I don't see how Chesterton's comment commits him to realism vis-á-vis universals. It seems completely consistent with many forms of nominalism as well...
Very true. Man is the rational animal though and presumably "demon men" would be rational as well, so it's hard to see how they could have entirely di...
The Catholic Church also declared giving the Blood to the laity—utriquism—anathema and launched a crusade over it in Bohemia. And yet now Catholics ta...
Consider what Aristotle says in Book X of the Ethics about how contemplation is highest form of life in that it is most divine. Then consider his conc...
"Must be no being," does not mean "lacks being." This would be to say "the One does not exist." Plotinus is not saying that. He is denying the univoci...
I mentioned Perl and this might be helpful for why the One cannot lack intentionality and why, having Act united to Being, Act cannot be "for no reaso...
Yup, that's the basics of the cosmology and the hypostases. Nous is the result of the One's vision of itself. “In turning toward itself The One sees. ...
I don't know. The same sort of question would seem to crop up elsewhere. How absurd does the world need to be for us to become existentialist overcome...
But this is profoundly misunderstanding the classical tradition, Thomism, etc. Pace Maimonides, who only recognizes the via negativa and apophatic the...
I don't think an amount equivalent to about 1/5th of US public sector spending divided up amongst amongst the entire world is going to solve global po...
These are just paradoxes of material implication, no? The negation of a contradiction is always true, and being true it is implied by anything, true o...
I've looked into this since it seems like it would come up at the intersection of process philosophy and realism. People have certainly proposed actio...
You could do the exact same thing with "do flowers exist." A. Flower's don't exist. B. Yes they do, x and y are flowers. A. Nope, all I am seeing is t...
I've always found it interesting that in the past, when life was a great deal more violent, brutish, and short when compared to prevailing conditions ...
I somehow find it more plausible that they were trying to highlight the incongruity between the fact "Lassie has four legs" does not imply Lassie is a...
It's clearly discussing paradoxes of material implication, not arguing that "All A are B and C is B implies C is A," is valid anywhere. In fact it say...
Yes, disagrees that "a true conclusion logically follows from, or is proved by, or is "implied" by, or is validly inferred from, only some premises an...
No, your reading of it is incorrect because you seem to think it is saying: All dogs have four legs Lassie has four legs Lassie is a dog ...is valid i...
Sure, but that's not really what the example is there to assert, as is clear from the rest of the paragraph. They mentioned replacing the fact about d...
No, you aren't, your post clearly demonstrated the point went right over your head. I even quoted you on the exact point where you say the same thing ...
There is an excellent book called Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science by Aubrey Clayton that points out some of ...
There more back and forth than is commonly realized. Jewish and Christian Platonism was already well established in Alexandria generations before Plot...
And so "society" as a whole makes imperative statements? But then these statements are not like the utterances of a single person in many important re...
I didn't say that. Consequences and obligations are related. Anyhow, you didn't answer the questions above. If duties are just imperative statements, ...
Who exactly makes these statements? Presumably they can also release people from them if the obligation "just is" the statement "you should do this?" ...
No. Are people widely accepted to have a duty to give a mugger their money when they demand it? Nope. Might they face harm if they refuse to do what t...
In the first case changing one's mind simply reflects a change in opinion. "Oh, he finally found the right woman and decided marriage was for him." Th...
Where does it do that? Presumably it has something to do with them since you're able to refer to them with words right here. I am not sure how this is...
There is a sort of reverse collective action problem here (I am blanking on the proper term). The argument might work for an individual or family. It ...
Yes, that's right in there. I'm not sure how they are "slipping" it in. That's exactly the point they are making and trying to highlight. You seem to ...
lol, this is torturous, from the appeal to authority taken out of context on down. Again, if you think a young man saying "I don't intend to get marri...
I am not sure what the relevance of the question is. The answer would seem to be "yes," in some cases. The Spartans with King Leonidas had a duty to t...
Actually, I was thinking more of the idea of the "desire for truth," as just one desire for many, but that sentiment obviously applies in some ways to...
Taxes are seen as an obligation of good citizens. Since citizens benefit from their state they are obliged to help support it. A person who refuses to...
I should add that obligations and duties help define and give content to social roles. If "a knight has a duty to protect women and children," is just...
I feel like the right word for things like laws, recessions, culture, etc. would be "incorporeal" as in "lacking a specific body." Recessions might be...
Obligations are recognized in the cultures or institutions they are situated in. This is not true for "all imperative commands." "Lay down your arms a...
I don't really think reduction is a particularly helpful endeavour in most cases, particularly not when it comes to the social sciences or history. Bu...
Because obligations are everywhere in human culture and they dictate a great deal of behavior. They show up everywhere, in economics, in law, in finan...
Yes, but the naturalistic frame begs some sort of explanation for obligations, not claiming they "don't exist," which is clearly not the case. Likewis...
It seems to me that most nominalists are motivated by naturalistic intuitions (perhaps joined to an inadequate understanding of universals as necessar...
Neither nominalism or fictionalism require people to claim that obligations are incoherent, nor to claim that they don't exist. They are theories desc...
None of those positions entail that sentences about obligations are "incoherent." That would be quite a claim to make. Moral nihilism claims that are ...
What isn't clear? I'm finding it hard to believe that you cannot parse the meaning of sentences like: "soldiers are obligated to report all instances ...
No, it means your role entails a duty to perform that action. If you don't save drowning people when you easily could have you are a bad lifeguard, ju...
It's "incoherent" to you that lifeguards are obligated to jump into the water when a child starts screaming "help I'm drowning," or that firefighters ...
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