The subjective interpretation of probabilities as representing ignorance which you appear to be assuming, is a logical fallacy in my understanding. La...
It makes sense to say " I am not my body ", even if it doesn't make sense to say "He is not his body". Only by conflating the subjects of these senten...
A precise answer to that question can be found here. Fodor et al. as described here For Wittgenstein, even the concept of a machine implementing an al...
It might be considered cheating to a phenomenologist, but a useful short-cut to clarifying Wittgenstein's ideas is to read Quine's Word and Object, Th...
When under a local anaesthetic for dental treatment, it is certainly possible to feel ambiguity or uncertainty as to whether or not one is in pain. An...
Both intelligence and stupidity refer to behaviour that is interpreted to be goal-driven. In the case of intelligence, the goal state is considered to...
The question is really about the realism of counterfactuals as well as the question of backward causation, and the reality of the temporal order. For ...
Yes, that might be true from your perspective when it comes to you appraising the mental state of other people. But can you speak meaningfully and aut...
Rationalists have a tendency to overlook and equivocate the vastly different empirical criteria used for defining unconsciousness of the first-person,...
This article provides relevant context regarding the history and evolution of Wittgenstein's later thought. The SEP's article on private language is a...
In my opinion, yes, on my understanding that it is linguistic convention which ultimately decides whether a sentence is true or false (for on any phys...
Recall that the later Wittgenstein was negatively reappraising the phenomenalist doctrine of logical atomism that he, Russell and Mach previously assu...
The actual referents of a belief are it's immediate physical causes; so whenever a speaker asserts a so-called "false" belief, any alleged epistemic e...
How does a person experience dementia? presumably he finds himself learning about things that he has good reason to believe he has previously forgotte...
There are people in Paris observing the Eiffel tower, who are not observing the computer monitor you are observing; in other words, your computer moni...
Category theory is a useful meta-language for understanding precisely where the mathematical foundation proposed in the early 20th century goes wrong,...
I'm talking about stream objects in computer science, or equivalently the isomorphism S <----> 1 x S in the Set category, where S is a stream object, ...
So are you agreeing that mathematical infinity has neither philosophical nor scientific relevance and that everyone knows this, or am i right to stand...
And it should do, for classical set theory and real analysis are misleading and unrepresentative nonsense, unless cut down to the computationally mean...
Why not just deny the possibility of eternal oblivion by denying the existence of a continuous self, even within a single lifetime? That way you circu...
In my understanding, he was pointing out that our inferences can neither be understood nor be given justification on a definitional basis on pain of i...
Precisely. the proposition ~R --> A isn't in contradiction with the proposition ~R -->C because both denote possibilities, as opposed to probabilities...
Modus Ponens is a logical rule for the composition of possibilities but not probabilities, since all logical statements are relative to the truth of p...
Consider the fact that A. Oceans aren't defined in terms of unions of droplets. This means that atomically constructive definitions of oceans in terms...
I interpret you as asking: to what extent do acts of violence and destruction satisfy the motives of the terrorist? This raises the question as to how...
In logic, either an arrow A -> B exists, or it does not. And so for logic there exists only possibility or non-possibility. On the other hand, probabi...
Probability theory, which is currently the most fashionable calculus for representing and reasoning about beliefs and uncertainty, is only defined up ...
MP can be defined generally and abstractly as the composition of arrows in a category. In problems such as the above, the arrows denote conditional pr...
If the principle of non-contradiction is regarded as being be logically necessary, then it cannot say anything apart from asserting a grammatical prom...
In the case of statistics or beliefs which involve probabilities,the standard non-probabilistic version of Modus Ponens is generally inapplicable,sinc...
The axiom of inifinity is non-controversial, as it merely amounts to the inductive convention of calling a finite tree a "tree", a finite list a "list...
Observe that the meaning of choice principles are different in constructive logic than in classical logic, and recall that the controversies over LEM ...
Sorry for the confusion. Yes that is true for ZF, since it is built upon classical logic. In set theory, controversial instances of the excluded middl...
The connection is the fact that the axiom of choice is equivalent to the law of excluded middle, which for infinite objects dissociates truth from der...
Yes, I'm already aware of all of that, and was only speaking approximately on set theory. My point was only attacking the idea that quantity is reduci...
Demanding that the notion of quantity is synonymous with the notion of order is misguided, for a set is normally specified as a collection of things w...
Are the tenses of past, present and future reflective of distinct physical relations or substances, as the block universe advocates suggest? According...
Yes, but the same could be said of a diary. The fundamental question is, does the existence of historical information necessitate an ontological disti...
Another way of putting it is in terms of Lockean primary versus secondary qualities; Traditionally, the discipline of Physics charts only the primary ...
Physicalism is the idea that the meaning of language is grounded in third person testimony and the results of unperformed experiments, i.e. counterfac...
In contrast to Darwinian life, transhuman life will seem self-evidently wonderful by its very nature. "6.4311 Death is not an event in life: we do not...
But nobody agrees, or even can agree in principle, as to what life "means", since everyone's use of a proper name contradicts with each other. Society...
That's true but it somewhat misses the point, given the flexibility of one's choice of grammar. Chemists has no problem with the statement "Gold was d...
None. The question is metaphysical and therefore doesn't really concern evidence, for any answer to the scientific question "is there an after-life" w...
Right. As you point out, a notion of causality cannot play a role with respect to any data-set that is regarded as complete and self-contained. This c...
By asymmetric causality, I am referring to either the belief or definition of causality such that causes come before their effects. This is a physical...
The idea of an actually infinite past in the extensional sense of actual infinity is incompatible with the beloved premise of asymmetric causality run...
According to Oxfam in 2020, the world’s 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than 4.6 billion people, i.e. 60 percent of the world's population. Accord...
As a global redistribution of capital from the haves to the have-nots, UBI is also a form of collective bargaining that reduces the incentive for peop...
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