There are two ways in which "intentionality" relates to things. Intentionality can be within the thing, like when human beings act purposefully, they ...
By the way, to assume that anything with meaning must have an author is a category mistake. Some things with meaning have an author, some do not, but ...
This incompatibility of "leaves everything as found" with "dissoIves confusions" is not related to creating concepts though. To dissolve confusion imp...
With the use of most common words, such as "life", there is enough ambiguity to spread an unhealthy dose of category error all around. How do you beli...
OK, so my point is, that since we are not responsible, what makes you think that we would want a productive society? Doesn't wanting a productive soci...
But that's the point I'm trying to make. Why would I ever act in a way which is practical for society if I am not responsible? This appears contradict...
I don't see what you mean when you say that we are not responsible for our actions, but we must take responsibility for them. Where does this "must" c...
How does it make sense to say that people are not responsible, but they must act responsible? Does this mean that they should pretend to be responsibl...
I heard some discussion about the ambitions for this probe. Apparently the corona (not a beer) is much hotter than the surface of the sun itself, and ...
This is where the problem is then. If, from the perspective of what is logical, to exist is simply to be the subject of a predicate, then logic isn't ...
You probably know me well enough to know that formal logic is not my thing. The argument is most likely modus ponens but the important aspect, what ac...
No, I don't see the difficulty. The endless chain of interpretation is avoided by the assumption. For me, it's the assumption that there is actually s...
I think that "true" refers to an attitude which we have toward expressing our beliefs to others, such that we are open and honest in our communication...
The best people in the world are fools, and so are the worst people in the world. No paradox here because "best and worst" refer to a different set of...
Why can't consciousness simply be aware of itself? Is it necessary that consciousness is aware of objects prior to being aware of itself? Itself would...
I don't see how you can say this, because when the ocean is calm there is still an ocean but no waves. So it is impossible that the waves contain the ...
Of course not, one wouldn't say "X is true" when that individual believes X is false, unless that person deceives. But that doesn't mean that we don't...
OK, so if we are using "S knows that P" in the informal sense, then "S knows that P" is insufficient for "P is true", because many things which we kno...
It's profoundly obvious, that the ocean does have waves, and not vise versa. The ocean is a body of water, and that water may or may not be waving, so...
You are just confusing me now. You were talking about essences, now individuation and substance. My point has to do with substance, that's for sure, b...
Interpretation of "third door on the right" begins with the assumption that there is a correct door signified. That produces as you say, the question,...
I never said, or implied that a soul is an essence. I don't know where you got that idea, or even what you mean by "essence" in this context. Those ar...
You call this "informal", but it is not informal, because P stands for "proposition" and "proposition" signifies something formal. If we remove the fo...
Ha, ha, that's funny. Either I believe a famous philosopher whose work has stood the test of time, whose arguments are well explained and make sense, ...
This is where we have to proceed with caution, and not jump to conclusions. You say this as if there are possible meanings, in existence, like possibl...
No, it is not an objective fact that either the world is this way, or it is not this way. The concept of "the world" and the existence of the world, a...
Are you ready to read? It's a series of arguments started at the beginning of the thread. It is complex arguments, because there are two sides of trut...
We've been through this already, your (b) is covered by the other argument which you have not addressed. All we have to refer to, as "the way which th...
No, because that's not what I mean, what I mean is that all instances of being true are dependent on interpretation, not some. You keep insisting on "...
I really don't know what you mean. What is "quantify your arguments"? Are you suggesting mathematics? What is "existential contingency"? And how is my...
The sentence means what it means, without being interpreted? I give up. The sentence only makes sense to a person interpreting it. Without a person in...
Fafner, we've been through this already, it took us days to get agreement. Have you lost your memory? Are we back to square one? I addressed your exam...
OK, let's go with this then. Can you explain what makes P true, other than S knows that P is true? In other words S knows that P is the condition for ...
I started with a question as a preamble, then proceeded with a reply to your question. We can validly assume the existence of something without being ...
It only "refers to something that truth isn't", because of misconception. If we look at the particular instances of being true, and form a generalizat...
If this is the case, then could you explain to me how you categorize both knowledge and truth, to maintain this separation which you are inclined to a...
This is very problematic. When meaning is "first attributed" it is rarely if ever, most likely never, a case of correspondence (truth). You hear a sou...
The way I see it is that the necessity to assume the existence of a soul is understood by logic. All these different things which are said about the s...
This is the point I tried to clarify with Banno. You cannot think of the soul as a part of yourself. Souls have bodies, and bodies have parts. So the ...
I wouldn't say that truth collapses into true, because there is a distinction to be made, between the particular instance, something which is true, an...
If God's free will choice is describable as a chance occurrence, then aren't all free will choices chance occurrences? Doesn't that misrepresent what ...
I believe it is as I said to creativesoul, truth is the universal, the concept of what it means to be true. So for example, we have individual green t...
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