Michael

So it is not a fact that Santa doesn't exist? I don't think it makes sense to say that Santa's non-existence is "there".

It's not that simplistic. I have no "access" to your parents and yet I know that they're different. Some things we understand rationally. The distinct...

That's the entire purpose of things like public, protected, private, readonly, final, typing, interfaces, abstract, etc; to ensure that developers do ...

That allows for public reassignment. $person->name = 'Mike'; Often times you don't want that which is why such properties are usually protected or pri...

You might want to get the name after creating the object. New way: class Person { public function __construct(public readonly string $name) {} } $pers...

How about class Person { public function __construct( public readonly string $name, public readonly int $age ) {} }

You might also say "what the fuck?" ;) Hence the name.

My first time trying it. It takes some getting used to. I'm finding it more complicated that PHP's static typing. I've been using Preact at work. I li...

htmx and hyperscript are what inspired it

@"Jamal" I was bored so spent the last day and a half building an experimental JSON-powered JavaScript framework. The idea came to me whilst getting m...

Yes, this is a very good point, and shows that the nuances of objective truth isn't quite captured by the "realism" in moral realism. I've brought up ...

(5) isn't a judgement; it's a fact.

Exactly. There are states of affairs even if there is no physical world. Something can be a state of affairs even if it does not "correspond" to somet...

We don't need (4). (5) isn't derived from (1) - (3); it's brute (much like you have taken (1) to be brute).

Santa doesn't exist even if nothing exists. There are states of affairs even if there is no physical world; indeed, if a physical world doesn't exist ...

Santa's non-existence isn't a physical thing. By definition it's the lack of a physical thing.

As I said above, it doesn't refer to anything that exists external to the mind, but as I have been at pains to explain, something doesn't need to exis...

You clearly don't understand the distinction. "The cat is on the mat" is the linguistic representation of a thought, but that the cat is on the mat is...

You said: Firstly, "one ought not x" is a sentence, not a thought. Specifically, in this case, it is a written sentence. Secondly, I'm not saying that...

You should look up the use-mention distinction. "The cat is on the mat" is a sentence. That the cat is on the mat is a state-of-affairs. "One ought no...

You misunderstand what that is saying. Moral realism claims that there are facts of the matter about which actions are right and which are wrong. Mora...

The sentence "angels do not live in Heaven" is true even though the words "angel" and "heaven" do not refer to anything. That we ought not eat babies....

No, that's normative ethics.

If there is no intelligent alien life in the universe then the sentence "there is no intelligent alien life in the universe" is true, even though the ...

I'm not saying that mathematical facts are moral facts. I'm saying that mathematical truths do not depend on the existence of anything (whether materi...

Trump’s Gag Orders Reinstated by Appeals Court in New York Civil Fraud Case I’m glad there are still some adults in the system, to be honest.

Carrying on from this, one of these must be true: 1. Mathematical truths depend on the existence of spacetime 2. Mathematical truths depend on the exi...

I’m not saying that there are moral facts. I'll set out my argument as clear as I can: 1. All moral sentences assert that there is some objective mora...

Do mathematical facts need to be "tied" to space and time? Or are there no mathematical facts?

1. All As are Bs, all Bs are Cs, therefore all As are Cs 2. "All As are Bs, all Bs are Cs, therefore all As are Cs" is a valid argument I'm not saying...

You seem to be talking about normative ethics, applied ethics, and/or descriptive ethics. I'm talking about metaethics. Metaethics: I have extended th...

Theories of Meaning The starting point of any metaethics is the question "what do moral statements mean?". When I say "you ought not murder" am I sayi...

I'm not sure what you're asking. What do you mean by "supernatural"? If you mean "non-physical" then yes, the moral realist will accept that moral fac...

Yes, we have. The moral realist will say that that one ought not harm another is a state of affairs.

What statement?

No.

There need not be an ought from an is. There need only be an ought.

I'd rather not divert this discussion into one on the merits of ordinary language philosophy. If one accepts ordinary language philosophy then the arg...

That's not the kind of world that the OP is asking about. It's clearly talking about something like a world of mind-independent material objects. The ...

You're equivocating. When we say "you didn't mean it" we're not saying something like "the words you used didn't mean what they (ordinarily) mean". In...

To be clear, I'm saying: 1. Ordinary language philosophy is correct. 2. Moral non-cognitivism and moral subjectivism are inconsistent with ordinary la...

That's not quite correct. The premise is that non-cognitivism and moral subjectivism are inconsistent with ordinary language use, and so that if ordin...

The meaning of a word is its linguistic use. That's what Wittgenstein tries to show in his Philosophical Investigations. How can meaning be anything e...

Only if you're right and our experiences are accurate. If you're wrong and our experiences are inaccurate then we might just wake up.

The general premises are something like: 1. The meaning of the word "ought" is such that the statement "one ought not X" is truth-apt (cognitivism). W...

Why can I assume that my experiences are accurate without reason or evidence but can't assume that my experiences are inaccurate without reason or evi...

Is there any reason or evidence to suspect that neither is the case? Are you suggesting that the reason we believe in the veracity of our experiences ...

Is this objectively true?

It was just an example. I am trying to explain moral realism. Some facts are brute, and the moral realist will claim that some brute facts are brute m...

I'm going to remind you of what I said before: You're begging the question, assuming that the world you have experienced your entire life isn't a simu...