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Depends upon the candidate under consideration. It's an exhaustive outline not a specific example. That happens when you work from universal criterion...
October 02, 2019 at 04:27
Agreed. On your view, what constitutes sufficient/adequate ground for us to acquire knowledge regarding the thought/belief content of language-less cr...
October 02, 2019 at 04:19
It's usually not a good sign when someone asks another to elaborate upon another's thought/belief system(worldview) and then immediately refuses to ac...
October 02, 2019 at 04:12
Moved the following discussion into this thread...
October 02, 2019 at 03:00
Do you have values other than moral ones?
October 01, 2019 at 16:01
Being bad for an oblivious human being is not being independent of an oblivious human being.
October 01, 2019 at 07:55
Have the believer somehow break and/or lose the symbol, the sign, the cross, the bust, picture, representation, figure, etc. of Jesus and see how it e...
October 01, 2019 at 07:22
The right answer would consist of two remarkably different standards/criterion. Right and wrong are a matter of being true/false. Good and bad are a m...
October 01, 2019 at 06:00
First, the agreement... A sound deductive syllogism has both true premisses and a valid conclusion and/or argumentative form. A true statement/proposi...
October 01, 2019 at 05:26
Fair enough. There's no need for you to beat around the bush though. If you want to know how it all works, as best as I've figured it out anyway, just...
October 01, 2019 at 02:43
There we go. Pardon me for having a habit - and a bad one at that - of mistakenly assuming that everyone else has as good a grasp upon my own linguist...
October 01, 2019 at 02:20
No worries. It seemed that way to me as well. This time! :wink:
October 01, 2019 at 02:15
Incorporating one thing into another requires both things. You may not have said it, but the coherency of your position depends upon it. An earlier as...
September 30, 2019 at 05:43
Do you still not see that the primary premiss is false? Some values are not moral values. "moral values" is not equivalent to "values". With that in m...
September 30, 2019 at 05:29
Are you finding our conversation productive?
September 30, 2019 at 05:09
Ok. I see no point in continuing here.
September 29, 2019 at 17:53
One can know what the appropriate thing to say is during certain situations, all the while being both foolish and irrational. One can be witty, foolis...
September 28, 2019 at 23:57
What does all that even mean? A natural condition. All humans have it. Intrinsic values. "Intrinsic" seems redundant. Remove it. A sub-system? Are the...
September 28, 2019 at 22:19
:blush:
September 28, 2019 at 21:27
A proper report does not change the truth conditions of what it's reporting upon. All moral value consists of both objective and subjective things. Ta...
September 28, 2019 at 21:12
It matters to be able to take proper account of things in terms of their basic/rudimentary elemental constituency. That, in turn, enables an account o...
September 28, 2019 at 05:37
It's what happens when the ends justify the means and/or profit is the sole motive. Discourage such thinking by showing what can and does happen as a ...
September 28, 2019 at 05:05
On my view, moral values consist entirely in/of thought/belief. All thought/belief consists of both objective and subjective things. So, moral values ...
September 28, 2019 at 03:11
Thinking about definitions is one way to think about one's own thought/belief. It's not the only way. One can also just use language. That's just to c...
September 28, 2019 at 03:00
That's the problem because it is not true. Consider when one is thinking about one's own thought/belief. I know you come from a Kantian framework. Kan...
September 27, 2019 at 16:15
I'm all for creating a system which leads to all people being treated equally. One in which more people share in the same sorts of accumulated advanta...
September 27, 2019 at 06:34
You made a universal claim about men. It is universal because all men qualify for the criterion you used. Men.
September 27, 2019 at 06:19
Here are your words, in the specific order you presented them. I want you to keep the above in mind. It is the standard by which we now compare my rep...
September 27, 2019 at 06:15
No caution needed. I've assumed no such thing. Not all men are they way you've described some. Not all females are like you either(assuming you're a f...
September 26, 2019 at 18:28
Call it what you like.
September 26, 2019 at 08:41
"In it's entirety" is the key phrase. Being amenable to evolutionary progression, that's a moving target. It's meant to focus upon basic elemental con...
September 26, 2019 at 08:38
Half complete novels exist in their entirety.
September 26, 2019 at 08:36
Not sure what it is yet... Doesn't seem to work very well for some things... :wink:
September 26, 2019 at 08:28
Some things are morally valuable to others. Some of your values are not moral. Thus being morally valuable must include something more than just being...
September 26, 2019 at 08:26
Can we get appropriateness wrong? What determines getting it right(assuming one has gotten it wrong)? A change of one's mind. What determines getting ...
September 26, 2019 at 06:38
Howzat? :brow:
September 26, 2019 at 06:27
Could Melville have gotten Ahab wrong?
September 26, 2019 at 06:27
Is a tree?
September 26, 2019 at 06:26
Is appropriateness to us as Ahab is to Melville?
September 26, 2019 at 06:26
What's the matter with the ones we have?
September 26, 2019 at 06:06
What happens when there is no elemental constitutive difference between the name and the thing being named? Products of our own imagination. Gender? I...
September 26, 2019 at 05:12
Naming consists of elemental constituents. Names. Things being named. Things to draw a correlation between the two.
September 26, 2019 at 05:10
The novel existed in it's entirety at the final rest of the pen/quill. An accurate report of the novel reports on the novel's evolutionary progression...
September 26, 2019 at 05:05
Not all naming is the assignment of thinghood. Many names were give,n taken, and extensively used long before any notion of 'assignment of thinghood'....
September 26, 2019 at 04:59
Indeed.
September 26, 2019 at 04:50
If one is using common language to take account of one's own mental ongoings, then one needs to recognize a particular terminology. If one cannot reco...
September 26, 2019 at 04:47
To be defined is always the primary ground for some subsequent cognizant ability. That's your words. Primary ground is required for what subsequently ...
September 26, 2019 at 04:03
Waffling. Some. Not all. Are you now claiming the majority of all men, as in... throughout human history acted like that? Ok. One is more than ought b...
September 26, 2019 at 03:38
I don't typically argue against 'isms'... A thing's constitution can change over time. "In it's entirety" is helpful to understand existential depende...
September 25, 2019 at 15:53
Sure. He could've shared that he was struggling with the ending. Is there a difference between Moby Dick, Ahab, Pequod, and Melville's thought/belief?...
September 25, 2019 at 15:50