I just don’t understand how we can assess the truth value of a sentence when there is a term that we do not understand… The words we use must succeed ...
For example, would you say that the holocaust was bad? If yes, are you saying that it was bad because the things that happened there go against your d...
Thats all quite interesting. Im not committing to a particular metaethical view. I only mention normative and moral terms to refer to the terms used i...
I don’t understand why you say the classifications are post hoc? I suppose you are saying that I (or someone) waited until after your claim was made t...
Thats what I thought you meant. If we are, by definition, unable to verify a thing (empirically im assuming), then how can we justify believing that i...
You don’t get to dictate systems of belief or lack thereof, nor do you get to dictate how people wish to define said systems. Are you saying there is ...
Law is objective in its application in accordance with its own vague and arbitrary boundaries. It is not an objective thing of the world. If humans we...
How about saying the act may or may not lead to regret with everyone, and that it is unfounded to argue that it is immoral for everyone since we are b...
We can’t, it seems. That is why I don’t pretend to know that I do in my arguments. I don’t know either way. And I don’t think you do either. I think y...
What do you mean by treated by general terms? We have many similarities but we all have many differences, too. We cannot completely know one another s...
There are forms of atheism which believe that there is no God, however there are other forms of atheism which simply lack the belief that there is a g...
Law and ethics tend to correspond but they are two different things. It would be wrong for me to call you an idiot, but not illegal. legality only com...
This is a separate issue. I never said we shouldn’t treat the youth with limitations. I simply said that they have them. I made a descriptive claim, n...
That logic doesn’t follow. You capitulated my earlier point here: However, you yet again attempt to draw a fallacious inference: “…using generic examp...
It boils down to the issue of whether or not ethical values are objective or subjective, are real or constructed, and even if they can even be true or...
Don’t feel defeated or anything. We (as people) have been grappling with similar issues for thousands of years. Its just not there yet. Alhough, by le...
How does that argument lead you to the conclusion that “Showing your body on the Internet is unethical”? That is a general statement again but you are...
The error here is in your terms. In premise 1: “Showing our bodies” (“our” is general, it implies us (people) as a whole set). Then in premise 2: “The...
I understand. We have been discussing the ethics of showing our body on the internet this whole time. I have been trying to request from you the argum...
What I mean by premise is a statement that gives a reason for believing a conclusion. I was originally curious about your initial statement (which was...
I meant no offense and do not think your arguments were simplistic. What i wanted to do was explore your opinions because opinions are beliefs and I w...
I don’t think those arguments are valid. The issue is whether or not the act of exposing oneself on the internet is intrinsically wrong or immoral. Wh...
I think that makes sense. Sort of like the mereology between an object and the arrangement of its constituent parts (at what point does an accumulatio...
I see. I suppose im more focused on the initial topic. Fake news and hate speech are troubling, to be sure, but they are separate issues. The internet...
Im curious. Isn’t the internet a system of networks linking various forms of information between us? Is there not a wide variety of possible informati...
What do you mean by “beautiful”? I would define the term as “The properties of a stimulus event which evoke sensory and perceptual experiences that ar...
Let me see if I’m understanding you… If I make such statements as ‘There is a universe,’ or ‘The universe exists,’ what I’m doing is making a positive...
I am the novice. I know much of what I say must surely be riddled with flaws, and I am incapable (as are you and everyone else) of being perfectly acc...
Why would you need a universal quantifier for the negating proposition of an existential claim? Actually, let me just approach this less formally. Tel...
Why not first disambiguate between formal and less formal construals of key terms such as ‘negative claim’ and ‘proof’? There are obviously many proof...
Im not saying that our language needs to be perfectly definable but rather it needs to be precisely defined insofar as the terms we use are not vague ...
Yes, I am recommending just that. However, this, at least to me, would require additional wordiness inasmuch as it requires, as you say, laying out th...
I never said that we ‘need’ it, in fact, I gave no evaluation for it at all. I merely said that we should expect to find it. I attempt to discuss phil...
I think that both ‘that which is’ or ‘what truly is' are examples of vagueness to the point of meaninglessness. They are of course metaphysical by vir...
What I mean by a bayesian approach is simply my assigning a prior distribution of the overall probability that the meaning of a common term is likely ...
In Isaac’s defense, though his (subjectivist) moral system affirms the latter proposition, and denies the former proposition in your example, he is no...
That entails a contradiction in itself. If you remember the line of questioning at the beginning of the dialogue process of name the trait, where we w...
This is another category error. And it is because we are trait equalizing the traits true of a given human to that of a given animal. So the category ...
But it is acceptable relative to our contemporary cultural and societal normalities? If so, that is all that matters when it come to reductio ad absur...
So, on your view, there should be no morality at all because there was none once upon a time in our evolutionary past? That is what is entailed by tha...
You realize that species normality is a trait, right? Ok, so we should stop breathing, eating, drinking water, brushing our teeth, occupying space, an...
Ok, so only in being a member of the great apes, and to have an intelligence or consciousness within the range of average humans (comparable is subjec...
This is what kind of argument you are making: P1. If our ancestors believed that a behavior was necessary for their survival in the past, then that be...
So many wish to engage with the NTT argument rather than critique my rebuttal of it. Sure, fine, I suppose I could use the practice of steelmanning it...
I’m representing someone else’s argument. It is clear what they mean by it and I extended that clarity to you. If you do not wish to engage in a criti...
The question asks: what is true of an animal that if true of a human would justify killing them for food? Your answers include: “Is a member of the Ho...
Homosapien is the binomial name and taxonomic grouping of the genus Homo, and the species Sapien to sometimes refer humans with all members of the gen...
In the hypothetical, the term "human" will be defined as modern homosapien. The indigenous humans indeed lack all three traits. They don't have a pers...
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