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Right. I mentioned earlier that worldview (or hinge propositions) are in play regarding dinosaur truths. It's not something that gets worked out logic...

Yep. Take it as a warning not to try to answer that question via your homegrown intuitions.

He's not an evangelizer, he walks you through what physicists know about the topic, sort of like a flow chart. Toward the end of the video he addresse...

That's fine. He's one of the best sources for questions about physics. You're missing out.

Sorry, the point was that there are a number of options for answering the question about propositions regarding the future.

Watch the video. He's an American, but he sounds Australian, so it should be easy in your ears. He's a physics professor in NY.

The question about whether there are unknown true propositions about the future. The answer is: probably.

No. If you don't want to watch the video, you can read the transcript by clicking on the title and scrolling down to where it says "transcript."

Einstein says the order of events depends on the observer's frame of reference.

https://youtu.be/EagNUvNfsUI?si=rwqigiL2mCcmAUDN

I :heart: S. Korea

I take the voters seriously. This is no longer a country where belief in democracy prevails.

More like Moe from the Three Stooges.

Trump is just there to avoid prison. It's his VP who's worth watching. He's younger, smarter, and opposed to Enlightenment values. For real.

Sentences are also abstract objects. But you can adopt behaviorism and truth anti-realism, which says the truth predicate just serves a social functio...

I can already tell you the answer to that: nope.

Thanks for taking care of that. You're doing a great job. :up:

I don't know, Huckleberry Finn never studied meta-ethics.

If we uploaded your consciousness to a self repairing robot and checked back in 10,000 years from now and asked you about the sentence thing, we'd fin...

Because morality is a road you walk. You fall, you get up, you learn, you try again. You learn what it feels like to be forgiven, how it's like being ...

:up:

@"Pierre-Normand" Hi! If you have a second, you could explain the difference between sentences and propositions for us?

Even after reading the SEP article? I give up.

You did formerly. I told you that you weren't using the word correctly, we debated that, you persisted in referring to sentence-propositions, which is...

No need to even mention propositions. Using that word will only cause confusion.

I didn't do that.

Sentences are also abstract objects.

If you believe goodness is innate knowledge, then why did you campaign to have people explain what it is?

Where you're misunderstanding is that you think propositions exist at a certain time and place. Think of the number 4. Where is it? When did it come i...

You're misunderstanding that. It's saying this: P is the proposition that there are rocks. P (that there are rocks) does not entail the existence of e...

I've told you a couple of times that nobody believes in mind-independent abstract objects that exist in the absence of humans.

I agree with this. So we need to know who uttered the sentence, we need to know when they uttered it, and in some cases what the intention was, right?...

Sentences mean different things in different contexts, so do you want to throw some context into your mix? It's not raining, btw.

It goes back to the way we think about the world. We could think of it as made up of a bunch of objects, or we could think of it as made of states. Th...

ok

Right. I would just say the idea of a proposition comes from analysis of the way we think. In particular, as demonstrated by Scott Soames, proposition...

That there is gold in hills in the absence of minds follows from your worldview. There is no logical or empirical proof for it. The status of proposit...

All the Israeli victims deserve to be remembered and their suffering recognized.

It sounds like the president had a Donald Trump moment. Incidentally, S. Korea has "fans" all over the world due to the popularity of K-pop, K-dramas,...

I think we each learn about goodness viscerally through experiences with grief, fear, and anger. But prove me wrong. What's your favored definition of...

Dude. That's your answer?

OK, fine. What is goodness according to you?

I don't think you understand what it is, otherwise, you wouldn't keep talking about propositions existing at a certain time. Ok. You don't need to say...

We can talk about what we mean by "good" without worrying about moral realism. Our heritage includes several different ideas about morality. Jewish, P...

That's not even a Platonic stance. We're not talking about Plato here. Platonism in logic is just the acceptance of abstract objects. They don't have ...

That last sentence only makes sense as an assertion at a possible world.

If there are no truthbearers, there is no truth... about anything.

Ok. You're saying that if there are no humans, there is no truth. That's anti-realism.

This was it. This sentence doesn't make any sense. I think we agree on that now?

Conceptualists are concerned with the make-up of possible worlds. They're often thought of as sets of propositions, but a conceptualist wants to say t...