I certainly am not questioning his logic here. However, I am questioning what he thinks science has discovered, that "water is H2O". In Naming and Nec...
Going back to Possible World entry, it starts with the following: “Anne is working at her desk. While she is directly aware only of her immediate situ...
. Yep, and we need not be referring anybody or anything at all for it to be meaningful, as Wittgenstein said we must not confound the meaning of a nam...
I would disagree with “to the scientist “water” is necessarily H2O” but I am not going to rehash everything I have said up to this point. But I would ...
Wow, quite an admission. I guess you are saying that when it comes to these general, vague terms like "water" or "air", we have either two choices, on...
There is a good quote from the Introduction in Noam Chomsky's book "Cartesian Linguistics" by James McGilvray that I find useful in this case: “This i...
Another way to answer this is "if you do not have H2O you do not have H2O, but something can always be named "water". But please provide your response...
My point with the example is prior to any Atomic Theory of Matter, the community can name the liquid and solid to assist in identifying macroscopic ob...
Please take a look at my earlier response to this. But I like to address this in a little different way. Let us say some fictitious community commonly...
We are talking about naming a sample of liquid. Why we name a liquid is not because it identifies some essence in all possible worlds. For example, it...
Kripke’s Possible World Semantics is logic demanding purity in language and purity in reality. However, neither is pure when studied closely and neith...
As a self proclaimed naturalist and a zealot follower of Wittgenstein, if you interested in Kripkean modal semantics and how its rigidity distorts wha...
I am a little unclear on what you mean here. When you say “something can be possible and real at the same time” what are you referring to when you say...
Something is very puzzling on what is being said here. It suggests colorful scene, as if I should go to a private room close by eyes and think about t...
This reminds me of Tolstoy’s short story “The Three Hermits”. In the story, a bishop visits an island where tales describe three old hermits who live ...
1. Free will is an uncaused cause. 2. Everything has a cause. 3. Free will is incoherent. 4. We don't have free will. 5. We are caused and we cause. 3...
Looking at this from an early Wittgenstein perspective, a fact is just what is the case. And what is the case is some combination of objects. These ob...
How can they do that? They construct the ladder from their senses to arrive at the conclusion their senses cannot be trusted. See the straight stick, ...
Not sure what formal intuitionist logics or relevance logic exactly means but saw some general descriptions and I wonder if the following two examples...
Has this been proven to you, "The sceptic's argument is irrefutable".? If so, please let me know what this demonstration looks like. Let's see if I ca...
You say the skeptic’s argument is irrefutable, but pointless. We definitely agree it is pointless. However, I am not sure I want to agree it is irrefu...
Nice summary of Kripke's view. Let me see if I can make sense of it. Going back to my example of human beings able to distinguish between fresh water ...
"Today, as usual, I came into the room and there was the bowl of flowers on the table. I went up to them, caressed them, and smelled over them. I than...
When someone is faced to take the initial plunge into any institution, whether religious, scientific, or philosophical, one can have faith to compel t...
From the same paper, Kripke on Heat and Sensations of Heat, Malcolm says something interesting in his introductory paragraph, "One thesis of Kripke's ...
Interesting and stimulating, it has put my mind in such a state of agitation. Response nonetheless: "116 When philosophers use a word - "knowledge", "...
Where to begin? Let me take a stab at some Philosophy of Science and see where this goes. Let us considered three "scientific equations": 1. E=Mc² 2. ...
" As I have indicated, and seem to harp on; these identity statements that Kripke likes to use to support his views on a posteriori necessary truths s...
John Searle is a unique and interesting philosopher. He is a scientific realist who tip toes ever so close to being an idealist/indirect realist, whil...
Not sure what you are getting at, but I think a summary of what John Searle is doing in Intentionality may help to develop some understanding. In the ...
Why not question whether there needs to be some process of recognition or identification at all. We humans have natural responses we call memories, dr...
Interestingly, John Searle takes a sort of descriptivist internal approach in his book “Intentionality”. He says, “The external causal chain plays no ...
Not sure what you are referring to but I will take a wild swing. One of my favorite passages from Naming and Necessity, “Don’t ask: how can I identify...
The term “water” can refer to many things, while “H2O” seems to be referring to something very precise. It seems to me Kripke wants to say “water” pre...
Ok, let’s explore extension. Can we say water is necessarily H2O, D2O, HDO and T2O? (Because all of these naturally occurring in nature when analyzing...
Are you saying H2O is necessarily H2O, or Water is necessarily H2O? If the former, sure; but the later, well I guess it depends on how you use the ter...
To keep whittling away, or should I say quibbling away, at this idea that "water is H20", I like to provide a quote from Sketches of Landscapes by Avr...
From Naming and Necessity Kripke says, "Let's consider how this applies to the types of identity statements expressing scientific discoveries that I t...
Certainly, signs used in expression like "a = a" will express their meaning through their use. Where I find Kripke lacking is the usefulness of applyi...
I get what you saying, but he should stick with symbols, a = a. But as soon as you step into this messy world and use words like “water” and “H2O”, th...
My example would be Kripke’s attempt to show “water is H2O” is a posteriori necessary truth. This is not a demonstration of something true of realty b...
Saying “water is H2O” is a bit misleading and may cause confusion. There is the everyday common understanding of “water” that we use, “please go fetch...
I don't believe you see the absurdity of your belief in determinism but let us try. Assertion #1, I assert that I am free from such determinants. Asse...
I think you have this backwards, it should be “Determinants, constraints, consequences are never free from our choices.” Why? Because we are free to t...
[reply="Harry Hindu;987258" I have not said “we don’t see the world as it is” in this post. I don't believe I have commented on this, that said, I can...
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