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There's no model? Or just one model? Which is it?
September 05, 2022 at 22:21
Feasible in what sense? If every nation converts to nuclear power and we start building large scale scrubbers, we could at least reverse some of the c...
September 05, 2022 at 22:14
One of the issues is the object of agreement. Propositions work for that role, but some reject the existence of such things. I think their only recour...
September 05, 2022 at 22:11
He hasn't.
September 05, 2022 at 21:23
Jesus
September 05, 2022 at 21:11
Pretty much
September 05, 2022 at 20:45
What an asshole. Fine. You win.
September 05, 2022 at 20:29
It doesn't look like our generation has the ability to work together. Future generations might, though.
September 05, 2022 at 20:17
It's not.
September 05, 2022 at 20:00
I think we're probably too lazy for that.
September 05, 2022 at 15:43
One way to give meaning to life is to condemn some aspects of the present and claim that something better is coming. This is Christian eschatology. It...
September 05, 2022 at 15:40
True. Are you trying to gaslight me?
September 05, 2022 at 15:23
Moving on, the tone becomes strikingly biblical sounding: *Zarathustra, however, looked at the people and wondered. Then he spake thus: "Man is a rope...
September 05, 2022 at 15:22
He can definitely talk out of both sides of his mouth.
September 05, 2022 at 15:13
He accepted the endorsement of the KKK. Don't need any quotes.
September 05, 2022 at 14:51
Didn't he?
September 05, 2022 at 14:38
It's called being rational.
September 05, 2022 at 14:26
He's right, though. These days if a person claims to be a Republican, I just assume they sympathize with neo-Nazis as Trump did.
September 05, 2022 at 14:21
@"Michael" You just need to stipulate what you want the terms to mean. There's too much controversy surrounding it to assume your audience will know w...
September 05, 2022 at 14:12
This, my friend, is garbled. I think we're done here.
September 05, 2022 at 01:27
You made the mistake of asserting that the world can somehow be false. By definition, it can't. It went down hill from there.
September 05, 2022 at 01:10
I'm quite familiar with use/mention. Your account of the t-sentence is garbled.
September 04, 2022 at 23:55
If you tried making sense, maybe I'd understand you a little better.
September 04, 2022 at 23:49
Correct. It's content. That's just how English works. Al said that he was tired. We don't know exactly what words he uttered, but we know what he said...
September 04, 2022 at 23:48
I had no point other than that the part the follows "that" is a proposition. You don't know what a proposition is?
September 04, 2022 at 22:54
You can't seem to make up your mind.
September 04, 2022 at 22:53
The part following "that" is a proposition.
September 04, 2022 at 22:49
Then what's the LHS?
September 04, 2022 at 13:20
I'm continuing this reading on my own. Before continuing, this is a pretty good review of popular takes on the Overhuman as it related to the eternal ...
September 04, 2022 at 13:20
Then the world is something like a set rather than a place. It's the set of things that are taken to be facts? The RHS is an element of this set?
September 03, 2022 at 09:29
Redundancy says truth or falseness is a sign of endorsement or rejection. Justification for endorsement is a different issue.
September 03, 2022 at 02:00
You're saying the world is an idea. In what sense could it be false?
September 03, 2022 at 01:48
They found evidence that supports the belief that they had feathers. But say the original scientist isn't buying it and now there's a conflict. Opposi...
September 03, 2022 at 01:43
Can you rephrase that? I don't understand.
September 03, 2022 at 01:33
With redundancy, "truth" is just a social sign that generally means endorsement. Correspondence isn't involved. Redundancy is basically saying there's...
September 03, 2022 at 01:31
Say a scientist asserts that T. Rex didn't have feathers. Later, it comes to light that they did. I wouldn't use the word "relative" because that impl...
September 03, 2022 at 01:22
The problem is that the RHS can be false. It's not the world in any sense.
September 03, 2022 at 01:18
If someone endorses P, we know they would say P is true. P might subsequently be determined to be false. People would say it was always false. Redunda...
September 03, 2022 at 00:46
How would it imply relativism? I'm not seeing it.
September 03, 2022 at 00:25
Then you agree that we aren't expecting to be able to define truth.
September 03, 2022 at 00:22
With any theory of truth, you look for certain criteria to determine truth or falsehood. For instance, with correspondence theory, you look for corres...
September 02, 2022 at 02:25
I think truth is the exception, per Frege's argument. If it's an analysis, it's not a particularly informative one.
September 02, 2022 at 00:38
I like it. It all eternally returns anyway. If you transcend yourself, that was always going to happen just the way it did. It's no big deal. Take a l...
September 01, 2022 at 19:39
Like the Nazi interpretation, there is a basis for it in Nietzsche's writings, the Over-human and the concept of the eternal return are closely linked...
September 01, 2022 at 18:47
Another popular view, one I like, is that the Overman, or Over-human, as some scholars call it, is a person who has the characteristics of the saint, ...
September 01, 2022 at 17:34
Right. We don't assign the truth predicate to strings of words, but to the content of an uttered sentence. I didn't know anyone was researching that. ...
September 01, 2022 at 13:54
And that's not truth apt.
September 01, 2022 at 13:30
It's not me. This is a long standing objection to correspondence: that it lacks analytical clarity. And yet, "It's fuzzy" isn't really truth apt until...
September 01, 2022 at 13:27
Sentences are not favored as truthbearers outside artificial systems. Propositions work better for that purpose, although they're abstract objects. Th...
September 01, 2022 at 13:14