Correct! Though it's unclear if it's meaningless- meaningless per (I think all?) all set theories, yes, but certain notions of infinities that are too...
I understood that you referred to the fallacy of reification, as used by AN Whitehead, referring to that error of reasoning in where abstract objects ...
I don't think that attitude is wrong at all. I just have suspicions it's somewhat ad hoc, much like the charge that proponents of inconsistent mathema...
There are three senses of "is" 1. The predicative sense is of the form "x is F" where F is a property that x bears. Example: The apple is red. Logical...
Additional reply: this is technically incorrect. The existence of any object in the world allows us to generate infinitely many sets by reiterating su...
You're confusing singletons with just the elements. x, {x}, {{x}}... so on are all not identical with each other, and for instance the singleton set {...
This is untrue. Propositional calculus does not even have first-order quantifiers (forall, exists) to have modal operators. And modal operators are be...
The standard understanding of omniscience is alethic: if you're to go ahead and suppose that the way the term is standardly used is inaccurate on etym...
This is just etymologically branded linguistic prescriptivism. Regardless, I already granted your analysis as you pointed out I made the most charitab...
I think there can be two readings of omniscience. If we just take it to be the possession of knowledge, then the rest of what you said follows. Howeve...
The problem of scope is within your English phrasing (the worlds which we read the word 'possibly' to quantify over), not the trivial inference (Kp ? ...
A standard reading of events is as four-dimensional objects (in the philosophical sense, not the physical one), that is, regions of spacetime occupyin...
Exactly my thoughts. This seems to be an epistemic version of a modal scope fallacy where the possibility that not-p entails some possibility of not-p...
Like I said, most of this is really speculative. A candidate particle is the d-star hexaquark d*(2380) which is hypothesized to account for the univer...
Alright. Some extra suppositions, quarks are the simplest form of matter and are indivisible in principle. This is not currently known, of course, we ...
The process of counting itself depends on sortals, which can be arbitrarily stipulated per our intension. It's also unclear if an upwards finite unive...
Several traditions of metaphysics start from the first-person subject perspective instead of the third-person "objective" perspective. The most promin...
This generally depends on the scope of liberty you permit to what counts as explanatory power. The issue is that at this rate, you might as well just ...
Existence is not a predicate, this is a Meinongian view that has been rebuked very thoroughly by Frege and Russell. There is no distinction between an...
You definitely should check out Avicenna there if you're a fan of Aquinas, a good chunk of Islamic philosophy influenced Scholastic philosophy. As for...
I just skimmed over your post to these parts and I'll try to very briefly explain to you why you're wrong. First, ever heard of Berkeley? He's a Chris...
I've explained this several times in my earlier post that I can only refer you to what I've already written. I've never implied that potential to be f...
I don't care if he's one of the great minds of all time. I'm mainly making a comment with regards to words and their usage in the sense that the most ...
I'd say these principles are needlessly strong. For example, the moderate PSR often talked about in contemporary metaphysics only extends so far as sa...
Fortunately, many religions preceded the Bible, so atheists existed far before Christianity did. For example, Epicurus, the Pyrrhonists, Diagoras, Kes...
These individuals make up the majority of how omnipotence is understood, from Thomists to Avicenna to many others. Descartes seems to be the only prom...
This is just as the same Cartesian doctrine I was speaking about earlier. Yes, I said that /unless/ you're a Cartesian, you'd generally tend to think ...
Depends on act or rule utilitarians. An act utilitarian strongly commits to the thesis that the moral value of an action is determined by its future c...
No... Frankfurt style free will and libertarian free will differ starkly. The latter, I'd wager, is far more characteristic of an omnipotent agent's f...
Convergence in calculus is thought to have long solved this. But before that, the classical solution was the Aristotelian solution in the form of pote...
Have you heard of the phrase "when pigs fly?" It is a adynaton, namely in that when it postulates a subjunction believed to take on a highly implausib...
The Theodicy (Leibniz) response is basically P1 while rejecting P2. If God exists, he must have made the BPW, so any evils must entail some greater go...
To say that necessity entails existence is uncontroversial and does not need support IMO. If a being exists in all possible worlds it exists in the ac...
I'm not sure how familiar you are with logic, but this is pretty evidently untrue. I'll show you a truth-table if you don't believe me. https://i.imgu...
While falsifiability can definitely be proper of scientific discourse, for good reason even, I think it is seldom at all a good condition of philosoph...
We actually don't. The very start of the post rules out C theory, which rejects temporal directionality. C theorists only agree with temporal order, a...
It depends on the religion. The anatt? of Buddhism is philosophy in the most proper sense of the word, and this debate on the self has been going on b...
Throughout the history of philosophy, there has been two primary approaches to a more formal and technical understanding of (i.e. philosophical) omnip...
Materialism is a metaphysical position concerning ontology, and so it cannot be answered by empirical means in virtue of its very nature. So science c...
Yeah, Px implies some P is true of x. ~Px implies that it's not the case that some P is true of x. Lack of properties will get you in some messy terri...
Oh my, this is what I really wanted to avoid. I didn't expect to meet something of this nature on this website, haha, so I will give you one response ...
Kant died in around the early 1800's. Bolyai made the first publication of non-Euclidean geometry around three or so decades afterwards. Gauss had the...
All this talk about "objective truth" is silly. Objectivity and subjectivity are properties that pertain to a mind. None of the literature on the theo...
I'm a little confused by the nature of your request here. Axioms and first principles are first principles for a reason, namely that they're not a "co...
So, one of the key Kantian doctrines, synthetic apriority, had been largely formulated with the example of Euclidean geometry in mind that Kant used. ...
Yes. Several philosophers agree with you. One, Descartes believes quantity is proper of physical multiplicities in the sense of extension: From the se...
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