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I told you, evidence comes up at a later time which makes you see that you made a mistake. If anyone else can judge you at a later time, by reviewing ...
June 01, 2018 at 01:23
Similar use of deception has been used by police forces to capture criminals in the US for some time now. They say that the person has won a lottery a...
May 31, 2018 at 10:20
Then I think I would agree. But I go even further to say that when we identify a thing as a particular, it is not strictly the "the seeing of particul...
May 31, 2018 at 02:09
This would be an error of misinterpretation then. Either the situation is not interpreted properly, or the rule is not interpreted properly. So the ru...
May 31, 2018 at 01:59
No, not "generalizing of identities" the contrary of this. We must refer to the law of identity itself. The law of identity recognizes the identity of...
May 31, 2018 at 01:20
That's how mistake is possible. One problem of mistake is as Srap indicates. The rule is relegated to memory, and we act most times by habit without c...
May 30, 2018 at 11:07
You know I disagree. You've described two distinct things here, and conflated them as one. Realizing that we are separate is one thing, and realizing ...
May 30, 2018 at 10:41
I don't see any argument there. Since we can and do communicate without definitions, your talk of definitions is irrelevant. Definitions are not a req...
May 30, 2018 at 02:29
Yeah, that makes sense to me. Now consider this. Anytime that we describe what is, it is always based in abstraction, and the abstraction is produced ...
May 30, 2018 at 01:55
How does a person talking to you in such a way, produce a need to recognize the pre-existence of that person? I would think that the desire to recogni...
May 30, 2018 at 01:33
That, at 202 is the premise, the definition of "obeying a rule" which allows for the private language argument. As you can see, it's very clearly stat...
May 29, 2018 at 10:55
I don't see this as logical. The person distinguishes itself from all that is other than itself. Why does the person need to consider the pre-existenc...
May 29, 2018 at 02:28
Do you notice that the particular, the specific difference, is distinct from the general, being different?
May 29, 2018 at 02:24
My claim is not that we must conclude that any given thinker is not following a rule. It is that if a rule cannot be identified from the person's acti...
May 29, 2018 at 02:20
It's simple logic. In order that they are different, there must be a difference. The difference is the reason why they are different. That they are no...
May 28, 2018 at 10:40
Whether or not the reasons are known is irrelevant to the principle of sufficient reason which just states that there is a reason. Whether or not the ...
May 28, 2018 at 02:24
The differentiation need not be a differentiation from other individuals. It might only be a differentiation between oneself and what is other. So if ...
May 28, 2018 at 02:02
I don't see how this is relevant. Oh, so you don't "completely go along with" it. Then why not give it up as unacceptable? Why gloss over the unaccept...
May 28, 2018 at 01:49
I was talking about the logical relation between one and many, which I explained. You still haven't gone back to address how it is possible that we, i...
May 27, 2018 at 23:17
I don't know Freud very well but I know that a lot of his principles are debatable, if not completely discredited. This is surely wrong. A baby has th...
May 27, 2018 at 13:05
I follow rules all the time, don't you? I hold a principle within my mind and adhere to it. There is no "god-like insight" involved in me knowing this...
May 27, 2018 at 12:51
But that doesn't mean that what makes a person a person is the caregiver. A human being cannot survive without food either, but this doesn't mean that...
May 27, 2018 at 11:21
So you've gone from a vicious circle to an infinite regress. Each person requires parents, ad infinitum. Do you believe that there was an infinite num...
May 27, 2018 at 02:22
This would actually defy the law of identity. If a thing is identifiable as one thing, then there is a reason why it is that thing and not another thi...
May 27, 2018 at 02:19
Isn't this a vicious circle? Don't you need to be conscious to be able to study what others are doing? So you seem to imply that one must already be c...
May 27, 2018 at 01:42
Sure, Wittgenstein found his description of "rule-following" adequate for his purposes, and perhaps these other philosophers found it adequate for the...
May 26, 2018 at 23:04
Wittgenstein did not provide an adequate description of what it means to follow a rule. He stated that if one could be observed to be acting in a part...
May 26, 2018 at 11:52
There is a sense of the word "true" which is consistent with this description of philosophy. This meaning is along the lines of genuine, right, honest...
May 26, 2018 at 02:20
Good, you recognize your mistake then, when you said that a point is an edge to a line. That's a start. What? Why contradict yourself? That's the end ...
May 22, 2018 at 10:56
I never said a point is the edge of a line. Your putting words in my mouth. An edge marks the boundary of a region, a point marks the boundary of a li...
May 22, 2018 at 02:30
Neither can a point have an edge, nor can a circle be made up of straight lines. So this idea is contradictory in two ways. A point marks the limit to...
May 21, 2018 at 12:51
Thanks Srap. This is really the difference between continuity and discrete points. You could construct a circle with points equidistant from a centre ...
May 21, 2018 at 02:01
A circle, because it has no beginning nor end, is the very same thing as an infinite regress. The circle cannot limit the number of sides to a polygon...
May 20, 2018 at 22:21
My claim is that all those moves which in math are universally considered to be invalid, are based in ontological principles. The principles of additi...
May 20, 2018 at 13:40
I don't think complete consensus is ever possible in mathematics until the complete nature of reality is completely understood by everyone. Then every...
May 19, 2018 at 20:02
There is a very real need for serving in your own land, as we need a rapid response to natural disasters, terrorism, and other possible problems which...
May 19, 2018 at 19:49
This is the important first choice of applying mathematics, right here, the defining of "individuation". If we assume that the multitude, the many, or...
May 19, 2018 at 12:05
I think that the premise of B&C is a little inaccurate with (1). The basis of the number system, and the foundation for Pythagorean idealism and Plato...
May 19, 2018 at 02:37
We have numerous choices as to what zero actually represents, and this is evident if we start to look at the difference between the different represen...
May 18, 2018 at 02:15
Are you familiar with the method of Platonic dialectics? Sometimes we have an idea of what a word ought to mean, how it ought to be used, and this pre...
May 18, 2018 at 01:58
That's exactly what I think. That's why when people are talking about the fair share, in respect to military expenditure, they are not talking about h...
May 18, 2018 at 01:24
You might say that "certain" is redundant here. But redundancy is useful to emphasize something to add strength to the statement. The utility of the w...
May 17, 2018 at 10:54
I agree that you and are "we". I just don't like it when "we" becomes us, as opposed to them, when others do not agree with what we agree to. It's har...
May 17, 2018 at 04:01
Right, so knowing what is impossible requires knowing the circumstances. The circumstances dictate what is impossible, and knowing what is impossible ...
May 16, 2018 at 10:59
I don't think this is the case, so long as we stick to customary definitions when determining logical impossibilities. We describe physical things wit...
May 16, 2018 at 02:29
My point is that in the phrase "it is certain", "is certain" is not attitudinal. Is this not obvious to you? You appear to have proceeded with faulty ...
May 16, 2018 at 02:12
The problem I see is this. "Communism" was presented to the American people by the government and media, many years ago, as a threat to the freedom an...
May 16, 2018 at 01:53
This attitude of "we" is the deceptive attitude. "We" is ambiguous, as no individual is necessarily in or out. The "we" is synonymous with "us", and t...
May 15, 2018 at 10:58
What's the point in doing philosophy in that way; where instead of changing your theory to fit the evidence, you deny the evidence which is inconsiste...
May 14, 2018 at 11:07
We're not talking about the meaning of "certain". We are talking about the meaning of "certainty". "Certainty" means "it is certain" rather than "I am...
May 14, 2018 at 10:47