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But to avoid confirmation bias, we usually take people out of the investigation altogether, don't we? Double-blind studies and such? Is it really poss...

So why did Leibniz say that any entity whose essence is extension is not a substance? He believed that bodily entities (for Descartes: extended substa...

So here's another usage of "objective," and I think it's a fairly common one: people can be objective. What exactly does it mean for a person to be ob...

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I hear ya. But I think that's making use of the fact that "truth" can mean true statement.

I saw the full moon this morning. It was in the external world above the holly tree. Did you see it?

Full moonis giganticus.

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." -- John 14:6. You mean like that?

I agree. I don't think "objective" means good or charitable. It was a dark and stormy night. This, coming without quotes at the beginning of a story, ...

Being visually inclined, I notice that there's something vaguely circular about this utterance. It's an assertion about the genesis of signficance. Yo...

I get that. I was reading some Jung a while back and he was going on and on about some crap. As I read, it occurred to me that he was a product of his...

Yes. Reason is the bones of objectivity.

My diagnosis is borderline truth skepticism. Particularly suitable for LSD excursions... but it's probably multi-functional. Frege demolished correspo...

Couldn't it be that it's just a matter of different frames of reference which translate one to the other? Standing on earth, we see the sun rise. From...

This is also the issue with Spinoza: unity. Descartes can be interpreted as offering the indubitable statement of duality: cogito ergo sum. Of course,...

How do you see this tying into issues to do with truth? What is your theory of truth, btw?

You're talking about meaning holism. I see it's advantages, but I think it also has its weaknesses. Maybe meaning partakes of both holism and atomism ...

Could you say more about that? It's interesting to me because I usually think of objective as a kind of narrative. It confuses me a little when it's u...

So you see truth as a destination, as opposed to a property of statements?

Sounds right to me.

Yep. I'm becoming fascinated with how Leibniz sort of sets the stage for Kant and Schopenhauer.

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Me too. It resulted from the fact that his central theses clearly ruled out free will. Unlike Spinoza, he wasn't prepared to abandon freedom because o...

Oh good. Thanks!

That is correct. To be precise, statements of natural law concerning ravens ideally express the nature of ravens. Expressions of that kind assert what...

If B (a set of spaciotemporal specifications), then A (where A is a statement of natural law.) I don't think it's presently clear what it means for B ...

I would start collecting funds for a Banno Memorial... maybe similar to the Ground Zero thing in NYC. Or maybe like the Oklahoma City Federal Building...

I actually would like to know that he's ok. Thanks for the impression. Do you do Trump?

Look back at what you wrote... confusing the concepts of conditional and contingent. You know better than that. You also know that modal logic isn't g...

It looks to me like you've built an edifice of complete absurdity.

Banno.

The concept of natural law isn't without its critics. Having to point out when and where a rule applies isn't much of a threat, is it?

Obviously what happens in a black hole stays in a black hole. We were talking about whether the whole universe could have been different. Reductionist...

I was talking about intensional vs extensional definition. Good lord. Walked all the way to the top just to fall straight back down.

Maybe a Hesperus/Phosphorus type of difference. Anyway, for the discerning eye, we just affirmed that the answer to the title of the thread is: YES.

I don't think so. Suppose some new discovery reveals to us that the universe couldn't have been any other way (no specifics required... all we need is...

No. I haven't. What I note is that your argument starts with a hidden premise: The universe could have been some other way. I asked you for an argumen...

Cool. How is that shown?

If physical law is necessary, then the set of all physical possibilities is the same as the set of all logical possibilities. Right? Drop the issue of...

So what are we talking about now? I edited my previous post. Note that I mentioned we can discuss Leibniz further in another thread if you like.

If an electron is a wave, yes.

The invitation was more to make the term "physical possibility" meaningful by offering a persuasive reason to believe there is such a thing. It looked...

So if physical law is necessary, then the set of physical possibilities has the same members as the set of logical possibilities. Leibniz knew his CIC...

LOL. You take your role as historian pretty seriously. Thanks. If A and B have the same properties, A=B. Show what properties physical possibilities h...

I put out an invitation to put up an argument for the existence of possibility that is distinct from logical possibility. I don't see that you did tha...

Explain how modal logic possibility is distinct from logical possibility.

I don't know.

I didn't read it. Should I?

Neither of you offered a reason to allow some kind of possibility that is distinct from logical possibility.

It doesn't appear that you followed the discussion MU and I were having prior to interjecting that it's logically possible to put the moon in your hou...