Leontiskos

Good posts. I would still say that until someone proffers logical pluralism, it will just be a moving target. When we talk about "logical pluralism" w...

Which is to say that your explanation of "stimming" is self-admittedly not an explanation of what Baggs is doing, which is interesting given that you ...

Okay, understood. I suppose I am seeing the essence of language as bound up with communication, not distinct signifiers. Distinct signifiers obviously...

Well you can't say what it means, you can't say what a sentence is, you can't say why it would count as a sentence, you can't say how it would ever ha...

Okay, but in that case it seems like your argument only reaches the weaker conclusion, <Sometimes we can recognize a language we do not speak>. I agre...

Right, I agree. Here "conventional" does come apart from "arbitrary." The cartographic symbol is conventional but not arbitrary. Is it natural? In any...

Yes, thanks. Okay, but there is an underlying idea in this thread that if a sign does not signify arbitrarily then it is not a real sign. This is capt...

What specifically do you think it depends on?

I still think I identified the crux here. It is intentional sign use (language) vs mere sign use. The trick is that a mere sign ("folding your arms") ...

I think it is right to say that the OP is not language, but I think @"fdrake", @"Baden", and perhaps @"Srap Tasmaner" are working with mistaken premis...

Did you know that spaces and punctuation were a later addition to written language? Kinda blows up your whole theory about "units of meaning."

What's to prevent her actions from forming the material for a language? I don't think that's what she is doing, but there is no in-principle barrier t...

Is there a different definition of language other than the semiotic one which is underlying such critiques? Or is that the basis of the critiques even...

This seems like a matter of basic semiotics. There is sign use and then there is intentional sign use. Language is the latter, and it is uniquely huma...

This seems like a matter of basic semiotics. There is sign use and then there is intentional sign use. Language is the latter, and it is uniquely huma...

Perhaps a better way of resituating language and communication is represented by Rowan Williams' recent review of Charles Taylor's new book, Poetry in...

- Good post. :up:

And are those constraints, empowerments, or both?

I don't think the OP is ultimately about physicalism's obligation to science. I think it is about physicalism's claim to be a better (metaphysical) ex...

That's an interesting background explanation for why the "Liar's paradox" tempts you, but what I am hearing is that you are interested in playing a ga...

Coming back after being away for a few days… I think @"Count Timothy von Icarus" has successfully highlighted the fundamental problems in this thread ...

Hmm? I find your lack of bounds more artificial than the OP. It is not artificial to say that there are unbroken wholes, such as chickens. The notion ...

Great. And thinking about it again, "indivisible" is probably not a great way to describe it. But it is somewhat different from advaita, at least in t...

That seems a rather strange way to express it, but what is your alternative? "If we are smart we will foresee that the chickens cannot be evenly divid...

Sider calls this "hostile translation." From the QV/Sider thread: @"fdrake" wants to talk about "good counterexamples," and he relies on notions of "v...

Medhurst's Moses https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Phillip_Medhurst_Picture_Torah_457._Moses_breaks_the_tables_of_the_Law._Exodus_cap_32_v_1...

Yes, and it's hard to say exactly how the animate and the inanimate relate on this score, but the convertibility of being and unum goes beyond animate...

Trying to get out of this thread, but... I called the pluralism/monism debate an internecine debate between Analytics because they are all univocalist...

Or perhaps indivisible, and that seems to be a bit different. A chicken is indivisible. To divide it is to lose your chicken.

In this vein, this paper looks interesting, "being without one: deleuze and the medievals on transcendental unum."

And you think that one should still pray even if God doesn't exist?

Great posts. :up:

- Check out my super popular thread <here>. I don't know exactly what you are going for, but there are many extensions that will modify a web page on ...

- Thanks for checking. was right on the money. When I turned off my "shields" for TPF the download succeeded. :up:

It seems to me that Sider's thread is the better place for this, but what you describe here doesn't really sound like metaphysics at all. The only poi...

- Good to know. - Good points. Coordination, cooperation, intersubjective agreement, etc., really tends to be the goal and limit of contemporary think...

- There's probably a browser extension for that.

Seems right. There is also a really odd thing that happens constantly on TPF (and it usually happens with SEP). Someone will champion a position like ...

@"SophistiCat" - "Export list" doesn't seem to be doing anything for me in Brave. Any ideas? Edit: Oddly, the exported file is listed in my "Recent fi...

- So apparently if you didn't get a good look at the guy who hit you, you would just assume it was Tyson. I still don't see how you would write him a ...

Right. As I said earlier, a basic challenge for the pluralist is to show which logics are acceptable/correct and which are not. I haven't seen anyone ...

I gave that option before giving Euclid's. You are the one who brought up Euclid in the first place, but I really don't see the two descriptions as co...

Rather, if the context is different then the geometrical response is different, and I have no dog in the fight over the question of "family resemblanc...

Sure. Yes, or: But what is the "intended concept"? Presumably it is an intuitive concept, and are intuitive concepts mathematical formalisms? I wouldn...

- Fair enough. Or I suppose the person could respond to the quibbler, "If the center was deleted—per impossibile—then there would only be an Aristotel...

Fair enough. :wink: Yes, I didn't really understand it, and it seems like neither you nor I have a firm grasp on what it means for something to be a p...

Suppose the quibbler has "deleted" the center, and therefore it can only be shown to be an Aristotle Circle?

Okay, so R^3 is a Euclidean space and R^2 is the place where all of Euclid's mathematics lives. I mean, your early insistence on locating Euclidean ci...

- If you write a letter to Mike Tyson asking him to punch you in the face, and the next day a random guy on the street punches you in the face, has yo...

I agree, but that's why I would not say that an incline plane in a Euclidean space is definitely a Euclidean plane. I don't see that there are incline...