Indeed, I agree with you although I wonder if there'll be any avenues for positive change in a system that seems specifically designed to cause catast...
Proof is the act of making explicit the necessary connection between the truth of some propositions (the premises) and one other proposition (the conc...
Again, my previous reply was not up to mark. There are two things to consider: 1. The definition of truth as a correspondence between reality and the ...
Sorry for the multiple posts but my last reply to this comment was inadequate. First, you agree that if a given set of propositions, cal it S, is inco...
Your description of consistency is correct. All that's essential is that some possible world exist where all propositions being considered are true. Y...
A great question as far as I'm concerned. Reminds me of @"Metaphysician Undercover"'s thread on coherentism. Surely, if every room in Hilbert's hotel ...
Firstly, I agree that the meaning of words change with time but I disagree that the right meaning will be arbitrary. The first time a word is used is ...
Sorry, if I didn't pay due attention to this but it looks like you're committing the same mistake as Wittgenstein, taking all usages of a word as corr...
I have no preconceptions on the matter. I saw a problem - the idea of language games, Wittgenstein's, it's implication that some words are undefiniabl...
Aren't we all like the guy who was working on a syllogism? Is life not a journey, a spaceflight? Don't we all put off thinking about death until it's ...
Metaphorically? I think literally. God loves us all, equally. This is what bothers me a lot. What's the problem with all things having equal value? By...
Can you elaborate on this point. What exactly do you mean by inequality must exist for value? I agree but you need to clarify the exact relationship b...
That only explains the fact that people are more willing to listen longer if the message is interesting. The desire to listen longer is directly propo...
If "can =/= must" then, on what grounds are you making the claim that just because not having sex is a denial of life that pro-lifers must engage in s...
The idea behind consistency appears to be simple. Consistency ensures that, there exists a possible world in which all propositions for a given belief...
Just wanted to share a few other observations: There's another type of coherence and it, more or less, falls under the rubric of abductive reasoning -...
Well, if one is to maintain that some form of inequality must exist for value to have meaning then be ready to be discriminated against or, far worse,...
I agree it's not the official position of the Church but it follows, without the need for anything additional, from God's omnibenevolence - you can't ...
To my understanding, only truths matter - there's no sense in knowing falsehoods; after all, falsehoods are a liability rather than an asset unless, o...
Why is it impossible to maintain what you refer to as "absolute skepticism"? If anything I'm trying not to confuse dreams with the real deal. Look, yo...
Well, take the classic example Wittgenstein uses, the word "game". It, according to him, applies to many objects but, if we try to find a common threa...
I wouldn't go so far as to say that. However, his language game concept doesn't hold water because it depends on every use of a word being correct. Th...
Well, it's not impossible to relax the rules every now and then to make an idea or a theory more digestible but where are you going to draw the line b...
Au contraire, it makes life all the more mysterious ergo, vastly more interesting than otherwise. I believe, not from personal experience though, that...
I'm not "sneaking" that in. I'm making it explicit. If you disagree be ready to end up as a meal on an alien's dinner plate; after all, an alien may b...
My position on the matter is irrelevant because I'm not claiming that the world is or is not a simulation. Frankly, I don't know and, in fact, nobody ...
As I mentioned in my OP, the subtler the difference between the actual definition of "chair" and an object, the more likely it is that people will tur...
Yes, but only, as you agree, in "ordinary" language but language is a bona fide philosophical subject and we bring the tools of philsophy to bear on "...
There's the problem and you recgonize it but only, it seems, subconsciously."Widely accepted" meaning misses the mark in philosophy or so I hear. This...
As it stands, the word "chair" is applied to various objects but what's missing is a unifying essence in these objects and that's bound to lead to con...
Misusing words i.e. applying them to objects that don't satisfy definitions and not applying them to objects that do fuflill definitions results in co...
To the extent that it matters in this discussion, pillars are what holds up morality - in essence enabling the very idea of what goodness is to exist....
I see. I also see you haven't answered any of my questions on Wittgenstein's philosphy. Perhaps you were too busy. Let me ask you again. What does Wit...
Possible, very possible. Perhaps you can help me. What is a language game, a family resemblance, form of life, etc.? I wouldn't, at this moment, touch...
Do you realize that you're dreaming when dreaming? No. The waking world is assuredly different from the dream world both in the sense that our minds a...
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