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He grants that there's such a thing as the practice of addition. He's asking for a fact that shows you've actually adhered to this practice as opposed...

:lol: For Kripke's challenge, we want a fact that shows intentional rule following. This entails justification and correctness. We usually wouldn't lo...

One thing to consider is that not all beef and dairy production is the same. American production (and anywhere else that's been bullied by Americans) ...

That's wonderful. There's probably a calculator program already on there, though. See if you can find it. :cheer:

The challenge is to point to some fact that shows which rule you were following in the past. Remember, the challenge is not about epistemology. It's n...

Bacteria that decompose methane into fertilizer and tofu. Just kidding, it's not tofu, it's some kind of edible sludge.

I think that's the guy I was thinking of.

Yes, but in the thought experiment, you've never done that. The idea is that in real life there's a number you've never added up to before. For the sa...

Why it helps to have a weak sense of identity: You know how there was this American missionary who decided to bring the faith to a small island off th...

I don't know, accounting is pretty complicated. :razz:

The whole planet's carbon cycle has to balance because of gravity. :grin:

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Not really. I was just pondering Kripke's skeptical challenge. It's had me reaching around to get my bearings. :razz: Thanks for your help!

Exactly! The looming issue is this: when the ancient Greeks wondered whether the world is made of fire or water, were they engaged in a language game?...

And that makes sense. In fact, it makes more sense than the PI itself. Non-Pyrrhonian interpretations fill in blanks with ideas that aren't there expl...

There aren't any interpretations that aren't controversial though. It's interesting that in this case you emphasize age as the guide. You usually poo ...

That's cool. There's another way to interpret it though. The interpretation you gave is non-Pyrrhonian, that is, you're saying Wittgenstein was offeri...

I already did. It's in my recent thread: Kripke's skeptical challenge. I won't be responding further.

Great. What did you think of it?

It's in Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language by Kripke.

Kripke's view? He says the private language argument indicates that there is no rule following. There was no rule you followed. There is no rule now. ...

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I'm not collecting evidence for a particular purpose.

One interpretation of the Tractatus is that it concludes that we can only talk about what is the case in the world in which we find ourselves. Stateme...

I assumed the one from UC Davis was produced through a grant from some beef collective. It just has that written all over it. I agree. Through this di...

:up: There are two primary ways to interpret the PI: 1. Pyrrhonism: that Witt believed that all philosophy is nonsense because it can't be about anyth...

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Following our failure to deliver a fact that distinguishes our historic use of "plus" vs "quus," it appears Kripke's skeptic has caused the "idea of m...

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I looked at the video. At the portion you marked, the guy is suggesting that if we limit methane emissions from cattle (apparently California has alre...

Hey, general relativity came out of little games.

I don't see where it says that. This is the entire article: "The Biogenic Carbon Cycle and Cattle February 19, 2020 By Samantha Werth "Cattle are ofte...

Yea. That's probably how it works. Tofu is especially good in Thai food. :grin:

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Your challenges still helped me flesh it out, so thank you.

But let's say that the public begins to favor a lower cholesterol diet and they want to move away from monoculture land use with all the pesticides an...

I got this wrong. Kripke's challenge is not about epistemology. It's metaphysics. That's the point of the emphasis on facts. Wow.

Methane oxidizes to CO2 after about 12 years. Yes. The emissions won't be absorbed for about 12 years, but cattle farms don't last forever. After Juan...

The cows put out 1 ppm of methane. The plants take up 1 ppm of methane. That's what net-zero means. I think you're just basically asserting that it is...

I'm not seeing this. Let's say we start from today. There's an average of 1.7 ppm of methane in the atmosphere. This average covers seasonal variation...

It's specifically about your assessments of past behavior. You assume you know the rules you were following. Kripke's skeptic suggests that there is n...

That sounds cozy.

If cattle farming were truly net-zero, this wouldn't be true. As you say, we don't know if it is. A pretty complex analysis would have to be brought t...

But it's the nature of a cycle that as methane is emitted today, the components of yesterday's emissions are simultaneously being taken up by plants. ...

I'll have to come back to this.

In the challenge, it's granted that you know everything there is to know about your mental processes. I think the problem is that following the rules ...

Yes, definitely. The challenge ends up being about the meaning of any word. :up:

Right. You say: "No! I've been doing addition, not quaddition. Stop embarrassing yourself, you baboon!" Then I ask you for a fact about your previous ...

How did you start the heater? Did you use lighter fluid?

You haven't been doing addition. It was quaddition.