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I didn't say that. The intentions of the speaker determines what "Mww" refers to.

In every possible world where that individual occurs. When we say Nixon might have lost the election, the only possible worlds we're looking at are th...

It looks like you're pretty firmly wedded to the idea of a Cartesian theatre. I'm not, but it does occasionally jar me to know that I'm a product of c...

Remember that possible world semantics is about analyzing particular statements. This starts with understanding what a speaker intends. It looks like ...

That's incorrect. It appears that you ignored most of the essay.

When we say his memories are essential, we're saying that in all possible worlds where this particular Mww exists, he has these memories. It's basical...

They are if they're essential to the Mww we're talking about. Look back at the aposteriori necessity.

Oh good grief.

Yes. If being made of wood is essential to what you mean by "that lectern" then that's an essential property, even though you learn about it a posteri...

According to Kripke, they always do.

Merry Christmas and may all your dreams come true except for the really horrifying ones where you woke up completely freaked out and you had to go mak...

Whether the last two can both see themselves as members of the same group depends on the circumstances. There has to be a basis for unity like religio...

Yes. We were talking about his organization, not his goals.

There are certain kinds of childhood trauma that result in dissociative personality disorder. People who have that don't report what you do. The fact ...

Didn't know that. I like it.

No, it really wasn't. He wasn't included as a beneficiary of the American vision of the free society. His kind weren't allowed to vote. His foundation...

In essentials: unity In non-essentials: liberty In all things: love Saw that on the back of a van

It's just clear that who you are is culturally and chemically mediated. Whether you are a lawyer or a gangster, that stuff depends on your environment...

I'm kind of surprised you haven't googled it. Nope.

It's pretty specific. It means that no one is above the law. It's a feature of democratic arrangements that lack aristocracy or monarchy.

The idea of a Cartesian theatre is subject to the development of an infinite regress if we imagine that the stream of data coming into the CNS is bein...

It's a fascinating topic to me, how leftism succeeded post war, and how we ended up here. I'm just not going to discuss it with a rabid dog.

Is it?

Social conservatives do. Again, it goes back to the importance they place on morality. In the grand scheme of things, a conservative view is more abou...

His organizational backbone was religious. I explained this earlier.

I agree that rule of law evolved from earlier forms of government, but the phrase specifically means a society in which no one is above the law. I'm n...

I'm glad to see you accepting that labor unions were once powerful in the US. You denied that the last time we talked. Doing some history reading? :up...

Whereas random whining has elevated the downtrodden. :up:

It doesn't. The people make the most progress when there's violence in the air. True, although rule of law and monarchy are directly opposed concepts....

So the homunculus is only a logical problem if we're using it to explain something about consciousness. Otherwise it's no more a problem to refer to c...

Conservatives are usually excellent organizers. I assume it's because they're usually older, and their cause is associated with religion and tradition...

Just a tidbit of info: innateness usually includes capabilities that develop through some sort of engagement. For instance, walking upright is an inna...

Alternately, it's not people who matter wrt power. It's money. Democracy happens when aristocracy declines and money comes into the hands of the commo...

Form, by definition, isn't material. It's a property. That's one possibility. One could also think in terms of neutral monism.

True. I dont have the universe figured out. Nobody does. What I discern is the way we're bound to think. Form and matter. Statue and clay, clay and at...

Sure. Yet the answer to: "What is the square root of 2?" is not a mental or physical object. It's an abstract object, which means it's something I lea...

Physicality is most definitely a facet of our thought and language. Whether it has some mind independent status is unknown. You're free to think in te...

It also doesn't follow from the fact that we talk about physical objects that they exist in the realist sense. That is also an unfounded notion. There...

Another thing you can do is make an endless supply of aliens. This requires importing a picture and adding key words and styles to shape them in diffe...

'Things with heads' is an abstract objects. It's basically criteria for a set. That's abstract. It does, since you haven't escaped talking about abstr...

It's good stuff

Lemon ginger tea. Mmmmm

Is that the Russian patriarch?

There was a time when I didn't know what it was. I remember one guy told me that a baby is born with his fists clenched tight, but an old man dies wit...

Yes

So you're fishing? Have at it.

So you're fishing? Have at it.

Just noting that you state your theory as if it's a fact. May just be a custom.

Sounds sort of like trope theory. You're offering a particular theory. It's about as well founded as any other, isn't it?

How do you know that?