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Then other philosophers reject bivalence in an attempt to justify the mixing...

I was simply showing the common denominators in morality, some of them anyway. I mean, you strongly asserted against the notion, so... What makes you ...

Instrumental oughts are ends justify the means. When the ends justify the means, then to hell with what's right, good, fair, just, harmless, etc.

A racial group is just one kind of group. It takes a group to have a culture. So, the OP misunderstood.

I think the focus of the media is a bit shallow. The problem is that some folk are offended by it, and those folks' rights haven't been honored. Those...

Some secretaries are much better than others. X-) That's kinda the point Sap is making, I think. It's not sexual harassment - as in unwelcomed - if th...

I'm simply trying to understand what you're saying with regard to truth.

If that which makes a proposition true differs from true proposition to true proposition, then in what way does it differ? Perhaps it be better to ask...

Value, when rendered in monetary terms, is profit based. What's valuable is not.

Here's the thing. You're working from a framework of propositions being the things that can be true/false. I do not. I have worked through the questio...

The question was... If that which makes a proposition true differs from true proposition to true proposition, then in what way does it differ? I take ...

You're missing the point. Value, in economic terms, is ill-conceived. We could do without almost all of what capitalism has afforded us. In fact, it's...

So, it doesn't... It ought. Not everyone has the same ability. No one has a choice in the socio-economic situation they're born into, their cognitive ...

I find it odd to question the meaning of "by virtue of" and proceed to offer an answer like you did... As a result of. Because of. The important bit I...

So, it's not true by virtue of being the result of valid inference?

I'm not following this. Why no truth?

"That which makes individual true propositions true"... Is the first "true" above necessary? If that which makes a proposition true differs from true ...

Sure. That's what happens when one holds false belief. Being called "true" doesn't make it so.

One can also hold unshakable conviction in a statement, and the statement can still be false. Certainty is not truth, although it is a result of presu...

A statement can be true without being the result of valid inference, although tim wood's candidate isn't. Logical validity isn't necessary.

Hey Agustino... How does the fact that not everyone has the same ability factor into your notion that everyone has the same opportunity to become weal...

Those narratives qualify as bullshit in many or most cases. They will say whatever suits them(to usurp consent) despite what else is known to be true,...

Then you ought not use the same name.

Oh, and inconsistent is incoherent in the sense I'm using... two ways to talk about the same thing... Tarski is good. Lots of folk paved the way.

Welcome to the forum... (Y)

Here's a test you can do for yourself... Define "truth". Then copy and paste all paragraphs you wrote that include the term. Replace the term with the...

Consistent terminological usage produces meaningful coherent claims. Inconsistent produces confusion as a result of being meaningful on the one hand, ...

Equivocation is a common pitfall of one who is not careful.

Statements are what's true/false. Correspondence to fact is what makes them so. The lack thereof is what makes them false. One of them old guys, Arist...

Validity is insufficient for truth. A logical truth requires only validity. Logic presupposes truth by virtue of presupposing the truth of it's premis...

Truth by deduction is often called "logical truth", and it requires only validity. Valid deductions can result in false conclusions. Truth cannot be f...

There are lots of false statements about observations.

You may want to re-read that until epiphany.

Names are abstractions. An abstraction is a proxy; a stand-in. Names stand in place of the named.

It can't. I was pointing out that that claim logically follows from what you wrote. Re-read it again, and pay careful attention to not only what I wri...

The last statement... If being true requires only existing, then false statements are true.

Be careful to not confuse giving with discovering.

Existence is first.

Here's simple... Statements are what's true/false. Correspondence to fact/reality is what makes them true. The lack thereof is what makes them false. ...

Throughout. Talk about nothing. No assumptions. Then something. So, something. Then naming something a property. Naming the property "truth" or "truth...

So, what are we to make of politicians who intentionally create a narrative that does not educate the people on the known effects/affects of the polic...

What global thought 'process'? We already all think by virtue of the same process, but we just have different values.

You're not making sense.

Are you privileging the distinction between accounting for past experience and predicting future experience?

Perhaps the latter, although the term "mechanism" isn't part of my normal dialect. I'm asking what the difference between an imagination of past exper...

I think that attempting to qualify knowledge as direct and/or indirect is useless. Perception is either direct, indirect, or both. That all depends up...

How are we to distinguish between a memory of past experience and an imagination thereof?

As always, despite common misconception, I'm trying to be helpful.

I'm just trying to understand the distinction you're drawing.

What does not follow?