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Not seeing much philosophical content. Should be in the Lounge.

Excellent.

Were the USA deserves full credit is the Marshal Plan and the rebuilding of Europe. That was brilliant, the high point for US civilisation. A bit diff...

Actually, it was China and the Soviet Union. The USA came in late and gave itself the credit. But we are not supposed to point this out.

We might sort all this by introducing triangulation, alla Davidson. In that framing, I interpret your beliefs not just in relation to my own, but on t...

That's good, because I hope there are no ships in your head. What little metaphysics I am indulging claims that there are things such as ships, and th...

I responded to your the modal and relational points. Nice, but they don't get a guernsey. Your quote says: "you can't have P and not have Q follow it"...

Yesterday I wrote at length arguing that this was an error.

the history of our interactions in this forum would suggest not.

What does the following say? "...you can't have P and not have Q follow it" I interpret it as "If P, then Q". Hoe do you interpret it, otherwise?

It's basic propositional logic. Your quote does not rely on " how people mean 'entails' in natural language". It gives a clearly truth-functional defi...

There's your problem.

The "you can't have P and not have Q follow it" is "if P is true, then Q is true", that is, P?Q. Now P?Q is not in the list of paradoxes in the Wiki a...

Sure. Better approaches. The entailment used in the podcast is not amongst the so-called paradoxes of material implication. IF the aim is to firm up t...

A brilliant response.

You can't have P and not have Q follow it. If P is true, then Q is also true. Truth functional entailment. Make up your mind. That crows are black wou...

Then your use of "entails" is not truth functional.

Yep.

Without listening to the podcast, if P is a sufficient reason for Q, is the same thing as saying that P entails Q, then every truth is the sufficient ...

I'm very pleased that we've found some agreement. Of course, "counts as" is not merely stipulative, either, in that not just any stipulation will do. ...

Interestingly, it seems we agree in rejecting the phenomenal as in any way foundational. What you here call judgement corresponds closely to what I mi...

Since you asked, in order to save water, our toilets do not usually fill sufficiently to allow the water to spin; a better design evacuates the bowl t...

No. It's rather to take our words seriously, and try to use them consistently. To do metaphysic properly. Anyway, is as analytic as they come. His met...

Of course. They hear hallucinated voices. If we ask those around them if they hear the voices, how do they answer? It is the mark of the misfire impli...

Thanks for showing the folly of reading these issues as purely phenomenal; of trying to understand what is a process embedded in our interactions with...

Your loss. One more mango for me.

Of course that doesn't follow. Our language games are embedded in the world, not determinate of it. Your proposal is something like, reality ? judgmen...

Come down and find out for yourself.

Special pleading. The judgement and the fact are the very same. An answer that repeats the question is not an answer. Such judgements appear to be a l...

Indeed, the longest day of the year is a profound event. The sun itself marks the occasion by rising early and setting late. Surrounded as New Year is...

Ok. That's fine. Is a glass of 99.8% H2O, 10ppm Na, 30 ppm Ca, 2 ppm Mg, 5 ppm SO4, 25 ppm Cl, 30 ppm HCO3, 0.1 ppm Fe, 300 ppm HDO, and 20 ppm D2O, a...

. , what if we revers the wording - is a glass of pure H?O a glass of water? I say yes. What say you?

I can't follow that. Is there a typo? Something is necessarily true iff it is tru in every case. Hence, if it is false in a given case, it cannot be n...

Not at all sure why you would suppose that. Possible worlds are arrangements of how things might be, in logical space, which is pretty exactly in keep...

You are welcome, as Americans say, but I didn't do any more in that last post than repeat myself. I'll try one more time. You are reading this now. We...

Yep, spot on. Searle was Austin's student, but took Austin's ideas in an interesting although perhaps overly formal direction in the interest of makin...

Now we are well into all the usual muddle that the idea that what we see isn't the thing but a mental-image-of-the-thing brings with it. Folks, when y...

Ok, think about the logical space of the Tractatus. In that space, any proposition can be stated. Amongst those propositions are some which happen to ...

Yes, but that only applies to people silly enough to leave a child unattended near dingoes.

Yes, I can see your discomfort. Can we perhaps work on that? §80 and §81 concern the extensibility of language. In §80 he is showing how natural langu...

That seems to me, again, to be unnecessarily hanging on to an outmoded presentation of what is going on. Yep. The difference in science is not in the ...

Percepts, in such an account, would be some stage in various layers of Markov blankets, just one of the levels of the internal states within the neste...

They're not intenced as such. Your claim concerned what "most indirect realists believe", but there is no evidence on which this might be based. Here'...

Unless I am Berti Bannon. I think that a proud moniker. ...exactly what you would say... as a Turk working for the Russians to undermine the resolve o...

:rofl: This suits China down to the ground! Xi says major countries should take lead in abiding by int'l law, UN Charter

Dow Nunder, it's be

, brings to mind C S Lewis's hall with many doors, and the idea that it doesn't matter which you choose... Dubious, to my eyes. But then I don't get t...

I don't see it. Can you explain how?

... and the claims of having a Russian spouse... I don't think so.

:chin: I always suspected @"Jamal" wasn't much of a name for a true Scotsman...