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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...
December 28, 2025 at 23:02
Again, nuh. An empty domain is consistent with possible world semantics and with S5.
December 28, 2025 at 22:30
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...
December 28, 2025 at 22:26
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...
December 28, 2025 at 21:13
Indeed.
December 28, 2025 at 21:05
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,...
December 28, 2025 at 21:04
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...
December 28, 2025 at 20:33
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...
December 27, 2025 at 21:34
Yep. States of affairs include change. Meta has a conceptual difficulty with limits and infinitesimals, and sometimes pictures states of affairs as de...
December 27, 2025 at 21:09
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 ...
December 27, 2025 at 20:56
: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...
December 27, 2025 at 04:45
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 ...
December 27, 2025 at 03:45
You didn't explain anything. You made a category mistake, confusing idealised description with false description. Physics routinely abstracts stuff li...
December 27, 2025 at 02:47
Seems to me the best way to proceed is by differentiating Combinatorialism and Abstractionism, and at the core the difference is that while Abstractio...
December 27, 2025 at 02:42
If you like, we can include an error: the apple accelerates at 9.8±0.1m/s². Your objection is vacuous.
December 26, 2025 at 21:55
But you've been drunk. (Indeed, perhaps you were when you wrote that...)
December 26, 2025 at 20:58
, 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...
December 26, 2025 at 20:03
Cool. Seems to me you were correct.
December 26, 2025 at 19:57
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...
December 26, 2025 at 19:55
, 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...
December 26, 2025 at 19:32
And now Keep dithering and vacillating and no one can touch you with anything so solid as an argument.
December 26, 2025 at 04:04
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...
December 26, 2025 at 02:41
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...
December 26, 2025 at 02:11
, that chat seem'd to end here: But no, as I said, carry on.
December 26, 2025 at 02:01
Yep!
December 26, 2025 at 01:56
Ok, so have another go at explaining it to me. 'cause I think I do, and everyone else is still sleeping off their Christmas.
December 26, 2025 at 00:52
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...
December 26, 2025 at 00:50
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...
December 26, 2025 at 00:25
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...
December 26, 2025 at 00:19
@"frank", the danger now becomes confusing abstractionism with combinatorialism. But were abstractionism posits only individuals in the actual world, ...
December 26, 2025 at 00:13
: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...
December 26, 2025 at 00:05
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...
December 25, 2025 at 23:48
Here: It rests consciousness on the distinction between "inner" and "outer "- the homunculus arrises! Bitbol wants to make consciousness foundational,...
December 25, 2025 at 23:08
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...
December 25, 2025 at 22:48
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December 25, 2025 at 22:35
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...
December 25, 2025 at 22:27
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...
December 25, 2025 at 21:59
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...
December 25, 2025 at 21:36
:wink: Yep. And we are very pleased that they did. Isn't it odd that we needed to point this out?
December 25, 2025 at 21:21
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...
December 25, 2025 at 21:20
Exactly. And we might add that a state of affairs need not be at an instant, but may be over a period of time.
December 25, 2025 at 21:08
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...
December 25, 2025 at 21:02
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...
December 25, 2025 at 20:56
Meta has dragged the argument over to his misunderstanding of physics. This was I suppose inevitable, given that it underpins much of his miscomprehen...
December 25, 2025 at 20:41
Like most such arguments.
December 25, 2025 at 20:26
Hear, here.
December 25, 2025 at 06:55
Anyway, https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/001/144/673/large/loopydave-dunstan-happy-hogswatch.jpg?1440987443
December 25, 2025 at 04:33
It may be. However the penchant for a modal ontological argument gives me pause.
December 24, 2025 at 23:10
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...
December 24, 2025 at 22:24
: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...
December 24, 2025 at 22:08