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- Sat Jun 01, 2019 12:00 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: What could make morality objective?
- Replies: 1817
- Views: 61574
Re: What could make morality objective?
I disagree. Lightwaves and brain-processing (electrical and chemical) to produce perception are real things we can measure. We may well be able to measure various kinds of brain activity, but I don't think we are yet able to measure the nature or degree of a perception. Can we even infer the presen...
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 10:25 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: What could make morality objective?
- Replies: 1817
- Views: 61574
Re: What could make morality objective?
But do you think moral rightness and wrongness are similarly features of reality, like lightwaves and brains? There is a similarity, but not a complete parallel. Lightwaves exist, but our perception of them is constructed in the brain/mind. A particular situation could be said to exist, but the nat...
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:15 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: What could make morality objective?
- Replies: 1817
- Views: 61574
Re: What could make morality objective?
Sorry, but I think you're in a muddle. Colours are features of reality, outside our minds. (I assume you're not an idealist.) But moral rightness and wrongness are not such features of reality, outside our minds. Colours exist when there's no one to perceive and categorise them. But there can be no...
- Tue May 28, 2019 10:07 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Counselling
- Topic: How can I reach certainty about some things and obtain peace of mind?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1350
Re: How can I reach certainty about some things and obtain peace of mind?
Why would you want to be certain? It's not like it's your nephew and you have to remember his birthday.
- Tue May 28, 2019 9:33 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Counselling
- Topic: How can I reach certainty about some things and obtain peace of mind?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1350
Re: How can I reach certainty about some things and obtain peace of mind?
How did you know he had a 7 year old nephew?FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 9:04 pmImagine you ask your 7 year old nephew what he wants to be when he grows up
- Tue May 28, 2019 7:38 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Counselling
- Topic: How can I reach certainty about some things and obtain peace of mind?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1350
Re: How can I reach certainty about some things and obtain peace of mind?
I think you need to find a way to reconcile yourself to a lifetime of turmoil. Either that or stop striving for the impossible.
- Mon May 27, 2019 8:07 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: "NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS", HERE'S THE SIMPLE TRUTH ABOUT ABORTION
- Replies: 569
- Views: 13129
Re: "NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS", HERE'S THE SIMPLE TRUTH ABOUT ABORTION
this cant be the full extent of the word's meaning lets say i am writing a novel about Neanderthals "Gook murdered Droog with the mammoth thigh bone" Obviously there are no laws, does that mean the user of the word 'murder' is improper? According to my understanding, Kayla, yes, 'murder' would not ...
- Tue May 21, 2019 8:43 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: So...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 415
Re: So...
Toast and a cup of tea?
- Mon May 20, 2019 8:02 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Counselling
- Topic: I dont fully understand how to apply the second step of the socratic method, PLEASE HELP!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1059
Re: I dont fully understand how to apply the second step of the socratic method, PLEASE HELP!
If you need my answer for step 1, i dont mind sharing it here however it might not be apropriate for this forum and if it is, i could pm message you it on this forum. HexHammer thrives on helping folk with their personal issues, he has got a reputation for it here. This sort of thing is right up hi...
- Sun May 19, 2019 8:59 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Double Slit Experiment
- Replies: 15
- Views: 682
Re: Double Slit Experiment
Such a short, yet disheartening little phrase.
- Sun May 19, 2019 5:41 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Startling new revelations on climate change
- Replies: 7
- Views: 480
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Exactly, henry, it isn't just the politicians who are letting us down.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2019 5:35 pm
Them sorcerers are supposed to keep the ethereal regions clear & clean: dirty, overpaid bastids!
- Sun May 19, 2019 1:00 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Startling new revelations on climate change
- Replies: 7
- Views: 480
Startling new revelations on climate change
Recently completed research could render the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change a momentous exercise in rushing headlong down a blind alley. In his newly published paper on the chemical constitution and electromagnetic characteristics of the Earth’s upper atmosphere, professor James (Jimmy) Edwa...
- Sun May 19, 2019 12:58 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: You never happened.
- Replies: 157
- Views: 4575
Re: You never happened.
Saying stuff is nothing saying stuff about nothing...and nothing is very interesting to the mind which again is nothing, and that's why it identifies with this nothing weaving an elaborate story out of it, convincing itself it's real, when it's actually fiction, all nothing being everything which i...
- Sun May 19, 2019 12:35 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: You never happened.
- Replies: 157
- Views: 4575
- Sun May 19, 2019 11:42 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Luxury Projected Through Technology As Cause of Identity Crisis
- Replies: 1
- Views: 226
Re: Luxury Projected Through Technology As Cause of Identity Crisis
I think whatever it is that you are trying to say here is too complicated for your communication skills, which are far from complicated. I would applaud your efforts in the face of this difficulty were it not for my suspicion that what you are trying to say would not be worth saying even had you the...