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Isn't that oddly passive? A bit like puzzling over how the Philips Head driver just happens to fit a Philips head screw. We use language so that we ca...

I should have put this here: If God does not exist, then it is false that if I pray, then my prayers will be answered. So I do not pray. Therefore God...

Well, the little evidence I could find says otherwise. Here's an Ngram of interest. https://i.ibb.co/dKhWfnw/image.png The point is moot, since it is ...

A new term to me - no mentions in SEP or in IEP. Not just no article, but no use of the phrase. so I googled it. A couple of blogs, none of them very ...

's true, that.

Hmm. Pragmatism over all.

:razz: But what Russell is doing is a bit beyond all this - the next generation, if you will. She is considering: To be a law of logic, a principle mu...

Oh, and there are paraconsistent logics that are being used in non-woo quantum mechanics. It is a thing.

Yep, interesting stuff. In classical logic, A,~A ? B (From A and not A you can derive whatever you want). This would cause all sorts of problems. Para...

Yep - although the rigour is predominantly provided by mathematics rather than syllogism. And I sympathise with the conceit that science is essentiall...

Ohh, thank god! The horror! I was having such visions...

Goodness, that goes back a bit. I'd quite forgotten that thread. And a whole section was missing from the OP - I fixed it. Thanks.

I'm not sure what in Hack you are pointing to, but Feyerabend was an anti-science hero of the left, so there are probably some crossovers with Hack. A...

:lol: Welcome back. The thread became denecrotised as a result of a discussion elsewhere. This?

Yeah, and I think Wittgenstein would agree with you that it was a mistake. But for elsewhere. And yeah, there is something of modality in the Tractatu...

Both interesting questions. I don't have an answer - this is a developing area of enquiry. Russell borrows lemma incorporation from Lakatos, who was s...

It's where I came in. "One might see this as setting aside the "assertoric" aspect of the sentence in order to deal with other aspects of its structur...

Cheers. Leon. Sometime, take a read of the Russell article and maybe address it.

Meh. it ain't just me up this tree.

Perhaps. In part it come back to the place of the "?".... "We know that..." "It might be that...." "We believe that..." Just trying to get back on tas...

Cheers, Leon. That topic pretty much moved over to Logical Nihilism

You quote yourself more often than is healthy.

Continuing: The basic idea seems to be that modal statements say something, and can be true, so there must be a something to which they correspond - a...

That confusion was addressed in PI. But on that, as I recall, you disagree. The SEP article that @"frank" introduced has arguments - section 1.2 - for...

Well, no, I didn't, and the folk here are competent enough to understand the difference between "It's far from obvious that states of affairs are help...

Yep. I commented earlier that the emphasis hereabouts is Tractarian. The picture sitting between the statements and the world. It doesn't solve the pr...

Well, yes. What a statement sets out is a particular situation in the world. Do you then have three things, the true statement, the situation in the w...

SO how does a state of affairs differ from that which a statement sets out?

This is presumably non-trivial. What empirical inference made from observation of the real world is involved?

Wait... cooking a Greek Salad...?

Have you ever noticed that when someone sets out a state of affairs, they do it by setting out a statement? It's far from obvious that states of affai...

Yep.

You're welcome. (I've had a look around your recent essay - respect for putting the effort into an extended argument such as that, and taking the time...

That god is but doesn't exist? Just shows how very special you are...

Funny how muddled talk of god becomes. Best avoided.

Sure, all that is so. But 24 out of 1733. Here's the data, specifying not just the target group, for those specialising in continental philosophy in E...

The thing-in-itself is a cousin of Antigonish. The poem folds word over on themselves, talking about that about which we can say nothing. Quite witty,...

The meta data is available on the site, and can be broken down by nationality.

Something exists if it is in the domain of discourse. Frodo walked into Mordor, therefore there is something that walked into Mordor. Something is rea...

The only being that exists in every possible world is the oxymoron.

You're fixed on essentialism. It is clear that, ruling out mysticism, a blastocyst is not a person. Abortions on demand at least in early pregnancy ar...

Odd, this turn of phrase. Lucky for me? No. Since I am here it is inevitable that some zygote survived. No luck involved, just bland necessity. Any ot...

Well, ethics is about what we do. And I'm off to an art exhibit and lunch with friends. Not something that can be done with a zygote.

Oh, you are talking about the images? Yes, four different images. Images do not generally have rights, I believe - but you would know more about that....

They share some rights. In some, they may differ. Why do you ask? Do you disagree with ??

Dude, nothing in what I said limits abortion in that way. I would agree with "on demand" in at least the first trimester, and leave further restrictio...

Yeah. That sentence is about you. Here is a person: https://cdn.create.vista.com/api/media/small/250363326/stock-photo-smiling-attractive-woman-white-...

Which casts into doubt your capacity to recognise a good argument. We (you and I) seem to be mostly in agreement as to what ought be done. But you var...

Yeah, he lost me too.