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Your weekly dose of well-structured arguments. Please note that the arguments I post do not necessarily reflect my view. Let's keep discussions civilized.

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I share arguments I've encountered on my philosophical journey to remind myself of objections and to hear thoughts I haven't heard before. Also, I want to present well-structured arguments to a broad audience to promote rational discourse and knowledge exchange. Join the debate!

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@Gattungswesen25 Had no idea

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@LatFilosof @matt_olma But "colourless green" can be interpreted as "plain and not ripe" for instance. Imagine everyone where to start using the sentence in a metaphorical way so that it becomes idiomatic.

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Oh wow, that was much much clearer than I thought! Thanks for participating!
My follow-up question now is:
Is "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously" truth-apt?
Is "The Gostak distims the doshes" truth-apt?

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Is this argument valid?
P1 Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.
P2 If colourless green ideas sleep furiously, then the Gostak distims the doshes.
∴ The Gostak distims the doshes.
#philosophy #logic #arguments

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@matt_olma The confusing thing is that all syntactically declarative sentences are grammatically embeddable in the disquotational scheme: "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously" is true iff colourless green ideas sleep furiously.

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@PrayPuffPlay Oh, veracious is a nice word here.

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Is this argument valid?
P1 Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.
P2 If colourless green ideas sleep furiously, then the Gostak distims the doshes.
∴ The Gostak distims the doshes.
#philosophy #logic #arguments

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@LatFilosof I agree :)

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Is the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" truth-apt?

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The best take on the continental/analytic distinction I heard is this: continental philosophy is occupational therapy for failed artists, analytic philosophy is occupational therapy for failed scientists.

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@2Philosophical_ What's one of those correct answers?

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@noetic_emetic One of my Professors was in my MA was happy to count Heidegger and even Hegel as "analytic". But not the French! Because "French thought is very different from German thought"

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@TheCinesthetic

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@KennethLPearce Everything is water.

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@AStrasser116 Great paper, too!

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@analyticatheism Not all atheists are materialises though.

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Pro-Choice Argument from Bodily Rights
#Philosophy #Abortion #MoralPhilosophy #Ethics #ReproductiveRights #ProChoice

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@UmarQadmiri Yes

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@Ao12Charlotte Sartre's Nausea

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@PAHoyeck

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@sed13949 Yeah, you're right. It's an argument for care ethics in the sense that it supports the care ethicist's main tenet: we ought to care for others. But not a direct argument for the overall moral theory, that's correct.

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Argument for Care Ethics from Justice
#Justice #Rights #Ethics #MoralPhilosophy #PoliticalPhilosophy #Philosophy #Care #Feminism