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What twaddle.

Ok. We need to keep the quantification in line - again, there is a difference between any apple and a particular apple and the apple I didn't eat need...

Nice. Such an individual immediately brings about modal collapse, since p??p. What we have is further reason of rejection the notion of essence as res...

We need to take care here. Here is a way in to talk about essences that make sense: the essence of some individual is those properties that it has in ...

For Plantinga, individuals are identified across worlds by their haecceities, not by their kind membership, a “different apple” in another world isn’t...

No. The apple can't be a mere mental state because we are now each talking about the very same apple, and your mental states are not my mental states....

I'll have a bit of a bitch about Plantinge awhile we are here. It seems to me that Plantiga takes a way of talking and turns it into a thing. Suppose ...

Yep. Yep. We might be clearer about Plantinga’s view. It's not primarily about properties like “being an apple”. It is about individual essences (haec...

See how the sentence you keep quoting begins with "Say that...". Why? Here's the whole paragraph: See how the single line you quote is part two of fou...

Cheers.

Why, when the article we are reading clearly uses the semantic theory, and with good reason, is this even worth mentioning? I prefer pistachio nougat ...

:grin: "Anecdotal evidence reliable? One man says 'yes!'"

I gave evidence earlier that this is not quite so; it's a relatively recent development, consequent on the development of the modern medical system.

I don't know how to reply to that. It's not clear to me where you want to go with what you have said. Correspondence is not a deflationary theory of t...

For the read-through, I think we are up to 2.2.3 Actuality and Actualism.

This thread was set up specifically to work through the two articles. Look: I've said previously that before we embark on a critique of the implicatio...

Sometimes. Ethics is not algorithmic.

Well, yes - you'd have to change your mind... :wink: Wouldn't it benefit your organisation to find out why it hasn't attracted anyone, over the last t...

It is a classic, straight-forward example of the Medical Model. The Equality Act definition makes disability depend on "an impairment (physical or men...

Nuh. I reject your arguments because they are muddled. Take: It contains at least a half-dozen compounding errors. There are infinite sets, and indeed...

Indeed, but very clearly what is being used in modal logic is a semantic theory of truth. Well, we can use Kaplan's account, if you like. It's an exte...

, , keep in mind that a rigid designator only refers to an individual in those possible worlds in which that individual exists. If Homer didn't exist,...

Yep. Bullshit.

And the one being used in the article is Tarski’s Truth Definition.

It's good - it brought out another aspect into my response to the article. The SEP article presumes maximally complete worlds, but the logical work th...

What, exactly, is not possible? Have you an argument to go along with that? And what of it - we are using Tarski's semantics, not correspondence. I pr...

The word "learning" is problematic. It'd be better to say "the causal chain is a chain of people using the name to refer to Aristotle correctly. “Lear...

Yep. Yes, I think so. The point - lost on some - is that the logic is much the same. That'd just make yet another possible world, with some characters...

Yep. Jamal was very generous with giving Bob enough rope. The result was inevitable.

While what you say is mostly correct, his views were in the end small and nasty.

No! What you learned is irrelevant. You heard someone use the word Aristotle, and you started to use the word; and crucially, you would be talking abo...

Yep - treating it as a possible world, and truth as true-in-a-world. "unqualified" is problematic; we can take this world, the one we are in, to be w?...

I don't think so, but I'm not sure... The idea is somewhat ill-formed, but it's related to the idea that some differences make no difference. I need t...

You pretend your already repudiated arguments were adequate. They are not.

This rather depends on how one understands "determinism". Determinism is a thesis about law-governed evolution within a world, not about the space of ...

That's the role of w?. You answered your own question, I think. I've again got "A nice derangement of epitaphs" in the back of my mind here. A referen...

Given that one in six folk have a disability, your organisation might do well to reconsider it's clientele and hiring strategy. Or is your accessible ...

While what you say might be so, it remains that the common thread in Bob's justification of racism, homophobia and transphobia was a form essentialism...

As you wish. On the account given here we make sense of existence within worlds. Frodo is a Hobbit - h(a). By existential generalisation there is some...

The logic itself is (almost) metaphysically neutral. The concrete approach is one interpretation among many. And the answers to your questions will de...

You are babbling. Kripke showed how give truth conditions for modal claims using Tarski's semantics.

See the Island Universe for a related reflection.

Yep.

This thread reeks of Americans being surprised that their values are not universal.

Yep. Nice. It's a neat point to put pressure on. The simple answer is that the possible worlds are in w?, the actual world. But all this means is that...

@"frank" One last word on intensionality for Abstractionism, concerning that paragraph about methodology. We saw earlier how speaking roughly, the int...

@"frank", it's clear and got lost somewhere. I'm not going back for Meta, who will double down and object to whatever is suggested. Relativist might c...

Again, that's explained in AW1. But you claim to have read and understood that... :roll: How can you expect to be taken seriously?

I'd sugest you go back and read that section.

No allusion. I was quite specific. Yep. I've pointed this out, several times. see for example