creativesoul

Not known for my succinctness... feeling a bit ornery tonight... There's much to liked about many of the veins of thought herein. It would serve us we...

The dichotomy of internal/external has been rendered inherently inadequate for the task of setting out the origen of morals. It's a sideshow that lead...

I, myself, am not entirely sold. It's my theory(well, clearly upon the backs of many an intellect). I do recognize the scope of rightful application.

Morals require others. Others are external. Morals require external. Morals require brains. Brains are internal. Morals require internal. Need we go o...

Some things do not have a precise spatiotemporal location. Morals are one such thing.

Some things are neither external nor internal. Some things consist entirely of different elements from both groups. Those things cannot be properly ac...

In addition to the ones we've already arrived at, I presume?

Guilty by association.

I would like to know what others here think/believe to be the difference between what counts as being moral and what counts as being ethical in terms ...

My fan club finds my writing morally reprehensible. :halo:

I'm actually reading through it again myself. I want to enumerate the agreements. It's time - I think - to circle back towards the necessary social as...

You're welcome. No judgment.

I think the current general line of thinking began on page sixteen. Although, there were very relevant considerations prior to that page as well.

That is exactly what needs to be enumerated. Until then, assuming genuine interest and given that only eight minutes passed between my reply and yours...

Welcome. I appreciate what seems to be genuine and carefully considered thought/belief about the subject matter. That said, I'm wondering... Have you ...

The irony here... there are two ways to say much the same thing. You could look at the second paragraph from the bottom in the above post, or think ab...

Yes. You'll have that. To be fair... The discourse here is unconventional in some remarkable ways. Such was the starting point:To take note of an unde...

Don't know. Don't care. Hope they return to wherever they cam from... and soon. Notice the dichotomies at work in their 'offerings'... Flies in bottle...

Oh look. My fan club has arrived. :cool:

Yes knowledge of many sorts requires thinking about thought/belief... Language.

The pre-linguistic child can learn that touching fire causes pain. It does not require repetitive behaviour. Hume was wrong. The child does not have p...

Establishing causality in great detail is reporting upon that which already existed in it's entirety prior to our account of it. Doing so requires lan...

All reason is existentially dependent upon rudimentary thought/belief. All experience is as well. There is no reason completely devoid of experience a...

And yet a human without language - and thus without reason - can and does learn that touching fire causes pain. The attribution and/or recognition of ...

There are much better ways to deny that much. Some which do not lead to reductio. Others are not inherently incapable of accounting for change... whic...

Yup.

I suggest that we keep the discussion about the content and not the authors. That's never a good sign. Disappointing.

It doesn't. It makes it the same. :rofl: If one holds to nominalism and remains coherent, they end up saying things like you cannot step into the same...

Nominalism is a philosophical position based upon the semantics of the word "same".

Wayfarer has it right...

An argument for what? Need I present an argument to show you that nothing you've said bears upon my position? We isolate and subsequently identify a t...

Both, if it makes sense at all. I'm not sold on it. What's the criterion for sufficiency/adequacy? I mean how much ignorance does it take to be called...

All moral knowledge is existentially dependent upon complex language use. All complex language use is existentially dependent upon experience. All mor...

My issue also lies with evidence. All evidence exists in it's entirety prior to being used as evidence. There is no knowledge that is moral in kind(ca...

A socially conditioned moral sensibility that is not properly understood by the individual could be a case of moral dumbfounding. That would be the re...

Wouldn't be much of an experience to be a single celled organism...

I'm listening.

Moral intuition was characterized as moral knowledge acquired without evidence. I cannot agree to that.

Language use and interdependence...

Could have fooled me.

That was an element/tenet of certain 'isms' in a link within the wiki page you linked us to.

We decide the names of things. I'm largely in agreement with Quine here regarding the arbitrariness of what we pay attention to, name, and/or further ...

I find it rather amusing when one argues in such way... Those are not consequences or troubles arising from my position. They are consequences of a st...

Ok. So, it seems that you're willing to accept the explanation in the terms I've put to use. My hesitance to invoke "intuition" is based upon it's lac...

Yes. Our philosophies are actually quite similar in several aspects. He did not get thought/belief right. Humean causation attests to that as well as ...

The question needs attention, my friend. :wink:

Agreed. Nominalism is untenable. A thing is not equivalent to it's name. A thing changes. It's name does not. If nominalism is held by a coherent advo...

It means - quite simply - thought/belief that is formed and/or held prior to language acquisition, and/or by a language-less creature. Our children ar...

All else being equal... Cases of moral judgment by a language user who is capable of clearly explicating their own moral thought/belief are cases of o...

I want to find a way to help us all better understand thought/belief and it's different complexity levels. I've seen several different notions of 'mor...