creativesoul

I find that you're putting her thoughts to use. That has been educational for me. Thanks.

I appreciate your participation here... :smile:

Standards are linguistic devices... I think? If so, then true belief would require language. Clearly, that's not the case. There are non linguistic cr...

Or... setting deliberately misrepresenting one's own thought and belief(lies) aside... A web of falsehoods can be quite coherent.

That which consists of something else cannot exist prior to that something else. Codes of conduct consist of common language. Codes of conduct cannot ...

I'm not a believer in such things. I'm much more a believer of recognizing our own part, our own role, and thus our own power to realize what's within...

Yup, but you may not like what i have to say about it. Wallows.

This is dead wrong.

I'm not an atheist. I'm agnostic on the matter in the sense that we cannot know anything about something that exists beyond space and time.

All of them.

That's not true Noah. Some atheists... the militant ones... may hate God, whatever that means. Not all.

As I said earlier... the term "socialism" being bandied about - as a negative - in the current political landscape is hollow. Cannot wait for the nati...

What do you think "public" means? :brow:

Now it's Stove's worst argument? The leading theory of perception? Is it physicalist? Does it include notions like perception that is informed by lang...

Can't say... I'm not a believer.

Not really. Where there is no intent, purpose, or plan there is no needless suffering. It's just suffering. Causality. Needless suffering is meaningfu...

Remove all intent and purpose. Look at what's left.

:rofl:

Taxes are much better called by another name... User fees.

That's the driving force, one of the underlying principles guiding policy decisions for democratic socialism. If you disagree, then do not call them s...

It's kind of sad really. The amount of available literature from the founding fathers, the framers of the constitution, and the revolutionary thinkers...

Invented by any socialist? As if the only thing that counts as socialist is that which is invented by some socialist? That's part of the problem with ...

For a very long time, when it comes to large corporate and financial interests... it's socialism for them and pure capitalism for everyone else. Gover...

All of the financial industry and car manufacturing bailouts were socialism in practice - or at least they were framed as what's best for the public. ...

They place what's best for the overall community(the public at large) at the forefront.

Post office. Public education. Fire department. Police department. Department of interior. Land and natural resources. All infrastructure. FDA. EPA. E...

Perhaps. Profit as the motive. The bigger problems with the trade deals are shown by the financial harm they've caused to the American workers, as wel...

The second hand information has the public quite misinformed.

During national debates, the misconception of negativity towards Bernie due to 'socialism' would be rendered null and void to anyone who is reasonable...

That's just not true, unless 'better' means continued harm against American workers.

I dunno. I thought Hamilton was a Federalist. Quick search showed that Adams was the only Federalist. So... I need to research that prior to assenting...

I do not think that impeachment based upon "partisan differences" is what the framers were warning about. To quite the contrary, they were warning abo...

What is your take on the Trump defense teams use of the idea that the framers warned against partisan impeachments, and then pointed out that Trump's ...

You're just providing good practice. :wink:

Truth is presupposed in within all thought and belief. This is shown by the redundancy of adding "is true" to statements of thought and belief. Meanin...

Isn't this just a rehashing of Kant? In order to know that we do not know how things are, we must already know both... how things are and what we beli...

If morality - as a term - refers to codes of conduct, and all codes consist entirely of common language, then it only follows that so too does all mor...

Weird. True statements are the strongest possible justificatory ground. I wouldn't expect you to know that though if you believe that you cannot agree...

...but it is not enough to be called "moral" unless all wants and needs and all consideration thereof also counts.

Morality is more than rule writing.

What's puzzling to me is that you are arguing that you cannot know if you agree that some statement is true unless you see it in an argument. As if st...

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Something that doesn't allow a masochist thinking about what's in my best interest to have moral intent.

Are you really saying that without an argument you do not know if you agree to any of the numerous claims I've made? :brow: That strikes me as rather ...

Do you disagree with any particular statement?

All codes of conduct are existentially dependent upon common language use. All language use is relative to individual particulars. Look towards the to...

Manifestations of X are moral ones. Moral intuitions and moral behaviours count as being moral because they are the result of some previous beneficent...

But this mistakenly presupposes that all codes of conduct can be reduced to formulations. It cannot be translated in such a way without significant lo...

You must be using the term "formulation" a bit looser than I. Not all rule writing counts as formulations.

We have an American president who is proud of himself when he proves that he's the best name caller. Juvenile minds.