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Since we're using this thread to ramble on about any damn thing, I'd like you to address the fact that the UK has a zero population growth rate. Franc...

A priori knowledge is just stuff you know without having to check the world. If you make up a story, you know it a priori. Kripke says that anytime yo...

So how do you understand Kripke's contingent a priori?

They chose the name. They knew a priori what his name was.

Ok, thanks!

So R is like a set of rules? And there is both an a priori and a posteriori aspect to my knowledge of those rules? For instance, there was a time when...

Still confused. What is R exactly?

Like fighting back when something is very painful. I think that's just human, not male or female.

True. Second question (from the same movie), how much of mind and personality comes from biology?

My monkey joined a Russian mystical cult and is presently stuck in another dimension where he faces his darkest fears over and over. The leader of the...

But surely Nixon's parents knew a priori that his name was Richard.

Yep. Plus mothers are self-sacrificing.

Do you think women are more self-destructive than men? I'm asking because of a movie I saw recently.

Every thing shows up against a contrasting background. Phaedo.

He isn't trying to build a staircase to the existence of knowledge, if that's what you mean. But the issue of knowledge is important in N&N. He would ...

How is this counter to Kripke's view?

So your theory is that the successful use of proper names is supported by an informational structure? A structure that could be described by physics? ...

Ostension is a special kind of describing. Whether you accept that or not, Kripke accepts either ostension or a verbal description for the sake of ref...

"Kripke’s picture of naming, in fact, is that in every case a name is introduced by a procedure that can be thought of as reference-fixing – either by...

Pointing.

Question about the opening lines of lecture three: Are identity statements about names? Or is it that when we say X=Y, we're talking about an object's...

But I think that sort of thing is under the umbrella of definite description.

Do you mean the author agrees that a speaker need not have a definite description in mind when using a proper name or kind name?

What kind of accounting are we looking for here? The initial baptism could involve definite description or ostention. If something else is needed, is ...

I was referring back to one of my previous posts. I'll wait till the discussion centers more on the necessary a posteriori. There are cases where ther...

When Kripke was talking about his wooden lectern, he said he understood that someone might think it could have been made of ice. But he interprets tha...

I'll start a thread on it just to get it straight in my mind. It's an interesting issue.

I'm bowing out of this thread because of your insistence on derailing it.

Kripke's view is that there's a set of all possible worlds. That set has as its members every way the world could be. Each member is along the lines o...

You are the one who isn't making sense.

Did we already cover the water/H20 identity? Kripke's rejection of the pain/C-fiber-stimulation identity is related to that.

Sure. What are your thoughts on that?

His causal theory is inextricably bound to his attack on descriptivism. How do you not know that?

If we could take it to a different thread? Some of us want to move on.

Cool. Let's do that. You're straying again from the descriptivist's claims. Are you interested in starting a different thread?

Yet it doesn't perform the role the descriptivist says it must. But it was never a necessary property. I'm getting the impression this discussion isnt...

So it's like this: the descriptivist claims that a description (or cluster of descriptions) is shorthand for a name and so is synonymous. The Modal Ar...

DD is more of a Russell, Strawson, and Searle thing. Kripke is responding to their internalist picture. Full disclosure: I'm not really sure what the ...

If it is, it would have to be synonymous with the name Albania. IOW, it would have to be necessarily true that Albania is the country called Albania. ...

I looked after I wrote that. I thought it was further east. Well, you dont want to completely strawman him. I think Mill is probably closer to the vie...

Like Janus, you aren't talking about anything related to N+N.

I dont think it's in northern Europe. Anyway, you're venturing off the map that N+N focuses on. Contextual web?

And that's not what Kripke proposes. A lot of the time we obviously do have access to definite descriptions when we're communicating. And when we don'...

The Man in the High Castle was written 5 years after the Many Worlds quantum theory was proposed. Kripke wasn't trying to assess that theory. :) The i...

True, we can watch bacteria evolve. I think that's because they're capable of such large populations. We can't watch the evolution of mammals except i...

Adios.

Simmer down, S. You sound like your head is about to explode.

Well, I think anytime someone's home is inundated by hoards of people who have nothing to lose, it's best to be sympathetic. Maybe consider giving som...

Your replies only indicate that you need to change your batteries.

She thinks fewer homeless refugees in Arizona would be good. Immigrants from all over the world continue to be granted citizenship. Some of them becom...