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In Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory the axiom of regularity rules out a set being a member of itself. Problems occur if you consider the elements of a set ...

dx/dy. QED.

Part of why theistic systems are muddled.

Hm... How do you go about telling these two apart? What is fact, what is opinion? Maybe there is some hope for this thread.

Who's opinion ought I express, if not my own? There was a bit more than mere expression of an opinion involved. I brought both Wittgenstein and Austin...

None of which changes the fact that the posts here are mostly rubbish. For reasons given.

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It's called a counter-example. If you don't understand that, I don't think I can help you, . Cheers.

:wink: Nice.

Thanks for attempting an account. I don't see it as anywhere near adequate. Indeed, it looks muddled. In the first paragraph it talks of "existence" b...

Bye.

Fair.

OK. Turns out the rules don't need to be re-written.

So the rules need re-writing. Why is this not in the lounge?

Yep.

Well you, it seems, for starters. Ever read Al Jazeera?

Well, whereof one cannot speak, thereof one can make shite up, I supose. But I prefer admitting our limits to such pretence. What remains is that some...

@"jgill" is quite right that the topic is complex. In particular, what it is to be a cause has remained fraught throughout this thread, and the logic ...

I gather it's intended to be something like ?x?yCyx ? ?x¬?yCyx 'For all x there is some y such that y caused x, or there is an x such that there is no...

Because I care about philosophy, and would like to see it done well. had expressed some disillusionment with Philosophy as compared to Maths. it was s...

I don't think it objectionable so much as incoherent. Platonism is the error of reifying grammar. I have nothing in my pocket - you can have it for a ...

I feel the need to point out that the folk here are not philosophers, and that the rubbish on this thread is no more philosophy than the random unfoun...

It's hard enough to track paradigms in the sciences, where they are supposedly at home. Philosophy and art are usually, and perhaps better traced in t...

Isn't that the very nature of ethics? How we ought treat others?

Yep. Mere wordplay.

Think about that. So the concept seven, the concept money, the concept chalk, the concept galaxy - these are all and each, experiences? And the concep...

In making the division between mind and body, one renders the two incommensurate. So it is disingenuous to then complain that you can't put them back ...

It's a common misapprehension. Many folk think Gettier "broke" a central idea in philosophy, but as so often, the situation was much more complicated....

Few folk have ever held justified true belief to be both sufficient and necessary conditions for knowledge. Not even Socrates thought it adequate, and...

:blush: A glimmer of clarity in the gloom...

what are concepts, apart from the words you use? If I string words together, do I thereby make a new concept? Ostracised nothingness? Absolute parrici...

That ends any further conversation, then. Cheers.

language on holiday.

It's more like "democratic chalk", a mere concatenation of words, with the folk hereabouts puzzling over what it might mean; as if meaning were someth...

Nice icon.

Your explanation touches upon some important concepts in logic, but there are a couple of points that could be clarified. Logic and Individuals: In cl...

"=" is the sense we were using, the one used in mathematics and logic, which is a predicate ranging over individuals. "a=b" will be true if and only i...

Thank you for that; an interesting read. Indeed, the issue is one of pedagogy more than of mathematics. Perhaps does "conceive of 0.999... dynamically...

"0.999..." and "1" represent exactly the same number.

Interestingly, your many mathematical expressions contain only a finite number of elements, yet set out infinite sequences. A simple expression such a...

Like "games"?

Yep.

Perhaps you are wearing "essentialist" glasses, seeing everything only in those terms.

Yeah. Not at all problematic. Why? As in, why must they consider the issue in terms of essence at all? What's the advantage? Edit; meh. Too far off to...

One wonders why. Might it not be that the notion of essence is itself problematic? And if it is not problematic, then please, set it out for us. (It's...

I don't think the direction this thread is headed is of much help in understanding physicalism, so I had walked away, but I will make a few comments b...