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As I said, you are literally just taking time concept of "belief" (holding some proposition to be true or false) and renaming it "being keen on eviden...
January 23, 2018 at 17:56
That is completely irrelevant. Scientists *believe* (meaning they hold it to be true) that some such equation is veridical. No one is proposing some c...
January 23, 2018 at 17:51
Belief no more "permits one to ignore evidence" anymore than your weasel phrase "being keen on evidence" (which is just another way of saying "belief"...
January 23, 2018 at 17:50
Man are you serious? Being "keen on evidence" literally just means believing what the current evidence seems to indicate. This is hilarious. Evidence ...
January 23, 2018 at 17:47
This is simply absurd. Beliefs *are* part of science, no matter what asinine claim your favorite science communicator tells you. Scientists, within th...
January 23, 2018 at 17:44
This is just a stupid thread. A belief is simply a propositional attitude. I.e., what you hold the be true or false. The idea that belief is somehow a...
January 23, 2018 at 17:29
That's absurd. How on earth are propositions (an abstract object) "matter-based"? Show exactly where a proposition is in the physical world. Relativit...
January 23, 2018 at 17:15
While you are correct that there is a whole panoply of logics, some formalizing non-explosive inferences from contradictions, and even the truth of co...
January 23, 2018 at 17:13
Yes and no. SQL's logic is many-valued, but that's not what causes it to violate Excluded Middle. Multiple truth-values causes a violation of the Prin...
January 23, 2018 at 16:51
Not really. I mean, one can develop a Paraconsistent Logic (including a Paraconsistent meta theory) which has truth tables and which is dialetheic, me...
January 23, 2018 at 16:13
No. There are scores of deductive logics, many of which violate *any* axiom you can think of. Logics where the Law of Identity is either not present o...
January 23, 2018 at 16:11
Yes it broke Hilbert's program, but it didn't prove that nothing is consistent in maths. For example, classical propositional logic is provably consis...
January 23, 2018 at 16:11
Why would we need to presuppose that? For one, logic is *not* a mode of thinking, that's silly. Logic refers to a theory of logical consequence, that ...
January 23, 2018 at 15:50
I think you're barking up the wrong tree. Nothing in the microscopic world has even been suggested to have an inconsistent nature. Quantum mechanics u...
January 23, 2018 at 15:28
The claim is circular and kind of ignorant, quite honestly. Dialetheism has been around as a legitimate theory for decades now, as has paraconsistent ...
January 23, 2018 at 15:17
I'm about to leave for a New Years party, so I don't have the time to get into the nitty-gritty. However, Graham Priest gives a fuller, comprehensive ...
January 01, 2017 at 00:41
I'm not really sure what you're talking about. Analysis of the Liar sentences, even by strictly Classical Logicians (like Timothy Williamson) use logi...
January 01, 2017 at 00:30
You didn't provide evidence. Very few people deny that the Liar Paradoxes are contradictions. The point is that, prima facie, they appear to dialethei...
January 01, 2017 at 00:28
Lol, not sure how I missed that. But that aside, as I said, even Kripke said that his proposed solution was probably suspectible to a Revenge Paradox,...
January 01, 2017 at 00:19
But *how so* is my question. If it has the same structure as other truth-apt sentences, clearly it's not the syntax which is the issue. There has been...
December 31, 2016 at 18:36
Again, I'm wondering what the evidence for this is. That it looks no different than other truth-apt sentences would support the claim that it is itsel...
December 31, 2016 at 17:58
How so? This is why I mentioned the Williamson quote, because the idea that there is a simple solution to this problem is vitiated by the fact that th...
December 31, 2016 at 17:37
No, because that sentence isn't truth-apt, nor can I see how you could attach a truth predicate to it. Its just a command. The Liar sentences seem no ...
December 31, 2016 at 17:32
Given the pedigree of the Liar's Paradox, one must be careful in seeking simple, obvious solutions without considering why those solutions haven't gai...
December 31, 2016 at 17:09
Well so far as I know, Whitehead (from whom the quote originates) was presumably talking about philosophy writ large, not the period between Plato & D...
December 31, 2016 at 10:51
Well, several years after Frege if you want to get technical (1879 or 80, IIRC). But while Pierce had better contemporary acknowledgements and influen...
December 31, 2016 at 03:20
Plato. Especially if you take the old Whitehead "footnote to Plato" quote seriously. In terms of modern philosophical discourse, I don't much see the ...
December 31, 2016 at 02:26
It's obviously Frege in my opinion. Most logicians (so far as I can tell) agree that modern mathematical logic was a huge improvement on Aristotle's l...
December 31, 2016 at 02:14