There is a problem with Socrates' pet peeve of giving examples instead of explanations, and dictionaries don't generally fall into this mistake, but i...
- I have not, but as I read the first few pages of that chapter I think Lutz is right on the money. For Aristotle and Aquinas anger is a social and mo...
I don't know. That's a good question. The first thing that comes to mind is to not appeal to reductionistic or highly theoretical answers before ackno...
- Thanks, and I think it is worth noting that when one applies a primarily social phenomenon within the bounds of a single individual things can quick...
That is interesting and a bit mind-bending, but it goes to my point above that meta-logical justifications of RAA tend to be sui generis. IEP calls Wh...
It would be hard to dispatch Tones' army of strawmen. I think they are infinite. Within the paradigm of classical propositional logic there is a certa...
Your posts make me think you do not understand forgiveness, as they are replete with false dichotomies. For example, you here diminish forgiveness and...
I think you're just unwilling to consider a closer look at the logic machine. One can paper over the differences between RAA and other inferences and ...
"When Tones entered." But his primary complaint has been that I ignore his posts (and not a few times have I logged in to find more than a dozen new p...
Go back and see. Test your a priori thesis for once. I mostly ignore users who run into a thread shitting on everyone in sight who is not a mod, and t...
From the moment Tones entered the thread there have been complaints about the way he comports himself. His infantile <third-person> nonsense was the m...
People tend to quickly confuse themselves when it comes to forgiveness. A concrete example is best. You run into the back of my car. We both know you ...
So then looking at either example: Or: Either way, your claim is not fulfilled. In the first two arguments (4) does not follow from the truth of (1) a...
Suppose you had a nice cup of coffee with grandma at the nursing home yesterday. You go back today and she doesn't recognize you at all, and she is su...
The point here is that I want to ask the question, "What kinds of arguments could be thought capable of adjudicating the question of the soul's perdur...
In the simple sense of, "How do I know that what I have known myself to be will perdure into the future?" This sounds like a concrete objection to a p...
Isn't it just that there are objects of knowledge and there are the means by which we know these objects? The chair is an object of knowledge, and vis...
It seems like you are asking about perdurance, not permanence. The word "permanence" tends to lead to these sorts of considerations: It seems to me th...
If blame is not possible then accountability is not possible. Therefore, if accountability is good then blame is good. You seem to be asking, "Why acc...
According to what definition are both proofs valid? Or if you like, when I asked what rule of inference allows you to draw (4), you simply said, "RAA....
- Without you and Tones the thread would have been filled with good-faith argumentation, and that's a sobering fact. Can you at least answer a simple ...
That rare combination of hubris and senility. Gotta love it. I would suggest reading Lionino's first post on page 1, but that would require reading. I...
- At this point it is a very real question, whether you are even capable of reading at all. The simple version, for your benefit: Two premises and an ...
The question here is the validity of a conclusion. See: A truth table does not adjudicate between (1) and (2). It does not perform the and-elimination...
The reason these are not RAA is because there is no supposition taking place (and again, Tones' original attempt in this thread did not suffer from th...
That's just what a definition is. "X is what Xers do" is a tautological and uninformative statement. The "changes over time" idea is similarly uninfor...
So many of your claims have already been debunked in this thread. The truth-table approach to reductio was dispatched almost ten pages ago! If you wan...
The poster continues to substitute rhetoric for argument, utterly failing to engage in rational argumentation or inferential reasoning. Why such a cou...
The truth-functional logicians have no sense of the difference between these two arguments: ...much less 's half-baked reductio: ? ? Contradiction, th...
The conversation I am having with Tones revolves around <your argument>, which is an instance of the form of reductio that I gave. "3" is present in t...
From a different angle, Tones says: Tones thinks that ¬(1) and ¬(2) both follow from (1, 2, 3). It goes without saying that there is no rule of infere...
A proposition can be invalid qua conclusion, and that's precisely what I said. :roll: Again and again the simple questions go unanswered: You quoted m...
Tones was quoting me, and he should have used the quote feature. If he had you would not have inadvertently agreed with me. Because as this thread sho...
But it's not. All you are saying is, "??¬?," but this does not make the proof valid. What rule of inference do you think you used to draw (4)? (4) adj...
The problem is that this proof of yours is invalid: Once I pointed it out you edited your post to try to inject some background conditions, but we bot...
Yes, it is. It is called equivocation, and it is also a non-definition. Someone who does not know what scientists do will simply not be able to identi...
Here is a good article to begin debunking the guess/check paradigm: Cartwright on theory and experiment in science. Why share? Is it necessary? This i...
Rho is assumed and Mu is supposed, and if someone doesn't know the difference between an assumption/premise and a supposition then they won't understa...
In order to collaborate scientists need to communicate with each other, both across generations and within generations. Sure, but it does not follow t...
True, but what I would ultimately say is that sapere aude is a dead end. It is premised on the false idea that individuals have wisdom/knowledge indep...
Thanks for that. I don't mean to belabor this thread, but speaking naturally, I would say this. A contradiction for logic is like a fork in the road. ...
Okay, wow, this is fascinating - thanks. I know a little bit about semiotics but I didn't realize these ideas had already progressed so far. I origina...
I don't see that the quotes in your OP recommend attending to books to the exclusion of all else. I would want to see the context of Gilson's quote, b...
Right - the decimal system was not a foregone conclusion, historically speaking. The fingers/toes claim is interesting, and having the source would be...
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