Gilberto,
At 01:13 AM 1/28/2005, you wrote:
or even trial and error, sure.
Well, thought experiments are not exactly based on trial and error.
I wrote:
I am not sure what you mean by certain kinds of actions. However, off the
top of my head, I can think of many situations in which that would
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:41:05 -0600, Mark A. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gilberto,
I wrote:
What kind of reasoning process?
You replied:
One example would be through some kind of deliberative process where we
think about the consequences of having certain rules and what kind of
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:36:46 -0600, Mark A. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gilberto,
At 06:16 AM 1/27/2005, you wrote:
Ok, then part of the difficulty is that we are using words differently.
Yes.
Whether or not one belches in public is not a moral question.
As I said, I would call
Gilberto,
At 06:14 PM 1/27/2005, you wrote:
But what makes one set of laws high-level and another low-level?
It is relative to the norms of that community. Mores are norms which, in a
particular time and place, are punished (formally or informally) more severely
than folkways. A more in one
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:53:07 -0600, Mark A. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gilberto,
You replied:
I'm speaking imprecisely. I don't think I mean that kind of logic. I mean a
different kind of reasoning process.
Mark:
What kind of reasoning process?
Gilberto:
One example would be
Gilberto,
I wrote:
What kind of reasoning process?
You replied:
One example would be through some kind of deliberative process where we think
about the consequences of having certain rules and what kind of society that
would result in.
A thought experiment.
Sure but even apart from language,
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:41:05 -0600, Mark A. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gilberto,
I wrote:
What kind of reasoning process?
You replied:
One example would be through some kind of deliberative process where we
think about the consequences of having certain rules and what kind of
