Banno

:wink: What and are proposing is important - but it is also just froth.

Yep. But that's not to stop you from doing. Shut up and calculate. :wink:

That seems to be pretty much what I have been arguing. So we might proceed by looking at examples. But your high "C" will not do, becasue the singer b...

If something is inexpressible, then by that very fact one cannot say why... Doing so would be to give expression to the inexpressible. In the end, pas...

This is much the same point , in continuing @"Wayfarer"'s story . Science proceeds not by ignoring first-person accounts but by looking for common gro...

Not my words. Probably, but so what. Any amount of social or psychological explanation for Banno's foibles will not change the veracity and validity o...

What troubles me is the presumption to knowledge - justified true beliefs - in the absence of a coherent way of providing a justification. Which of co...

Yep. I'll add that the existential generalisation described in my previous post is at the least a first point of agreement, something that holds for u...

And they both might have continued by saying that the method of questioning that is appropriate is that of physics, not that of philosophy. And I'd ag...

I'd suggest that this is not a good question to ask, becasue it presumes that there are different kinds of existence. But if we take Quine as a guide,...

I quite agree, and take that to be one of the main themes of the Investigations - that what cannot be said may be shown or done.

, , you are about to go Quantum, aren't you. The point being made in my post is that there is a difference in method between finding the value of ? an...

I'm pleased you got the joke. My general opinion of @"Wayfarer" is that we agree about most things, but that he adds more than is needed; where silenc...

You've read more than I, then, since my knowledge is from the commentaries rather than the original, and mostly as an example of the application of th...

And that is the question I answered. I gather I need to be more explicit. You gave the following as yout definition... There are mathematical objects ...

Well done!

What one believes, desires, feels or cares about will still be there, even if one is honest.

:wink: My objections just show that you are right.

Yes, indeed - and hereabouts so many of the discussions of existence, essence, and what is real would benefit from simply understanding quantification...

:grin: If you like. You insist on telling us, at great length, about the ineffable. Fair enough. I'll continue to point out that you haven't, thereby,...

Everything is a conflict between science and religion, for . Here we are talking about Mathematics, and he must introduce god, but not in so many word...

It might be interesting to check again. I'd just read this: The theme, one that may be becoming prevalent, is that post modernism has noticed that not...

It's not as if we must choose and stick to only the quantificational interpretation, or alternately we must only ever use the substitutional interpret...

Sure, all that, there might be a more accomodating reading of what I said above that can be made compatible with Platonic texts. The difference is tha...

You can think that, if it suits your narrative.

I've no idea what a Platonic realm might comprise— why would you ask me? Indeed, why ask at all, since the notion of a Platonic realm is fantasy.

Rather, these CAN be understood as constructs. If you feel you need to include, in addition, a god or a platonic realm or whatever, then that's your c...

This is a good question. What the Fibonacci sequence gives us is a way of talking about the things you picture. It doesn't provide an explanation of w...

Yes. But we can go further than Popper. This, and this, and that, all count as one of something. These, and those, as two. That's an intentional act o...

Perhaps there's an oddity to do with the way folk think of "mind-dependent", such that they are thinking of individual minds, or their own mind. It mi...

Indeed, I did not address it, becasue I had done so previously. The repetition is tiresome.

Of course there is.

Yes, because that's what we do. Presumably the sort that don't interact with the world are pure maths, the ones that do, applied.

'Counts as..." doesn't change the words to match the world, but the world to match the words. So "That counts as a duck" makes that thing a duck, an a...

Yep.

, Popper is unconvincing on the ontology of world 3. Searle begins to answer this with his account of institutional facts and collective intentionalit...

If you like. Much like I'm not so keen.

(p & ~p)?q. That's all.

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Sure. It's just easy to say it with word than with ducks, or rabbits, or some combination. But folk will use that to go all Hegelian.

Roughly, philosophy does the conceptual stuff and psychology does the empirical stuff. Whether we "learn that the practice of counting as", as you ask...

Repeating the same error does not correct it.

Tania Mihailuk joins exodus from One Nation, leaving Pauline Hanson’s party without representation in NSW How sad.

I noticed that. Arguably the remnants of the Australian Country Party suffer from a poor combination of honesty and ignorance. And poor judgement.

Broken Hill fiasco shows why we need to rethink the grid, and turn it upside down

I take that as a psychological or neurological question. Arguably neural nets are built in order to continue in some pattern - to "predict" is how it ...

Construction requires something to construct from. Not just any consistent narrative will do. One needs to check that the narrative works. So sometime...

It's a cliché, but "counts as" expresses a hinge, where language and the world meet - "fdrake" counts as a reference to fdrake. It's what we do, a hab...

I'd be happier if you said "...to construct the real".

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