Leontiskos

- Cop out, as usual. :roll: It's high time you started taking responsibility for what you say.

I think this is a good example of the standard sort of strawman that you engage in. You took "vis-a-vis ontology" and replaced it with "regarding onto...

- Exactly right. :100:

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. :up: I think Tarski is right that logic pulls more weight than it appears to at first glance, and it is for this...

See 's post. For my money, so-called "principles of charity" are always destructive of intellectual honesty, even in the one or two sentences where th...

It is obviously false. As already noted, if logic had no ontological implications then there could be no historical progression in logic vis-a-vis ont...

Shouldn't he? The OP seems to presuppose that he can be faulted for this. Or at the very least, that it can be traced back to his writings.

- Good post. A simpler game of Bingo is to just observe how much language an author uses in a technical sense, and how willing they are to drop the te...

Agreed. Stack Exchange is a computer science knowledge compendium that someone tried to repurpose for everything else. It's not a good fit for philoso...

Yes, I agree with all of this. Earlier I said something similar: As above, I think what is at stake is peace, not charity. The way that "charity" gets...

I've changed my mind a bit, and now no longer deem this debate a waste of time. I also better see why @"J" is interested in this topic. I wish I had l...

That's right, just as it is question-begging to assume that the different uses of "to be" are compartmentally distinct. This is what Sider refers to a...

The whole premise of your argument is that those who lived prior to modern optics were naive realists. Drop that premise and the whole argument disapp...

This is literally the first objection that Sider dispatches on page 11 after giving the summarized form of QV, but I already told you this <here>.

I was addressing your "thesis" that everyone who lived before modern optics must have been a naive realist. That's why I quoted your "thesis." (I am t...

The historical ignorance here is off the charts. :yikes: Maybe start with Plato, a large part of whose philosophy is concerned with the unreliability ...

Peirce studied and benefitted from Latin thinkers like Aquinas and Scotus, and his theory of signs is especially indebted to the Latins:

- Yes - gave the classic quote from Aristotle earlier today.

Mmk, Banno.

No, this is completely wrong. Quantifier variance is a kind of insuperable second-order equivocation. Sider does not need to explicate two concrete us...

Their philosophy: the philosophy they do.

Yes, it does.

Great points. :up:

I think it depends on their philosophy.

- :up: My source here was a review by Gregory Sadler that I watched after I joined TPF and desired to learn more about Wittgenstein. See, for example,...

It is also well-known that he never bothered to read his fellow contemporary philosophers, and that he had a tendency to use past philosophers simply ...

Thanks, very interesting. :up: This all makes sense to me.

He's frustrated and he's posting out of frustration, but in this case I think there is a legitimate reason for the frustration. Perhaps it's okay to e...

There are a lot of philosophers who are "in-house baseball," such that they are only accessible to those who have read them at some length (and this i...

Yep. But there's also the strange juxtaposition with the analytic context, which is different from Nietzsche.

Usually thinkers have successors, but it seems like Wittgenstein doesn't have any clear-cut successors, perhaps because the meaning of his thought is ...

- It seems like Wittgenstein's work is inherently resistant to interaction with the rest of philosophy. Thoughts?

- "People do things because they believe they should do things; therefore moral realism is false." Good stuff, Janus, good stuff. :roll:

Your tautology has no relation to these other claims you are making. It's not clear you realize this, either.

:lol: You're not wrong. Did you see my post <here>? Specifically the paper, "Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein on Self and Object." I don't know that much...

It's little more than a barebones tautology. People are motivated by feelings and thoughts, obviously. Anyone who understands what feelings and though...

Right, and that is why I think Sider's analysis is a great deal more incisive than Finn and Bueno's. For example, here is his shorter version of expla...

I never said they did. The statements remain tautological. They are tautological conditionals (if/then statements). I was interpreting this statement ...

Why is that bizarre? Prayer is not an argument. If God (of the classical variety) exists then all outcomes are from him. To say that it might be from ...

It is not egotism to petition an important or powerful person. Some petitions are motivated by egotism/pride, and some are not. If you have a reason o...

Isn't it wonderful that we can agree on things like this even while being at loggerheads on Hume and probabilistic logic? :grin: Ah, I actually did re...

Ah okay. I think this is the first time that paper has been quoted in this thread. I don't think Sider's paper has been paid any attention at all. I t...

Who are "they"? :chin:

I granted that and pointed out that there are two different kinds of domain differences: quantitative and qualitative. I gave at least three examples:...

So you want to say, "If you are positively disposed towards doing or not doing something, then you are in some sense motivated to do or not do it. And...

@"fdrake" has been consistently talking about intensional difference in quantifiers, namely by way of differing introduction and elimination rules.

@"fdrake" has been consistently talking about intensional differences in quantifiers, namely by way of introduction and elimination rules for quantifi...

You're not really addressing the issue in any clear or straightforward way. Is a moral consensus in any way binding, yes or no? If yes, then in virtue...

Okay, interesting. Yes, that makes sense to me. Is Wittgenstein's the idea that philosophy is therapy in the sense that it can properly order our desi...

I actually find the role that chess plays on this forum a bit bewildering. Sometimes it almost feels as if chess is the foundational hermeneutical key...