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I mean, for hundreds of years Christian theologians had been incorporating Aristotle into their work and refusing Occasionalism, which is pretty close...

Okay, so now you are saying that reference is inscrutable even to fellow language-speakers. Or more precisely, that there are no fixed referents among...

- Thanks. Yes, but is it just modern science? Because there is plenty of philosophy between Plato and Berkeley that manages to avoid Berkeley's ideali...

But that's a mundane claim, isn't it? Almost tautologous? The stronger and more interesting claim is that something is inscrutable in that it cannot b...

- In a general way, how do you see Kant relating to Berkeley?

- Very informative post. :up:

What is a way into the paper? In footnote 3 Klima points to Frege's Kantian criticism of Anselm's proof. Let's look at that source: Frege seems to be ...

Yes, and I think the quotes you highlight are important: So what is going on here? On the modern scene it is well accepted that a term can refer to be...

Sounds good. I haven't even read section 2 yet. :cool: I think it's probably a good idea to stick to section 1 before moving on to section 2; section ...

And Johnson thinks it is true, as does Tallis. If you think it is false then what you need to do is argue against it, not cry "fallacy!" Note that you...

- Thanks. :up: A mod is welcome to delete the whole mixup. (My edit <here> is somewhat explanatory of what was going on.)

- I would prefer to delete but it's up to you.

@"tim wood", @"Banno" Oops. This was a PM. I wrote it out so that I could preview it, and I accidentally posted it here instead of in the PM. I've del...

- Okay, thanks.

-erroneous post-

Every premise is designed for the purpose of the conclusion, and every premise of a refutation is designed for the purpose of the refutation. Perhaps ...

Part 1. The Modern vs. the Medieval Conception of Reference Russell and reference via quantification -- Quine's slogan -- misinterpretations of Anselm...

Think about it this way: if we zoom out then force represents subject/subjectivity and content represents object/objectivity. Now with Kimhi you were ...

Is it any less pressing to ask, "How can there be non-objective content that is also thought?" Where do you find it before Descartes? Either way, what...

@"Paine", how would you characterize the "big picture" here, especially with respect to the OP? Rödl says that the I think accompanies all my thoughts...

Yeh. A thread like this really needs to provide a clear account of the motivations behind the strange thesis. "Why in the world would he do/say that!?...

Well for Aristotle the soul is the principle of life, so if Truman's body still has a principle of life, then he is not fully dead. But of course if w...

Yes. For my teachers an artifact has a form, but not a substantial form. Yet a substantial form would not need to be soul/life, for there are inorgani...

Sure thing. But it will work better for substances than for artifacts a la material constitution. Granted, a similar problem would occur if the real A...

Perhaps what is happening here is that you want the referent for 'Truman' to be more than the bare particular of predicate logic, i.e. you want for Tr...

- Then continue to go on contradicting SEP as you bristle, by all means. :up:

Why did it come up? Because we were talking about ontological commitment and SEP utilizes the empty domain as a useful way to talk about ontological c...

A convention. This happens to be a conversation about challenging conventions.

If the quote <here> were true then we would talk past one another much more often than we do.

No, I don't think that's right at all. The same principle holds in metaphysics, or more generally, in argument of any kind. It's called the principle ...

"How we manage to refer is mysterious, but what is being referred to is not indeterminate." Yes? Or: "How we manage to refer is inscrutable, but what ...

- A very useful post. :up:

I don't grant your imputation of specious motive.

I think it's at least reasonable. He seems to be saying that we know matter exists in the first place because of our experience of our body, and it is...

Except Quine literally says, "the meanings or ideas expressed in their identically triggered and identically sounded utterances could diverge radicall...

I would say that the first thing to note is that what is equivalent is not ¬?x(Fx) and ?x(Fx), but rather ¬?¬(Fx) and ?x(Fx) (as well as ¬?x(Fx) and ?...

Well <here> is the accusation I had in mind, and I pointed out the same error in two subsequent posts, here and here. I think it is important to under...

- You find SEP unreliable?

This is the point at issue, and according to SEP it is at best a controversial claim: So free logic is not free of Quinian intuitions, even though the...

And therefore: I clarify this because you have accused others (including myself) of the so-called "argumentum ad lapidem," and so it is worth recogniz...

He seems to be asking whether the ontological import of existential quantification implies the ontological import of universal quantification. I think...

I have never heard it taught that way. It seems like an erroneous reading. Here is what Wikipedia says: I don't think it's hard to see that Johnson is...

Rather, the rejection of Quine's "to be" usually involves the idea that existence is not a predetermined category or domain. So, fiction aside, the cr...

I think that's a good candidate. Quine may be saying little more than that terms are inscrutable apart from context ("holism").

Yes, yes, yes! The reason I find Aquinas so useful on forums like this is because he is so close to analytic methodology. There is literally a school ...

Good points. For the sake of simplicity I removed from a recent post the comment, "The trick for anyone opposing Quinian Actualism is drawing out the ...

Doesn't the quote you provide imply that, if they started talking to each other, they may talk past each other entirely? If, "the meanings or ideas ex...

- Cheers. :clap:

Then I'm not sure you appreciate what a living, breathing position opposed to Quine's would look like. If that is right then it makes sense that you c...