Philosophy Now Forum

Harbal wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:53 pm

Skepdick wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:22 pm there are NO privileged descriptions.

What would a privileged description be?

A description which has the quality of "betterness" when compared to another description.


Is "blue" or "red" a better description of this color?

Justify either choice.

Why are some descriptions useful fictions, but others aren't? Is it because they aren't useful; or because they aren't fictions? This is a question tangential to the point of your post: Are some useful fictions more useful if you don't know they are fictions? Within the domain of discourse (as dete...

His formal notion of an FSK is more or less the same as a Domain of discourse although he extends it to some odd things such as Astrology and Miss Universe pageants that would normally not qualify. Indeed, those domains of discourse are central to the theory that (among things written by real philo...

Questions for VA. Or anyone interested in these problems. It's so weird that you keep using these strange word "problem". Please demonstrate the existence of these so-called "problems". Are these so-called "problems" objective or subjective? The dictionary is of no hel...

Harbal wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:14 pm What if you are hit by a bus and end up paralysed from the neck down?

What doesn't kill you makes you a vegetable.

Metaphilosophy, the use and application of philosophical techniques to the concept of philosophy itself. What is philosophy? What can philosophical viewpoints claim to know? Is philosophy any good, or is it actually bad? Most importantly, to me anyways, how ought one philosophize? Is philosophising...

You know you can do multi-variate optimisation, right? Maximise for everything "good". Minimise for everything "bad". In so far as you are pedling a bunch of normatives (and unstated) desideratum on how philosophy should and shouldn't be conducted you are in the exact same boat....

Erm.... you are the dude that paired a bog-standard off the shelf utilitarianism with a randomly chosen modifier (roll a die to select from "niceness", "fairness", "predictability", "universalizability", "maximisation of .... (roll more dice to find out ...

blah blah blah You agree that murdering children is wrong. You disagree "murdering children is wrong" is a fact. It's almost like your disagreement is fucking idiotic. Like the idiot-philosophers you both are. Strawman. Read my posts again and don't merely guess. Accusing me of a "st...

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 10:24 am blah blah blah

You agree that murdering children is wrong.
You disagree "murdering children is wrong" is a fact.

It's almost like your disagreement is fucking idiotic.

Like the idiot-philosophers you both are.

It is a philosophy forum, and it probably is generally frowned upon, I think, though I haven't seen that discussion taken up formally much. But given that it's a philosophy forum, it shouldn't be generally frowned upon, since philosophy itself has no particular stance on truth theories, and there s...

There's no "significant difference". The perpetual sleight of hand Peter Holmes engages in is between using "morality" as a collective noun for talking about both "right" and "wrong". As well as using "morality" (without its counter-part "immor...

Re Gary Childress of Mar3."Is that essentially the same as saying, the universe is everything that is and everything that is will cease to be what it is when we are gone? My reply is that everything in the Universe will eventually simply return to wherever it came from, which ultmately is the ...

Morality-proper is not about 'rightness' and 'wrongness'. I have already argued there can be objective moral facts [moral ought-ness and ought-not-ness] conditioned upon a moral-FSK which inputs are scientific facts based on empirical evidences [e.g. physical mirror neurons and others] from the cre...

The proof itself is simple: Premise 1: An entity that surpasses mankind’s greatest strength is God Premise 2: Mankind’s greatest strength is its ability to produce logic Premise 3: AI has currently advanced to the point where it is better than humans in at least some measures of logic, and it is on...