secondly, if you want to claim that mere logic tells us anything ab...

The way I see it a moral feeling at simplest would just be an un-selfconscious disposition to behave towards others in ways motivated by empathy or co...

Fundamentally just a moral feeling then, upon which explicit moral injunctions are based and elaborated?

:smile: As an aside: I think Hegel also rejects the notion of "moral rules". I seem to recall reading a passage in one of his works to the effect that...

I don't think Nietzsche can be read as endorsing any general set of moral rules. He certainly does have an aesthetic notion of something like "greatne...

I think Nietzsche would say that Joe should have a very good reason to kill Bill, and not act compulsively as a slave to passion, because such a dispo...

I can't see why someone could not have a moral rule for themselves that takes the general form of 'if X do Y'. I mean it would more accurately be expr...

Yes, and they just keep coming; when will the fun ever end? :rofl:

Firstly, I don't see why an individual could not have a private set of rules that governs their moral behavior. Although of course there are common ru...

I think it's a profound mistake to believe that logic alone can tell us anything about the way the world actually is.

So there is no morality beyond conceived morality? From which it would seem to follow that morality is subjective, since conception is exclusively an ...

I don't know...maybe a clusterfallacy? Or a clusterphallusy?

Holy Jesus To that I simply would say: "how do you know; you haven't been there"?

Fair point.

Only if you don't clusterfuck off!

I wasn't talking about identifying truths (or truth claims) in texts, but about discovering truths or insights in texts. The point is that you actuall...

So, you think a "small sign or impression" would be enough to signal to those with a competent grasp of the pitfalls and fallacies of thought that thi...

It cannot be both fallacious and true in its entirety. If it is mostly fallacious and yet contains a nugget of truth, then the nugget of truth should ...

@"fdrake" perhaps you are thinking of eurythmics or eurythmy?

I don't know about you, but I don't even have time to read everything I want to read, let alone spend time sifting through garbage hoping to uncover s...

This presupposes that the proposed additional guidelines would be so prominent, so overbearing, as to render everything else on the site more or less ...

I don't think Nietzsche accepted the validity of systems; where systems are understood to be universal, overarching. It doesn't follow from that that ...

By all means praise them for their insights if there are any. If someone produces a nest of fallacies, though, whatever insights may be there may only...

There may possibly be gems of insight hiding in nests of fallacy, but who would care to take the trouble to search for and unearth them? That's very k...

Sure, but I would say that "wrangling over fallacies" only occurs because some people don't understand or, even worse, obstinately refuse to accept, t...

You continue to conflate length with measurement. Is an anaconda longer than a maggot? Of course it is, and you don't need to measure them to see that...

Well thanks, @"S", I probably still have some philosophical sympathies that you would disagree with, but to me this is more an argument about form tha...

Yes, @"StreetlightX" does tend to universalize his own personal preferences.

I think Nietzsche was concerned with a "revaluation of all values" not a rejection of all values. I read Nietzsche as rejecting what he called "slave ...

If the fallacies were deliberately woven into the text I suppose it could be something interesting; a kind of novelty; but could it be philosophically...

Of course I knew you are right, technically speaking. But I am arguing that 'sound' means 'true' in the sense that a straight board or an arrow can be...

I voted 'agree' to the OP, because despite protestations that it would take up precious space; I can't see how it could take up more precious space th...

So something could be philosophically interesting, even if it were riddled with fallacies? :confused:

@"Harry Hindu" is correct and @"unenlightened" is incorrect here. To be sound (which means true) an argument must have both true premises and a conclu...

If what you claim were true, then we could not be wrong in any of our measurements. The fact that multiple measurements can be taken completely indepe...

I'm with @"S" here, because I can't see any sense in the idea that the objective/ subjective distinction "fails". As I see it, in the moral context th...

I wouldn't hold my breath when it comes to MU. :grin:

This is not correct. A thing has length if it is measurable, it is measurable if it has length. It need not be measured to have length, In fact it mus...

Yeah, it's a consequence of your transmission failing to engage.

The open question argument as I remember and understand is a purported refutation of the idea that moral goodness could be identical with any non-mora...

I don't agree that it shows any such thing. All it asserts is that good is something indefinable. Even if we were to accept that good is indefinable, ...

You're missing the point here. The point is that the fundamentals are the So, almost everyone believes that social harmony is good; but people may obv...