Michael

Must have been that they thought it would make them more money. Only explanation. ;)

Well, according to Wikipedia, the voting breakdown was: The original House version: Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%) Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%...

I can think of 54 more (although variants of skiing make up 5 of them).

A red cup.

And quine is muttering to himself stupid-ly and annoying-ly.

Yep.

Oh, the irony. When will they just admit that it clearly isn't safe for every Tom, Dick, and Dirty Harry to be carrying a gun?

Bet on the fastest one.

Presumably if realism is the case then that you're looking at the same tree is not just determined by one's language-game.

That's the one.

Presumably you'd also order a reactive strike if the enemy were to attack first? So you'd still end up killing those hundreds of thousands of people. ...

There's a very unclassy photo of me, too. Had it up on the old PF but uploaded images seem to be broken so can't get it for you.

You're lying. I've seen a photo of you. You're green and scaly.

Just eyeliner.

Here's me from a few years ago: /uploads/files/ce/8n8hski0dii6g6g7.png

I found you, @"Sapientia" http://i52.tinypic.com/157yjns.jpg

You look very different to the last photo I recall seeing of you.

500mb of data? Sounds like smart phone nonsense. Pass.

Bigly.

quine is being silly-ly and sill-ly.

Perhaps we should start by asking how one would verify or falsify the claim that either intentions or consequences are more important. Is there some e...

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FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan? STAN: I want to be one. REG: What? STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call m...

I fear I may have confused you. My comment was a subtle nod to the progressive view that gender isn't biological and so a self-proclaimed man might us...

What sort of information? The black ball that fell in the pocket doesn't "carry" information about the colour of the ball that pushed it – or even tha...

The same thing a lady would do with them?

Why would you assume that he assumed that you're heterosexual? Maybe he assumed you were a woman.

Don't worry. The polls are always wrong. Lib Dems will win. Which means I'll win £1,500.

Try a different phone.

Realism being the case and things being real are not the same thing. Pain is real even if one is an anti-realist about pain.

But for one to understand the description one must understand the language, and one can't learn a language just by being spoken to. You need to connec...

Doesn't help what?

The physicalist would probably disagree. They might say that certain physical facts cannot be learned by reading a book or listening to someone speak;...

I don't know what you mean by this. If you accept that "X has these properties" and "X is wrong" mean different things then you accept that X having t...

Well, you did say that "X is wrong" means "one ought not X" and "to be a certain physical way is to be wrong". So you're saying that to be a certain p...

Yes. So one would either have to say that obligations are empirical facts or that non-empirical facts can be causally efficacious. But to be wrong jus...

That the act itself is wrong just is that the act itself is something that one ought not do. My point is that that one ought not do is an extraneous (...

What I meant is that a believed obligation isn't always a sufficient motivating factor. What I mean is that if we believe that we have an obligation t...

Sure. Aristotle, for example, went for virtue ethics rather than a law conception of ethics.

We consider what we believe to be moral facts/obligations. Whether or not they are moral facts/obligations has no practical relevance. Perhaps I shoul...

I'm asking for a reason to be moral. That it's moral isn't sufficient motivation, as it is possible that one doesn't want to be moral, given that "X i...

Presumably "I believe that I ought not X" does not just mean "I don't want to do X"? So "I believe that I ought not X and I want to do X" isn't a cont...

As I said above, the question isn't "why ought I be moral". It's just "why be moral?". It's a matter of motivation. That it's the right thing to do is...

Because presumably there are non-duty reasons to behave a certain way. It's certainly not the case that every decision I make is made on the grounds t...

You are the strangest fellow.

Presumably obligations are not identical to natural properties like causing harm, for example. "One ought not kill babies" doesn't mean the same thing...

The question isn't "why ought I to do what I ought to do?". The question is just "why do what I ought to do?" It's a question of motivation. I don't t...

You're not addressing the issue. Surely you accept that when Bob talks about stars being holes in the sky and Mary talks about stars being balls of pl...

So your answer is just that they're referring to the same thing?

If Bob argues that stars are holes in the sky and Mary argues that stars are balls of plasma, how can they be referring to the same thing?