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Suppose we genetically altered a subset of the human species so that they could no longer bear fertile offspring, thus making them a distinct species....
September 27, 2021 at 07:41
Danger is subjective. Organisms evolve according to environmental pressures so one species can't really be said to be more evolved than any others. Th...
August 28, 2021 at 18:51
I don't believe that addresses the issue in question. The problem is with the reductio entailed by the logic. I understand your argument to be somethi...
August 18, 2021 at 00:38
Blaise Pascal's argument? Employing decision theory, I presume? If so, do you accept the reductio? If we allow decision theory to extend to infinite u...
August 10, 2021 at 02:42
Whether or not I believe in moral facts depends on many variables that I have considered both here and in other posts. The main idea is whether or not...
June 03, 2021 at 05:58
Sure. I just tire of this discussion (of agnosticism) being chained to the rocks of theism and atheism. This is because I view the dichotomy on the wh...
June 02, 2021 at 05:30
Yes, I agree. Those are two legitimate opposing propositions too. These can be formalized into propositions and their negations. (S) It is the case th...
June 02, 2021 at 01:23
I wouldn't say possible, though that is technically true, it is a bit deceiving too. Agnosticism, in the context of the existence of God or gods, is g...
June 02, 2021 at 01:08
It is. It also is with regards to the question of 'pepperoni lovers' or 'triple pepperoni' pizza's taste-value; or with regards to the question of the...
June 02, 2021 at 00:29
You have provided no counter argument to my thesis statement (T), "Agnosticism is the most rationally acceptable default position," nor to the conclus...
June 01, 2021 at 06:01
That is an irrelevant conclusion which is a form of relevance fallacy. You are ignoring refutation and instead offering a conclusion that fails to add...
May 31, 2021 at 07:35
It supports agnosticism broadly as the default stance with regards to any initial or long-standing inquiry to determine the truth-value of a propositi...
May 31, 2021 at 07:00
Im interested in learning and I want my flaws exposed to me, thus (pedantics aside) I present my argument formally. I am fairly new and would love it ...
May 31, 2021 at 00:32
What is the argument for that? Provide the grounds for your assertion please? I'll formalize it so just use natural language.
May 31, 2021 at 00:05
I agree. I would not hold an agnostic position with regards to those propositions because they are grounded in sufficient epistemic justification. I t...
May 31, 2021 at 00:03
Im agnostic with regards to many propositions not limited to the existence of God or gods. Referring to atheism and theism only serves to reduce the f...
May 30, 2021 at 23:49
refute a premise or the argument goes through. Im talking about an initial default position that is malleable and receptive to new information and tak...
May 30, 2021 at 23:38
I defined the terms of my position in the OP. If you take a semantic issue with the term then just go by the definition that I provided. There is no c...
May 30, 2021 at 23:22
You have certainly never seen my watch. If I ask you what it looks like, what default position would you begin from with regards to the observable fea...
May 30, 2021 at 23:04
We are not children at conception nor at birth but rather we are a zygote and newborn, respectively. Concept formation is not the same as opinion form...
May 30, 2021 at 22:19
You are omitting the original context in which the whole of my statement relies upon for justification. Consider the statement as a whole, rather than...
May 30, 2021 at 21:57
Im not interested in debating the existence of God. I tried to separate agnosticism from its theological connotations and etymology in the OP. I refer...
May 30, 2021 at 21:44
Im referring to humans on the individual level. At conception and birth we are blank slates except for some genetic precursors that predispose us to b...
May 30, 2021 at 19:12
To of a proposition is to admit uncertainty and thus take an agnostic position. I find theology uninteresting, I reference agnosticism in a much broad...
May 30, 2021 at 18:59
Your response is quite eloquently put, however it does not address the argument which I have provided. There is an argument on the table and if it is ...
May 30, 2021 at 17:30
First, I would like to clarify that I am taking the positive position and thus affirming the debate proposition captured in the contents of the title....
May 30, 2021 at 16:43
You are saying that you don't understand their meaning in a cognitive sense? As in they are more emotive than rational statements? Or, are you saying ...
May 24, 2021 at 07:42
My apologies for the misinterpretation, I misattributed a comment from Banno to you earlier in the thread. You are correct about the intolerance of ta...
May 23, 2021 at 21:40
Though a few of your interlocutors seem to be either incapable of, or disinterested in, finding a charitable interpretation of your statement — Cartes...
May 23, 2021 at 20:43
Could you clarify what you mean with these broad terms? If you could offer your particular disambiguated take rather than me attempting to parce and f...
May 23, 2021 at 18:14
Though a few of your interlocutors seem to be either incapable of, or disinterested in, finding a charitable interpretation of your statement, I find ...
May 23, 2021 at 07:15
Just to be clear, are you making the universal conjunctive statement, "All moral facts "A" are (assuming "/" is a logical or grammatical conjunction) ...
May 22, 2021 at 22:45
Yes, I have a proclivity for thinking and subsequently speaking in tangents, and the passage you are referring to here, I can now see with hindsight i...
May 22, 2021 at 16:55
Plato, Cratylus, section 385b2–387c5. Truth and Falsity in Names 385b2 - d1 I'm sure you are familiar with regardless of whether or not you have read ...
May 22, 2021 at 06:02
From the SEP: Aristotle could be interpreted in Metaphysics as prescribing to a primitive correspondence truth by stating that the world provides "wha...
May 21, 2021 at 02:11
I think there is some miscommunication here. I was talking about how our language has evolved over time and it seems possible that it has been structu...
May 20, 2021 at 19:51
I may very well have it backwards. I picture truth both in an absolute sense that corresponds with the necessary state of existence of a metaphysical ...
May 20, 2021 at 12:58
What do you mean by "artificially"? And, saying that there are "high stakes" presupposes a normative value, does it not?
May 18, 2021 at 17:47
Im not making a claim either way (negative or positive) regarding the issue of whether or not there is an objective morality. I think both sides have ...
May 18, 2021 at 17:36
I think both can be the case. We seem to recapitulate language both consciously and unconsciously. For instance, we understand the meaning of language...
May 18, 2021 at 17:05
To be honest, I am not familiar with TAK. Is it a theory in epistemology? What it is that I'm trying to say is not so much that moral declarations are...
May 18, 2021 at 14:29
I have read and thought about metaethics for several months now and I have constructed a bit of a theoretical framework to try and understand morality...
May 18, 2021 at 14:12
I misread the including/excluding, for sure. But, that wasn't what I was saying. I was saying that the statement, “I wonder whether lying is wrong,” i...
May 18, 2021 at 03:42
This statement is truth-apt? I can see it being truth-apt as a declarative statement (it is either true or false that you ‘wonder’ about ‘whether lyin...
May 18, 2021 at 01:28
I'm more and more leaning towards non-cognitivism (more or less being dragged kicking and screaming). What of the view that moral statements are truth...
May 18, 2021 at 00:25
My statement was that philosophers subscribe to a correspondence theory of truth by convention. You may be surprised to find out how popular the corre...
May 18, 2021 at 00:08
That doesn't follow... P1. If evolution has imbued humans with a moral sense, then humans are able to derive the way the world ought to be from the wa...
May 17, 2021 at 15:50
That makes two of us. I'm not sure if we can even say moral statements are true. That is what I was thinking. Correspondence theories seem to be const...
May 17, 2021 at 15:32
That seems like a fair enough definition. It seems to exclude certain domains such as aesthetics and ethics though. What about a Cartesian fact? Would...
May 17, 2021 at 12:52
Are you saying that which is natural (e.g., biological evolution) is moral? Do they agree? There seems to be some agreement but there is conflict and ...
May 17, 2021 at 11:06