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Hume's Guillotine sets up an ethical regress problem
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RE: Hume's Guillotine sets up an ethical regress problem
(April 12, 2014 at 11:03 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote: We can infer what other people will perceive as painful or pleasurable before they tell us. This means they are identifying pain and pleasure in the same way as we. They have the same qualia.

Can we? I know a few masochists who might disagree with that claim.
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RE: Hume's Guillotine sets up an ethical regress problem - by Jackalope - April 13, 2014 at 3:01 am

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