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Knowing the differences between different communities' values requires isolating and recognizing the shared values in each of the different communitie...
August 26, 2017 at 08:58
Interesting projection("pretending") from one who is feigning ignorance...
August 24, 2017 at 07:19
By the way... To clear up the confusion. My reply regarding citations was driven, in part, by the recognition that apo had not been following the exch...
August 24, 2017 at 07:10
I'm not sure what you're going on about. I like making shit up. I'm pretty good at it too. I'm not the only one. It's the quality of shit that matters...
August 24, 2017 at 06:29
You could always ask him...
August 24, 2017 at 06:21
It's all quite nuanced. Interesting to me though, how you are well aware that I've adopted nothing as far as thought/belief 'jargon' goes. That's mine...
August 24, 2017 at 04:37
Now you're ending in contradiction...
August 24, 2017 at 03:33
That which is good is so in and of itself. Kant had one thing right. The categorical imperative. However, I tend to understand it as a way to measure ...
August 24, 2017 at 03:32
Some folk find eating other people to be the most desirable thing that they can think of. The notion excites these weirdos. And yet... According to yo...
August 24, 2017 at 03:29
Nevermind... Do you really believe that stuff?
August 24, 2017 at 03:27
Cool. Give me a minute...
August 24, 2017 at 03:16
That's not a logical argument.
August 24, 2017 at 03:15
Ok TranscendedRealms... Listen. There are several false statements at work in that post. What would it take for you to acknowledge that? I mean, could...
August 24, 2017 at 03:14
Bald unsubstantiated assertions... What are those? Really really bald ones? >:O
August 24, 2017 at 03:10
What are you talking about apo?
August 24, 2017 at 03:08
That's not a logical argument. Break it down for me. That is, condense that post into argumentative form. I'd be glad to review it then. At first blus...
August 24, 2017 at 03:08
Citations? X-) Hah. You need a bibliography here? Footnotes and all...
August 24, 2017 at 03:00
Physiological sensory perception is not caused by thought. Emotion is caused by thought. Emotion is not physiological sensory perception.
August 24, 2017 at 02:55
If physiological sensory perception is not caused by thought and emotion is, then it only follows that emotion is not physiological sensory perception...
August 24, 2017 at 02:48
You claim that emotions are a sense, like sight. You then acknowledge that thought causes emotions. If thought causes emotions, but not physiological ...
August 24, 2017 at 02:43
What is the criterion, which when met, counts as being an emotional signal?
August 24, 2017 at 02:39
The OP wrote... Emotions are then... caused by thoughts. Physiological sensory perception is not.
August 24, 2017 at 02:34
Knowing the truth conditions of 'X' guarantees knowing what 'X' means. However, it is not the other way around. "This is a hand" Learning what that me...
August 23, 2017 at 02:59
Godel's target was inductive logic, right?
August 23, 2017 at 02:45
American youth are showing the rest of the world that it is possible to honor and respect folk who are different. So... An atheist, an agnostic, a bud...
August 23, 2017 at 02:42
From the OP
August 23, 2017 at 02:34
Dummett's argument concludes that the principle of bivalence be rejected because we cannot always recognize whether or not a statement is true/false. ...
August 23, 2017 at 02:21
If the meaning of a statement is existentially contingent upon a known verification/falsification method, then there are no meaningful unverifiable st...
August 23, 2017 at 01:48
Thinking/believing that sugar is sweet doesn't require metacognition. Understanding verification methods is a meta-cognitive endeavor. Two year olds c...
August 22, 2017 at 09:58
Understanding "sugar is sweet" does not entail understanding that putting sugar in your mouth would be the method to verify the claim.
August 22, 2017 at 09:56
Nonsense. One can draw mental correlations between the physiological sensory effects/affects of sugar and the statement "sugar is sweet" without any a...
August 22, 2017 at 09:51
It makes no sense whatsoever to create a criterion for "verifiably immanent truth conditions" if those conditions can be satisfied by unverifiable fal...
August 22, 2017 at 09:38
Understanding what it takes to be verifiable is about us. Being verifiable is about the claim. It makes no sense whatsoever to create a criterion for ...
August 22, 2017 at 09:12
That can't be right. What precedes "because" doesn't follow from what comes after. It should. It doesn't follow from the fact that one knows when asse...
August 22, 2017 at 09:02
Since at it's core all thought/belief consists of mental correlations between objects of physiological sensory perception and/or oneself(the agent's m...
August 22, 2017 at 03:48
Nice Street... It seems that that points to an existential contingency. Namely, the one I've been working through for nearly a decade. That which is e...
August 22, 2017 at 02:52
The battleground is the conflation of truth and meaning...
August 20, 2017 at 22:43
Hey Michael! I want to critique the following... I'm not even sure if the above is an accurate report of "for the realist". I note a bit of confusion ...
August 20, 2017 at 20:04
Yeah, seems to me that there's quite a bit of historical bewitchment going on in academia. Self-imposed none-the-less... Here's a simple consideration...
August 20, 2017 at 19:14
Academically speaking, I would think that the rules for formal debate apply... or should at least. I wrote that regarding your exchange with Srap, and...
August 20, 2017 at 17:47
I have always worked under the assumption that when one enters into a philosophical debate, particularly a retired or working professional, that s/he ...
August 20, 2017 at 17:41
I missed that example. Evidently I skimmed more than I realized. :-| So, it seems that this criterion for social construct is one of basic elemental c...
August 20, 2017 at 17:27
I appreciate that last post Michael... Cleared some stuff up for me... semantics.
August 20, 2017 at 16:54
Hmmm. I think that we're not talking about the same thing when saying "worldview". I would say that you demanded that your interlocutor justify his di...
August 20, 2017 at 01:39
All justification ends somewhere... I agree though, in this case, that Srap offered little to no justificatory ground regarding Fitch's proof. Seemed ...
August 19, 2017 at 23:54
All I'm attempting to point out is that everyone has a baseline by which they assess the world and/or themselves. That baseline is one's worldview, an...
August 19, 2017 at 21:58
How is "sure you can" anything other than 'nuh-uh'? How is your conviction that one can avoid bringing their own worldview into a discussion any more ...
August 19, 2017 at 21:22
I suppose what I'm getting at is that one cannot avoid bringing their pre-existing worldview into a discussion.
August 19, 2017 at 21:06
There's an inherent difficulty in suspending one's judgment that arises by virtue of how thought/belief formation works. I mean, we look at the world ...
August 19, 2017 at 19:02
Still, it seems that culling out what counts as a social construct cannot be done with a single incision. Earlier you wrote "of the society" and not "...
August 19, 2017 at 18:49