MindForged

I didn't talk about attitudes or personality. I brought up more tangible things: how people dress according to how their society deems appropriate for...

Well you certainly are a crank. I mean, one would think medical discrimination (access to treatments which can help individuals with dysphoria not bei...

Sure. Not everyone's gender identity falls strictly within masculine and feminine domains. Arguments against this are supposed to be what? Dictionarie...

You are unbelievable. I, again, repeat: What makes them (let's speak plain english) "correct thinking"? You haven't answered that, you simply said the...

You're not being precise at all. You're simply saying that a certain set of rules are necessarily correct but have no reason for believing so that isn...

And I provided an issue that falls out of using that definition. You are avoiding the issue though. What defines correct thinking? That is determined ...

I don't understand what you're saying. Whatever one thinks about logic, we're going to use it where and when it's useful. We use it to derive truths f...

No. The use of something is not the thing itself. A tool is not the same as what you use the tool for, to give an example.

Not if you're talking about "the world" when you say "reality". If you're an anti-realist about abstract objects then you'll probably think logic in a...

That's the problem though. Presumably there is only one reality, but we know there are many logics so there seems to be an inherent problem with your ...

Logic is about graphing out a particular consequence relation by accepting some set of axioms and inference rules. You can understand this as the rela...

Logic has nothing to do with facts and there relation. Facts refer to ways the world is. Logic specifically deals with (primarily) the logical consequ...

Well, I don't think it's quite a chicken-egg problem, not just yet. Let's take a look at the most well understood historical development in the shift ...

I didn't deny it was part of how we come to beliefs, I said they should not cloud how we come to them. They shouldn't have undue influence when compar...

I feel like you're mixing a lot of things together. The object of thought is the thing being thought of. Like when I think of a rock the "target" of m...

That's not the case though. At best we can justify deductive logic in an indirect, non-deductive manner. Further, logical systems have metalogics, but...

But I didn't make a negative modal claim, so possible worlds are irrelevant. If "It is true that Clinton did not win the election" is true in virtue o...

It is true that "The cat is on the mat" if it's a fact the cat is on the mat. It is true that "Clinton did not win the election" if something is absen...

I don't see the issue. If you can demonstrate logic only lets you determine such and such, and not some other things, it seems I've used logic to show...

Sure. Negative truths are often taken to be a very bad ontological commitment. Take this: It is true that Clinton did not win the election. Is that ma...

I don't know what these terms mean. Does ignoring the word belief, does "irrefutable" refer to necessary truths? If so, well, so of them ought to be v...

I've given the (or at least one) condition that has to be met: the conditions which lend warrant to assertion, or belief, or knowledge. Correspondence...

Well, your deflate the truth predicate. If to say 'x is true' is just to say that 'x' (and x being true is just that x), then deflationists are going ...

That truth doesn't involve all these other metaphysical commitments and ought not be involved in explanations of meaning because it serves no explanat...

That formulation isn't the T-scheme and it explains nothing. What I'm saying is this. The T-scheme has nothing to do with the Correspondence Theory of...

I don't think that's quite right. It's not an identity, it's an equivalence. The T-scheme is a biconditional, so the deflationist (if, as usual, they ...

Well, as a man don't my experiences include that of being a man? It's something I am, it affects various things in my life in various ways that I am c...

Ok, I think I'm about to agree with Banno that you either don't understand the logic or there's some communication issue. Because it doesn't matter. P...

My initial post was responding to the part of the OP which suggested that deflationary theory, prima facie is just correspondence theory. That's why I...

From the IEP:

Are you serious? I just said that on the deflationists account there is *nothing* more to truth than the conventions that govern it's usage as a predi...

I think this is mistaken. I mean the chess analogy breaks down too quickly to be a useful comparison. On the outset, chess is just a leisure activity,...

You're goofing the syntax. "The cat is on the mat" is true iff the cat is on the mat. Deflationists don't argue that there's a correspondence relation...

Check out Graham Priest, the most well known defender of Paraconsistent logic, and Dialetheism in particular. "Doubt Truth to be a Liar" is probably t...

A lot of this, in my estimation, doesn't make sense under scrutiny. Um, before every day there is another day. QED. Or to put it more directly, the ca...

You don't seem to have understood me. Some things may well be self identical. My statement is in fact identical with itself. But that has no bearing o...

You're mixing the two. Deflationism (which has many articulations of course) argues that truth won't play an explanatory role in, say, theories of mea...

I would say that space and time exist, and both are generally thought to be infinite.

I'm just saying even the deepest intuitions about logic don't have a sort of indubitability (what I thought you were saying).

How was it unspoken if I literally said the assumption (the the natural numbers are infinite)? That aside, you aren't making sense. That the natural n...

There's a lot of... weird statements made in this thread. That's a nice view, happens to be not only controversial but probably false. Frege also thou...

I stopped reading the moment you said this, because no matter how much you insist that, I can go up and quote what I said: This is a waste. You cannot...

How is that convoluted??? People argue about their theories in this way, but that does not entail that the acceptance and historical proliferation of ...

Bare possibilities aren't fun to discuss, it would be prudent, I think, to articulate real examples of this. Otherwise it doesn't seem like an interes...

To be honest (and hopefully not come across dismissive...), I think this is much ado about nothing... mostly. Like this: Is less likely to happen amon...

You misunderstand, my point was that arguing based on theory choice is used in all fields, not that there is a single model of theory choice everyone ...

Consistency is a theoretical virtue, but it's one we do not always get the pleasure of attaining. What's interesting is that even if a contradiction p...

That's basically what I said. If worlds couldn't access themselves then they wouldn't be a live possibility... with respect to themselves! I don't thi...

I think in that case you're talking about physical possibility, whereas I was referring to metaphysical possibility. And besides, even in that example...

Eh, I can't go that far. Partly, because possible worlds are, as the current history suggests, the impetus behind the resurgence of metaphysics within...