Janus

I read the idea of the impossibility of a private language as being based on the fact that if you tried to create a private language of your own from ...

OK, humans torture, abuse, commit genocide, but it is arguably on account of aberrant social conditioning. Other social animals don't have symbolic la...

Is it a human-level intelligent species?

The notion of a "devil species" seems entirely incoherent to me, so I'm not seeing that there is a point to be missed.

Right, so just what claim is being made? We know, because it is obvious that experienced reality is transjective, but it doesn't follow that the real ...

I think he also wants to make a claim without making a claim.

How could you maintain your society by torturing others? Unless you are talking about something like torturing slaves to keep them in line? If so, you...

Social animals care about their own; otherwise, their societies could not last.

You are describing humanity. Except that on the scale we now inflict suffering, degradation of environments, extinctions of other species and so on is...

Justification consists in giving reasons. There would seem to be an ineliminable normativity inherent in the very idea of giving reasons, whether to o...

Cheers. I'm similarly insufficiently tutored, so I cannot understand all the subtleties of formal logic, unless they are clearly enunciated in natural...

Same point I made earlier about alternative readings.

I said that when you make a promise, if you are being honest, you are obligating yourself, barring unforeseen circumstance that prevent you, to do wha...

"You ought not kill" is a counsel, whereas "don't kill" is a command; that's the difference between the two. When you sincerely promise to do somethin...

The point is that if there is no determinate entity that 'the self' refers to, if there is only the concept, and if there is no actual entity, then sa...

This makes no sense to me. The notion of a self from the perspective of "the mundane physical world of maya/illusion/magic-trick" is not the same as t...

No, "two different perspectives and, hence, in two different respects" just is two different interpretations of the concept or meaning of 'self'.

Firstly, which metaphysical understanding of reality are you referring to? Those different entailments rely on different interpretations of what is me...

I agree, and if formal logic contradicts the logic inherent in our ordinary ways of speaking and making claims about things, I can't see the fault lay...

I was referring to real physical systems which are not conceptual, I was not referring to mathematical systems, which are conceptual. It makes no sens...

It's not systems that are "incomplete": the idea makes no sense at all, but our understanding of systems.

Cheers. I have posted what I think will be my final contribution to that thread.

Some interesting points from both of you, so for me not "six pages too many". I woke in the middle of the night and realized there is an alternative i...

Thanks, you have shown yourself to be of honest and generous spirit, and in my book that is what is most important.

I'm not sure what you mean: I was considering the two statements separately and it still seems to me, that regardless of the soundness or relevance of...

Why is it incorrect informally? Yes, relevance is another way of saying logical connection in the context. I asked you if any were nonsensical, I didn...

It seems to me that saying you don't have a contradiction is one way of interpreting it; that is, I don't think there is any fact of the matter. Consi...

Thanks, you obviously know much more about formal logic than I do. However I was not thinking in terms of formal logic, since the original question co...

I can't think of any examples in natural language where "if A then B" and "if A then not B" do not contradict one another.If "proofs" do not accord wi...

Does (A implies B) mean that 'if A then B'? Does (A implies notB) mean that 'if A then not B'? If the answer is 'yes' to both, then they contradict on...

I grasp the basic distinction between "sins of commission" and "sins of omission". "Negligence" in the context of ethics and moral philosophy is a mul...

If you don't see that it was you who starting with the personal attacks via insinuation, deflecting by attempting to paint my understanding in a poor ...

The impression I am forming of you is that of a self-deluded, condescending fool who cannot bear losing an argument. I'll be happy to ignore you in th...

Right, and it seems arguable that becoming preoccupied with the propositional aspects of philosophy in general, as though it could be an empirically d...

:roll: Cut the bullshit—trying to dismiss others by insinuation is not a substitute for cogent argument. You have no idea how much or how little I've ...

Could they not learn from that experience? Perhaps in some cases to go down for a while is the only way to continue on the way up. I think studying ph...

Do you mean our knowledge and understanding could just as well degenerate as improve? Do you mean that the good is "extinction" in the early Buddhist ...

Depends on what is meant by 'negligence'. Failing to feed and look after those who depend on you, your children or animals, for example, I would not c...

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Yes, "irrelevant" because we just can't answer the question regarding determinsim vs free will.

If determinism is not true and we are somehow radically free to choose then on that assumption morality would be rationally justified. Regardless, as ...

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All you've shown is that if determinism is the case, if no one could ever have done otherwise than what they have done, because all events without exc...

Yes, all design is artifice. It doesn't follow that all purpose is artifice—I'm not claiming that design and purpose are one and the same, but of cour...

You are conflating the legal with the moral. If someone drinks and drives they are being negligent. If their ability to focus on the task of driving s...

I think it does: you seem to presume that under the assumption of naturalism we could never have become the kinds of self-reflective agents who can de...

It's easy: we understand ourselves self-reflectively to be capable of planning and deliberately designing things, and under the normal usage for there...

Explain to me how the notion, not to mention the imputation, of purpose makes sense in the absence of an agent that purposes. The issue here is cohere...

Can it ever be exclusively and continuously one or the other?

I agree, but I think it depends on what is meant by "tradition". There is the philosophical tradition, then there are the changing, mostly unexamined ...