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Not quite; more like: If an infinite community were to engage in infinite inquiry, using any and every method along the way, their ultimate consensus ...
October 19, 2018 at 01:33
As should be clear from my previous comments, when discussing logic as a normative science, I mean it in the instrumental sense - we ought to think in...
October 18, 2018 at 22:44
Again, normative logic is not something that we use, it is the study of how we ought to think if we wish to acquire true beliefs - i.e., how we can de...
October 18, 2018 at 21:32
Occam's Razor exhorts us not to multiply entities beyond necessity. But unless there is necessary being, there would be no being at all; this is anoth...
October 18, 2018 at 17:36
Why not, if everything is hypothetical? Mere possibilities that are mutually inconsistent are not problematic at all; that is just what contingency me...
October 18, 2018 at 17:27
Personally, I find it clearer, perhaps because I consider it important to emphasize the representational nature of a proposition. "Fact" is then a con...
October 18, 2018 at 16:58
Indeed, but in philosophy we often try to narrow down their definitions for the sake of greater conceptual clarity. That is my approach here. A propos...
October 18, 2018 at 14:02
Propositions can be (and often are) expressed in language, but are not themselves language, whatever that would mean. The same proposition can be (and...
October 18, 2018 at 13:57
I am talking about the study of logic, which is basically your (1), and generally agree with . We employ our instinctive reasoning habits (logica uten...
October 18, 2018 at 13:39
A replica is an actual embodiment of a sign, such that it can be interpreted as such within a particular system of signs. The same word can appear man...
October 18, 2018 at 03:17
I never claimed that we ought to use logic if we wish to arrive at true beliefs, I defined logic as the science of how we ought to think if we wish to...
October 18, 2018 at 03:10
What exactly do you mean by "existentially dependent"? Following Peirce (again), I would say that propositions - and all signs, for that matter - exis...
October 18, 2018 at 03:01
Please elaborate on this assessment. Which is a myth. As Peirce observed, "The validity of Induction consists in the fact that it proceeds according t...
October 18, 2018 at 01:24
No, I agree that the two definitions are incompatible; @"andrewk" seems to be saying that logic is the science of how humans do think, while I (follow...
October 18, 2018 at 00:48
You evidently have a very different definition of "hypothetical" than I and most others do. If everything is hypothetical, then nothing is actual. So ...
October 17, 2018 at 17:13
You are basically defining a fact as a true proposition, rather than as the object of a true proposition. This is inconsistent with defining a fact as...
October 17, 2018 at 16:27
This is what Peirce identified as the subject matter of mathematics - drawing necessary conclusions about hypothetical states of affairs, the universe...
October 17, 2018 at 15:42
This definition is fine, but a proposition is not itself a state of affairs or a relation among things, so a proposition cannot be a fact. Instead, a ...
October 17, 2018 at 15:21
No, again, a proposition represents a purported state of affairs or a purported relation among things. A true proposition represents a real state of a...
October 17, 2018 at 13:56
As far as we know, nothing really flies the way that Superman is imagined to do in comic books, television shows, movies, etc. By all appearances, he ...
October 16, 2018 at 21:38
Where? "Flying like Superman" is shorthand for "flying like Superman is imagined to do in comic books, television shows, movies, etc." As above, and a...
October 16, 2018 at 21:13
Actuality is existence, which is the reaction of things upon one another. If I were to jump off the roof and start flying like Superman, that would be...
October 16, 2018 at 20:46
Yes, it would be a fact that I was flying like Superman in the dream, but not that I was actually flying like Superman. True propositions really do re...
October 16, 2018 at 20:19
A state of affairs that is not real is not a fact. If I were to have a dream in which I was flying like Superman, it would be a fact that I had the dr...
October 16, 2018 at 19:54
I do not understand this question. Facts are not signs that represent something else; as we established previously, they are real states of affairs. P...
October 16, 2018 at 19:25
Facts are independent of any individual mind or finite collection of minds. This does not entail that they are independent of mind in general. If an i...
October 16, 2018 at 18:58
The real is that which is as it is regardless of what anyone thinks about it. Consider these three propositions. Shakespeare wrote a play called "Haml...
October 16, 2018 at 18:28
No, a fact is a real state of affairs, which a true proposition represents. By that definition, I suppose so. I was mostly emphasizing that a proposit...
October 16, 2018 at 18:14
This is backwards; a fact does not represent anything. A true proposition represents a fact; a false proposition purports to represent a fact, but doe...
October 16, 2018 at 18:06
I agree. A proposition is a sign that purports to represent a fact. A fact is that which is represented by a true proposition.
October 16, 2018 at 13:56
I continue to find your argumentation nonsensical, and have decided to stop wasting my time with it. Cheers.
October 16, 2018 at 13:21
I never suggested otherwise. However, if a particular judgment is true, why is it true? And if a particular judgment is false, why is it false? In bot...
October 16, 2018 at 00:34
I said that recognizing some judgments as true and others as false entails that there is a fact of the matter, which is independent of whatever anyone...
October 15, 2018 at 22:08
According to Charles Sanders Peirce: "Logic, regarded from one instructive, though partial and narrow, point of view, is the theory of deliberate thin...
October 15, 2018 at 21:02
Thank you for so convincingly demonstrating the patent absurdity of nominalism.
October 15, 2018 at 13:15
Exactly right; according to Peirce, reality is independent of what any individual mind or finite collection of minds - including, notably, the collect...
October 15, 2018 at 02:40
Again, something exists iff it reacts with other things; something is real iff it is what it is regardless of how anyone thinks about it. Numbers clea...
October 15, 2018 at 02:03
This is very clearly false. It conflates the object of a sign with the sign itself. The reality of a character, and the existence of things that posse...
October 15, 2018 at 01:44
No, this completely ignores the accompanying definitions by which existence and reality are distinct. While qualities and habits only exist in their i...
October 15, 2018 at 01:28
In: Reality  — view comment
Reality is that which is as it is regardless of what anyone thinks about it. The fact that someone had a particular dream is real, but the events with...
October 14, 2018 at 19:41
Again, mathematics is the science of reasoning necessarily about hypothetical states of affairs. Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry employ exactly t...
October 14, 2018 at 19:32
On the contrary, the problem with such a question is that most moderns are nominalists, rather than realists; they treat reality as coextensive with e...
October 14, 2018 at 19:24
In: Reality  — view comment
Time is a genuine continuum; it does not consist of discrete "instants," any more than space consists of discrete "points." We can arbitrarily designa...
October 12, 2018 at 14:51
Charles Sanders Peirce described himself as an extreme scholastic realist, rather than a Platonist, and the distinction that he carefully made between...
October 12, 2018 at 14:31
Rationality has also contemplated the reality of God by interpreting how He has revealed Himself in nature, Scripture, etc. Again, the problem is not ...
January 30, 2018 at 14:14
The possibility of mistake pertains to all of our beliefs; does this mean that we are justified in doubting all of our beliefs? In any case, what you ...
January 29, 2018 at 14:32
What exactly do you mean by "physical criteria"? What is your warrant for equating objective criteria with physical criteria?
January 29, 2018 at 14:15
What you say doesn't make sense. You are claiming that the mere possibility of mistake is grounds for questioning a belief--and therefore that we have...
January 28, 2018 at 20:01
My point was that the possibility of mistake cannot be ruled out with respect to any of our beliefs, but this is not a positive reason to question all...
January 28, 2018 at 03:26
It seems rather impractical--perhaps even impossible--to operate reasonably under the assumption that the future will work differently from the past. ...
January 28, 2018 at 02:36