That's not what I said. I said the proposal to believe non existent things (Meinongianism) have some sort of being is proposed to explain how we speak...
Again, you seem to miss the obvious. The decision is determined and thus whether or not the digits are known beforehand has absolutely nothing to do w...
You can say I'm pretending but I'm not. Which makes it quite difficult to explain how one can truthfully speak about non existent objects. After all, ...
I am not pretending he is real, I don't know where you're getting that. He is a fictional character and nonetheless I can say true things about him. I...
The choice from the list is determined by which action you "chose" to assign to the digit. How this escapes determinism is beyond me. You haven't show...
Incorrect because everyone knows that I'm not claiming nor at all pretending Holmes is real. It's simply true that he's more famous than any living de...
I really don't understand you. Fictions are non-existent objects. It's true that the chief reason for proposing that there are non-existent objects is...
Usually that's synonymous with non-existent objects. They're adopted to explain something about fictions. But the explanation works just the same for ...
Because the whole reason for adopting non-existent objects is to explain how we can say true things about objects that don't exist. And this entails t...
Because: If the reason why adopting such a view is to serve the above then it applies just the same to inconsistent non-existent objects. In which cas...
Sure. Lots of objects do not exist. The planet Vulcan, unicorns, maybe God. But there are an even stranger class of non-existent objects, the contradi...
No, that doesn't ring true. If I say "Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective", no one thinks I'm pretending Holmes exists. The principles of log...
No, because as I said reality does have a mathematical structure to it. To call that "not reality" is just incoherent, the structure of reality is obv...
Ehhh, unless you're a dialetheist like myself you cannot really run this sort of argument. Non-existent objects cannot be entertained unless you accep...
I don't really think this is quite enough. Math is not just a game with rules and definitions. Universes have structure, structures which can be mappe...
This just proves my point. If they can't defend themselves because the ability to do so requires setting up "unjust" hierarchies then it just shows th...
Incentivize people to move elsewhere in the country. I left Dallas because the traffic is stupid in certain areas and it was costing me money and time...
I'm not sure I follow. You yourself said: which is surely about whether or not we have good reason to believe something. So we're surely talking about...
I don't think that's the case. We may well have good reasons for accepting realism (or idealism) without that position being proven. Having a good rea...
Oh it's surely possible. But maintaining it for more than a trivial amount of time? Doubt it, every time anarchists take over they fail (Catalonia ana...
You're assuming there's a specific goal or something with allowing immigration. It's just weird man. We might well have broad things we want to contin...
I'm really confused about this whole thread. "Unperceived object" is not a contradiction in terms (does anyone really think that???). I'm not a direct...
I don't think this is really relevant since nothing I said was about meaning and symbols, just the setup of "choosing" based on the symbol that happen...
I don't even think it's a challenge to determinism at all. It's only non-deterministic if you ignore the setup of the entire list and why you select c...
I don't think this has any bearing on the fact about what the GOP is doing, particularly in the Georgia case. The Dems being self-interested tells me ...
Of course the fact that such laws were implemented almost immediately after the Voting Rights Act (which prevented such laws for obvious and historica...
You'd have to be incredibly naive to think otherwise honestly. The whole point of these laws - made possible by the SCOTUS pull backs of the Voting Ri...
Here's one from just a week ago from Marco Rubio: That's the context in which I usually come across this. An admission that the thing is real but only...
The point is it's used as a euphemism to disguise the reality of the situation. As an example, the GOP has been using that phrase in recent years beca...
Indeed. The degree to which we are fucked and just plugging our ears disturbs me. It's hard not to think about most days. Oh yeah sure, they'll have t...
Apologies for the likely rude nature of my response but this is hopelessly naive or ignores the lack of time we have for these "simple matters" of eco...
The person I was responding to was making the case that even mathematical logic has an inherent normative component to it. Really all I was saying is ...
OK then I think referring to them as "states of affairs" is inappropriate then because that term is generally used to refer to various aspects of real...
But I don't think that's right. If I take some arbitrary logical system and work out what follows from what in that system, I am not reasoning about h...
I find a lot of what has been said interesting, some I think is correct but incomplete, or else a little off the truth. His distinctions are fine, but...
It's more a concern of politicians, but even then that's more in the public sphere. When they're doing budget allocations they aren't actually constra...
Well then he's not talking about the trivial world, which is the world where everything is true. He is thus, in fact, making the exact baseline assump...
That doesn't really have anything to do with my response. Existence in the mathematical sense is, as I've already admitted, what's provable. My point ...
That's not what I mean (depending on what you mean by "hold"). Take this. Take any coherent math system and it's results (the theorems you derive) wil...
But then M isn't a possible world, it's an impossible world. Under most analyses, impossible worlds have no ontology (because then you're accepting th...
The problem is a government (the U.S. government especially) is not like a household. Households cannot produce their own currency that others will ac...
For just socialism, it's non-collectivized ownership of capital that's eliminated, usually by having the state own it (but since you still have a stat...
I think this is already starting on shaky grounds. What does "exist" mean here? Mathematically it would mean something like "provable" but if we're de...
That is a quote from Marx, that is not a definition of socialism from Critique of the Gotha Program. Socialism is, according to Marxist ideologies, th...
You have my point backwards, actually. You can demand that one must give a reason for what they claim to know because otherwise we would believe anyth...
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