Michael

Because, like you, he might believe in obligations. I don't know why you are appealing to human psychology and the pragmatics of interpersonal relatio...

No, I conclude that obligations are commands fictitiously treated as if they were truth-apt propositions. You and others are claiming that obligations...

Yes, if I thought it would work. And if he's religious I might appeal to Christian charity, even though I'm an atheist.

I just told you; I'd speak to a lawyer. Perhaps, and to convince him not to ask me for more money? I don't know why you think asking for the pragmatic...

My position hasn't fallen apart and I'm not burying my head in the sand. I don't understand what kind of answer you want to a question like that.

Speak to a lawyer.

To do what was promised. In using the phrase "I promise to find your cat" with the honest intention to find your cat I have promised to find your cat....

People use the phrase "I promise to do so-and-so". That's all a promise is; the use of those words with honest intentions.

Well, Kant said "ought implies can". If this is correct then one cannot be obligated to do what one cannot do. But one can promise to do what one beli...

Can I be obligated to do something that I am incapable of doing?

And they all just baselessly assert "promises are more than just intentions". There's no justification for this assertion, or an explanation of what e...

No it isn't. There is just the bare assertion that if I sincerely use the phrase "I promise to find your cat" then I am obligated to find your cat, wi...

This is all just meaningless word games, like when I asked you to explain the difference between "he is more likely to fulfil his obligations" and "he...

Criminals have punished witnesses who testified against them in court. Was it wrong of the witnesses to testify against the criminal in court? What do...

It's a punishment because it was done in response to something I did. If the thief stole my car because I insulted him then it could be construed as p...

I mean that I will be put in prison or executed. It's right there in the text of the law.

Let's take 18 U.S. Code § 1111 - Murder as an example. It starts by explaining what counts as murder: It then describes how anyone found guilty of mur...

I don't deny future accountability. I have repeatedly said that if I don't do as I'm told, whether it be by some authority figure or by the terms of a...

A contract tells the party what he is to do, and therefore someone who does what the contract tells him to do is more likely to fulfil his contracts. ...

Again, you're not telling me what obligations are. You're just insisting that they exist. That's no explanation at all. So I'll try to make this very ...

He fixes my car in exchange for money. It's a trade we agree to. So what additional thing is this "obligation", and what further purpose does it serve...

Why is it clearly not the case? Because we use the sentence "you ought not kill"? I think it's far simpler to just interpret this as the phrase "don't...

Hence why I cannot make sense of obligations (if something other than a command fictitiously phrased as a truth-apt proposition). I understand being t...

Kilmeade says Biden went ‘full Hitler’ Tulsi Gabbard says Biden, Democrats share same ‘core principles’ as Hitler But also, when you have Trump's soci...

Because nominalists don't claim that triangles are abstract objects. There are concrete objects with three sides, or there are instructions that one c...

So an official Trump campaign video posted by the official Trump YouTube account isn't a valid example of propaganda against Joe Biden and the Democra...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK6K-sWTAtM

This all seems to reduce to the claim that some authority has told me to do something. I understand and accept that. What I cannot make sense of is th...

I posted one, you posted one. What's the problem? Are we going to spend the rest of our lives posting every instance of one side attacking the other?

I literally posted something Trump said when I first responded to your remarks:

I didn't just mention moral nihilism. I also mentioned nominalism: obligations, if they exist, are abstract objects. Abstract objects do not exist. Th...

Yes, and I can assure you that it’s the opposite side to the one you think.

Why? Moral nihilism, fictionalism, and nominalism are legitimate philosophical positions.

That the concept of obligations isn't clear, and that it isn't clear that the sincere use of the phrase "I promise" entails the undertaking of an obli...

What does "if someone is drowning then you have a duty to jump into the water and save their life" mean? Does it just mean "if someone is drowning the...

It's not clear to me what "if someone is drowning then you are obligated to jump into the water and save their life" even means. Does it just mean "if...

Both sides are guilty of that, e.g.:

I’m not really sure how your comments are related to mine? I am simply asking what “obligation” means, and how the sincere use of the verb “promise” e...

Surely the only person whose fault it is is the shooter? And who do you even mean by “they”?

As a further example, consider something like "I'll try to do this, but I can't promise that I will". This isn't me saying that I intend to but am not...

Here.

Yes. I want to know what an obligation is, and why it is necessary. To me, it's simple; we use the verb "promise" in conversation and sincerely intend...

The Secret Service did a terrible job. Apparently them and the police were told about a man with a gun on the roof several minutes before shots were f...

Hopefully that will temper the response of those who might otherwise take it as a call to arms.

If there's an active shooter – and especially if you've been shot – then you get away and get help. All this macho man bullshit is childish.

I'm still waiting on a reply to this.

I was going to bring up the same point, which is why these matters are best discussed in the third person: S promised to marry H but S is not obligate...

I think it’s clearer to phrase it like this: Scenario 1 A sometimes lies (and is lying) B always lies C always tells the truth Scenario 2 A sometimes ...

What I was getting at is that if "sometimes tells the truth" doesn't mean "only sometimes tells the truth" then the original claim "one person sometim...

No, because if "sometimes tells the truth" doesn't mean "only sometimes tells the truth" then "sometimes tells the truth" is consistent with "always t...