Planes and points cannot be stipulated to exist or not exist. Your word "imagine" is on point given my earlier claim that "This idea of 'deleting' poi...
We took our definition from Euclid, and the term there means a figure that lies entirely on a flat plane. Do you think the "great circle" (which you h...
I think it does. You've only asserted otherwise, you haven't shown it. It is a plane figure. What do you think a plane figure is? Did you delete the i...
You depicted one. I even asked what you were depicting and you weren't very forthcoming. Just read what I already wrote: Again, you seem to be resorti...
I hope I'm not the only one who recognizes that you are more interested in this conversation than me. :grin: I am fine with taking Euclid's definition...
Yep. If everything were arbitrarily stipulated, then all of the strange ideas in this thread would be gold. ...Or at least as valuable as everything e...
But this isn't right. The Euclidean metric says you've traveled 2 total units. Yet the distance of a straight line between your starting point and you...
Yes, but it is worth asking whether a methodology as culturally significant as methodological naturalism can ever be prevented from spawning its own m...
But these are so far from counterexamples to Aristotle that they are all things he explicitly takes up. Every time I have seen someone try to defend a...
Well, your post would appear obtuse to the layman, and maybe it just is. Maybe the argument is much simpler than you are making it: Circles are round ...
Is this what you mean by material logic? Or we could say that logic is that by which correct inference is achieved. Indeed! It is also a symptom of co...
- Yep, exactly right. :up: That is literally the best AI-generated content I have ever seen. :smile: (Edit: When I said, "We have scrutinized this sor...
Did you read my post <here>? Do you agree with this: ~P ?(P?A) I don't think that is quite right. Q is merely implied because of the way a material co...
You seem to be conflating the questions of self-correction and other-correction, which I want to keep distinct. I already answered your first question...
This is a great OP. I need to chew on it a bit more, but one aspect of this is the question of how metaphysics relates to science. Awhile back I was r...
Yes, I think it is widely recognized that it flowed from political arrangements, namely because the aftermath of WWII was different from the aftermath...
I don't think there is an easy answer to this, but I would say that a bad habit should change when it is self-consciously recognized to be a bad habit...
- Your answers are sidestepping the purpose of the OP. The OP wants to have a substantive discussion about immigration. Why not enter into that discus...
Yes, because there is a greater level of intentionality involved in the badness of the second person. They are doing the bad thing more purposefully a...
- When the antecedent of a material conditional is false, the conditional itself is necessarily true. That's all that is happening here, and then the ...
<"it is false that if I pray, then my prayers will be answered" translates to ~(P?A)> We have scrutinized this sort of translation a great deal in the...
:grin: Yes, but as I said earlier, I don't see much support for it generally or on TPF. Most people who think about this for more than 15 seconds real...
Yes, very good. In my opinion this all gets a little tricky because what is at stake is a ratio, not a concept. For instance, to use a formal logical ...
This is a fine question, but I want to say that the better question along these same lines is this: How do we differentiate an argument which is inval...
It's an understandable trope, but in this case I think it is just that Banno is concerned with what I call metalogic/metamathematics and I am concerne...
Lol. I suppose that's where things stand if you just ignore the rest of the article and/or appeal to SEP as some sort of normative source, setting out...
I don't consider this at all unique. I take it that logical pluralism (and nihilism) is just the logical extension of what has occurred in all other a...
No, that's really not it. See: For example, someone who believes in deductive, inductive, and abductive reasoning is not a logical pluralist. It is in...
- Not just you, but there are also fewer up there than you suppose. Most people recognize that contradictory conclusions cannot both be the result of ...
Banno looks like the cat who has climbed and climbed and now cannot get down, and does not know where he is. What is logic? Banno thinks it is somethi...
Rombout has a nice section on linguistic differences, such as Frege's spatial notation. For example, the author she appeals to considers the differenc...
Well, yes, you did: - I don't know what it would mean for state of affairs to be a "piece of ontology." In all likelihood you don't either. This is a ...
- Yes, @"Banno" began by claiming that talk of states of affairs is redundant and superfluous, and then went on to continue conflating states of affai...
- So the goal is an attitude of indifference. How does one get to that goal? Is it just by practicing indifference? Or is there some better way to get...
- A characteristically punchy quote from Hart, but on point. :up: Is it? It holds a large share of English-speaking philosophy, but it is largely igno...
Analytic philosophy is a toolkit and not a school of philosophy? Then why do analytic philosophers tend to focus on the same basic set of problems? Or...
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