Banno

The presuppositions supposedly set out how the world must be in order for us to do science. The transcendental argument at play, for at least some of ...

Are you still in last year?

Hogswatch is traditional 32nd December.

In about seven hours. Tricky, this living in the future.

It would be remise of me not to acknowledge your part in my triumph, Meta. Without you there would have been much less error to expose, and so far few...

Didn't the police talk to you already about following children?

I'm happy not knowing everything. And doing that well. You felt threatened by my joke. Curious. But that's about you.

The fear expressed in that post... it's not mine. It's your own.

...and so I take possession of your soul...

Not I. I'm in a possible world. Meta, by his own admission, lives in the actual world but claims it not to be a possible world. You have us the wrong ...

Is it that there are times in which you do not think that I am a real person because you sometimes think I am not real, or that when you do think abou...

Yep. And all that is needed is an awareness of the assumptions underpinning the use of QR codes. And money is so often an excuse rather than a grounds...

Yes, against the test. That's the point; the test is what does the disabling, literally, by deciding who's in and who is out. The social model is a to...

First a parable. The monkey - let's call him Amadeus - gets the job because of his obvious aptitude, and promptly sets up a fruit stall in a treehouse...

Yeah. Send in the clowns.

The Bardot who works in the fish shop is...?

Then you seem to me to have missed something crucial here. Suppose they are all perfect specimens. Then their inability to achieve is imposed purely b...

Well, yes, what's real is dependent on the task in hand, so the Possibilism-Actualism Debate is pretty superfluous. And i doubt present company will m...

Medical model thinking.

29.9k. If the cut off is in March, I'm well on target.

I very much appreciate this post. Thanks for writing it. The heart of the issue might be as simple as recognising and providing for the variety of hum...

Well, there's a start... :wink: The act is a compromise. The definition of disability is uncompromisingly medical. The legal protection is conditional...

Do you want to go on to the other SEP article, or have we treated it sufficiently? I haven't gone into the detail of the section on Combinatorialism a...

The extension of "Bridgett Bardot" remains Bridgett Bardot, even if she had started a fish shop instead of going into acting.

Ok. I'll not spend time pointing out again that to exist is to be in the domain of discourse. Cheers.

Yes, of course it's a methodological difference. Your possition is philosophically deeper than I initially recognised. You are arguing that the formal...

The critique I've offered was in good faith. This pretence of victimhood you adopt when challenged is unbecoming. Cheers.

Hmm.

That paper relies on treating necessity as causation. It moves from a causal argument about the universe being uncaused to saying nothing is necessary...

Sorry, I think the point was missed again. I would distinguishing modal/metaphysical necessity (what must be the case) from causal dependence (what br...

:grin: But in saying that, was he say that, of all the things that there are, none of them exist in every possible world? Or was he saying of nothing,...

Ok. You are saying something like that metaphysical necessity is not something to assume by a formal framework; it is something to derive from the fra...

So... we agree that metaphysics requires a framework; but you don't see language and logic as a part of that framework but as the conclusion? I must b...

That word, "conceived". What work is it doing here?

Far too broad. Every metaphysical inquiry stipulates a framework (language, identity conditions, modality), argues within that framework, and is answe...

Because extension is about reference. The extension of "Banno" is me. And it was in response to your You really are lost.

Necessity is not causation. I wasn't explicit enough yesterday, so I'll bold it, just to be clear. Aristotle made the distinction. A triangle necessar...

No. But the rest is pretty good.

Yep. Modal logic makes use of extensionality within possible worlds, not the dubious notion of correspondence.

Or one. We might apply Occam at this stage.

Yes, it can be. Better, a way the world might be. Yes, it can. Extensionally, "John is walking" is true IFF john is found in the extension of "...is w...

A pity, since his argument, and the the question of the OP, have model theoretical answers. We have in possible world semantics a clear and coherent g...

Yes! Sad that this has to be said!

No, individual items, not people.

Here's my observation, the contingency of particulars in the actual world; for any individual there is a world in which it does not exist: w? ? ?x?¬E(...

Yep. So that's perhaps not what is being asked. The OP talks of particular things, and god, and by the last paragraph, the difference between the two....

Doubtless. “Only contingency is necessary” looks to be saying much the same as that for any individual we we might think necessary, we might posit a w...

If your account is inconsistent, you need a better account. Do we agree on this, at least? The job given modal logic is to provide a coherent account....

Yep. There is always all sorts of presumed background. In Peno arithmetic, if you like, 2+=2=4. So supposing that something necessarily exists would b...

Yep. If Caesar was a General, even if only for a short time, then it follows that Caesar was a General. Any issues here come form trying to talk about...