Michael

But does it mean the same thing? If it does mean the same thing then Bob Ross' explanation for how we determine the meaning of the word "good" doesn't...

You're shifting the burden of proof. If Bob Ross suggests that the meaning of "good" is X then he needs to support this claim. I don't need to offer a...

This is the issue I am addressing. We say that something is good, but what does "good" mean? Bob Ross is saying that we determine the meaning of the w...

My comment to Leontiskos here is worth reading. The crux of this issue is this: These are two different kinds of claims: 1. A three-sided shape is a t...

That's a reasonable approach, but as I explained here there might be some issues with his application of it. To summarise; those who speak another lan...

I'm not a subscriber. I can see the article fine?

Also, Trump struggles to say the word ‘climate’ and reveals he recently took a cognitive test

Though this is an interesting take if we consider other languages. The Arabic word for "moral" is "??????". But if we take an Arabic-speaking nation l...

So acts which promote flourishing are good because we have historically used the word "good" to describe acts which promote flourishing? This seems to...

You seem to be saying that we learn what it means to be good by looking at what all good things have in common? But how do we determine that something...

I've read that but I can't see where it's actually explained what "good" means. It only seems to say that good is a "transcendental" and so not reduci...

I agree with that. But then there's also a problem with many of the proposed definitions. If we take hedonism as an example, if "this is good" means "...

This isn’t very clear. Is helping the sick good just because we use the word “good” to describe things like helping the sick? Or is helping the sick g...

That's an ambiguous question. As it says, it has access to "a vast amount of information". But it doesn't have conscious beliefs like we do, and our k...

Are you being literal with your use of the term “incoherent”? Because prima facie it doesn’t appear to be a contradiction. Something like a Boston Dyn...

@"Lionino" @"Wayfarer" https://www.etymonline.com/word/substance So Greek to Latin to French to English. I don't get the relevance of this though.

I don't know what this means. How is it mind-independent?

As you don't appear to be arguing for Platonism, in what sense is this category mind-independent?

Alright, because I know what "cruel", "harmful", "disgusting", and "despicable" mean. I don't know what "bad" means (if something else).

Does the word "bad" mean something that isn't already covered by words like "cruel", "harmful", "disgusting", "despicable", etc.?

Moore doesn't say that morality "has no essence" (whatever that means). Moore says that moral terms like "good" are undefinable. This contrasts with n...

As per the Constitution, if convicted he "shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law” an...

They have the power to fire a President if he commits a crime. They don't have the power to try and convict an actual criminal case which is why he wo...

Or a real scenario: what if the President tried to prevent the legitimate certification of a Presidential election that he lost? The Constitution prov...

US president could have a rival assassinated and not be criminally prosecuted, Trump’s lawyer argues So if he were to resign before being impeached? H...

Ex Trump Press Secretary Says His Base Would Rather Believe ANY Conspiracy Than Realize He’s a ‘Fraud’ Who Doesn’t Care About America I don't know if ...

Special counsel probe uncovers new details about Trump's inaction on Jan. 6

He wasn’t asking his supporters to prevent some hypothetical fraudulent election. He was asking them to prevent the actual election, which wasn’t frau...

Proof without an indictment and conviction? Glad you finally recognise that it's possible.

So I see a man with a knife standing over a dead and bloody body. It would be stupid of me and an abuse of his human rights to presume him guilty and ...

I did actually, it was on TV. I also heard him do it on various phone calls. Presumption of innocence isn't a human right. Not being jailed without gu...

I had assumed that this was what it was. Of course, it's a non sequitur to go from "there is a first cause" to "this first cause is an all-powerful, a...

Yes, which is to say that the base and the peak do not occupy the same position in space. The space between them is called distance. That there is dis...

People tend to commit crimes before being charged and convicted, not after. That's how time works. And some people commit crimes without being charged...

Where? But note that I specifically said that "an infinite sequence of events has no end". I didn't say that "an infinite series has no end". And as I...

The answer is the same: "it just is; there is no prior explanation for why causation is an infinite regress". What I take issue with is your claim tha...

Did you read the next part of my comment where I said "that the distance of one mountain is given the label '8,849 m' is a consequence of our measurem...

So you're saying that there is both an infinite regress of causes and that there is a first cause. Do you not see the contradiction?

You're saying that the set of all causes is itself a cause. This is a category error. The set itself doesn't cause anything and so isn't a cause. The ...

So you're saying I can't run for President? Damn that Constitution, how dare it tell me what I can and can't do!

You're saying that if either a) or b) is true then c) is true. This makes no sense. If either a) or b) is true then c) is false.

These are the options you gave: a. There is always a X for every Y. (infinite prior causality). b. The X/Y causal chain eventually wraps back to Y/X (...

FYI, NOS and I went over this starting here. Just to save you time.

I think that impeachment and removal from office has nothing to do with a criminal prosecution. The outcome of one has no bearing on the outcome of th...

And as per the paper that both Relativist and I have referenced: As I mentioned before, your reading denies the antecedent. That he can be held crimin...

You did.

Well, Trump was impeached and acquitted while not office so clearly this doesn’t apply. :wink:

Interesting quote from Mitch. He votes to acquit on the supposed technicality that the Senate has no jurisdiction given that Trump was no longer Presi...

I’ll be clearer then. To stand where I am now I don’t have to have stood in every adjacent space behind me first. I am simply born at a particular pla...

I don’t think this is an apt analogy. Counting is a process, standing isn’t. Obviously someone can simply speak a single number without having spoken ...