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Yep... thanks TS.

I don't know why "entire category" is important here. Any revision is a revision. Perhaps I misunderstood what you were saying about identifying essen...

True. And you're doing the same thing with different biases. I'm not saying there is any unbiased approach, but noting that we're all doing it might r...

Andrewk's primary point appeared to be that an alternate Nixon isn't the actual Nixon and so contingency speech can't be taken literally. You answered...

Now you're doing it too... letting your ontological prejudices interpret for you. What did you call it? Linguistic revision? Jeez.

And it's a valid point. It's a decent philosophical topic. But Kripke was addressing the nature of inquiry. We build knowledge one verified propositio...

We don't talk about names. We talk about objects. Who thought Kripke meant something else? The concept of some eternal essence that resides in a realm...

Good question.

Why do you say that statement is contingently true?

There's a wiki article about the Rawagede massacre in 1947. In 2009, the Dutch state promised to pay 20,000 euros to the widows of the victims.

Interesting. African slaves were first introduced to N. America by Dutch slave traders.

You don't know what intension is... you don't fool me. You need to in order to get Kripke...

If x is an essential property of Y, then "Y is/has x" is necessarily true. Kripke didn't stray much from this meaning of essence. Your statement that ...

That's awesome. Can you explain why we can't do without the concept of intensionality?

Do you know what intension is?

A cool way to look at the impetus behind rigid designators (the answer to the question you asked is at the end:) "There is a natural and initially att...

Essential properties.. yes he did.

Yea. But a strong adherence to the LOI is a route to hard determinism, which is a feature of human thought, but the opposite is also there, manifest i...

I knew about the Kellogg story. The guy behind it was Sylvester Graham (graham crackers). It would really astonish me if that package of insanity made...

The first problem with the entailment angle on truthmaking is that any object which exists will end up being a truthmaker for a necessary truth. My do...

I think Spivak is failing to realize the prevailing situation. Most pale people and otherwise don't actually give a flip about suffering people anywhe...

And on top of that, the question you're asking is really about the value of life. Not going to bother explaining why...not to your know it all self an...

Self love requires self acceptance. The confidence you demonstrate shows decent self estimation. Possibly it's a defense. The oyster is defending itse...

We're all sinners. Nobody's perfect. If you don't accept that about yourself, you won't accept it in others. You are incredibly preachy btw. Bullied w...

You love your neighbor as you love yourself.

Common decency demands that when presented with a victim, you don't ignore him or her and immediately try to find a counterpart in America to focus on...

It's similar to the measurement problem. I'm not sure there's any proof this way or that. There's lots of biases to go around. You're no one unless yo...

Pillows on Etsy. Recycled Turkish fabric. Just sight seeing.

Sometimes saints start out suffering from a disorder called scruples (belief that one is evil). Nietzsche had it. So..as much as it's probably true th...

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The human mind comes standard with two opposing views of actual events: that every one is necessary (and so determinism) vs they are not necessary (wh...

True. The actual you didn't win the lottery. If assertions you make include a phrase like ".. in the actual world" then you aren't using rigid designa...

She's been in the news since 1992. I saw a fair amount of it.

I'll affirm that you don't have any idea what TGW meant. Nevertheless, his explanation of rigid designators was a fair assessment of Kripke's intentio...

There's a Frontline documentary that explains the part the Obama administration played in the Syrian disaster. Repeated statements of encouragement to...

Unfortunately caricature isn't necessary. Daniel Pipes is an example of a guy who has command of a lot of facts and chooses to twist them to create th...

"Nixon might have lost the election." This is a bit of language use that would crash a rationalist approach like Leibniz's. He would say that any Nixo...

Too busy to think it through then, huh? OK.

I don't think there's any need for me to walk you through what you actually said.

Yeah... the very concept of entailment (that things are related) has to be apriori knowledge.

This is kind of trippy. The object of entailment isn't a proposition here. It's a pending comprehension of the dependence of the subject? May be off t...

Witty didn't use the word "anchoring" when he noted that rule following can't go on forever. Logical positivists sought to externalize it. Quine showe...

That's a fascinating take. Why do you say that?

"Of necessity we remain strangers to ourselves." -Nietzsche

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4wVm4yBSrQ

Water color.. kind of lucent. There was no face. Her head was a lightbulb. With very fine pen and ink all the boundaries were faintly marked out. I do...

I should have clicked on "Reply" below your post. If I didn't, then you wouldn't have gotten a notification that I replied. I think everyone reports o...

I think we do have to have some model because just logical possibility will become so open-ended that it's meaningless. A: I said, "I have a dog." All...

I think it's epistemological. For instance: A: I said, "I have a dog." If one knew everything about my dog, one would know all sorts of things about h...