To say that Kant says something that one knows he does not say is lying, and this is what Rodl does. He demonstrates that in the endnote. And even if ...
I found a really useful text for your thread: Paul Vincent Spade's, "The Warp and Woof of Metaphysics: How to Get Started on Some Big Themes." It is a...
Suppose I tell you that you have a heart inside you that allows you to move and to live. You respond, "Watch. I will move my arm. See? We can all move...
Well in the first place esse != parts and essence != whole. Esse/essence is not the part/whole relationship. Sure, that’s part of it. So for example, ...
- Something is composed if it has parts and simple if it has no parts. This is a foundational idea in philosophy. The second premise means that a comp...
The OP left a bad taste in my mouth given the way it handles Kant. And after an excessive amount of digging we learned that Rodl contradicts himself i...
"Privation" is necessary because you are employing a Platonic version. Note that for Plato there is no "undeviated circle" among the realm of singular...
It seems to me that folks take a machination like "possible worlds" or "metaphysically possible" and then start throwing it around without any real se...
You always conflate your own opinions with the common opinion. But pretty much everyone recognizes how silly and vain conversations with you are (or b...
- Do you think Rodl might believe that what occurs is consciousness of the activity itself? That was my point - that the option that Kant denies might...
Using your explanation of Kant, "Consciousness of the occurrence of the activity," and, "Consciousness of the activity itself" (). (I should have said...
I think Kripke saw the point I am making and instantiated it in his rigid designators. It's not that hard to progress the thought. Someone using a rig...
When I first encountered the Logical Positivist thinking in Banno's thread on Kit Fine, it was very strange. It was strange to encounter folks who thi...
Why? Why not say, "Being Socrates isn't essential to Socrates because he could have been Patrocles"? If there is any rhyme or reason to these claims; ...
I'm not sure if Quine uses "fact" in that way, but Banno and frank certainly are. :up: An understatement. Banno reduces all of philosophy to a few idi...
It does look tautologous, whether we construe it that way or whether we construe it as saying that a self-reflective thought contains its being though...
It is worrisome that after reading so much Rödl you're still not sure what he is objecting to in Frege. Is the same true of Kimhi? I would try visitin...
Yes, and I thought you might be doing this. The difficulty is that essence/existence is a contentious form of composition, and a lot of people will fi...
I was responding to Count, not exegeting Quine. You are <the one who can't address the issue for the life of you>. Trolls will troll. The ignorant wil...
I would say that: We are always in via, growing in knowledge, whether it be with essences or references or logic, etc. A robust epistemology of what i...
This is just you having your cake and eating it, too. If reference is inscrutable then we cannot be confident. If we are justified in our confidence t...
Maybe if you wouldn't go around lying, trolling, and making up shit we would all save a bit of time. You still haven't managed to address the central ...
It is the point, though, because you are giving the tired argument, "Show me a perfect essence if you want to justify essentialism," and I am saying, ...
So this is a good example of the very post you were responding to. Here is my response: What source do you use to come to this idea about "this notion...
- Here are some of the places where I objected to this use of "fact": A very remarkable weakness of modern theories of reference is that they do not m...
- I can sort of make your argument work, but most people who are not familiar with the metaphysical background are going to have questions in many dif...
But what is easy is not always good. I think the forum could use less easy. Three-premise arguments are almost necessarily superficial, especially in ...
Great question, and your debacle is unfortunately quite common. I think you are talking about a relationship or a romantic friendship, not simply love...
Sorry, I thought you were just copying and pasting something you found elsewhere. I will look at it more closely given that you wrote it yourself. :bl...
But this is not a real argument. In fact an argument with many steps is a good argument insofar as it is transparent and does not try to oversimplify ...
I think the question is whether sense of self is direct or indirect. If it were direct, then it would seem that there is nothing I would not know abou...
"Tigerness" (if you like) for a modal essentialist would just be the essential properties of a tiger. If you think a tiger is defined by its essential...
What's interesting is that: ...we could take the set as a whole as what is unique. So revise it to, "which all and only cars (or tigers) possess," and...
I'm not sure Rödl spends sufficient time developing his notion of "first-person thinking." He says it is "thought whose expression in language require...
"Only" is an interesting claim, but you're presumably espousing some form of modal essentialism, which is a characteristically contemporary form of es...
What do I "make of it"? It seems clear to me that translation is underdetermined to some extent. What is Quine's intended conclusion? I don't think it...
@"Count Timothy von Icarus", This is a lecture that is very good in setting out the stakes of essentialism, especially vis-a-vis 20th century logic. Y...
:lol: You're a joke, man. You're straight up lying about things, such as the idea that I've said, "Yes, is clearly wrong." Or when you just remove quo...
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