And by "punished" you presumably do not mean what every dictionary in the world says, because then we would be right back to the equivocation on "pena...
No, you think they will forcibly take some money from you. One is only penalized for having done something wrong, and in denying obligations you deny ...
Oh really? A contract is like the sergeant who goes around commanding people what they are to do? This is in line with your first harebrained theory t...
A contract establishes an obligation, and therefore someone who is more likely to fulfill his obligations is more likely to fulfill his contracts. You...
Money, oaths of office, marriage, contracts, the possibility of perjury, internet trust certificates, banking, fiduciary responsibilities, the list go...
The obvious objection to this idea is to note that this restriction goes beyond the typical syntactical requirements for a formula being well formed. ...
- Yes, in fact I had forgotten the bit you quoted. I have only done a close read of MMP once and then skimmed it a few times afterwards, but skimming ...
Yes, this is similar to 's vampire argument. Right: another way of putting it is that you are expressing a phenomenon which is not able to be captured...
A promise establishes an obligation, and that obligation ceases if: 1) it is fulfilled, 2) the promise is "broken", or 3) the promisee releases you fr...
Are we trying to teach Michael how to make a promise so he can have a real girlfriend and really get married? It's sort of a sine qua non quality in a...
That makes sense to me (even though symbolic logicians must interpret all such things as material implication, as they have no alternative). Related: ...
Therefore...? How would you know, given your curious claim that, "There is no 'standard' of foreseeability"? Obviously. What isn't realistic? Constant...
This is to ignore foreseen effects (and also to ignore foreseeable effects). Bob's point is presumably that unforeseeable effects are not intentional....
Thanks, I may check this out in time. My sense, though, is that you can't fully formalize reasoning. In particular Aristotle's final condition for dem...
- I went back to read this. I agree with the conclusion: But I think Kreeft is working with a caricature in the earlier parts, as he has a tendency to...
Note that the cognitively challenged person is not capable and therefore, for Pantagruel, would be causing an effect accidentally. I think you two are...
I could try to make the critique more precise, although the only person on these forums who has shown a real interest in what I would call 'meta-logic...
My point is that it is a vacuous instance of validity, more clearly seen in the form <((a?(b?¬b))?¬a>. It is formal logic pretending to say something....
And the rest of us would simply ask what a promise is supposed to be without the inclusion of obligation. As I said above, it makes as much sense to a...
The original question was, "Do (A implies B) and (A implies notB) contradict each other?" On natural language they contradict each other. On the under...
Right, and note also the way that Flannel confuses the conditions of a material implication with the principle of explosion beginning <here>. I gave a...
- Yes, I think this is right. I keep thinking about my aversion to "? ~A" (). The most basic objection is that an argument with two conditional premis...
@"Janus"' point applies to logic as well. Formal logic is parasitic on natural logic, and "logic" does not mean "formal logic," or some system of form...
That's sort of where I disagree. See: The idea here seems to be that it is a good rhetorical device. It is a good parable or lesson. Indeed, it was or...
Here's some help for you from the dictionary: Merriam-Webster - Contradictory (Adjective): involving, causing, or constituting a contradiction | contr...
- If you look at the antecedents of "Buridan's Ass," you will note that none of them use an animal as the example. The reason for this is clear: anima...
And I already corrected your misinterpretation in <this post>. I'm glad you finally figured this out and even came up with your own fun way of describ...
No, I was there giving an answer to the question at hand. I give up. Go read Lionino's first post on the first page. He explains the two basic senses ...
The question at hand is, "What is the contradiction of, 'If lizards were purple then they would be smarter'?" The negation of a material conditional w...
"Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?" Put it together: ...therefore the consequent cannot be affirmed as true in this case. Therefore...
It does not follow; it is moot. According to material implication (A ? B) is true if A is false, but B does not follow given that A is false. We canno...
I don't think the principle of explosion is quite the same as material implication. It's kind of the opposite. We are running from a contradiction, no...
Okay: Supposing someone has an unforeseeable seizure, would they be punished in this case? I agree. Fair enough. So I have to apologize. The quality o...
But the difficulties of material implication do not go away here. You are thinking of negation in terms of symbolic logic, in which case the contradic...
I don't think yours is a bad translation. The point is that Aristotle is setting out the meaning (or at least his working meaning) of 'good' in that p...
And you think it is possible to claim that one of the contractors is more reliable without at the same time saying that he is more likely to fulfill h...
- I will come back to this, but I want to present a different angle before I go: Leontiskos: What if a contractor in your area was known to never fulf...
Well, if you don't like the word 'obligation', then instead of trying to convince the judge that you have no obligation to fulfill your contract you s...
Well, suppose your judge is a good philosopher, and he admits that laws cannot be premised on non-existent realities. And really, wouldn't any logical...
But why? Why not reason with the authority and explain to him, like you did to me, that you intended to fulfill the contract when you signed it and no...
Earlier you told me that you honestly believe that you can just change your mind and decide not to fulfill a promise. Why can't you just change your m...
And so presumably after the deadline, "I owe you money," just means, "Some authority will fine me if I don't give up the money." Why is the authority ...
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