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This is similar to an argument made for supporting slavery in America. It's not about humanity, it's about whose autonomy ought to prevail. Bad preced...

I've only been harassing you about the AMOC for years now, mainly because if it shut down, you'd have to move to Montana. Although you would then be j...

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?" --Edgar All...

The second season of Hellbound is on Netflix. It's South Korean dark fantasy with grotesque manifestations of Christian beliefs with a side order of C...

I think Meno's paradox shows that some knowledge is innate. The story we surround that with probably reflects worldview. For Plato, it meant transmiss...

Could be. Meno is part of Neoplatonic project building which wouldn't get much more than a blank stare from AP.

@"Banno" I think Leontiskos thinks logic is the Anima Mundi. Very medieval.

I think it's ok for people to add on whatever significance they like to the word truth in truth-preserving. In the same way, if you lean toward ontolo...

Why does it matter? Maybe @"fdrake" will explain what logical nihilism is?

In the same way moral pluralism is nihilism? Yes. Truth deflationists usually think of truth as having a social function. It's just something people s...

The article made me think about this passage from an interview with physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: I think we probably do a certain amount of explaini...

This idea is rooted in Stoicism. The idea is that when things follow their nature, they thrive. For instance, it's in a tree's nature to grow toward t...

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I get what you're saying, but I wouldn't say that cashes out in terms of rights. With civil rights you have to be able to show up in court. Natural ri...

That's cool. It's like 'equality in death'. Thanks for the source.

Scientists in the study of human origins place a lot of significance to burial of the dead. I've never thought through what that really means.

This is info from Wikipedia about fertility rates by country. The ones that are blue are negative. The darker blue countries are headed for demographi...

You're saying it's like a bubble universe?

I don't think he meant meaningless, but definitely indefinable: too basic to define. In his paper he basically says that the concept of truth had disa...

I've always wondered if Russell's paradox is coming from the foundations of set theory: the contradiction of fencing in infinity. Maybe when I land on...

Apparently the controversy stems from some comments from Popper. The fact that this is not the prevailing interpretation is reflected in two articles ...

I'm basing that on what Scott Soames and Susan Haack said about it. Tarski's truth predicate doesn't even mean truth in the common sense. It's more li...

It doesn't model correspondence theory. For Tarski, it was a way of handling the truth predicate in formal languages. Maybe he would have wished he co...

"P" is true IFF P is a formulation of redundancy among other things. It would be cool if @"Nagase" stopped by, for a number of reasons.

It's faith.

That wasn't reframing. We were talking about why a monist might insist on a logic for all cases when it's not clear what that logic would be.

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The saying is "Be open minded, but not so open minded your brain rolls out."

Which means it can't be defeated.

My hypothesis is that there's a deep seated drive in most people to insist on logical monism. I think it's related to unity of consciousness: one self...

Thanks for clarifying that. How about cremation? Does burning in a furnace violate the corpse's fundamental human rights?

Bob. We burn corpses. We bury them. Are you saying this is immoral?

You wouldn't be violating the corpse's rights if you did horrific things to it. We would check you in to the nearest psych ward for other reasons.

Uh ... I think that's a matter of respecting the wishes of the person who is now gone.

Yep.

Probably none

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Maybe there's a basic imperative to gather everything into a single framework.

Could you flesh out exactly what you're saying about fully developed humans like yourself? I'm assuming it's not that you think you have some sort of ...

Just a history note: in Jamaica, during the time the English used slave labor there, all the slave women who became pregnant aborted their pregnancies...

Right. Logical pluralism is saying that there is no one logic that applies to all cases. A logical pluralist would agree that the LONC is useful... wh...

Yes, pro-life people are heinous. They're like those creatures from the Lord of the Rings who are some kind of supernatural evil. They never bathe and...

Just immigrate to Canada, dude. They won't be able to find you!

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Exactly. We don't use logic to tell us what's in the world. If we did, we'd still be in the stone age.

I've gathered that you're just not going to answer that question. That's cool. :up:

Good question.

Tarski is stipulated sign systems. Set theory is fairly intuitive. Even the foundations, which obviously directly defy Aristotle, are fairly easy to e...

I think this is about competent language use. Russell's paradox isn't about language use. It's not nonsensical. I asked you before: are you saying tha...

I agree with this. Roughly what I'm thinking is that consciousness evolves and that this involves both changes in environmental conditions and native ...