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This sounds about right, in general, for most people in most situations. However, I do find the notion of intuition to be without a common referent th...

A method for what? Establishing a minimal criterion for what counts as being a case of thought/belief, such that all known examples of thought/belief ...

Nevermind. Look in the cupboard for a red cup. Inside it you will find coffee. You cannot dip your finger into that red cup of coffee.

All things are identical to themselves... WTF was wrong with those guys?

A much bigger class of people who are just comfortable enough to not want to riot. Keep them fed clothed and housed...

When you sign the agreement you are agreeing with the terms/conditions set out within the agreement. The sheer size of some multinational corporations...

Surely you jest.

We must take care and not confuse our reports with what they are reporting upon. The former is existentially dependent upon language. The latter is no...

All meaning consists of correlations drawn between that which becomes sign and that which becomes significant, that which becomes symbol, and that whi...

Have you come up with a coherent account of shared meaning yet? That's where we left off long ago. No. You never will as long as you mistakenly believ...

I wouldn't call the common core of all thought/belief 'primitive morality'. Primitive thought/belief? Sure. Not all thought/belief is rightfully calle...

I would not object to concluding/assuming that at the moment of a creatures' biological conception there is no such thing as thought/belief. However, ...

We'll see about that. Ideally, we'll all be learning...

I'm not at all concerned with a priori significance.

Elemental constituency is shared. A common core. The same process. Conceptual frameworks are existentially dependent upon language. Outlines of though...

No non and/or pre-linguistic human likes being physically harmed by another. All of us find it unacceptable. We all draw correlations between the perp...

Still in process.

Can't be coming from me. Prefixing the term "truth" with the term "the" is not a practice of mine.

That last claim is spot on. I don't like the notion of 'synthesized into'. If all thought/belief share a common core, and cosmological and neurologica...

Interesting. If there are no actual examples to the contrary, that's falsifiable/verifiable.

A bit regarding a couple of key points.

I cannot.

Can we take proper account of the origen of morals without taking proper account of the origen of thought/belief? Can we take proper account of the ba...

You ought be glad I like you.

What is the most dependable method of approach to this topic? I mean, ought we not put good reason to good use here - sound - if at all possible. Ther...

Sorry to say... I have yet to have read a philosophical position on mind that does not have fundamentally fatal flaws. That said, Searle is interestin...

I really miss the Mr. Green emoticon...

The CERN website offers brief mention in simple easy to understand terms... I think that he wouldn't equate an object with being the value of a bound ...

Special pleading, ad hom, gratuitous assertion, and moving goalposts is much better philosophy. Keep doing that. At least you got in the ring.

"Aren't advanced enough"... What matters here is what - exactly - counts as brains/emotions that are "advanced enough"? That is the line between a cre...

Clear enough. You wrote "moral agents". No one else did. Nice prima facie example of moving the goalposts. That's unacceptable. And to think... I was ...

Claims about morals evolved to claims about moral agents...

When it comes to questions in this context... simple is best.

No thanks. Speak clearly and sensibly(without self contradiction and/or equivocating terms) and there's no need for me to guess. Logical possibility/e...

Ad homs aren't acceptable.

Brains and emotions are insufficient for morals. So do you agree or not?

I just remembered, or at least I think I remember, that I owe you an apology. There is no excuse, no justification, for my attitude displayed towards ...

Brains are insufficient for morals. Worms have brains. Worms have no morals. Emotion is insufficient for morals. Dogs have emotions. Dogs have no mora...

Does the difference between what counts as being a variable and what counts as being a bound variable bear upon whether or not existence is equivalent...

I hold that there is most certainly a difference between being taken account of and existing prior to being taken account of. I would take it even fur...

Quine argues - quite impressively actually - on empirical grounds. His work is theory laden, and I find much agreement between some things he holds an...

I would say that not all human minds are superior. An infant does not have the same superior mind as an adult. Not all adults have the same superiorne...

Is there such a thing as a common cultural conception of the human mind? I do not think that there is.

Then your answer is no... by definition alone. If human minds are superior to other species, and that superiority is what makes our minds different, t...

Indeed, and for good reason. It's called groundwork. It's something that people actually doing philosophy find necessary. The interesting part comes w...

I've re-read Hume's Enquiry, and in doing so came across several issues that all seem to be consequences of not drawing the distinction between though...

This presupposes that all humans think in the same way, or words to that effect/affect. While I would not disagree, there is much to be said and/or un...

Proper critique first requires understanding that which is being critiqued.

One who is blunt but clearly offers a modicum of respect for others, despite the differences in world-views tends to be thought an asshole or a dick m...

The closest thing we have to free will is becoming aware of how things influence us, and acting accordingly.