It would seem that the idea of "mental to mental causation" requires a physicalist paradigm, insofar as one is thinking in terms of isolated mental ev...
Okay, understood. :up: Okay, interesting. It looks like there are misunderstandings at various places. We can come back to these topics, but rather th...
I think it has more to do with the metaphysics of death, as noted in my last. Sure, and that's a pretty common Christian response. But if someone is f...
I very much agree. Okay, fair. Still, I want to say that the canons for reasoning that we have developed as a species are reliable and recognizable. W...
Okay good, so let's look at this quote of yours: In that last sentence you seem to equate "not provably true"/undetermined with "IBE." Now you are imp...
Gyula Klima recently made available his contribution to the The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic, "Consequence." It offers a helpful remedy to th...
That seems right to me. In an Aristotelian sense we would speak of demonstrative arguments and non-demonstrative arguments, where demonstrative argume...
...And what's interesting here is that the foil that many desire would be highly problematic. If people really did things for no reason, then it would...
My point is that that example highlights the difficulty with your whole conception. If some people do things for no reason then your approach works. B...
I'd say that what is inevitably going to happen (and is already beginning to happen on TPF), is that folks are going to appeal to LLMs as indisputable...
I think the trick is to say what is meant by "a maleficent activity," which goes hand in hand with your idea of doing something for "no good reason." ...
This sounds to me a bit like post hoc rationalization, as if one is going to decide on a theory and then allow their theory to be "a selective pressur...
- Okay, thanks for that. Makes sense. So would you say that some of our beliefs are provably true? (I would say that, but I am just verifying that you...
This is an interesting endeavor, Bob Ross. :up: I think the most fruitful things to pursue would be those things where you disagree with traditional C...
Yes, that's right. Well, do I believe that every one of my beliefs is "the explanation," or do I believe that some of my beliefs are "the best explana...
Yes, I think that is a good elaboration. :up: Right, and not to get ahead of things, but it is this crucial move that is especially interesting (and i...
Why do you think it's insane? It seems eminently reasonable to me. In fact I can't imagine a real philosophy forum that did not incorporate such a rul...
Sure, and I want to see arguments for and against underdetermination, for and against realism. It makes no difference whether Aristotle or Aquinas or ...
That seems likely. :up: I think this is good. I don't mean to derail the thread with those papers, but they are related to these central theses of you...
This is a really interesting objection. Is an IBE underdetermined? Remember that the conclusion is not, "X is the explanation," but rather, "X is the ...
No, not really. No mention of underdetermintion or realism. You're basically assuming that the OP is about something that it doesn't claim to be about...
You don't seem to be engaging the OP at all. Such is philosophy. You do the same thing with the philosophers you appeal to and interpret. There is lot...
This is a wonderful essay, eminently relevant. Its work in clearing away canards cannot be overestimated. Its research and accuracy are commendable. I...
Thank you again: that is very helpful. As someone who has pondered that general phenomenon, your account makes a lot of sense. It's interesting that a...
And what's interesting to me is the way that philosophical and cultural degradation is often very subtle, especially at its inception. For example, it...
You're floundering in your continual ignorance of history and philosophy, and you still haven't answered the question at hand. Ironically, the problem...
I haven't read much on this point, but it seems to me that the condemnation remains intelligible as long as we don't take the Samuel thesis to an extr...
So true. :fire: --- I continue to be impressed by the anti-Trinitarian "mysticism". "It's totally contradictory. I don't have a coherent argument for ...
You're just kicking the can and avoiding the concrete question. What you mean by "=" is something like, "equivalent with respect to the properties tha...
That's alright - it's an understandable assumption. At this point we are knee-deep in obscura. :smile: For example, according to the secondary literat...
That was a very good bringing-together of various different strands of the thread. :up: I was revisiting Damascene's exposition of the faith to see ho...
Thank you, that is very helpful! Let me ask a few follow-up questions. Isn't it true that the opinions of the author of some piece of training data wi...
Is that really a surprise? Banno is a case in point for the future in which LLM-based arguments become synonymous with a kind of self-fulfilling proph...
One (rather limited) way of approaching the Trinity is as a mean between the extreme of a strong emphasis on the persons (which moves in the direction...
And I'll note that you've failed to answer the simple question, "What does <Superman = Clark Kent> mean?," three times now. More of the same from Bann...
Why not just admit what I've said from the start: that you don't know what you mean when you say things like, "Superman = Clark Kent"? On your reasoni...
So again, what does <Superman = Clark Kent> mean? And is the "binary predicate" true or false in this case? (I of course responded to your confusions ...
Right. In order for (1) to avoid tautology there must be rational movement, and this requires some difference between the two relata. And of course I ...
Yes, and what's interesting here is that the development of the concept of personhood had a great deal to do with Trinitarian theology. The precision ...
Right. So if we stumbled upon an organism, we might wonder whether it is human. We might come to decide, "This thing is of the same nature as John Doe...
@"bongo fury" I can’t say I understand Analytic Philosophy’s interest in this sort of substitutability and “referential opacity.” It seems endlessly c...
You are mistaken. There are no grammatical errors in the abstract. It looks like an interesting article. Academia.edu is a highly regarded website, an...
Can you expand on that? My assumption was that—supposing an LLM will not offer contextless political opinions—it is because a polemical topic is one w...
That's a good post, frank. :up: In Aristotelian-speak we would say that a material phoneme is not a formal word, and that the presence of a rigid desi...
Right, and I think a lot of this could be tied back to the "God's-eye view" question. If no category (L, W, etc.) is inherently privileged over any ot...
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