So does the redness of the apple disappear when we turn out the lights, or the water solubility of the salt cease when the water it is dissolved in ev...
I'm not denying a difference between commands and recommendations and descriptions, just the idea that so descriptions involving values are actually c...
Gee, that's tough. I would say that wisdom is like a skill, in that you can develop it through practice and habit. But unlike a skill (like medicine, ...
I've thought about this sort of thing for a bit, and I'm trying to put my finger on some patterns. For instance, there is a sort of "perennial problem...
Sure, but that isn't new to Hume. The separation of practical and theoretical reason was centuries old. It's precisely the assumption that there are n...
Well, I wouldn't want to change the subject to something besides the point. As near as I can see, the only commitment of a "reality versus appearance ...
An excellent point. You've put it much better than I, but that's the basic idea I was trying to get across here: "Metaethics" often deals with questio...
This topic is very interesting from a sociological perspective because multiverse theories have become very popular as a solution to the Fine Tuning P...
I don't think anyone has mentioned God except for you. It seems to me that you are trying to set up the following dichotomy: "Either wisdom is just ad...
I'm not sure if it does. That there are ends that people act for seems obvious. If we were wrong about this, it seems we should be wrong about just ab...
I don't see how it could be. If ethics is the study of ends, of what is sought, then it seems clear that some ends are not sought merely as a matter o...
Indeed, but it seems that memories can be stored in other ways. For instance, Saint Augustine goes on at length about memory in the Confessions but he...
We know these states "correspond" to pleasure or pain because people tell us they do. A huge amount of neuroscience in this general area presupposes t...
Yet if hurting people isn't bad, why ought we try to prevent it? Even if this responsibility existed, if it isn't good to live up to one's responsibil...
If we explain naturalism in terms of "natural" we need to explain what "natural" means, and this is generally where there is equivocation. What makes ...
Your original question was: "Is right and wrong just a matter of thinking something is right (e.g. it is right to save and improve lives) and somethin...
Anyhow, I believe the correct response here is: "There are more things in heaven and earth... than are dreamt of in your philosophy" - William Shakesp...
Different how? Are scientific theories not "mental constructs?" What about understandings of history? Now if morals are "mental constructs" what cause...
Ah yes, I mention this. But I think this leads to an unfortunate and common conflation where the second sort of "empiricism" is appealed to in order t...
Hamlet is pithy on this point, but I prefer Milton's Satan: A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can ma...
Here you go: "Arguments from underdetermination are extremely influential in contemporary philosophy. They have led to many radical, and seemingly ske...
That's an interesting point. Yet even in modern "building block ontologies" where things "are what they are composed of," I doubt that you would find ...
Ah, I see now, you meant: ...as a criticism. I took it as a recommendation; as in, we need to find dichotomies. I don't think the bolded is true thoug...
Well, one interesting thing is that back when the primary goal of philosophical education was existential transformation instead of intellectual speci...
That makes sense to me, but it seems like a criteria for "who gets a hearing" not which positions are accepted. So, in the confines of the original ex...
Ah, gotcha. That makes sense. Sorry, that got shifted out of place. That was a reply to @"Banno" who thought I had Wittgenstein with the "skeptics." I...
This is a misreading. See the summary I provided above for Moliere. That particular response is offered as merelyone example of why the form of the ar...
If nonsense is limited to statements on a level of "justice is a fish," then it seems to keep out very little though, right? But "nonsense" was origin...
I'm confused, how is "good and bad" (or "beautiful and ugly," "true or false," or "one and many" for that matter) not "dichotomous?" Is it impossible ...
Where have I done that? The only mention of definitions was @"J"'s usual straw man to the effect that if one mentions knowledge of the relevant subjec...
Have you read the New Athiests? This isn't anything new. Consider Nietzsche's invective or that Russell writes that the reason Nietzsche made his more...
In older writings properties are often called "predicables." How are there "predictions" without anything to predicate? This is what I mean by: "we wi...
This is red herring, like the "definition of justice in the Great Dictionary of Philosophical Terms." I said "knowledge of health" (or "knowledge of j...
That's one of the key points of Saint Augustine's autobiography. In his thirties, after a very different sort of life, Augustine became a celibate, ga...
Sure, in a broad sense. Practical wisdom aims at making the choices that are best, and at properly valuing ends and means to those ends. There is noth...
The Disembodied Criminal: This is the last section of background before we get to the media analysis. Landa argues that Nietzsche and Stirner exclude ...
Wouldn't it be "by virtue of what is known through study and practice?" If study and practice are justificatory of themselves, I'd observe that the le...
It's also interesting because, while the body is a locus of activity, it is not sufficient to generate a mind. Place a healthy human body in most of t...
I am just explaining how the term is used in metaphysics. Properties are not unique to realism or theories of "abstract objects." Depending on how one...
Right, so wisdom isn't equivalent with what appears to be wise or is said to be wise by others. In this case, the individuals, and perhaps the society...
Nothing in your source seems to indicate what you are saying. It is silent on the rates at which trans individuals are perpetrators of violent crime. ...
Yes, but you are conflating arguments from underdetermination and skepticism. The examples you listed are given as examples of the former, not the lat...
All a property, in the broadest sense, is just an attribute or quality possessed by something. So, Socrates is a man, a rose is red, etc. The rose is ...
I think it's pretty easy to identify red things. Color can be explained in various ways. Likewise, triangular things are those things with three sides...
If there are no properties, in virtue of what would some things be members of "the set of red things" but not others? Or in virtue of what would diffe...
In virtue of what would: -resisting absorption into dominant systems -resisting commodification and turning into marketable lifestyles -being able to ...
The more obvious objection, to my mind, ties into the modal caveat in the OP: Isn't it possible that people might consider properties all sorts of rid...
It's been used in some novel ways. For example: Sure, arguably it is "underdetermined." Maybe, but it's a not unpopular opinion that the existence of ...
Gotcha. I was thinking of "identifying" (verb), which made me think of the epistemological questions. But doesn't this mean that there would be many d...
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