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Can erotetic logic be used to devise a noncognitivist moral realism?
The IEP article on moral realism says that noncognitivist realism is logically possible, but goes on to assess the one attempt at such a position (Bruce Waller's) thusly:
Waller’s divide-and-conquer ...
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Is the setup-punchline relation equivalent to a question-answer one?
Philosophical relevance: there are an SEP entry and an IEP entry on humor. Now, it has often seemed to me that there is something about saying that life is a Test that is akin to saying that life is a ...
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What terminology distinguishes questions that define goals from those that accomplish them?
I will soon give a technical talk in which I want to stress the importance of asking the right questions. I propose to use a philosophical analogy; comparing the questions "How do I live a good ...
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Are there questions that science can't answer, but philosophy can?
Are there questions that science can't answer, but philosophy can? I can't think of any such questions. But, perhaps there are such questions. I would like some examples. Note, such questions have to ...
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Begging the question is a type of circular reasoning?
From wikipedia:
Begging the question is a type of circular reasoning, and often occurs in an indirect way such that the fallacy's presence is hidden, or at least not easily apparent.
Is that ...
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Asking a question in the "True Language"
Definition: the True Language is so named not because it satisfies the concept from antiquity of a language whose expressions were naturally isomorphic to their referents in some essentialistic way, ...
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Does Kant's scheme for the analytic/synthetic distinction have room for a (degenerate?) further distinction, for "hyperanalytical" knowledge?
Kant can be easily misread (or: I myself easily misread him, for a long time) as claiming that no "existence claims" are analytically knowable. Technically, though, his system has it that (...
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What is a question?
Sponsored by Socrates:
Alcibiades 113, b
SOCRATES: Come then, give me the general principle. When there’s a
question and an answer, who is the one saying things--the questioner
or the answerer? ...
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Empiricism and Morality
How would an empiricist develop a moral philosophy without running into the is-ought problem? The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris tries to formulate one but does not effectively resolve the is-ought ...
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