What If the Frege–Geach Problem Isn’t? The Frege–Geach problem was one of the impetuses for finishing my Language Insufficiency Hypothesis. From the first encounter it felt off, as though someone were trying to conjure depth from a pudd…

What if the Frege–Geach problem isn’t a problem at all? Switch grammars, and the paradox dissolves.

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What if the Frege–Geach problem isn’t a problem at all?

Analytic philosophy built a logical puzzle by assuming moral language works like empirical language. My Language Insufficiency Hypothesis says that’s a category error. Moral predicates live in different […]

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Beauty in Dog Poop? - Alex O Connor and Joe Folley

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a person in a black costume says " now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb " ALT: a person in a black costume says " now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb "

The not-so-nuanced difference between fidelity and fealty is a wormhole travel length beyond the third grade comprehension level of continued Trump fluffers and Soviet Agent Orange himself.
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Why Do So Many People Think Trump Is Good? The work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre helps illuminate some central questions of our time.

We’ve tried to cure the #MoralVacuum at the center of the #Enlightenment -- and the cure turned out to be worse than the disease...the #MoralRelativism of the ’80s and ’90s looks like a golden age compared with today. #Individualism #Emotivism #GiftArticle buff.ly/ayZKA0A