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So when you use a word like "convention" where I disagree that the claim hinges on "convention" in any <conventional> sense of that word, what is your...

Okay, and I'll correct you and we'll go through all of this again next time you mention it and I've got the time. That will be fun. ;-)

Nominalism is contrasted with realism if we're scholastics talking about universals. Since the context isn't that, and we're hundreds of years on, you...

"Lots of people" make it a convention. Just someone, and not lots of people, make it not a convention.

I said I'll answer once we finish with the earlier dispute. Can we finish that?

No interest in meta discussion. And no interest in you avoiding what I just asked you.

Okay, I'll answer once we finish with this. If one claim is ABOUT a proposition (which has something to do with language) and the other claim is ABOUT...

Do you believe that what the claim is about is language? I had said: "The other claim is ABOUT the ontological status of particular objects."

You didn't answer mine to my satisfaction.

Sure, the claim, as a claim, has something to do with language. You don't believe that what the claim is about is language, though, do you? That's a r...

What?? You're seriously saying that how it is that propositions correspond with facts is identical to the ontological status of objects like the moon?...

Sure, an example is Matthew McGrath's Between Deflationism and Correspondence Theory, although note that he uses "angle brackets"--< and > rather than...

What the heck do you think that correspondence is then? That is correspondence. A proposition is true just in case it corresponds to the fact it putat...

You'd have to explain this and the other post in detail for me to have a clue what you're talking about (although keep in mind that I'm of the opinion...

Truthmakers are usually said to be the "entity" in virtue of which a truthbearer (a proposition) is true. "Entity" is a misleading term in my opinion....

Correct. Correct. Then you're not examining the claims very closely. One claim is about how it is that (or in other words how it works that) propositi...

I doubt that the definition of "convention" that you're using is "arbitrary." I don't know what definition you're using exactly, though. I'm using sta...

To a realist on possibilities, they are real, sure. Again, I was trying to avoid disputes about "just how possibilities <<obtain-or-whatever-word-one-...

I certainly understand that view, I understand that it's the popular view, and I understand that it's your view. However, it's not my view. Objective ...

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Obviously so, in my opinion, since essences only obtain by there being sentient beings who mentally form type abstractions. I wouldn't say that has an...

Not all self-reference invokes an infinite regress. That's only the case when either the self-reference (and each self-reference) must exactly mirrror...

I very much like art for art's sake. I tend to be a bit of a formalist, although with fiction (including films) and the visual arts, I tend to still p...

Re Jacque Fresco, I basically agree with that. It's very similar to one of my favorite quotes (which I already shared on the quote thread): "The only ...

Oh, well, there's a relationship between how the world is ways of talking, sure. That's what I'm referring to when I say that it's a way of talking ab...

. . . An approach that wouldn't work because it would be very easy to demonstrate that the institution doesn't do all manner of things that its studen...

Haha, it's disturbing to imagine what you'd be willing to do in the presence of Deutsch. Anyway, the first big problem with the paper you linked to is...

But everything is dynamic. So the gaze is actually (dynamically) focused on something that's changing.

I much prefer the first to the second, but beyond that relative preference, I wouldn't say that I like the first quote very much either. If we'll neve...

Whether or not that's the case, whatever has experiences isn't a p-zombie. So that one was easy to figure out!

It's not a relationship of something to something else. It's just a way of talking about the fact that something (some object, event, etc.) isn't prec...

I didn't say that it was. I said a proposition corresponding to facts. In other words, the action or status of corresponding to facts is a judgment. O...

I explained this already: Possibility in general is (p) just a way of talking about the fact that something (some object, event, etc.) isn't precluded...

It only obtains when it's actualized. (All actuals are possible.) Otherwise, it's just a way of talking about the fact that something (some object, ev...

Subjective = mental phenomena Objective = external to mental phenomena A proposition corresponding to facts is a judgment about the proposition's rela...

Again, I wouldn't say that possibilities are real, although depending on alternate ways of defining "real," I might agree with that. However, it would...

Not if all it says is "expected to behave as a representative of the institution "

Okay, but I think that would be easily challenged in court, say, since it's very ambiguous.

That would have more impact if it were (potentially successfully) predictive rather than in error about history.

I'm just asking you how you believe it should be worded so that it's implied, at least. How would you express that in a code of conduct or whatever? Y...

I don't think that the idea of "fictional possibilities" really makes any sense. Something is either a possibility or it isn't. I can buy a distinctio...

So "it's a matter of common sense" would be how it would be expressed in the school's policy?

Well, first I don't agree that propositions are objective. I believe that meaning, as well as truth, is subjective. So truth is a (subjective) propert...

Yes, although there's some ambiguity there given that "real" has historically been used with so many different connotations. And yeah, I'd basically a...

What you didn't answer was this: "How would the standard of conduct be expressed so that rating women would be against it?"

I wouldn't say that I see possibilities as "pure fictions." But I simply see them as something not precluded from occurring given a world that's not s...

I personally use correspondence theory, but you seem to be educated enough about philosophy that you should be aware of several other popular truth th...

A sentence doesn't do anything except sit there as ink marks on a page or whatever outside of people thinking about it.

It certainly is in my view, yes. Re why you should believe it, why you should believe anything is up to you--it depends on what you take to be good re...