I would say that it depends on perspective, and more generally how the given term is used. It is certainly the case that one often uses language tauto...
So in your opinion, 'dark brown' and 'strong' are observer independent properties of coffee that everyone can point at? Recall that the taste and colo...
Here's a type-theory inspired suggestion for explaining or dissolving ineffability: Identify the meaning of a word with it's effects in relation to a ...
Relativity indeed lacks the concept of objectivity in being a family of conditional propositions of the form x --> p(x), where x is a given frame of r...
This line of discussion leads towards the topic of irrealism; for we can at least claim A. Each individual has a different conception of reality, that...
The pre-theoretical notion of reality , e.g Johnson's pain when kicking a rock, should be distinguished from the ideology of realism that often accomp...
Universal definitions that apply to an infinite number of cases are not extensionally exhaustive descriptions of anything, in spite of appearances to ...
The extensional meaning of a set are the items it refers to, in contrast to the definition of the set in terms of a formula, that is to say it's inten...
You do recognise that Dedekind-infinite sets aren't extensionally meaningful, right? So if one writes down an inductive definition of the natural numb...
That's right. But we have to distinguish between the extensional concept of a number of hotel rooms that can be built, visited, observed, realized etc...
A perpetually growing hotel that always has a finite number of rooms is still an infinite set, because there isn't a bijection between any finite set ...
The T schema doesn't dictate 1) The type of truth object (sentences vs propositions) 2) The nature of the equivalence relation (analytic necessity vs ...
Extensionally, Hilbert's Hotel refers to the trivial possibility of indefinitely expanding a finite hotel in such a fashion that guests are reassigned...
Material implication in classical and intuitionistic logic is a static relationship that holds between sets , as in "Smoking events might cause Cancer...
I'm basically warning against logicism, the ideology that there is a single correct logical definition of a mathematical object. Thinking in this way ...
A limitation of that conceptualisation, is that it asserts what might be considered an unnecessarily rigid ontological distinction between functions (...
I used to lucid dream every night as a teenager (whatever that means, see my remark above), but I came to the conclusion that lucid dreaming as a deli...
In debates between semantic internalists vs externalists it isn't clear that matters of fact are being debated. Both sides of the debate seem only to ...
People tend to forget that ordinary usage of the concept of 'nothingness' refers not to an absence of information, but to irrelevancy of considered in...
In practice, "Artificial intelligence" is merely state-of-the-art software engineering in service of human beings done in accordance with the ideals o...
I don't think it helps to introduce "meh" as a truth value for undecided arithmetical propositions, because that would distort the existent meaning of...
My first impression of your original post, is that you are implying ignorance as to whether you occupy your actual world versus a possible world occup...
My impression of Indian culture before it underwent westernisation, is that it's belief in reincarnation encouraged slower and more sustainable lifest...
If karma has to be taken seriously, then it is to sensible to identify Karma with causality and then recall the practical impossibility of knowing cau...
For example, situational factors that provoke someone to seek gender reassignment surgery, whom having undergone the operation decide they want to rev...
Isn't a person's self identity largely thrust upon them by society? e.g, couldn't a boy perceive himself to be a girl as a result of bullying that cau...
A generally problematic consequence of making a hard distinction between conscious observation and measurement, is that it throws the empirical signif...
I'm saying that empiricism and rationalism are sufficiently broad churches so as to accommodate anything that might be called 'mystical'. There is no ...
In epistemology there isn't room for another source of knowledge besides empirical observation and rational thought, for those concepts are considered...
In Euclidean geometry, there is no such thing as a length magnitude of -2. Negation only indicates the direction of the magnitude in relation to a coo...
That ignores the fact that 1) People tend to say "I understand" when they mean "I recognize that" - not to mention the fact that people regularly chan...
Another consideration that supports understanding numerical negation as logical negation, is the consideration of how integers can be constructed from...
Definitions are at the service of moral and hedonistic imperatives. My father insists that Darts isn't a sport. If I ask him why, he argues that when ...
In game semantics, the flipping refers to changing the perspective from which the game is viewed. Say, in the game of chess, where a theorem denoted W...
The shift to integers is a consequence of the fact that natural numbers are used to denote both the production of resources and the consumption of res...
If somebody insists to me that I can only talk about my memories of my childhood, as opposed to my actual childhood, am I in a position to agree with ...
Does Dennett interpret the the objects of perception to be theoretical entities , such as those defined according to science and ontological naturalis...
From a behavioural perspective, the notion of an agent committing 'perceptual errors' only serves to account for it's stimulus-responses that are unex...
Yes. To articulate where I believe your position to be heading towards; reincarnation can be supplied a workable definition, e.g if someone's brain ac...
I can certainly apply your extensional definition of a person to the people I meet. In which case, if I notice their body to be deconstructed I can sa...
I'm referring to the problematic concept of personal identity over time. For the presentist, a tensed A series, such as doesn't move, (or rather, is u...
In my view, the question "is there life after death or not?" is meaningless, due to the fact that I cannot conceive of a "next" experience, nor of a "...
What the realist calls "mind independent" is what the phenomenalist might call "empirically undetermined a priori". It is empirically under-determined...
Suppose that you begin to question whether you are awake or dreaming and conclude that you are awake. Then suppose that a while later you experience '...
The difficulty of getting a PhD in any subject is inversely proportional to the corruption of the respective university department and the charlatanis...
Berkeley already answered the indirect realist critique of phenomenalism almost 340 years ago, e.g "we may say that my gray idea of the cherry, formed...
It is a paradox that we readily interpret present information as referring to absent entities, e.g. the photograph of my dead grandmother who has long...
In a logic proof such as in the lambda calculus, the counterpart of a 'universal' is a term or formula that can be reduced, via computation, to some c...
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