Sure. I was assuming that by "the whole of math" Boolos meant simply the maximal (consistent) extension or union of all the systems you mention. There...
Isn't he just ensuring that what 2 + 2 is equal to is being discussed with respect to a system big enough for the second theorem to apply? https://en....
No. Sorry. At (5) and (6), yes. But you have undertaken to follow the copious and kind advice of @"TonesInDeepFreeze", so you may be pleasantly surpri...
And isn't that, in a very real sense, what we find when we look for the holy spirit of our lord Jesus Christ? Please turn now to Psalm 56 in your hymn...
Dreaming is thinking about the real world, just off-line and hence fundamentally confused about physics (the walking in the air). On-line thought is f...
Well this inspires me to actually getting around to browsing empirical research, rather than simply saying, in this case: doesn't everyone experience ...
Didn't Russell rather skewer that approach? (On Denoting.) Speaking literally, yes. This needs clarifying. Produces strings of alphabetic characters? ...
No, the premise I'm deciding to explicitly deny is that we have things called minds, except in a manner of speaking about our physical constitution an...
No, I said I suspect your argument is valid. It's about beliefs facing the tribunal of experience as a corpus. That's why I might be just as inclined ...
The idea that we each have a mind, except in a manner of speaking about our physical constitution and behaviour. Partly because I suspect that argumen...
If only. Unfortunately they mostly can't resist taunting believers with a more subtle dance, wherein the beetle is supposed irrelevant, but not doubte...
Sure it does, to the extent they do, which is grossly overstated. It's because they have been used successfully to express sadness. Path dependence. C...
Goodman explains "expression" as the metaphorical exemplification of properties. The chord expresses sadness in that it is a sample of metaphorically-...
For me too. And it was Goodman's actual point here: I might (later) edit in the continuation that explains how emotional analysis of music should lead...
Haha, but is it disappointing that the connection isn't natural? I would be expecting to be accused of wishful thinking on this question. (Of denying ...
Happy to dismiss the relevance of any non-artistic/intellectual pleasures to aesthetic analysis or ethical analysis/design. (And preferring to analyse...
Convention, complicated by path-dependent exploration of the infinite possibilities. Creating the illusion of a natural connection. Yuk, I know. Somet...
In a frivolous mood I pasted the first 1000-odd words of B&T and PI into prowritingaid.com and learnt that the former has a readability grade of 13, a...
Well obviously it's a puzzle if we accept also the premise that calling a single grain a heap is absurd. If calling it a heap is tolerable then, as I ...
Sure, but does the distribution of personal thresholds of heap-recognition, and hence usage of "heap", extend all the way back to a single grain? If s...
Day 112. Ok so I guess I have entry level absolute pitch: I can now calibrate musical 'calculations' with respect to a core of mental images (mainly, ...
Yes, that is the problem. So... the answer to this question... ... would be? 5 million grains, say... isn't a heap, in your logical representation? No...
Sure. Heap is a spectrum. No puzzle. A single grain is a minimal heap. A completely bald man is minimally hairy. Black is minimally white. The puzzle ...
... leading to the conclusion (incompatible with a premise, or there's no puzzle) that a single grain is a heap. Does that happen also with your "infi...
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