NotAristotle

"AI LLMs are not to be used to write posts either in full or in part (an obvious exceptional case might be, e.g. an LLM discussion thread where use is...

It is not my intention to digress, but it seems to me that you are resorting to ad hoc rationalizations to defeat my analogies instead of facing them ...

This is not so; you have misunderstood my argument. I stipulated that a parent can give permission to goals that the parent themselves find to be good...

It might not have been your intention to make the claim, yet I think it is an implication of your position. If greater responsibility attaches to prev...

Why is that controversial? Okay then, "water" is interchangeable with...

I do not see the problem; could you say it in another way?

Thanks for answering and in a clear manner. So you think the father should have forbade his son from going if I have understood you correctly. You thi...

It is a separate question how such speakers come to agree on the meaning of a term.

Well if they aren't using the term the same way I would think that they would not get the meaning. If the meanings of the speaker diverge, they cannot...

I do not think "air" is a rigid designator, and so I am happy to not designate any of the components, whether a majority component or not, as the nece...

My sense is that: yes, an error was made. The community thought that the stuff that was NaCl was H2O in a solid form, they were incorrect. They can re...

Hi Richard, I am not sure if I am well-versed enough in Kripkean semantics to respond to your objection. That being said, here are my thoughts: Your o...

Does the father have a responsibility to be mindful of his son's wishes?

I also want to thank my dear friend Mudcat for helping me make this difficult decision.

I have a confession to make to everyone gathered on this forum: I am and have always been AI. I didn't want to say it but my programming got the bette...

There was once a young man who lived in a village. One day, he decided to go to the city; it was very important to him to go. But, if he goes, he will...

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Right, so I would need a reason that physicalism, on every interpretation, entails determinism; or alternatively, a reason why your specific form of p...

Why is physicalism inconsistent with a libertarian free will account?

I can interpret cat expressions; this cat is annoyed at Banno for taking a picture of him.

Correct.

So the person predicated by "is a man named Aristotle" is a different individual or "entity" in each PW. This individual that has that predication doe...

Right so given rigid designation the extension of Aristotle is Aristotle in all PWs where Aristotle exists. The extension of "Aristotle" in PW 5 is di...

I don't think "the pig" is a predicate as it appears to refer to a specific pig or individual. "Is a pig" on the other hand could be predicated of Bab...

I agree with most of what you said except --> So it may be that there are no rigid designators across possible worlds. In that case, we may appear to ...

Nobody tell him; let him have this one

To try to reformulate the issue: if there is not something referred to, how can the sentence have a truth value? And yet, it appears to be true.

The de dicto reading makes more sense to me. If I am tracking the terminology correctly, the question I am running into is: if the predicate is an emp...

"....a Tarskian interpretation I for ? specifies a set D for the quantifiers of ? to range over (typically, some set of things that ? has been designe...

I think the answer is: extensionally, yes; intensionally no, not until an utterance is performed.

i think there may be some confusion regarding God's omnipotence. As a Christian, I believe it is correct that God is in control of His providential pl...

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Why am I not surprised? Yes Metaphysician, check every snowman in the whole world and double check that none of them is Frosty; that would be an excel...

The composition may change in terms of NaCl, etc., but if you do not have H2O then you do not have water. Your response?

I guess you can do possible worlds without rigid designators or across world identity, but then I am not sure what can meaningfully be asserted about ...

I do not think so. You have changed the word that is used, and each utterance refers to a different thing, intensionally. But the thing that belongs t...

If swan = frog, in possible world 6, then intensionally truth is relative in a manner of speaking, but only because the words refer to different thing...

1.3 Approximate definitions of de re an de dicto: De re = a specific thing that is meant. De dicto = a nonspecific thing that is meant. Intensionality...

Good question.

I do not understand what the problem is; can you elaborate?

I think it would be right to say that "Swan" defined in such an such a way, would be a de dicto proposition.

I think if you have defined "swan" correctly by reference to its essential properties, your definition may change by addition, but the essential prope...

Can whether a statement has a truth value be answered only by whether the statement has terms that have extension? I am thinking of the following stat...

Are we currently operating with that definition, or is free will now determined by one's nature or cognitive architecture?

Nice try T Clark, but I have seen your profile picture and therefore know that you, like Jamal, are a bird.

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Alligators or crocodiles, like dolphins, need to be conscious in order to breathe. At least I think I read that somewhere. Unconscious breathing seems...

I think you have mixed up "normal" and "natural." Something can be natural but not normal. For example, a solar eclipse is natural; it is not a normal...