Three examples of "true" contradictions come to mind i) Self-negating universal imperatives, i.e. hypocritical statements such as "Don't live by rules...
One should not forget that even logical laws are doubtable whenever they are interpreted extensionally as referring to a collection of real-world obje...
Modern creative algorithms are accessible to anyone, and have many tuneable parameters that the artist himself can control in accordance with his arti...
Art has moved in tandem with the accelerating technological trajectory that began with the invention of electronics in the Victorian era. Without semi...
Artistic inspiration invariably refers to an external source of information and stimulation for the artist from where they get their ideas. A poetry g...
Yes, in my view the logic of presentism, or at least what I call presentism, leads to a reduction of the so-called "A series" into a perspectival inte...
I notice that Wiki has also mentioned a similar criticism of the "spotlight/growing block" theory from the perspective of indexical tenses. In fact it...
According to the indexical theory, to say "tomorrow will become yesterday" is to merely to express an intention to redefine the meaning of "yesterday"...
All that is being denied is a notion of "temporal passage" that is distinct from the passage, of say, of a speeding train relative to the readings on ...
For similar reasons I disagree that a denial of passage of time involves the denial of past and future, since "past" and "future" can similarly be int...
I disagree that presentism entails the reality of passage, because presentism might interpret the word "now" as being an indexical that cannot refer t...
To many enthusiasts, panpsychism isn't so much an explanatory theory of consciousness, but an Occam's Razor style argument that non-living systems sho...
When it comes to general epistemological questions of the form 'Can science study X'? the answer depends on the extent to which X is considered to con...
In other words, the "self" is a useful idea with practical utility. But does that warrant the promotion of the "self" to the status of ontological pri...
I'm specifically referring to the trustworthiness and reliability of the verbal reports of experimental subjects in psychological experiments where th...
I don't even trust personal testimonies when it comes to deciding the veracity of the humdrum theories of behavioural psychology, let alone for decidi...
Certainly the semantic contradiction arises when the meaning of the liar sentence is analysed statically, but there is nothing that necessitates this ...
Of course, liar paradoxes are only contradictions if their truth is considered to be atemporal; otherwise these contradiction are avoidable using a te...
I agree that contradictions are properties of sentences rather than of matters-of-fact, for I cannot understand what could be meant by contradictory m...
I wasn't specifically thinking of logical atomism, i was referring to his consciously self-refuting Tractatus, as well the latter Wittgenstein's philo...
PNC is either rejected or violated in the works of many philosophers, e.g. Heraclitus, Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein... There isn't much evidence to suppo...
If we are constantly changing our opinions as to the facts of the past on the basis of new information, then why should we believe that the past is re...
The deeper problem concerns the fact that in Cartesian co-ordinates the notion of vertical and horizontal Euclidean lengths is incommensurate with the...
As 180proof mentioned, If atheism is identified with the absence of belief, then it avoids the 'truth-by-correspondence' problem concerning beliefs th...
Well obviously the reason why people enjoy playing Chess is because its outcomes are uncertain due to players bounded rationality and tendencies to ma...
Irrespective of dualism, it isn't clear in any case what is meant by physical interaction, due to conflicting opinions as to the metaphysics and exist...
All working physicists informally appeal to "directness" whenever they make an inference, even though Physics possess no theory of directness. For oth...
Everything is 'true' is a position I independently arrived at, without knowing that this epistemological position already existed under the banner of ...
The collective use of language constitutes an inconsistent convention, for everybody uses the first-person pronoun to refer to a different subject. Th...
'Phenomenal red' is an estimator of 'optical red' in common situations. No necessary relationship between phenomenal colour and optical qualities can ...
First start with the notion of material-implication: Classically, A=>B means that if A is true then B is true,and is equivalent to NOT A is True OR B ...
I would say that the laws of Mathematics and Logic are normative principles pertaining to conduct regulation so as to make the world easier to describ...
In your view, what is a belief, and how should the object of a person's belief be ascertained? Should the object of a person's belief be identified wi...
Well obviously from a pure mathematics perspective, every proof in ZFC is considered construction, in contrast to Computer Science that has traditiona...
emmm......... Nope :) for the reason you've just mentioned. For where is the algorithm of construction? Of course , the trivial principle ultrafilter ...
Now obviously, any countable list of Provably Cauchy-Convergent Total Functions is unfinished, in the sense that a further PCCTF can be built that is ...
?? Perhaps I should have been clearer from the beginning, but i took everyone's understanding for granted that a computable number refers (in some way...
The computable total functions are sub-countable. An enumeration of all and only the constructively convergent cauchy sequences isn't possible as this...
Too few...or too many? The subset of computable total functions that correspond to the provably convergent Cauchy sequences form a countable and compl...
Zeno's paradox is best solved by observing how you would practically explain the paradox. To practically demonstrate the paradox requires one to repea...
Well in my constructive understanding: The 'Second-order' reals (as described via second-order logic) are also 'unique' from a constructionist perspec...
What about art semi-automatically generated by a neural network that in effect produces novel images with high artistic potential by interpolating the...
In computer programs infinity is used as a free-variable that might later become bound to a random finite number. So it is a logical concept rather th...
Dark Energy hypotheses in physics are currently the most fashionable example as to why falsification isn't used in practice. Rather than considering t...
It's a complex, ill-posed and frankly outdated assertion. Firstly, an observation O can only materially entail the contradiction of a hypothesis H in ...
Yet saying that there is no way to enumerate the total computable functions is somewhat ambiguous, for as previously mentioned we can use brute force ...
We know that Cantor's Theorem concerning the cardinality of the power-set of integers isn't a constructive proof, for we cannot enumerate and diagonal...
A proof as to why the real numbers are absolutely countable, in spite of all pretences to the contrary: 1. Enumerate the undecidable set of total func...
Firstly there is the problem of confabulation, especially when subjects are pressed for more detail; are people accurately reporting their earlier exp...
An important question is the relationship of the Axiom of Choice (AC) to the Law of Excluded Middle (LEM), for Classical Logic is normally distinguish...
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