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I'm not even sure what the notion/idea of "a promise's object" is picking out and/or referring to. I know what a promise is. I know what an object is....

Granted. As is a threat. I'm having significant difficulty here... Hot and not. True and false. Open and closed. Meaningful and meaningless. Caring an...

Hume has been refuted. It had nothing to do with promises. Your belief is not necessary. You also conflate belief and truth, but I do not expect you t...

What makes them all "moral"?(the kind of semantics, ontology, epistemology, thought, belief, judgment, etc.)

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Making a promise is a meaningful act with tremendous social significance. It means that the speaker has given their word. This aims to rest uncertaint...

Get your popcorn Banno things are beginning to get interesting.

There is an actual distinction between making a promise and making a statement about that promise. Who here disagrees?

This is the very best question that has been asked. I'll work on an appropriate response.

A promise is when one voluntarily enters themselves into an obligation - to the very best of their ability - to make the world match their words. I'm ...

I'm always baffled by what could possibly motivate someone to argue against these... some of the simplest utterances to understand. Very young childre...

Sigh...

If the person making the promise does not think doing so confers a duty to keep their word, then either they are ignorant of what a promise means, or ...

This worthy of careful attention. When a sincere speaker says "I promise to plant a rose garden on Sunday", then it follows that there ought be a rose...

I do not see how Kant solves Hume's Guillotine. If all utterances of ought are moral statements, then I know of at least one variety that is most cert...

Kant's CI is the best standard to use as a guiding principle of our behaviour if we already care about others. However, it is neither magic, nor flawl...

Show me. Many native American tribes had no concept of personal property. There is no such thing as stealing someone's possessions in a community wher...

A well-educated electorate is crucial for any referendum to work the way it ought. Sometimes the majority of people are quite wrong and base their vot...

The point is that humans are the ones that make the rules for human behaviour, and those rules have changed dramatically over the last few centuries, ...

Such criticism is usually based upon an ill-conceived notion of thought/belief itself. Everything ever spoken, written, and/or otherwise uttered consi...

It's all personal thought/belief being expressed here anyway. What matters most is whether or not it is true. What matters second most is whether or n...

A bit too utopian/idealistic methinks. We have a right to discuss our personal thought/belief on a public forum. Besides that, the sentiment itself is...

Will any interest do or does it require a specific kind of interest in order for it to qualify as being a moral one, as compared/contrasted to one tha...

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Do you not worry about equivocating and/or self-contradiction? Given the context, it seems to me that what sorts of things can be true and what makes ...

You're holding a number of false belief and I've given up on showing you. My personal self-worth is not influenced by your thought/belief about me. Yo...

Always a nod to honesty. It takes more than that to be a decent human being.

Your making yourself look bad.

And you're here to convince others that you have the best notion of morality? :worry: ... and I'm being called "a crackpot". Sigh.... Be well Sapienti...

One last chance... There are probably upwards of five or ten or arguments I've given in this thread about various aspects of morality. I would be inte...

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A sure sign that there is not a lick of substance to the position one is arguing for is the ad hom... Be helpful.

I would only like to suggest that the reader actually compare what Sapientia claims about my thought/belief - in his report of my worldview - with any...

Identify the problem...

The subjective/objective dichotomy is utterly inadequate for taking account of thought/belief... moral thought/belief notwithstanding. Misattributing ...

Where you wrote "interpret as..." I wonder. This is too funny. What would a misinterpretation look like? What about all the different people and posit...

This, I am fairly certain, highlights the remarkable differences between Kant's framework, and my own... An undeveloped albeit intrinsic quality prese...

You've already admitted to having made that mistake. We all have made that mistake, I would think... Use your own example.

That's where I am at on a simple 'foundational' level wrt moral discourse. It makes the most sense on a simple to understand level. It can tolerate ou...

Since some seem to have trouble comprehending the painfully obvious... Cognitive dissonance rears it's ugly head again... There are conflicting statem...

I'm not looking to argue about it. Just want to see if you're talking about my position. I respect your opinion. Otherwise I wouldn't be asking. I del...

Poor wording on my part. Of course reason doesn't think. We do. Reason is a method and/or means. Here we have a disagreement that seems relevant. Reas...

Good. At least there's something we agree on here. I'll return to this after more paving.

That was a true statement. You could always offer a valid argument in support of your position. I've yet to have seen one from you. It's all gratuitou...

How so?

I laughed... ...quite heartily. If there are no conflicting statements under subjective moral relativism, then it fails miserably as a means for takin...

Are these meant to name two distinct kinds(modes) of perception? If so, what do they both have in common that makes them what they are... examples of ...

Nice rough history... Insert The Great Moustache at this point. His life is a fine example of the sheer difficulty one has in 'shedding' one's first w...

You're welcome to address where I left off... "'X' is good according to person A" is not about the goodness of X. Agree?

This is just plain wrong. Logic does not provide truth conditions. Logic presupposes truth. Truth is presupposed in premisses. Do me a favor here... D...