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Yeah, the Wiki page is pretty dreadful, too obtuse. I re-read the SEP article and browsed a couple of Davidson's papers before posting: Indeterminism ...

It just says that one cannot be certain as to which name refers to which thing. Not so much about multiple words for the same thing so much as one wor...

I'll leave this chat there. I'm not following you at all, again.

I pretty much agree with Malet. It's perhaps easier to hope its all in your imagination if you are stuck in a basement in Moscow rather than pumping w...

Where?

Just the usual. That you continue this conversation implies all sorts of expectations and assumptions on your part. Like that you understood my reply,...

Did someone suggest that?

Then I havn't understood your post. That's fairly normal. What bit of your post is where you think we differ?

Ok. Are we in agreement? Might be a first!

We went over that previously. Yes, Pegasus exists, in that Pegasus is the subject of a quantification. But nothing in that proof implies that Pegasus ...

Yep. As your asking me that very question implies that you understood my post and what to do about it. Doubt sits in a background of certainty. That's...

Me either. It should be 2 is a number Therefore there are numbers. Hence numbers exist. Which is an instance of f(a) ? ?x(f(x)) I thought we'd agreed ...

Well, there's a quibble here about what it is to express something. I don't think we've said something that is ineffable. We might have waved at somet...

Well, if you want disagreement, then I'll disagree with this: Numbers exist. 2 is a number, therefore there are numbers. But it is difficult to make s...

Are we arguing? I thought we were agreeing.

Hmm. So you doubt your senses. Therefore you have senses. And you have doubt. Indeed, doubting requires a foundation from which to doubt. That you ask...

Well, he wasn't wrong.

@"Arcane Sandwich" has agreed with a part of what I had to say. He focused on that we can treat them as individuals in virtue of being able to quantif...

:wink: Yep. Surprise, agreement and error - the trinity of realism.

Australia finally has fuel efficiency standards. Or at least, it will tomorrow.

Yeah, ok. Tough. A couple of caveats should tide you over. It's not an issue of much import. You know about New Australia? Paraguay had more success a...

You'd like me to set out what sort of things re inexpressible? To give reasons for the ineffable? To answer for Wittgenstein the question I asked you?...

You described Bung as introducing a relational operator for existence. I hope I shed some doubt on the necessity of doing so, by describing ontologica...

Cheers. It's not me who is worked up. I am unable to make sense of your notion of the thing in itself. It's obviously important to you, but to me is a...

Yeah, I did it. I planted the Eucalypts. Australia had a unique biome at colonisation. In urban areas, much of that has been replaced by European, and...

If the butterflies-in-themselves are never seen, then he's probably right, and we can't say in which direction they fly. But we don't seem to need but...

It'd be https://www.umsu.de/trees/#Gp,~6x~3((Gx~5Ax)~1(Ax~5Gx))|=~3Ap

Try https://www.umsu.de/trees/#~6x~3((Gx~5Ax)~1(Ax~5Gx))

Of course.

is just U(x)~((Gx?Ax) & (Ax?Gx)) Looks fine. Cheers. Good chat.

"Pegasus exists (is an item of) the domain of Greek mythology" looks to be a round about way to say that Pegasus is a myth. But we can do that without...

Husserl can't see the butterflies?

Oh, no rush; indeed no obligation. Respond, or not, at your leisure. Go to bed! Thanks for clarifying re Quine.

Do you think that the analysis you offered here is much different from what I offered ? Becasue I don't think it is. I must have misunderstood you. Yo...

That doesn't chime with my understanding. Did you mean ?! ? But that's not a quantifier. Quine certainly used quantification, to the extent that quest...

Thanks. By way of continuing the example, here's how I might parse the same sort of thing. Pegasus is an individual in the domain we are discussing. S...

Only because you won't shut up... :wink: See https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15574/is-the-distinction-between-metaphysical-realism-anti-real...

I would have been happier with an example that was a long way form philosophy - to look at how these terms are used in their natural environment, as i...

They are on much the same. Yes, to say. And yet there is gold in those hills, even if no one says it.

I haven't followed Bung, and you provide no reference, so I've no clear idea what he might be saying, but that sounds like a variation on free logic. ...

Thanks for replying to my old post. Just briefly, here is the argument I presented. We start with the butterfly moving from left to right for @"Wayfar...

:meh: How is that salient? I agree. Free logic. Not used here. Sure. Quine's point being that treating that ? exists is just to say it is the value of...

I just don't see any of that as helpful. ? in't imagined, it's r/c. To say that ? exists is just to say it is the value of a bound variable. ?(x)(x=r/...

Ok. I can't see that saying ? is a fiction is any better than saying it is the subject of a quantification. Indeed, that ? is the ratio of the diamete...

Nice. That catches something of the drift.

Ok. I'll leave you to that.

What's that, then? See

Sure, one doesn't need to use imaginary numbers to count apples. Why should that make them more or less real than integers? Moreover, what does "real"...

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/applications-of-imaginary-numbers-in-real-life/

I have a friend who's legs were removed curtesy of the US military using an old cluster bomb. He sometimes finds himself, on waking, checking that the...