As Wittgenstein said in On Certainty "I know" seems to describe a state of affairs which guarantees what is known, guarantees it as a fact. One always...
Interesting observation. - In Fitch's case, the epistemic operator K is usually assumed to be factive and used in the future-tense in standing for "Ev...
lol. Definitional equality isn't a reflexive relation as definiendum isn't definiens. Otherwise not only is Berkeley refuted, but so is the entire Oxf...
At the heart of the problem is the logic underlying the evidence/fact distinction. In saying for instance, that the redness of a strawberry isn't sema...
That very much echos Wittgenstein's commentary in The Blue Book that briefly touched upon the logic and sense-making of neuroscience. Wittgenstein's e...
In line with Richard Dreyfus's criticisms of computer science in the seventies that predicted the failure of symbolic AI, AI research continues to be ...
The issue is trivial; if you feel that another entity is sentient, then that entity is sentient, and if you feel that another entity isn't sentient, t...
Berkeley's 'esse is percipi' principle wasn't meant in the sense of a speculative truth-apt empirical proposition, but as a grammatical norm for elimi...
You will have to elaborate as to why you consider functions to be observer dependent, but not the existence of other minds. After all, we recognise th...
Not necessarily. It is perfectly consistent to adopt an anti-realist stance regarding the existence of other minds, where the existence of other minds...
In threads such as this, it is helpful to begin by investigating the 'opposite' notion of unconsciousness, which at first glance appears to be a simpl...
The myth of state secularism is but a special case of the is/ought fallacy, for there isn't an objective basis for ethics, including the ethical matte...
To my faint recollection, Hume never denied the ability to associate observations, and neither did he deny the imperative mood. By my understanding, h...
If you only accept the existence of potential infinity then you believe that every process, whether real or mathematical, eventually terminates after ...
Yes, according to the classical understanding of randomness, or rather we should say unlawfulness - in mathematical logic "randomness" tends to refer ...
To put in another way, I am basically arguing that determinism and non-determinism aren't descriptive of phenomena and therefore shouldn't be consider...
If the universe is assumed to be causally closed and contain a finitely bounded amount of information, then both determinancy and indeterminacy can be...
The modern conception of logic (as represented by categorical quantum linear logic) is interactive and game theoretic (e.g quantum, linear), where the...
I suggest reading about Linear Logic, that greatly clarifies and narrows the distinction between logical, causal and modal necessity, even if causalit...
In my opinion, Metaphysical Solipsism : True by definition. Methodological Solipsism : Unavoidable. Psychological Solipsism : Dangerous and unhealthy,...
My problem with the term "mindfulness" , is that the term might be interpreted as selectively paying attention to, and thereby inadvertently feeding, ...
If a student asked you to explain "what is a non-terminating process?" what would your reply be, and how would you avoid running into circularity? I c...
Anselm's ontological argument is essentially an inductive definition of god, analogous to the inductive definition of the natural numbers in type theo...
To me that sounds like undirected introspection and a potential recipe for worsening mental illness. Isn't 'mindlessness' a more accurate term for wha...
As argued in other threads, logical necessity isn't the same thing as empirical necessity or epistemic certainty. Modal logic is in general a fallacy ...
Absolute infinity refers to a semantic interpretation of a mathematical, logical, or linguistically described entity, relative to which the existence ...
Overall, good observation. To my knowledge, it isn't possible to point to a complete formalisation of potentially infinite logic, because it doesn't y...
It is the reciprocal of a potentially infinite number, e.g. a random value taken from the codomain of the rational valued function 1/x. 'non-standard ...
You mean without absolutely infinite sets, presumably. The overall approach would be to stress that the mathematical notion of a derivative approximat...
Yes. I mean that different implementations of the constant of pi will yield different values. Orthodox convention says that those values are 'truncati...
According to my copy of On Certainty, Wittgenstein only used the word "hinge" in 3 places, two of which concern the same remark, and none of which ref...
It is exact in the a priori intensional sense of being defined as an equation or algorithm with instantly recognizable form. It is inexact in the a po...
If i were you, I would skip trying to decipher Wittgenstein's informal, vague and incomplete prose which constitutes the beginning of post-analytic ph...
A groom, hand on heart, vows sincerely to the bride " I will always remain faithful". Later that afternoon, he runs off with the bridesmaid. Did he re...
In which case, you surely agree that absolute infinity isn't a semantically meaningful assignment to a mathematical entity, for any semantic interpret...
Unless infinity is formally identified with a finite piece of syntax, whereupon becoming a circularly defined and empirically meaningless tautology, i...
In the parlance of computer science, criteria constituting what it means to obey a given rule falls under Denotational Semantics and in the case of a ...
If that were true, then why are so many rich people, including pensioners who no longer have to work, highly productive? Apathy is the product of alie...
Unless the action is related to context, a truth value isn't assignable. Certainly in the context of predictive modelling, a truth value is assignable...
Idealism isn't an explanation and shouldn't be associated with superstitious beliefs in the supernatural. Rather, Idealism is a subjective interpretat...
We need to distingush two forms of ambiguity Intensional Ambiguity of Extensions: A given extension, e.g. a sequence , corresponds to an infinite numb...
This is why i don't believe that self-avowed materialists are materialists. Their identity isn't the same as their orientation. Materialists cannot re...
To understand the paradox using your example, you have to distinguish the intensional definition of a function, such as one reproducing the natural nu...
yes, in the case of a potentially infinite sequence of numbers, it is meaningless to consider any particular function, let alone algorithm, as being d...
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