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In what sense is this particular prediction "testable"? What specific experiential consequences can we deductively explicate from it? How would we the...
December 08, 2016 at 20:26
Charles Sanders Peirce's careful distinction of existence from reality might be helpful here. "Real" means that something possesses properties suffici...
December 08, 2016 at 20:16
Would it be fair to characterize your view as "holding that the potential, or possible, is nothing but what the actual makes it to be" (Peirce, CP 1.4...
December 08, 2016 at 19:53
Are you saying that truth is a property of judgments about propositions, and thus subjective, rather than a property of propositions themselves, and t...
December 08, 2016 at 19:43
We seem to be on the same page here. By what other criterion, besides describing a fact, would someone judge a sentence--or rather, the proposition th...
December 08, 2016 at 18:57
Is "there is no such thing as objective truth" a true proposition? If not, then why should anyone believe it? And how can it nevertheless be a fact th...
December 08, 2016 at 18:31
Is it an objective truth that no truths are objective? This distinction does not make any sense to me. All facts are propositions--ones that correspon...
December 08, 2016 at 16:23
With appropriate caveats about the limited usefulness of simplistic labels, it seems to me that Terrapin Station is a nominalist and Metaphysician Und...
December 08, 2016 at 14:31
What about logically prior? I would suggest that a general form is a continuum of potential forms, and a particular form is an actualization of one su...
December 06, 2016 at 23:20
It depends on what you mean by "adequately." In a sense, no particular representation can adequately express the general characteristics of any form, ...
December 06, 2016 at 22:57
Who said anything about visualizing? There are other forms of representation, especially in the imagination. Probably the most accurate general repres...
December 06, 2016 at 22:30
We have no better way to represent it physically, but--at least arguably--we can represent it more perfectly in the imagination, in accordance with th...
December 06, 2016 at 22:11
No actual drawing of a triangle has three perfectly straight sides and exactly three angles, as required by the definition. Every actual drawing of a ...
December 06, 2016 at 21:56