It has distinguishable senses, like all sorts of words. The puzzle as usually conducted inspires (often) recognition of a sense agreed for the game. W...
The latter way of avoiding play is to reject For better or worse. No reform, just bite the bullet of the contrary premise, "everything is a spectrum"....
No, that's implicit logic. Requiring iteration of the usual, implied, kind. "Step by step". Grain by grain. Or recursion. But not another premise. Tha...
I don't understand. Are you saying they are, all 3, compatible, as they stand and appear to signify? Garbled? What are you saying might perhaps be imp...
Yes, but the premises, that we are obliged to reject or reform at least one of, are, rather: P1. a single grain is clearly not a heap P2. adding a sin...
If only. Likewise, However, But, According to me, and contra epistemicism, that it's a voting matter: but not a free vote. So there are three cases: u...
No comment. Neither slow nor careful. Right, no need for Quine to write On What There Is, then. Hard to see how you got that impression. Quine very de...
Different cases? Clearly not. Different treatments of the same case. Different senses of "exist". Different sorts. The desperate sophistry is unnecess...
Ah, I think I see. Facts not things? Because Tractatus? We probably aren't much help to each other. Anyway my question wasn't very focused. Still. Int...
Not at all. I'm denying that such an application creates a new species of existence, any more than it creates actual unicorns or hobbits. So, to avoid...
I don't want to evade the puzzles that it poses by pretending that its usual meaning is other than it is: which is that certain words are or aren't su...
And the challenge is to allow meaning in the myth (or fiction) while respecting the usual implication. The cop-out is to allow the meaning by disrespe...
And there may be no incontrovertible fact about this matter. But you'd have to be disingenuous or mad to think that P1 was best formulated as, rather ...
Because, Because all of them are cared about by X. Assuming you mean, if they are a fair presentation of the premises actually being asserted, Sure. I...
A lot will depend on whether you think it beneficial to involve a logic of belief. If not, or else at least to help decide, let's make the parallel as...
Not to lower the tone at all, but, You prefer that to mine? How so? My reasoning was, the first pixel can be any of 900 distinct (picture-distinguishi...
The number of picture tokens is (presumably, but it's your rules) equal to the number of pictured scenes. But the number of picture types is 900^81000...
If by "mere" you mean fake. Never found the clip, but I don't think I badly mis-quote. Can Google Translate play the human (and genuinely semantic) ga...
Ok, so being isomorphic with a natural number means being in a system capable of distinguishing at least that specified whole number of different item...
Are we declaiming on our Cartesian theatre stage, or are we Mike Leigh... or some such improvisational director? I know I often encourage my cast to b...
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