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Thanks! Yes, I very much agree with this as well. Last year I wrote a thread on this topic on a different forum, "The Philosophical Virtue of Certitud...

Okay, I think that's accurate. I think the Logos idea has to do with the whole, whereas the idea that you've been focusing on has to do with subsets o...

It seems to me that a general difficulty here is that the third account of 'logic' that you give has not yet been shown to be coherent. It seems to pi...

I'm not sure what it would mean to know something without knowing the essence, and I am not sure what people have in mind when they talk about knowing...

I am not convinced that even the postmodern vision of wisdom is based in practicality. Do you have any quotes or sources that would support this thesi...

I don't think so, but if you have a source in mind I would be willing to look into it. I think captured it well. Here is another quote from Aristotle:...

If good code is wisdom and artificial intelligence is a shortcut, then your claim would make some sense. Trouble is, I'm not convinced that good code ...

Indeed! That's an odd mix up on Wayback Machine.

- Thanks for your posts, they are very interesting. I suppose I wouldn't want to invoke the objective claim on those grounds, although it would be fai...

Sounds good Jamal, that all makes sense. Given that the article is available via Wayback Machine (and perhaps other internet archives) it might be nic...

Yes, you are right to point out that there is enthymeme at work, but I would express it a bit differently. (I would say that belief is not an artifact...

I agree, and I would say that the essence of a scissors includes sharpness. Banno apparently disagrees, and thinks the essence of a scissors is neithe...

It would be nice if there were a thread where random tangents could be taken... I think a dog associates its bowl with the act of eating, and conditio...

You were making a general observation? About truth-preservation? When I was the only one who had brought up or defended the idea of truth-preservation...

Mmm, Banno has shifted this discussion quite far from its origin, which was not focused on practical knowledge or artifacts. My claim has been <If you...

Practical knowledge bears on the essence of a thing, yes. In the case of practical knowledge one does not need to be able to communicate their knowled...

For a third time now, that "contention" is a figment of your imagination. Do you think that when I spoke about the "central criterion" as validity in ...

In order to pick out a screwdriver you need to know what it is, and in order to know what it is you need to have an internalized definition of it. Tha...

You should start a thread. :wink: If there are subjective conditions by which behaviors are legislated, and these conditions come into conflict which ...

I found this interesting, especially as a window to see how some contemporary philosophers approach Hume's work. (Note that the link is now down and p...

- That's enough for me. Take care.

Again, "If something is meant to preserve another thing, then it is not building or creating that thing" (). Let's apply your reasoning to mortuary. "...

Well, do you think the scissors analogy maps to Searle's claim? Do you imagine that Searle might be caught saying something like, "It is impossible to...

This just isn't right. It is not true that, "he notion of 'truth' is built in the 'logic' rules themselves, in other words the meaning of 'truth' is d...

Such as...? Do you have any arguments or examples to give? You are remarkably tight-lipped for someone who is "nonplussed." But your appendix doesn't ...

If logic is "rules for stringing symbols together," then these rules can either be arbitrary or non-arbitrary. If they are non-arbitrary, then logic m...

I added to my last post, "Logicians can temporarily and usefully prescind from truth, but entire detachment is something different." There are more pr...

Well, I never said that logic can only be defined in terms of preserving truth. But that someone makes up a formal system that has nothing to do with ...

If something is meant to preserve another thing, then it is not building or creating that thing.

You underestimate the power of the Dark Si... erm, of Materialism. :naughty:

In the post of Feser's that you referenced above this seems to be related to, "3. There are no strict laws on the basis of which we can predict and ex...

I think this is exactly right. "Logic is a set of formal systems," does not approach a coherent definition of logic. The question that immediately com...

And thus I come to understand the basis of your worries. The colloquial and etymological sense of 'supervenience' lends itself to epiphenomenalism, so...

Thank you, I read the whole thing and it was helpful. I am not familiar enough with Davidson's thought to confidently interpret short quotations, so F...

Wouldn't someone like Davidson just say that it is precisely through the different physical events and characteristics that we know the different of t...

Fair enough, . :up:

Well, I left off the merely definitional part because we were already talking about the supervenience of A on B, "A-properties supervene on B-properti...

It would only fail to make sense if someone did not understand that we are considering the possibility of A supervening on B, but this should be appar...

Yes, that was the claim from that I first responded to (link).

Let me just repeat my claim now that you see that the definition is accurate:

- Right :up:

@"Wayfarer" - If I am right about this then it constitutes a stark example of the way that supervenience as a philosophical term of art differs from t...

Sure, but in that case you are not "trusting AI," which is a central premise of my argument. If we fact-check AI every time it says something then the...

Some quotes: I think this direction of entailment is necessary but not sufficient for supervenience. This is because A can entail B without "exact sim...

Scientific knowledge is verifiable, not to the layman but to the scientist. Verification is incredibly "pragmatically important" for scientific knowle...

But there is also no inclusion of those notions, and so the overlap is accidental. In this thread we often see overlap mistaken for identity. For exam...

As I understand it, supervenience and causation are two different things: The concrete point here is that just because a mental act supervenes on a ph...

Relevant excerpt: So when you say that, "Without B there is no A," you seem to be positing an ontological dependence which overlooks the possibility o...

I'm going to find an essence one of these days, I swear! :sweat:

A lot of the confusion in this thread is addressed in the SEP article. Here is an excerpt on the fact that supervenience is non-symmetric: --- Here is...