That something is necessary for the sake of other things does not automatically mean it is metaphysically necessary in the strict sense. There's a sma...
Trouble is, any individual can be made contingent by adding a world where it does not exist. So to specify, for some individual, that there is no worl...
Yes, from what I've understood he uses it as a stepping stone towards dropping meaning in favour of use. So if we think in terms of the meaning of a s...
There's that slip back into object-property ontology, again. Have a go at reconsidering what you have written here using an extensional logic instead,...
A couple of things. Actions are usually differentiated from events, such that an action requires an actor and is intended by that actor. So your turni...
Cheers. I hope they are worth the effort. Yep. There is something quite odd about such ghost-apples. Rather, of all the possible states of affairs, th...
Yep. States of affairs include change. Meta has a conceptual difficulty with limits and infinitesimals, and sometimes pictures states of affairs as de...
An eloquent appraisal. Your differentiation of the three looks pretty much right to me. I'm not keen on any of the three. I've mentioned that the use ...
:grin: The state of affairs is that the apple is on the table. It is, for the purposes of the Abstractionist, an abstract object. It is not a descript...
When the point you are making changes with your every post, it's not neglect. And when you contradict yourself in the one paragraph - as were you say ...
You didn't explain anything. You made a category mistake, confusing idealised description with false description. Physics routinely abstracts stuff li...
Seems to me the best way to proceed is by differentiating Combinatorialism and Abstractionism, and at the core the difference is that while Abstractio...
, we observe the apple falling to the ground, over a period of time, and accelerating at 9.8m/s². The state of affairs is an apple falling with an acc...
In w?? the set of apples is empty. In first order logical terms, there is no extension to "...is an apple". In first-order logic predicates by themsel...
, and "There are no apples on the table" is the same question in any world. Giving a set-theoretical response, if it is true in the actual world there...
Well, the core criticism here might be much the same as Wittgenstein levelled at his own work, the Tractaus. But better to set out what the combinator...
You’re importing a picture that does most of the work for you, then blaming states of affairs for its consequences. First, the idea that a ‘state’ mus...
Yeah, increasingly I take it that the common error here is the "maximally inclusive situation". At its heart it's the idea that we might list every se...
And this was the point of our walk through the mountains toward the sea - to give an account of how it hasn't been forgotten, but how it is inadequate...
Yeah, there is - that we must begin with consciousness. Have you noticed the push-back against Buddhism as it is so often viewed by the west, in the l...
@"frank", the danger now becomes confusing abstractionism with combinatorialism. But were abstractionism posits only individuals in the actual world, ...
:angry: No, my target is not just "res cogitans" but foundationalism, the view that there is at most one correct view. and then the supplement that, t...
I will. I don't see a misreading. Yet consciousness is a response to the world in which it arrises. There's the Cartesian temptation to choose some on...
Here: It rests consciousness on the distinction between "inner" and "outer "- the homunculus arrises! Bitbol wants to make consciousness foundational,...
Banno of course would point out that this is muddled, that we are inherently social beasties, and that our place in the world is not that of a homuncu...
It's unfortunate that we have now gone back to some really basic stuff. The "spectre" of the possible-but-not-actual appears to upset some folk. State...
Nonsense. A state of affairs can set out what happens over time. The term "state of affairs" is perhaps first found in the Tractatus, or in Russell. T...
The term"obtain" has misled you here. Try re-working this in terms of possible worlds. w? : The apple is not on the table w? : The apple is on the tab...
This apparently presumes only one possible world. We cannot have a possible world in which (i) and (ii) are both true. We can have w? in which there i...
In this and what follows, it would pay to make clear in which world the apple exists. That was the bit we discussed way back where truth and existence...
If that were so, then we could ask which apple is not on the table. But “there is no apple on the table” is not about an individual apple. But the sen...
Meta has dragged the argument over to his misunderstanding of physics. This was I suppose inevitable, given that it underpins much of his miscomprehen...
maybe take care here, too. Why shouldn't a state of affairs list the positions some object occupies over time? As, 'The ball rolled east at 2m/s'? Met...
:rofl: If your argument cannot be expressed clearly, then the obvious implication is that it is unsound. Again, S4 and S5 and derivatives have been sh...
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