Michael

Also, that an armed society is a polite society (assuming) is not that an unarmed society is an impolite society. Don't deny the antecedent!

How is noise any different to brightness and colour?

You can always have a dedicated armed response unit for those occasions. You don't need the entire police force to be armed. The UK gets by quite well...

It doesn't "tell them what to do" in a sense that's comparable to being issued a command. Like Agustino you're conflating. There's a difference betwee...

The difference is in the meaning of "tell". They're not the same. There's a difference between "so-and-so told me not to do this" and "I can tell that...

This isn't a command. This is a description of (possible) psychological and social consequences. Again, you're just being poetic. When I say that "nor...

I haven't given up on morality. I've simply explained that normative morality only makes sense if it defers to some command-issuing authority.

Sorry, but this is just poetic nonsense. I'm using the term "command" in the literal sense, not in some metaphorical sense. Unless you're arguing for ...

I didn't mention writing.

Commands are a type of linguistic expression. Nature doesn't talk to us and tell us what to do. Because when I try to make sense of the phrase "you ou...

That's how I understood it. The mark of the Übermensch is, among other things, to embrace the notion of eternal recurrence. However, he did say in The...

I finally deleted my old PF bookmark.

You can make a judgement, but whether or not that judgement is correct is something else. Of course, you can always argue that you're the moral author...

Normativity only makes sense within the context of a set of commands issued by some authority, and so any normative ethics that doesn't defer to some ...

The particular desire might change, but the fulfilment of desire is still the persistent goal. But again, that's just a truism.

As a truism, the fulfilment of some desire or other. This might reduce to happiness, but I don't think that this is necessarily true of everyone. For ...

I took a couple of pole dancing classes. From what I'd seen it's great for the core, but in the end I decided to quit as I felt out of place.

Far too much serious discussion in the shoutbox. Take it elsewhere!

What if the question is "what's in the box?"

I'm curious; from what premises have you derived this conclusion?

Yep, that's what I was hinting at. The paradox rests on a misleading/ambiguous dichotomy. I know what I'm looking for in the sense that I know that I'...

Now I want to change my name over there to Mad Max.

What kind of nihilist? Metaphysical, moral, existential?

Edited for accuracy.

The "Share" link doesn't work properly. It's just the URL in the browser, e.g. http://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/9/missing-features-bugs-questi...

Works fine for me.

I'm You're currently reading this.

I think that you misrepresented Popper by taking selected quotes out of context.

Yes, and the realist might say the same about the objections of an imaginary idealist or solipsist or skeptic regarding the logical possibility of Des...

The "I" in that sentence also refers to the conventionalist: A conventionalist might say "I admit that the theoretical systems of the natural sciences...

Again, provide the full context: And remember that Popper isn't a conventionalist. Full context:

There's something in a box but I don't know what that thing is. I want to know what's in the box. Would you say that I know what I'm looking for or th...

I think it's worth providing the rest of the quote to give it its proper context: So he's accepting the logical possibility that any "falsification" i...

What do you mean by the instrumentalist fallacy? Are you just saying that the instrumentalist approach to science is wrong?

Computers are an invention too, and can be modified over time. So I guess they're not objective?

Instrumentalism.

Sure, which is the sort of thing andrewk argued for.

Only if you're a scientific realist, right? If you're an instrumentalist then two incompatible theories are both valid if they both make successful pr...

So, why is Ireland trying to turn down £11 billion?

Here's the first-hand source.

FYI, vaginas don't tend to be on a woman's face.

The solution? Make it so that Muslim girls who do want to wear the burkini are stigmatised, peer-pressured, and arrested. Can we use the same logic to...

New to me, too. Taxis as a (non-people) delivery service?

Batman: The Killing Joke

They were like you and Hanover.

They were like Laurel and Hardy, except that both were American rather than just one of them, and neither were comedians.

I'd have preferred September. I'd've been among the oldest in my school year, and one of the first able to buy beer. Rather than the youngest and the ...

Also – and both exactly 100 years after Friedrich Nietzsche – Frederick C. Bock and Jack Nitzsche.

Goes to a moderator queue and we check it and approve/delete. Based on some of the stuff that's been in there, I think accidental flagging happens qui...

So you're saying that to be a planet is to belong in bucket X and I'm saying that to be a planet is to belong in whichever bucket we name "planet". An...