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Conceptual analysis is usually done with formal logic. For example: x is a occurrent belief iff x is a belief & x is activated. x is a dispositional b...

Satya Nadella is sensing red-ly and motorcycle-ly.

I finished reading Armstrong's Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics today. I am going to Frank Jackson's From Metaphysics to Ethics.

Satya Nadella believes Donald Trump is a spy.

Mark Zuckerberg believes Priscilla Chan did cowgirl sex position to Bill Gates.

The title of the discussion is so stupid.

Donald Trump believes there is someone to be an alien.

Logical truths are known by studying logic. Logical truths' truths depend on purely logic. You should distinguish what makes statements true from how ...

Of course not. Logical truths depend on logic.

What I claim is that presentism is wrong because it makes you delete memories or mental processes occurred in the past. Presentism is about ontology o...

"All blue dogs are dogs." This statement is true in virtue of logical forms. I think this is true a priori.

Analyticity is related to necessity and a priority. If analytic statements are necessarily true, they are automatically true come what may. If analyti...

Your option is not a theory. It's just common sense.

You reject both presentism and eternalism. What is the third option that you accept?

So, what is your opinion?

Eternalism is the view that every time exists including past, present, future.

I beheaded the man who caused to smoke on the road over there.

Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics - D. M. Armstrong Analyticity - Cory Juhl & Eric Loomis

Tim Cook is the beheaded corpse discovered at the office located in Uganda.

All defeated sanity is sanity.

Donald Trump believes 'Dow Jones Industrial Average falls down'. 'Dow Jones Industrial Average falls down' is true. 'Dow Jones Industrial Average fall...

My answers are certainly answers. If you are unable to accept this fact, go to the grave.

That is not a question. Explanations are sufficient. I recommend you to go back to this thread to make up what you need to get.

Conceptual atomism model: 'Brown' and 'dog' compose 'brown dog'. It's easy and simple. Opposing theories model: 'Brown' is composed by 'color', and 'b...

This is how.

It's because dividing concepts into lower levels causes to make compositionality of concepts fail. Infinite regress of dividing concepts into parts an...

One thing is a criticism on opposing theories, another is a report of which opposing theories state. There's no trouble.

Conceptual atomism asserts (1) concepts can be composed, and (2) concepts can be composed only if concepts are atomic. (2) can be restated as: (3) con...

Many theories of concepts say (1) concepts have lower level structures, and (2) concepts can be composed, "both at the same time". The premise 2 above...

According to informational semantics, concepts are mental particulars representing information about objects. For example, concept 'dog' is a mental p...

It's about semantics of concepts. Informational semantics says that meanings of concepts are information.

'Snoopy' and 'dog' are independent atomic concept respectively.

I did, but you forgot.

Many theories of concepts say that concepts have lower level structures, and that concepts can be composed. Conceptual atomism says that concepts can ...

My friend has a nickname called 'quantum mechanics general relativity'.

Your example is not valid one. Of course, 'tuna', 'salad', 'tom' do not compose 'tuna salad tom' conceptually.

You misunderstood. I claim that concepts are atomic.

Do you not see that 'brown' and 'dog' compose 'brown dog'? Compositionality of concepts is one of the important characteristics of concepts. What I am...

What you didn't get is what philosophers of concepts usually talk about. Lexical concepts mean simple vocabulary concepts. 'dog', 'brown', 'cat', 'stu...

Concepts mean lexical concepts. The units are atomic concepts. The structure of 'brown dog' is divided into 'brown' and 'dog'. However, 'brown' itself...

'theory of reference' is not the same as 'idea of reference'.

Concepts are mental particulars.

There are various versions of 'the world is the totality of so-and-so'. Wittgenstein: The world is the totality of facts. Carnap: The world is the tot...

Check out SEP (http://plato.stanford.edu) entry on Quine. Basically, Quine divides existent things into two sorts: physical objects and mathematical o...

The world is the totality of things.

We can distinguish logical possibility from metaphysical possibility. It is possible that Donald Trump is a staff at Kakao Corporation, but it is not ...

How can beings physically identical to conscious beings without consciousness behave like having consciousness?

If p-zombies are identical to conscious beings, how are they different from us?

Platonism is often understood as realist view of abstract objects in contemporary sense. Rudolf Carnap defends the realist view of abstract objects in...

This wasn't a homework assignment. I have tried something as follows: 'The king of France looks red to Russell' = (?x)(Fx & (?y)(Fy ? x = y) & (?z)(Gz...