There's a simple description of the distinction on the Wikipedia page for normative ethics: Metaethics: 1. Moral propositions are not truth-apt (non-c...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1344 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1014 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6662 The la...
In the counterfactual sense that "if there were minds then those minds ought not..." would be true. Much like the counterfactual sentence "if the Tyra...
I wouldn’t say that it’s internally contradictory, just that it’s factually incorrect. A good example is that of colour. It’s not internally contradic...
That would be moral subjectivism? Although I would argue against moral subjectivism on the grounds that when we make moral claims we don't usually thi...
I'm a little confused. Are you saying that moral sentences aren't truth-apt or are you saying that moral sentences being truth-apt does not entail mor...
My understanding of moral realism is that it is the theory that some moral propositions are true in such a way that if everyone believes that they are...
All you seem to be saying here is that you're not a moral realist. Obviously moral realists disagree with you; that one ought not X isn't malleable to...
If that's what you mean by "objective" then I will use the term "non-subjective" instead. Some truths are non-subjective, i.e. are true even if everyo...
Why does something need to refer to an object to be objectively true? To be objectively true just means that it's true irrespective of subjective opin...
That is the key question that moral realists need to answer. Kant, for example, believed that this could be done using what he called pure practical r...
Proving that something is the case isn't the same as proving why something is the case. I'm saying that there is no explanation for why electrons are ...
I said that they're brute facts, not that they're self-evident. It is a brute fact that electrons are negatively charged particles, but it isn't self-...
If I have an inner monologue it’s definitely not auditory. I think for me it’s just micro tongue movements as if I was talking. When I focus on my ton...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/intersections/202304/inner-monologues-what-are-they-and-whos-having-them 30-50% of people have inner monologue...
Then you're just using the term "state of affairs" differently to me. Are you familiar with the distinction between truth makers and truth bearers? A ...
I'm not sure what you mean here by "value". I am simply saying that moral realists believe that there is some X such that "one ought not X" is a brute...
That there is no ball in your room is a state of affairs. That there is no elephant in your room is a different state of affairs. There is one room bu...
And there are people willing to act on Trump's false claims of a stolen election and his suggestion to "fight like hell" against an "illegitimate pres...
The gag order is just words. They don’t censor anything. That would be sorcery. Trump is perfectly able to ignore the gag order and say and post what ...
I’m not claiming that everyone is influenced by everything. I’m claiming that people can be influenced by the things other people say. It’s not sorcer...
That my behaviour can be influenced by the words I see and hear? Well, yes. That's just a well-known fact of psychology. Advertising is a science. It'...
You seem to have misunderstood what I was saying. These are two different sentences with two different truth conditions: 1. My mind exists 2. Only my ...
Objects don't need to exist for statements to be true. "Santa doesn't exist" is true. "1 + 1 = 2" is true. "The last ever human will die before the he...
"trees exist" is made true by the existence of something and "trees don't exist" is made true by the non-existence of something. As such, existence of...
You're saying that non-existence exists. That makes no sense. At the very least you seem to be using the term "exists" in two different way which I su...
Consider two scenarios: Scenario 1: Only my mind exists Scenario 2: Only my mind and your mind exist The sentence "only my mind exists" is true in sce...
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-says-ground-forces-operating-across-gaza-strip-offensive-builds-2023-12-04/ Well that's pretty fuckin...
I think of physicalism as the thesis that everything that exists is physical. That's not the same as saying that every true statement refers to a phys...
The proposition "Santa does not exist" is true because it corresponds to the state of affairs that Santa does not exist. The proposition "1 + 1 = 2" i...
And the moral realist will say that it is a fact that one ought not harm another because what the proposition is referencing about reality is that one...
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