creativesoul

A conclusion can be both sensible and ill-conceived.

Sometimes preserving others is the only way to preserve oneself...

We are all one consciousness. That's one helluva self contradictory entity. Insanity. When we think about our own mental ongoings, we're not watching ...

Silence is deafening.

Correspondence with fact is what makes statements true. In order for a statement to be true, there must be things that have happened or things that ar...

Being true doesn't make a statement true. Being meaningful doesn't make a statement meaningful.

Not quite. It is to say that correspondence, matching up, and/or correctly reporting on the facts makes statements true.

Facts are states of affairs; events; happenings; the way things are/were; reality. When a statement corresponds to, matches, and/or accurately reports...

One cannot move correctly without thinking correctly. Acting in a way that does not break the rules isn't equivalent to following them. Following the ...

I do not subscribe to meta-language. On my view, it all about meta-cognition. There is no assumption of an infinite tower of meta-cognitions. We think...

Yes. That example could be rendered as such. It could also be an example of naming, for the first time, I mean. If it was a first time naming, the ori...

Indeed. That is precisely how it works.

False analogy. Acting X without thinking X. Let X be morally. There is no equivalent in your analogy. What you're doing is attributing your label to a...

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It makes no sense at all, on my view, to talk in terms of "the truth in the meta-language". So, help me out here, if you would... "That is a tree" is ...

Morality is best understood as a human condition. Codes of conduct are necessary when different community members have conflicting ideas regarding wha...

Is that act moral in and of itself, or is it moral because we say so? Does what we point out require language? If so, then what's moral in and of itse...

Can one act morally without thinking morally?

I've read that charge before. Care to explain how that is the case?

Truth is prior to language.

My cat hears certain kinds of plastic being rustled, and she immediately draws a mental correlation between the sound and her memory of getting treats...

Thought and belief is mental correlation. All correlation presupposes the existence of it's own content. That's the origen of truth and meaning, altho...

"That is a tree" is a true statement if, and only if, that is a tree. The above puts it all on simple display. On the left is the belief statement. Th...

The presupposition of truth inherent to belief is precisely how "is true" becomes redundant.

Truth is the relationship 'between' true thought, belief, and statements thereof and fact. Truth is the relationship missing 'between' false thought, ...

Truth is presupposed within thought and belief formation.

I mean that a statement can be true if it is the result of valid inference, and it can also be true if it is assumed to be. Neither the inferring nor ...

Gotcha. We agree on both counts then.

The term "fact" is also used to talk about events; happenings; the case at hand; the way things are or once were; reality... I find that that use is t...

Verification/falsification?

That's just plain wrong. Statements presuppose truth. There are no exceptions. A statement can be the result of valid inference and either true or fal...

We must be careful how we talk here. Relationships do not have a spatiotemporal location.

Truth is a relationship folks.

Well said.

Whack a mole is tiresome.

You're a fucking twit. Recognition requires experience. Being innate does not.

Rubbish. Now babies have conceptions of existence? Next you'll be saying that they perform calculus. Babies know whether or not they're content or dis...

Seeing something being done allows one to know what doing something looks like. Hearing something being done allows one to hear what something being d...

A baby does not understand the source of it's mother's sadness. If one does not understand the source of emotional states(pick one), then one does not...

Actually we're not discussing our disagreement. I agree with the crucial importance of empathy, emotion, and innate potential. I disagree with your ac...

How is that not drawing mental correlations between an 'object' of physiological sensory perception(another person in this case) and oneself? Emotion ...

Now your changing the subject... talking about moral agreements. I reject your criterion for what counts as moral behaviour, and have subsequently jus...

Yes, I do. You asserted that instincts and emotions are both innate and count as moral intuition... Justify your claim.

Recognizing and caring about another's sadness is learned behaviour. Recognizing and not caring about another's sadness is learned behaviour. Recogniz...

You're a twit. Empathy is being able to put yourself in another's shoes... That's most certainly not innate.

Well, that's not true. They aspired to financial success, and achieved it, by virtue of keeping quiet and letting him make them lots of money. But I d...

Harvey Weinstein's behaviour was immoral. Ignoring it was mutually beneficial to all who did and him.

Set it out. Enumerate these emotions. Articulate exactly what those instincts consist in/of. Involuntary reflex is irrelevant.

Capitalism rewards mutually beneficial but immoral behaviour. Have a look for yourself. Being mutually beneficial doesn't require being fair, nor just...

No? When did I say that autonomous reflexes(which is what you're talking about is) were thought and belief? I didn't. So, yet another red herring, non...