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[quote user="nirgrahamUK"]circularity doesnt come into it when you are talking facts.[/quote] Alfred Korzybski (1933, pp. 429-432) will probably attribute the conflation of the 'mental self' with the 'physical self' as the confusion of orders of abstractions . Read pages 429...
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[quote user="Brainpolice"] [quote]Although we should 'reject' the "realist/idealist" dichotomy, the "reflectionist/impositionist" dichotomy, the "physicalist/phenomenalist" dichotomy, the "objectivist/subjectivist" dichotomy, the "essentialist...
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[quote user="twistedbydsign99"] [quote user="Anarcho-Mercantilist"]who claim that "intrinsic properties exist independently of our thinking," and who claim that "essences exist independently of our senses,"[/quote] If nothing objective exists then you should stop...
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[quote user="Zavoi"] [quote user="AJ"]Else please define "objective" more precisely to distinguish the two.[/quote] "Objective" means "true or false independent of the preferences of people." It contrasts with "subjective," which refers to statements...
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[quote user="Juan"][quote user="Lilburne"]I might, however, ask him whether he feels stealing, assault, and enslavement are wrong. If he answers affirmitavely, I would then prove him incoherent by deriving "ought" from "ought" and showing him that he is actually...
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[quote user="Lilburne"] [quote user="Anarchist Cain"]Morality is define as a code of conduct proposed by a given group or individual. Explain how that is correct or incorrect.[/quote] The natural rights theories we are criticizing are not mere codes of conduct. They contain assertions...
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[quote user="Lilburne"] [quote user="Juan"]I'm simply stating the common sense position that there's right and wrong, contrary to what a bunch of relativists who fancy themselves great philosophers believe.[/quote] The common sense position regarding right and wrong is that...
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[quote user="I. Ryan"] [quote user="Anarchist Cain"] Only because you fail to define it. Amoralism is defined as lacking a distinction between right and wrong. [/quote] So, if you are an amoralist, then you could not comment on the rightness or the wrongness of the proposition that...
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[quote user="Juan"] [quote]You seem to conflate "really" with "objectively".[/quote] whatever. what do you mean by really ? by conflating ? [/quote] The terms 'objective', 'subjective', 'is', 'ought', 'fact', and 'value' are...
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I guess 'morality', in the descriptive sense, may have a 'truth' value as in the physical laws of the universe. For example, it is true that humans generally feel empathy for one another, avoid murder, and cooperate with one another. One may challenge this claim by arguing that not all...