Relativist

What you label "reality" is what I would label a "world view". We each have a unique world view - different understandings of physics, including gaps ...

Any philosophical theory of mind needs to be consistent with what we know about biology, and in particular - with the function of sense organs and the...

I admire, and envy, your optimism. IMO, the liklihood of Trump being impeached, and removed, is maybe 5%. But...I looked at the KASHI betting site, wh...

Trump's action, giving him control of this money, is unConstitutional. The Constitution gives Congress the sole right to allocate funds. In a fair wor...

It does look very much like the agent put himself in a position that would provide an excuse to kill her, if she moved. Of course, we can't read his m...

I believe Amadeus is an Australian lawyer. I'd be very happy to see a legal analysis (based on US law) that supports his position - and that's because...

You brought no video to my attention, but I brought one to yours. Did you watch it? It doesn't seem so. It's very obvious in the video I linked to. Yo...

Odd that you don't trust MSM, but you repeat a Trumpist version of the events, one that ignores established law and policy- and that is inconsistent w...

What most concerns me is the fact that a large segment of the US population thinks it was perfectly fine to execute her because she violated the law. ...

The definition of "number" (in bold, in the quoted statement), is relevant. The number of natural numbers is not a natural number. A natural number is...

Are you guys aware of the behavior of agents engaged in identifying immigrants who are here illegally? There are numerous instance of due process viol...

It's a lot more that $1Billion. ICE was allocated $74.85Billion for 4 years; Border Security was allocated $64.73 Billion ($46.55 billion for the bord...

Yes, if one of those logical possibilities is true, then it is physically possible. However, if we're going to judge what is physically possible - we ...

Start with this nested view of logical, metaphysical, and physical modality: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modality-epistemology/figure.svg The b...

This only esrablishes conceptual possibility, not metaphysical possibility.

Is there anything that exists contingently? I challenge the assumption that we should assume contingency unless proven necessary. I believe there are ...

I suspect the promise of an afterlife may have been the most appealing factor. The pitch: "Jesus rose from the dead, and so will you- if you just beli...

I found the paper and read it. Here's a relevant quote: "This preliminary argument is considered by some phenomenologists (Henry, 2001) as sufficient ...

This is why I choose to embrace a particular metaphysical theory: it gives me epistemic grounding for interpreting and evaluating such claims.

Conceptually. Semantics do not imbue existence.

Combinatorialism entails modal truths in the world (Lewis denied this): the actual configuration of simples is a contingent fact. Earlier, you seemed ...

I agree, although I think that concretism could be salavaged by appending a commitment to the existence of the actual world.

The problem with this is that: There is no X on the table, for every conceivable X. I suggest that it's simpler to semantically equate, “there is no a...

Are you referring to concretism?("for the concretist, there is no special property of the actual world — actuality — that distinguishes it, in any abs...

It is the reality that we perceive with our senses. You could say that we are stipulating this reality exists (=solipsism is false), but I suggest tha...

That's coherent, but it doesn't say much. Suppose the properties that comprise an individual essence is comprised of this maximal set: 100% of the ind...

No.

A haeecity is an essence, or at least an essential property (a component of an essence). I'm probably wrong about Plantinga being a kind-essentialist,...

I don't think Plantinga would say that. He's an essentialist, so he believes that apples are an essential kind, and an individual apple has a unique e...

Any truth theory could be considered stipulation, although one is free to examine various theories and choose the best, or least offensive. It seems u...

It's not significantly different because Truthmaker theory is a correspondence theory. There are other correspondence theories, and the differences ar...

To put it simply, correspondence theory defines Truth as a correspondence to an element of reality. Truthmaker just adds to this by naming that partic...

I'll give 3 examples: Here's a quote from the SEP article on The Correspondence Theory of Truth: "The correspondence theory of truth is often associat...

I can't imagine why you say truthmaker theory of truth is not a theory of truth. It's classified as such in the literature.

This confirms that you did feel the only correct topic of discussion was the correct interpretation of the article. I considered my points worth menti...

You're right. I'll stick with the specific theory I embrace: truthmaker theory. Truthmaker theory is a correspondence theory, but it includes some def...

Here's what Burgess and Burgess have to say: “What do the different views called ‘deflationist' all have in common, to make them all deflationist?” it...

No, I identified the core problem in my prior post, but you didn't read my entire post: I'll add that you never stipulated that you were limiting the ...

Frodo existing in (or interacting with) the real world, because he's fictional. Here's my statement that began this line of discussion: "The book esta...

Modal statements can be made about the past present and future. Possibility entails contingency. We typically regard future facts as contingent - ther...

So....treating it as a possible world, even though it's not possible. Doing what you suggest is inconsistent with correspondence theory of truth - the...

Yes, but the same could be said for any so-called "possible" world one entertains with the semantics. If I had my way, we'd distinguish between fictio...

The book establishes a fiction. We could examine this fictional world for coherence, and draw valid inferences if (and only if) it is, but the inferen...

Thanks for the clarification, but it provides a good reason for many of us to reject it - since it depends on coherence theory of truth. Obvious objec...

I think I understand where you're coming from, but my attempts to get people to understand where I'm coming from haven't gotten traction. I'll start a...

I think you're alluding to modal logic as a formal system. One can utilize the formal system to go through the mechanics of the logic, without committ...

What would make such a world POSSIBLE? IOW, how do you account for its existence? Another way to ask this: what is it that establishes the truth of th...

If there is no causal connection sometime in history, in what sense are they possible?

Contradictory propositions cannot both be true 'at the same time and in the same sense. I was responding to your statement that the propositions neede...

The conservative publication, The National Review, wrote this about the President: "The president of the United States is a hateful raging lunatic wit...