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Off topic? I just told you the very origin of the term... It was a response to Epicurus' argument.

Free will was invented as a means to exonerate the God of Abraham from the existence of evil.

I reject both 'kinds' of a priori reasoning/knowledge set out by Kant and both 'kinds' of reasoning set out by Hume. That said, what you're asking me ...

More complex form of thought/belief... Communication(shared meaning) is one manifestation thereof.

Toothpicks and eyelids...

Just want to note that there is most certainly a conception called "Pure Reason". Much if not most of Western Philosophy holds to it.

Sure. Later though. I promise. Tired. Terribly distracted. Real life calls for the next few days... :wink:

You're confused. My position refutes the very notion of 'pure reason'. The inherent flaws of that conception have no bearing upon my position.

Why suppose a need to circumvent that which is untenable/self-contradictory? It is itself a universal claim based upon particular examples thereof. I ...

What is it?

Think about that at the same time you're denying the difference between thought/belief and thinking about thought/belief.

The irony. Do you know what everyone knows? Are your thought/belief about Empiricus' the same as Empiricus'? So, because we might be wrong... we are? ...

Drawing a connection between another's behaviour and ourselves does not require common language acquisition. These kinds of thought/belief are moral i...

There is no such thing as an innate idea of a moral belief. There are ideas of moral belief. Those are existentially dependent upon language. There ar...

By thinking about our thought/belief and the utterances/expressions thereof. We named it. There is no reason whatsoever to think that our language is ...

What are you talking about? Are you denying knowledge of pre and/or non-linguistic thought/belief? Are you denying the actual distinction between thou...

Thought/belief about unacceptable/acceptable behavior that grounds all morality.

Nah. You cannot start off explaining what I'm referring to by virtue of saying something remarkably different and then talking about that. Not interes...

Brilliant account.

"Spirit" is a term. Terms exist. "Spirit" can also be an integral basic foundational element of a larger worldview. The notion, idea, and/or conceptio...

I grant the case you've made for it. I'm glad I followed it to your liking. I would not assent what you're saying here though, for reasons already giv...

Well, I respect Russell tremendously. If what you say is true then he and I have different positions regarding what sorts of things can be true and wh...

Well. There's much that I've set aside. One who understands Kant ought not have issue understanding what I'm arguing here. I mean, even the Everydayma...

No, and solely by virtue of drawing correlations between it and other things. This presupposes that algorithms are the sort of things that are not exi...

Welcome. Thank you. Warning:This thread is heavily language laden, but is a concerted attempt to take proper account of that which is not always. Shar...

Which moral belief. I say we begin with the universally formed and/or re-formed ones... You know, the ones we all have? Point of view invariant.

Notta problem. Take it where you like. You and I haven't had many exchanges, but I remember things you've written here leaving a good impression... In...

That's just not true. While it is quite true that we can think about individual things - like trees and such - we can also attribute meaning and causa...

Do I really need to? Can't you see that for yourself?

Well... I've come full circle to just about exactly where Terrapin is... aside from concluding that moral belief is prior to language. Certainly law i...

Weaknesses: None noted. That's the opinion of those reviewing the standardized intelligence testing that I've personal 'taken'...

Morality is codified rules about acceptable/unacceptable thought, belief, and/or behaviour. Belief about those rules involves coming to terms with the...

It all boils down to thought/belief about acceptable/unacceptable thought, belief, and/or behaviour. How one comes to terms with their own behaviour m...

Moral judgment. Moral consideration. Moral discourse. Moral conceptions. Moral worthiness. Moral admonition. Moral thought/belief. Moral understanding...

Always against the rules of formal debate. However, it is often knowingly used, despite being struck from the 'official' record, because some know you...

What's that... ..."the overall explanation"?

Some folk are interested in irrelevant things. Most - arguably all - Western philosophers have been for the better part of two centuries.

It's the beginnings of one. And it's true. There is no better ground.

Well described. Ego is Freud's notion. Common use is different. Philosophical use, according to that link... seems bunk to me. An astute philosopher w...

Good suggestion. If one cannot do this, then they really do not know what it is that they are talking about anyway.

Gratuitous assertion that is false. It is not 'just' thinking. It is a kind of thought/belief. Not all thought/belief is about pre-existing thought/be...

I was thinking more along the lines of a language between the two of you. For example, your saying his name out loud. Would you say that the two of yo...

71 pages... small hops if you ask me.

Some people like to talk about what matters most. Promise making is - by any and all accounts - relevant to moral discourse.

What I understand - all too well - is that you have voluntarily offered the exact same definition for three different things. In addition, you've been...

Not what I was getting at. Judging something as being right is not equivalent to being right. Judging something as being mistaken is not equivalent to...

Very good point. Entirely agree. Gotta start somewhere. The problem of course is that the only one satisfying one's own conscience is the one who has ...

That is to conflate being mistaken with being called "mistaken" and/or awareness/knowledge thereof. The difference pervades this thread in the form of...

I read it. That would be the third different thing with the exact same definition/criterion. Morality. Moral. Immoral. Three very different things.

Given my view on truth and meaning, that's an interesting assertion. Judgment? Sure. On my view, we can be mistaken. What we thought was good ends up ...