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Everything you mention involves a determinate pull in a particular direction, and so promotes the thesis that philosophy does have a determinate pull ...

Good post. Fair points. --- Very interesting. :up:

This is one of those rare accidents that saves lives. :up:

I think I understand what Searle is saying now. The clause, "...independent of any proposition," felt strange at first, but probably he is saying that...

Oh, that's quite right. You say that (2) fails to preserve truth, and this is undeniable. My question is whether you are saying (2) fails to preserve ...

Yes, that makes good sense to me. I am familiar with Taylor but will have to look into Gillespie. --- Yes, exactly right. I was thinking about Heracli...

This will really blow your mind: there still exist wild horses today! :starstruck: I know this for certain, because I saw it in a movie once. In Legen...

Right, I get that. But does Lois believe that Clark Kent is Superman? That's where the ambiguity arises for me. The falsity of the substitution is ove...

It is quite possible that I am misunderstanding Searle or saying the same thing in different words. Thing is, I don't know whether this question about...

I agree. Of course, the fact that Bacon helped shift the Western trajectory towards the manipulation of nature is not in dispute. Indeed, it is probab...

I was only offering another arrow for your quiver. :razz:

It may be helpful to remember that the verb "to be" often connotes the counterfactuals which did not come to pass. That's part of what <this post> was...

The tricky thing here is that there is a legitimate disagreement about whether vengeance is equivalent to (commutative) justice or is only a synecdoch...

Thanks for asking. There are two things to address: Searle and the inconsistency bit. First, Searle. Searle is saying, "X is Y, not Z" ("The propositi...

What do you mean when you say, "The term's prerequisites are specific and meaningful"? A complex phenomenon is hard to see, like a faraway object. Dif...

(5 years have passed since the previous post) (I am just quoting the last post of an interesting conversation between @"SophistiCat" and @"apokrisis"....

Is it inconsistent to say that Lois Lane believes Clark Kent wears glasses, because logic can't say it? It seems to me that (formal) logic is somethin...

It seems like this is your definitional recursion conundrum in a slightly different context (first order logic). We could only substitute salva verita...

Now you are bringing up Hume, which is a new topic. In short, I do not agree that Hume's view is philosophical orthodoxy; and no one in this recent di...

We are talking about Nietzsche, not evolution. You are taking these posts out of context.

We're talking about the thesis that philosophy has a determinate pull (link). Saying, "There will always be points of divergence and points of converg...

I don't agree that the examples you have given are not underpinned by something real. For example, do you say that there is no real phenomenon in the ...

It seems to me that if the becoming has no end then there can be no ultimate convergence.

But this is to talk about an effect of the belief, not the belief in itself. It is a conflation of effect with cause. Further, mere thinking is not an...

Well if there is a complex phenomenon and we want to talk about it then we will need to use a word to reference it, no? But umbrella terms do facilita...

Methinks that the Anglo bias towards empiricism is rearing its head and conflating beliefs themselves with the ways in which we empirically detect bel...

That's interesting. I was thinking about starting a philosophy forum myself. But if you've been thinking about this for 7 or 8 years, and you're now a...

In that case the 20 year-old might actually be attracted to him. The truth table gets tricky.

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The interesting thing about Nietzsche, and especially the quote you provided, it that it somewhat undermines one of the premises that @"Pantagruel" is...

I think the fact that so many arbitrary businesses now expect tips may end up undermining the practice, even for legitimate service-based businesses. ...

Oh, I see. Yes, I think you are right. Philosophy does contribute in that way. --- Yes, I agree with much of that, although I prefer Plato to Nietzsch...

Yes, but the only other way to read it is that you were given a ticket on account of celebrity, which would be a rather strange reading.

Perhaps that is the question that interests you, but it seems to me that the thread is about belief, not about how we come to know about the beliefs o...

Right. I think philosophy only flourishes on a societal level through benefactors, which can include the State. If philosophy is at heart an end in it...

A mandate is "an authorization to act given to a representative" (Merriam-Webster). The idea was that our ticket derives from a mandate or charge that...

I think you might be confusing a belief with the revelation of a belief. Beliefs don't need to be shown or "given life." They still exist even when th...

I know this is a bit different than what you are getting at, but there is an important sense in which philosophy was never relevant. Socrates was exec...

Because my own ticket is apparently based on some sort of mandate, as it derives from my importance within the town. Does that mandate extend to my +1...

Even before you responded I sort of realized what you were asking and how I misinterpreted it (I think). Some thoughts: I think umbrella terms do exis...

I find that some of the older philosophers are more interesting than the newer ones. :razz: This is really a large discussion, and I think the reason ...

Thanks for the welcome. Yes, I have been doing a lot of resurrecting. :blush: I find that some of the older threads are more interesting than the newe...

It seems to me that sometimes taking responsibility requires providing justification, and then taking responsibility for that justification. A failure...

It seems to me that this is the big liability for us, namely that we don't know what it is that ChatGPT knows and what it is that ChatGPT doesn't know...

A good Aristotelian-Thomistic response to this comes from Dr. Peter L. P. Simpson's freely available article, "On the Naturalistic Fallacy and St. Tho...

(16 months have passed since the previous post) Could you maybe say more about the way your thinking has changed? I myself would not want to define be...

Thanks , I downloaded a copy for reading. :up:

I know Fine is influenced by Aristotle, and he makes an allusion to him in the paper, but here are some places where Aristotle says similar things: (N...

This is particularly true once we realize that there are certain characters whose historicity is contested, where some people believe they are histori...

I think that's right. My original schooling was in computer science and analytic philosophy, both of which are outgrowths of modern logic. Such paradi...