Arcane Sandwich

https://youtu.be/eDLvSY5Rt8I?si=haOcQKpe-fbhxifm

Ah, I see what you mean. You're asking how can I say that "x" is a free variable instead of a bound variable. Is that it?

I don't see where the problem is. What is it that you don't understand here?

No, because x is a free variable. Like Quine, I believe that in some cases, we should avoid using individual constants, and we should treat proper nou...

But that is precisely where my disagreement with Bunge is to be found, because I think that Quine is actually right in treating the word "Pegasus" in ...

It's a terrible point, and I'm allowed to say that, because it was my point. It's a terrible point because I made it in jest. But you've piqued my cur...

@"Banno" @"Leontiskos" It's true that ?x(Sx ? Bx) is not the same as ?x(Sx ? Bx). And as Leontiskos keenly observed, I wanted to avoid the "?" symbol....

Just out of curiosity, how would you handle the claim that the universal quantifier must have ontological import, if the existential quantifier has it...

Sounds great, no objections from me on those points.

I think we need to take a step back here, in this discussion. We're on page 15, this can go on and on, ad infinitum, if we don't look at this from ano...

I'm just having a hard time understanding how jazz can be harder and more intense than metal. I definitely agree that heavy metal is a petulant little...

What do you get out of jazz specifically, that you don't get out of metal? For me it's the technicality, but perhaps it's different in your case. What...

Thanks! I fixed all of the subscripts in my post. On Aquinas: he's right about the example of the phoenix. Ever since Kant, philosophers in general ha...

Note: The "R" in "ERx" is meant to be a subscript, but this forum doesn't seem to have the option for subscripts. EDIT: I have fixed the subscripts th...

It's scientism at the end of the day, and Bunge uses that word in a positive sense, despite the fact that most people use it as a negative or pejorati...

Here's what I suspect the underlying problem is, in this discussion and others like it: Most people want to avoid the thesis that existence is a prope...

Jazz is definitely more technical than metal. Way more technical. Perhaps Meshuggah can hang in there with jazz musicians, but other than that, there'...

All of the translations deserve attention. The reason why the Bahm translation stands out to me in particular, is because it's arguably the least orth...

She was also friends with Sisters of Mercy, IIRC.

Regarding metal, here's a band that I like. https://youtu.be/UZjuzPU9UE4?si=1smsjA_8erYONJLw

Thanks! I love Siouxsie, as well as Fields. They're foundational, genre-defining bands IMHO. All About Eve usually gets classified as goth rock. Witho...

Black Sabbath is the connection there. They rejected the concepts of the Hippie movement/generation, while at the same time retaining some of its musi...

Yes, it does. It's more metal than both Coven and Sabbath, which sound more like Hippie Rock. To my mind, at least.

Metal is an odd genre. It allegedly started with Black Sabbath, but even that's debatable (given the existence of Coven's album prior to Black Sabbath...

Goth rock grew out of punk rock, just as power metal grew out of heavy metal. Goth rock is a subgenre within punk rock. https://youtu.be/HpcNaqkrPm8?s...

Yup, that's why they're Toxic Chads instead of Healthy Chads. Though we should probably keep in mind that "Virgin" and "Chad" aren't exactly precise s...

Nope, though I'd say that Bauhaus is Gothic Rock, not Gothic Metal : P Bauhaus is actually one of my favorite gothic bands, together with Sisters of M...

Not only that, he also posed nude for PlayGirl Magazine. How is that not Chad? Gothic Metal is really just about sex at the end of the day. The vampir...

Like all religions, taoism has an ethical system, without being reducible to it. It also has a metaphysics. If one wishes to know what the Ultimate is...

Ok @"Banno", this is to your Quinenean point, actually. What you just said there about Sellars is an example of what I personally call "Alien-like Lan...

Unfortunately the misrepresentation of quantum physics outside of the university is something of an intellectual epidemic. Non-physicists tend to say ...

Quine would not have rejected DKI. He would have rejected DK2 instead. Why? Because of this: There is no middle ground. If you reject DK1, as I do, th...

https://youtu.be/x6Nl0A_nVxU?si=xNw1U3QH33-Fq0T9

:roll: :roll: The alternative to what? To Quine's nonsense? Science in its entirety. Existence is a property, not a quantity. You represent it with a ...

https://youtu.be/kxnFcbQc7yo?si=8K6AqKADSqDMBnKU

That's not good enough. Quarks are not made of anything.

You and I are speaking the same language right now. It's the English language. Something far more complex than the deluded beliefs of a philosophical ...

Philosophers have the moral obligation to vindicate ordinary speakers when they say that tables exist and that Pegasus doesn't.

If that's what you think, then you run directly into the following metaphysical problem, known in the literature as a Debunking Argument against Ordin...

A proper noun such as "Neil Armstrong" successfully refers to Neil Armstrong. A Russellian definite description such as "The first person to walk on t...

No, I'm not a philosophical zombie. I can experience pain, as well as other qualia. I know "what it's like" to have a first-person perspective, becaus...

:roll: The speed of light is the only thing in the Universe that is constant, in the sense of being frame invariant. Is that what you want to argue? :...

Are you familiar with the work of Panopticon? It's RABM Metal from Kentucky (Red and Black Metal, as in, Left and Anarchist Black Metal). They did a c...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD9e05qgjqs

Because you knew that the book was saying inaccurate things, if not outright wrong things. You didn't need sophisticated, articulate words to explain ...

Hi, excuse me. In my personal ontology, truth is a feature of Reality itself. It has nothing to do with humans. Not all frames of reference are human....