As an aside, the IEP says " here it is important to remember that, in addition to cause and effect, the mind naturally associates ideas via resemblanc...
To my way of thinking, subjective idealism isn't a hypothesis about nature but merely a grammatical reminder that we employ empirical criteria in our ...
To what extent do the objectives of neuroscience overlap with the objectives of transcendental phenomenology? In my opinion, if we are talking about a...
Well any demonstration of axiomatic incompleteness is a purely syntactical demonstration, in spite of any semantic or meta-logical pretenses to the co...
The Wittgensteinian intuition regarding the identity sign, roughly put, and defended here by MU, is that it is the meta-logical expression of synonymy...
Sorry, that was actually a typo. Nevertheless this exchange perhaps serves as a useful reminder that any number represents a legitimate theorem relati...
If "the present" refers to the specific context in which it is used,i.e. it is an indexical, referring to different things on each and every occasion ...
Peano's axiom of induction isn't an axiom of logic, and plays no part in standard proofs of Godel's incompleteness theorem. It can however be shown to...
Certainly there are similarities between the 'seven deadly sins' and symptoms of mental illness. Was the early christian concept of 'sin' more pragmat...
I don't follow. All that exists are verbal reports and their proximal neurological correlates that are roughly clustered, as is expected by the shared...
There is much to be said regarding interactionist conceptions of personal-identity that are holistic and non-reducible to particular events or entitie...
Whatever a person's beliefs are regarding subjective continuity, I cannot see how those beliefs can be challenged or supported by evidence. For any be...
In certain contexts, we might treat the expressions 5+7 and 12 identically, as for example when discussing what our shared formal convention says conc...
It is precisely because Peano arithmetic might be ?-inconsistent that Godel's constructed sentence should not be informally interpreted as saying "n i...
"If I take this anesthetic, then I will lose consciousness." When said by a third party, this is an empirically verifiable and empirically contingent ...
Certainly, if S is such that S implies ~S, then an axiomatic derivation of S entails inconsistency. And Godel exhibited an arithmetical proposition of...
The senses in which 1+1=2 is said to be an analytic sentence or tautology, are not the same as the senses in which 1+1=2 is said to be an empirically ...
What are permissible criteria for either defining or testing a mistake in the reasoning process? Logically speaking, mustn't such criteria be consider...
It seems to me that no matter how bad or stupid a politician or idea is, the BBC can be trusted to normalize and promote it in the name of journalisti...
sure, - of course my point is to say that it is impossible to given an exhaustive account of all the potentially relevant information that necessitate...
From my perspective, by linguistic convention I should at least say that "you have a choice as to what you eat" with respect to the imprecise situatio...
Ordinarily, freedom refers to an availability of alternative courses of action, in relation to a partial specification of the influences bearing upon ...
So basically you are questioning the meaning , ontological status and normative value of counterfactual propositions? Stated this way, we can hopefull...
Formally speaking, actual infinity merely refers to the axiom-of-infinity. But this isn't a good answer, because this does not account for the controv...
Wittgenstein is rather attacking the heuristic semantic notion of "self reference" in relation to the iterative evaluation of a sequence of expression...
From SEP " McTaggart distinguished two ways of ordering events or positions in time. First, they might be ordered by the relation of earlier than. Thi...
I'm not particularly knowledgeable about Ayer's particular ontological views regarding the relationship between memory, phenomena and time, and I am c...
the philosophically enlightening thing about the craft of software engineering is it's cut-throat pragmatism that makes explicit what mathematics and ...
It is certainly true, that from a pure meaning-as-use perspective the distinction between the past and the future is much harder to distinguish than i...
In my view, a metaphysical assertion is meta-cognitive speech-act whose intention is to influence perception, behavior and values, via a wholesale cha...
In my opinion, neither type-theory nor category theory are satisfactory in addressing the ambiguity of standard logic regarding infinitary notions. Ta...
In my opinion, Metaphysics refers to the conventions of language-games that seem to lack a definite or well-understood collective purpose, or when use...
In my view, I think we first have to distinguish two possible interpretations of the assertion 'induction is habit', namely an empirical interpretatio...
Sorry, that's confusing and misleading, by theoremhood i was referring to truth in the respective model of the axioms. What i mean is that mathematica...
So then question is, in what sense does the principle of induction speak of universal quantification over all of the natural numbers? Take any predica...
The main teething problem of data-science is the current absence of integrated causal modeling (let alone stakeholder legible causal modelling) which ...
First of all, does our imprecise use of real numbers warrant a precise account? What does it even mean to say that a real number denotes a precise qua...
Arguments for or against anti-natalism depend upon one's ontological beliefs, particularly with respect to personal identity, personal continuity and ...
the morally correct model of real numbers is the model most resembling our use of real numbers, i.e. the model that treats the real numbers as being s...
In my lucid dreaming experiences, a dream character tends to lose their autonomy as soon as I demand them to act autonomously. For example, if I ask t...
For a phenomenologically minded empiricist, the very meaning of a scientific hypothesis is the sense in which experience is said to corroborate or ref...
I think in that in an ideal mathematical language, Chaitin's Omega wouldn't be stateable. To say 'Omega is definable but non-computable' is surely not...
It isn't empirically clear when two things are identical or different, even when comparing two 'identical' photographs. Therefore, to my mind A=A shou...
While there are undoubtedly neurological correlates of depression, i think that in many cases they are likely to be the product of the brain's normall...
I'm saying 'will-power' should be considered as referring to the expression of motivation, but not the cause of motivation. For behaviour is goal-driv...
l was actually arguing for your position. I'm saying that truth is personal, as evidenced by the fact a super-flexible linguistic convention could be ...
This problem, of course, is due to the conflation of truth and meaning. The 'official' semantics of our shared language is too coarse and inflexible t...
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