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Artificial: made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally. Scientific language, scientific rules, scientific principles, scientific...

Do you have an argument for the conclusion that morality has an artificial aspect? I doubt it. Surprise me.

I know what you said. I quoted it verbatim. Your argument for your conclusion does not hold good. It does not follow from the fact that we've named so...

Clear it up then. You invoked the notions of "artificial" and "conception"... I thought we were talking about morality. Particularly I was making the ...

I'm not sure that that follows. I'm also not sure that the alternative explanation would satisfy you. It can 1)be the case that what is right/good is ...

Perhaps. I mean, it does seem quite odd to me when someone else(you in this case) insists that their use of the term feelings has the same referent as...

Your question asks the participant a question about their approval/disapproval of the behaviour. My argument shows that not all utterances of "ought" ...

If "feelings" are thought/belief about acceptable/unacceptable behaviour on your view, then you're working from a conception of thought/belief that is...

The apple question had everything to do with how feelings are not equivalent to thought/belief.

What difference does that make? None. You conflate thought/belief and feelings. I don't.

Your question does not bear upon the argument I'm giving. Mine does.

Which is why I've been at pains to explain to you how your use of "feelings" is not equivalent to my use of "thought/belief about acceptable/unaccepta...

Better to ask them what ought happen if the speaker keeps his promise.

When we're talking about thought/belief in any context, it is never equivalent to feelings. That was the point with the analogy. I thought you bright ...

No, it's not. Not all use of "ought" is a voice of one's approval. This is particularly the case when one is giving their word, such as in promising. ...

Good. Feelings, like apples to apple pies, are necessary but insufficient for thought/belief. Both apples and feelings are an elemental constituent of...

That's not a good translation. A prediction need not take if/then form. Most do not... most average people's talk. Rather, these kinds of utterances o...

Is an apple equivalent to an apple fritter?

Rubbish. You claimed that your use of "feelings" had the same referent as my use of "thought/belief about acceptable/unacceptable behaviour"... It doe...

The question makes perfect sense if one has an adequate criterion for belief. Here you've basically said that belief is the ideas in your head about t...

What do all belief have in common that makes them belief? I've explained the issue clearly. You have no criterion for what counts as belief. You are t...

What are your thoughts regarding these claims?

True belief is as well.

Well grounded belief is as well.

Belief is prior to language.

The parenthetical content above highlights a flaw. That is, you've given two kinds of belief. You've explained which kind qualifies as which. Unsuppor...

It makes no sense whatsoever, on my view, to talk or to think/believe that 'we base morality' upon something. Rather... What we base our conceptions o...

Look it up at SEP. Definition of morality. Your agreement isn't necessary. The conventional understanding exists regardless. I'm granting it for the s...

The above is prima facie evidence of misunderstanding being hard at work. All thought/belief(my referent) consists of the same basic set of necessary ...

That didn't answer my question. What do all beliefs have in common such that that is what makes them belief? Something else... Unsupported belief can ...

That's not true. Some conclusions are novel new ideas that can definitely follow from well supported premisses.

What do all those different kinds of belief have in common that make them beliefs?

Hee Haw... :kiss:

Empathy is a fantastic tool that can be used to gain a better understanding of other people's plights. Empathy is not equivalent to understanding ever...

You're wrong because what you say is contradictory to everyday events. All sorts of people actually do the shit everyday, on a daily basis, that you s...

You've claimed that empathy cannot lead to better understanding people. That's one thing you're wrong about. You've claimed that no one can empathize ...

You should know, because I'm telling you. What I'm telling you is true. It is about my understanding of thought/belief compared to what you've written...

Ok. so we both know that we work from different linguistic frameworks. The words "thought/belief about acceptable/unacceptable behaviour" has a differ...

Nah. Some things aren't worth pursuing. One who does not comprehend the words he reads isn't worth arguing with. You've quoted numerous things and the...

All moralities are existentially dependent upon trusting the truthfulness of another. Sincerity matters to everyone. Meaning matters to everyone. When...

Contentment and/or discontentment first happens autonomously. Thought/belief first happens autonomously. Emotions first happen autonomously. Thought/b...

The above is a textbook example of a situation where an author's ground is purely imaginary. That's not totally unacceptable, unless it is ground for ...

Even more important is what counts as being necessary.

Meh.

No. You're mistaken. If the terms picked out the same things, I wouldn't have an issue. They don't, so I do.

Observing that pre-linguistic humans find certain behaviours unacceptable.

The latter.

This is absurd. Patently. The differences are not what makes them a group. Rather, it is the similarities... Thus, ignoring the differences is require...

Oh, but they do. They consist of words. Words are meaningful. Meaning transcends the language user... most certainly.

Why not? If I understand the words another uses, how am I not seeing the world from their perspective? What else would it take to do so? Need I jump i...