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A screwdriver is existentially dependent upon humans. Agree? This gets to an important historical issue in philosophy proper, namely the misguided not...

Some people look for reasons to be offended. They will always find them. Some people do not care about offending others. They will intentionally offen...

And yet we park on driveways and drive on parkways... :joke:

A screwdriver is existentially dependent upon humans. Agree?

Then a screwdriver is not a screwdriver in relation to it's application...

This also harks back to Heraclitus' river and all of it's untenability.

Conflicting moral belief systems. Some think/belief that certain language use is acceptable. Others do not. It's that simple to outline. The details, ...

Screwdrivers are existentially dependent upon us calling them by that namesake. There's nothing essential about being a screwdriver aside from being c...

This makes no sense. If a screwdriver is a screwdriver in relation to it's application, then it needs a relation to it's application in order to be a ...

Kant's scheme is neither inescapable, nor adequate for accounting for thought/belief. There's much to be admired about Kant. To his credit, his CI is ...

I have no idea what that means, but it's funny anyway. Must be the accent.

Are you wanting to get into Kantian notions, synthetic apriori thought/knowledge, in particular?

Anyone is more than welcome to try. I would think that if it could be done, it would have been by now. Folk around these parts carry axes...

It has been argued for. Without subsequent refutation and/or valid objection it does not need to be further argued. I'm seeing where it leads.

Thanks.

Yes.

Good.

Language acquisition is existentially dependent upon both trust and truth. We trust our direct sensory perception - at first - because we have no choi...

I don't think that those two options are exhaustive/adequate.

Nor need it. Are you claiming that nothing existed prior to language? Are you claiming that nothing exists prior to our reporting upon it?

This is a perfect example that proves the point I made earlier about unnecessarily complex language use. Think about it this way... if what you say he...

We'll see.

Again... Not sure about this logical train... Some complex forms of abstract speculation are false. Some simple moral thought/belief are true. Which i...

Not sure about that logical train... All thought/belief that exists in it's entirety prior to it's being taken into consideration by the thinking/beli...

Moral reasoning often includes both mathematical and logical reasoning. All can be mistaken. History shows this.

Gravity and the idea of gravity. What's the difference on your view?

The papaya tree in my yard is not a concept. It exists. It existed prior to our talking about it. We need language to talk about the tree. The tree do...

The discourse is about existence. Since when is existence confined to discourse?

This has been an interesting river of thought.

I don't know. Let us take that consideration a bit further. Perhaps an otherwise unknown answer reveals itself, and becomes known. What is something w...

Well, seems to me that it is the very phrase "the relativism of the knowledge of existence" that is the problem here along with "relativistic truth ap...

I reject Kant's Noumena for different reasons than I reject Rorty's notion of truth as a property of true propositions(that's not just Rorty's by the ...

I have no idea how you arrived at that based upon my reply.

The Nazis are at your doorstep. They ask... Are there any Jews in your attic? There are.

We question not only as a means to acquire knowledge, but also as a method of rejection/denial. Some questioning of another statement is doubting that...

How ought we assess situations when and where the moral thought/belief of one group stands in direct conflict with another's?

Why is the notion of objective value so important on your view?

Why would human consciousness be a pre-requisite for being alive? What we call human consciousness typically includes self identity and other socially...

And the word "alive" picks out all the things that self-replicate, maintain homeostasis, etc. Of course those things are important. They are what one ...

Ah, I see. That's much easier to understand. Yes. Questioning a worldview is existentially dependent upon language acquisition/use. I would concur. We...

What is the argument and/or reasoning offered to reject the common notion of what it takes to be alive? Stick puppets are animated. Some stick puppets...

Moral judgment is what happens when one expresses approval/disapproval of some thought, belief, and/or behaviour. If one claims that some thought, bel...

Since morality is the rules of acceptable/unacceptable thought, belief, and/or behaviour and rules are existentially dependent upon language, then so ...

Sure. Moral principles are moral thought/belief. The difference, I would presume, is that they are the thought arrived at via reflective and critical ...

Just because we name something, it does not follow that that thing does not(or did not) exist in it's own right(in it's entirety) prior to our naming ...

All morality. The written and/or spoken rules of acceptable/unacceptable thought, belief, and/or behaviour. All governmental laws, etc.

Horses and water... Be well.

Your belief isn't necessary. If what I've said is true, then what you've said is not.

If facts are true statements, then whether or not we ought believe them has nothing to do with 'objective values'. We can know what sorts of things ca...

Whether or not there are objective values is what's in contention. That is what's at issue. You're assuming what's at issue in the argument you're off...