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It does not matter what word you put in front of the word 'educate', if you adults just 'educated' your children in the Right way, or from the perspective of what the word 'educate' once meant, and that was to draw out , then all of these, so called, "issues" or "problems", whic...

It does not matter what word you put in front of the word 'educate', if you adults just 'educated' your children in the Right way, or from the perspective of what the word 'educate' once meant, and that was to draw out , then all of these, so called, "issues" or "problems", whic...

An example of a fact - a true factual assertion - is: the earth orbits the sun. Would you say that this assertion was 'true' in 1100 A.D and if you answer 'yes', then I am getting the sense that you are using 'truth' in the sense of a 'social convention'? The reason I ask this is because the Ptolem...

The search for one’s Humanity is just on the other side of recognising language and words themselves as Platonic forms. Structure.

The Good can only be experienced, not described.

A correspondence theory of truth is obviously mistaken the factual assertion 'snow is white' is true because ... snow is white. Huh? You reject correspondence and then appeal to it in order to justify the truth-value of your assertion? It seems to me that you are arguing from a position of linguist...

Immanuel Did If I understand you aright, you're promoting Kantian idealism and monotheism. I don't think that Kant, any more than Aristotle, showed a way to overcome or dissolve the is-ought barrier. Whatever facts we deploy to justify moral judgements, they remain judgements - and others can deplo...