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Let's give Tiff some credit for standing up for someone so disliked on this forum. Hurray Tiff!

It's hard to put this concept out without generalizing it; but, reality is seen as tyranny in contrast with the dream world. One doesn't need anything...

Congratulations Tiff!

Sometimes I'll wallow a little and then go to sleep. Wallowing helps. That the lack of agency and awareness of oneself in a dream is a respite from th...

Fundamentalists? Oh, we got plenty of those types in America. I recall Trump telling a kid he was like Batman. Pfft. More like Lex Luthor without the ...

So, I guess people just really like Kantians more than Utilitarians for example, like Ozymandias from Watchmen? So, the follow up question is why so?

Yeah, that too.

Yeah, but the Joker keeps on getting out of prison while Batman keeps on trying to lock him up. Illogical?

Yeah, but think about it from the perspective of an individual. They're hopelessly confounded to.their own feelings and biases. Utilitarianism overcom...

Hmm, what makes you say that. I was thinking more along the lines of Batman, Superman, Iron Man(?), and others.

Are all pragmatists utilitarians?

Pretty much. And that's why utilitarianism is in my view better than deontological ethical theories. Because the calculus can always be worked on coll...

It would be considered as an accidental moral act. Good intent or the desire to obey or abide by the utilitarian calculus also matters in consequentia...

So, the complexity and flexibility of the utilitarian calculus can be viewed as an advantage over categorical imperatives of deontological ethical bas...

Yes, but utilitarianism is more practical or flexible than kantian imperatives. So, under such an assumption it seems like utilitarianism is superior ...

Are all superheroes Kantians?

Yes, but Kant's categorical imperative doesn't deal well with morally contextually bound decisions. So, utilitarianism has the upper hand here.

Morality in utilitarianism is defined by the calculus used to derive moral outcomes or the greatest good principle. There is one problem with that tho...

@"Marcus de Brun" has a phenomenal grasp of English. Do not be mistaken for you are in the presence of a genius.

I'll have to get back to you in a while Srap, that's a lot to cover, and really hope someone else can chime in also... =]

Yes, this is the absolute truth. Sleep is my favorite activity or rather inactivity. I get to relinquish any form of agency, in a safe and controlled ...

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That sounds backwards. Traits don't emerge from high IQ, lol.

Being trolled by a die hard fan?

Returning back to this, there seems to be a sort of Sorites paradox when trying to delineate where does 'Sufficiency' in the Principle derive from... ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3luVKvy-ugI

Waiting on you @"Srap Tasmaner", if you have any thoughts about the above or moving onto proposition 2.1 and so on...

Tarski deserves a mention too.

How about: Meaning is what it ought to be.

@"Noble Dust", now your drunk! Edit: Goodnight then or goodmorning.

Do you guys or gals think there's such a concept as "psychoevolution"? Ive never read about it before. It's not the same as development theory in psyc...

Ohh, then that settles it. Comprende, Senior Akanthinos.

I'm not sure if there's anything to understand here. Ok, you like the fact that he speaks American? Whoopty-doo, so do many other Americans.

Let's also remember that through linguistic analysis it's thought that Trump has early stage dementia. Supposedly...

Yes, brain good.

It's a new language.

Well, if we say: It is true, that, the cat is on the mat, then doesn't that sound redundant?

Too bad the underdog is being cheered on by the vile shit that has emerged as of recent. I don't blame all Republican's, but they aren't being vocal e...

It seems from what I gather, is that when a state of affairs, obtains, then it becomes truth-apt. Is that correct?

OK, and this is the last part from that chapter. Further from that the issue does not continue. https://i.imgur.com/TNm5AH6.jpg

And finally; https://i.imgur.com/Ohzo4Ls.png

More to the point of what we were arguing over: https://i.imgur.com/C1ygVch.jpg So, basically he (Wittgenstein) raises the issue of 'possible worlds' ...

@"Srap Tasmaner" This is from the Scott Soames book I referenced above: I think it's a good explanation... https://i.imgur.com/yjRVlXW.jpg

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Cool, thanks!

Sadly, or not so sadly, depending on how much you like this reading group, yes... I think so. Haha.

Take your pick, says Piglet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_space

As I understand it, you do believe that there's an early and later Wittgenstein. I don't think this is entirely true. After all, I think Wittgenstein ...

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