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Alvin Capello

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Surely some seeming contradictions can be resolved, but I don’t think this is true of all of them. For instance, I don’t think the Liar Sentence and o...
March 23, 2020 at 03:14
Let’s see what this means through 2 examples. Suppose we have an object that is round on the front side, but not round on the back side. We can unders...
March 23, 2020 at 03:07
A contradiction is just a true sentence with a true negation. Or, in other words, a sentence that is both true and false at the same time and in the s...
March 23, 2020 at 02:38
- Well sure. For one thing, Plato and Aristotle never seriously considered dialectical responses to this problem. Moreover, Priest connects his Gluon ...
March 23, 2020 at 02:23
LP in particular deals with contradictions by inferring only those propositions that have interconnections with them; thereby allowing us to reason ab...
March 23, 2020 at 01:01
But I should say that not all Paraconsistent Logics block disjunction introduction. Some of them block Disjunctive Syllogism. These are the ones I fav...
March 22, 2020 at 22:56
The reason that I personally want to block ex falso quodlibet is because I think that some contradictions are true. Therefore, I don’t want my theorie...
March 22, 2020 at 22:55
I will be posting a full review of the book on my blog at alvincapello.com soon. I will be sure to dm you as soon as that happens. But for some idea o...
March 22, 2020 at 22:48
Well, one good reason to use it is that LP can deal with contradictory theories. Classical and other non-paraconsistent logics cannot do this. I don’t...
March 22, 2020 at 22:07
I don’t think it’s correct to say that a logic is either valid or sound. To be sure, most logics do have valid arguments in them, but the logic itself...
March 22, 2020 at 21:51
- It depends on the type of paraconsistent logic. Some of them understand negation to be a subcontrary-forming operator (subcontraries, recall, are pa...
March 22, 2020 at 21:50
No, not truth-values to the arguments. Just validity, invalidity, soundness, etc. As in classical logic.
March 22, 2020 at 21:23
Yep, looks good to me :smile:
March 22, 2020 at 21:16
I’m actually claiming that about you. Abraham is a prophet of Islam. Therefore, Allah is the god of abraham. Allah does not instruct his followers to ...
March 22, 2020 at 21:06
The term ‘People of the Book’ in the Koran refers to Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
March 22, 2020 at 20:59
Sure thing. Until next time :smile:
March 22, 2020 at 20:48
As I have said numerous times, nothing is tastier in the quantificational sense, but not the ontological sense. Since we keep going in circles and you...
March 22, 2020 at 20:44
Abraham is a prophet of Islam, so why would Allah hate the followers of the god of Abraham? He would have to hate his own followers
March 22, 2020 at 20:40
- This makes it amply clear that you are indeed conflating the two senses of the term. As before, no object lies in the region, but it is not the case...
March 22, 2020 at 20:15
- That is partly what I am trying to get at with this discussion.
March 22, 2020 at 19:56
I'll show you how it works in LP. In LP, we have 3 truth-values: T, P, F. 2 of these values, i.e. T and P, are designated, while F is undesignated. T ...
March 22, 2020 at 19:53
If that's the case, then as I explained above, premises 3 and 4 are false. Because they both assert that the state of nonexistence has a length which ...
March 22, 2020 at 19:35
Working my way through God, Existence, and Fictional Objects: The Case for Meinongian Theism John-Mark L. Miravalle. A very interesting little book wh...
March 22, 2020 at 19:29
Again, you are assigning these lengths to nothing in the quantificational sense, but not in the ontological sense. To ask again, do you not recognize ...
March 22, 2020 at 19:20
For instance, Graham Priest's Logic of Paradox is logic in which sentences can be both true and false at the same time and in the same respect. Priest...
March 22, 2020 at 19:18
Again, I would assign these to nothing in the quantificational sense, i.e. in the sense that I would not assign them to anything. But I would not assi...
March 22, 2020 at 18:38
You are still equivocating on the term 'nothing'. All I can do in response is to emphasize that I can only assign these to nothing in the quantificati...
March 22, 2020 at 18:29
These are interesting remarks. While I do recognize that you are describing one traditional way of characterizing Dialectical Logic, I am coming at it...
March 22, 2020 at 18:27
- As I explained above, you are equivocating on the use of the term ‘nothing.’ We can correctly say that these lengths match up to nothing in the quan...
March 22, 2020 at 18:12
Speak of the devil :lol:
March 22, 2020 at 15:15
No object in your universe has these lengths, so I would not assign them to anything. This doesn’t at all mean that I would assign them to the state o...
March 22, 2020 at 15:14
I would say this in my head, but I would not thereby mean that the state of nonexistence is 0.5 or 9 cm long, since the state of nonexistence cannot h...
March 22, 2020 at 08:21
If Nothing is understood to mean the state of nonexistence, then these 2 statements are false. For what they're claiming is that "The state of nonexis...
March 22, 2020 at 07:40
I should direct the OP's attention to this article by Behnam Zolgadr, which expands upon Graham Priest's Gluon Theory. In short, Zolghadr argues that ...
March 22, 2020 at 04:18
Perhaps it should also be mentioned that Graham Priest in his work entitled “One” posits Nothingness as a rather special kind of object; special in th...
March 22, 2020 at 02:51
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February 23, 2019 at 02:05