Prior to Wittgenstein, Frege understood that perspective-dependent information is necessarily incommunicable, because perspectives cannot be literally...
Do you accept the possibility that shared meaning might be an illusion, such that meaning is bound to perspective and actual usage, in a way that cann...
If Wittgenstein really believed that meaning is use (as opposed to the weaker thesis that apparent usage can partially explicate meaning in many cases...
The dissolving of conceptual tangles that you describe here is the first stage of any analysis, prior to formalization. I also think this is likely th...
We have to be careful here, because whether or not language-games are intepreted to be open or closed distinguishes two very different readings of lan...
It depends on whether you are referring to a recursive sequence or to a choice-sequence. A recursive-sequence is an algorithm for generating a sequenc...
A series limit isn't a literal sum of an infinite series, unless the number of summed terms that are non-zero is finite. E.g. The infinite sum of (1,1...
Since theories are usually ambiguous and interpreted within a specific context, I would say: A theory's interpretation is unfalsifiable if the interpr...
We should first forget all about AI and focus instead on the meaning of "other minds". If Alice judges her human friend Bob to be sentient, then does ...
It all hinges upon whether the cartesian notion of belief is admissible. According to naturalized epistemology, beliefs are stimulus-response disposit...
We have two semantically separate layers: 1) The stimulus-response conditioning of a particular individual, which fully explains that particular indiv...
Yes, there is no traversing anything unless a particle is in a smooth motion-state as a result of applying a motion operator to it, which cannot be th...
Zeno pointed out the impossibility of enumerating, in order, the dense order of rationals. E.g, starting from 0, what is the next rational number to c...
I'm not saying that the powerset of N is defined as only referring to the decidable sets (apologies if that is how it looked). Rather, I was overloadi...
I'm saying that in the presence of an inconsistency between ZFC and computable notions of mathematics, coupled with the obvious uselessness of of non-...
As a slogan, that looks almost right. To say that a parameter is infinite, means that it cannot be measured relative to a given basis of description. ...
Yes absolutely, if we interpret "refuting cardinal analysis" as ditching ZF/ZFC for being computationally inadmissible due to the infinite hierarchy o...
Yes, the purely constructive meaning of the diagonal argument, is that any constructable injection from the naturals to the Reals defines the construc...
the existence and meaningfulness of transfinite cardinals rests upon the Axiom of Choice, but that principle also implies unfettered resource duplicat...
Suppose Alice the realist talks to Bob the irrealist, about an Alice-independent world that she believes to subsume the world of Bob the irrealist. Th...
You've hit upon the reason why Frege distinguished ideas from sense and reference. The intersubjective meaning of language must be invariant to the pe...
Magnus is right in spirit, but isn't referring to natural numbers, but to "lawless choice sequences" that are infinite yet Dedekind-finite, meaning th...
The dispute concerns the notion of Dedekind Infinity. Dedekind Infinity, referring to the "fact" that the set of natural numbers N is equinumerous to ...
Possible world semantics as presently understood by computer science, is just denotational semantics for dependently typed languages, as formally expr...
Let's Semantics in general, can be understood as situationally defining types, e.g the natural kind gold, in terms of a set of tests, where a failure ...
Another thing to bear in mind, is the relationship between Kripke's axiom x=y ? ?x=y in relation to his "Naming and Necessity" lectures that he gave i...
The Philsophical Investigations doesn't sanction the rigid designation axiom x=y implies ?x=y, because PI didn't sanction the sort a priori metaphysic...
If I recall correctly, Quine's position relates to the following observation: Suppose that the modal operators merely refer to the quantifiers of Firs...
The concept of an Infinite extension can only be circurarly defined, because in that case all that we actually have is an intensional definition of a ...
All I can say is that we aren't agreeing as to the semantics of the problem. Your sample space includes the counterfactual possibility (H, Tuesday), w...
I think you misunderstand me. I am simply interpreting the thrux of your position in terms of an extended sample space. This isn't miscontruing your p...
Well, I've come to the conclusion that your answer is in some sense philosophically superior to the result insisted upon by halfers like myself, even ...
Your bell is just a label for the event {Monday OR Tuesday} which is independent of the coin flip, and so you are merely repeating the same appeal to ...
I agree if I understand your position correctly as being deflationary. I would simply put it by saying that an interrogated subject isn't in the epist...
No, the Halfer position doesn't consider SB to have any information that she could utilize when awakened, due to the fact that SB's knowledge that it ...
Thirders who argue their position on the basis of frequential probabilities are conflating the subject waking up twice in a single trial (in the case ...
If you insist that credence must be expressed as a number Q, then in general I would refuse to assign a credence for that reason - cases like SB in wh...
Then you are referring to subjective probability which is controversial, for reasons illustrated by the SB problem. Aleatory probability by contrast i...
But the SB experiment is only assumed to be performed once; SB isn't assumed to have undergone repeated trials of the sleeping beauty experiment, let ...
What the SB problem amounts to is a Reductio ad absurdum against the principle of indifference being epistemically normative, a principle that in any ...
Your definition of 'must' is circular here. Circular definitions are characteristic of speech acts ("Tie your shoelaces! because I said so!") and also...
Are 'oughts' inferences, and are 'ises' reducible to 'oughts'? In ordinary language, "ought" is also used to signify predictive confidence, as in "it ...
In Decision Theory, States and Actions are generally treated as logically orthogonal concepts; an 'is' refers to the current state of an agent, and an...
Quine provided the most useful conceptual framework for both scientists, technologists and philosophers, since LLMs can be naturally interpreted as ph...
I find the the appeals to Wittgenstein as a gold standard of philospohical writing ironic, considering how indispensible AI is for the layreader who w...
I think this is all a storm in a teacup. It is obvious etiquette to quote an AI response in the same way that one would quote a remark from a publishe...
One thing to bear in mind about LLMs, is that they are fined tuned by human expert supervision post the internet scraping, tokenization and compressio...
ChatGPT and Gemini start by mirroring society's default communicative presumption, namely of a public world of shared referents that all competent spe...
From an external point of view, cognition is private and indirect. From an internal point of view, cognition is public and direct. So Husserl and Desc...
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