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Implicit in this is a false dichotomy: that there is a difference between knowing the meaning of the word and knowing how to use the word. If someone ...

More generally, Unionisation is a just reaction to incorporation. Capitalists group together in order to limit their exposure, and are protected by la...

The Gurindji strike, 1966 lasted from 1966 to 1975. Extraordinary patience.

Ok. Again, your scenario allows for removal of all group supports until the individual eventually decides not to follow the group. You want, perhaps, ...

Because "we can always add something". So whatever solution is added can be dismissed by mere fiat. As in, no, the union does not provide income suppo...

Yep.

Any with a Labour Party. They are the places that developed a full relation between labour and policy. I agree with you that it's crying shame the US ...

The United States is not the best example of how unionisation works. And it's not difficult to formulate intractable moral issues. They are not as inf...

Well, first, Kudos to you for your persistence. These are not easy ideas, and it is pleasing to see someone who is determined to work through an exten...

It's often a different conversation about something more useful.

Perhaps this discussion should go back to the Essence and Modality: Kit Fine rather than in a thread on Belief? We seem to be heading back to that dis...

You must be familiar with Kripke's point, that we do not need to know the essence of some individual in order to refer to that individual?

That some words are names does not imply that all words are names. Also from §38: "— If you don’t want to produce confusion, then it is best not to sa...

Pretty well. But of course that does not meant that there are no objects, or that they do not have edges.

So what happened? A few folk provided their own lists of synonyms, then the thread petered out. Providing a definition is not doing philosophy, anymor...

You seem stuck on naming. It's no wonder, then, that you are having so much difficulty. Stop looking for what is named and instead look at what is bei...

Why need there be a something that is being named? What does "Ouch!" name? Perhaps the game is not one of naming at all.

That's not right. The oxygen and the nitrogen of the air of the room you are in occupy the same location - your room. They are not the same object. An...

There are reasons that the Cogito is difficult to parse logically; and why, when it is so parsed, say into free logic, it is invalid. Given that, what...

Something from elsewhere: (edited) The relevance is in showing how the section around §242 is a lead in to the private language argument.

(2) and (4) are the interlocutor. Otherwise, the "Yes, but all the same..." makes no sense, nor do the m-dashes. Feynman perhaps misses that there is ...

That you ask this perhaps shows how badly we are talking past each other. I am happy to agree that I do not have a clear idea of what an essence is. B...

What fun! At stake is the very notion of symmetry. The ubiquitous example is two identical iron balls in an otherwise empty universe. Or is that one b...

I'm pleased that at least someone saw the problem. Rationality is not completely absent here.

https://www.aruma.com.au/about-us/blog/two-words-you-need-to-remove-from-your-vocabulary/

Pretty ugly word.

My suspicion is that if you need to refer to electrons to explain touch, you’ve gone astray somewhere. Not sure where.

more oregano.

Quite easily. We use terms for which we don't have ready definitions all the time. That's why we need dictionaries, and why good ones are so difficult...

In 'straylian, "slab" is a carton of beer. 24 tinnies. I wonder what Aristotle would make of that? A nice derangement of epitaphs? The upshot being th...

I don't think I said that - anywhere. No, he doesn't. He thinks that we would be better served considering use rather than essence. Hence sharp scisso...

Definitions are a post hoc invention.

I'd use the term, and encourage them to use it, so the child can see how it is used. Early and often. But yep, unhelpful. I'll leave my comments there...

Ok.

Well... The post at https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/834084 wasn't directed specifically at you. I was simply making a general observ...

A modal definition - it's a slab if it has slabbyness in every possible world? Or is it enough for it to have slabbiness in this possible world? Or it...

My answer to all: There's a way of understanding each, that is not given by setting out their definitions in words but seen in the way they are used. ...

That's a very good point. S0 we have: It's an unusual phrasing, but isn't it clear enough? "That's not true" would be a happier wording. Interesting. ...

Images of a builder calling "Slab" and the assistant saying "...not until you set out the essence of slabbness".

No. You are not appealing to any such thing by choosing a Philips head. One does not need a clear definition of a Philips head screwdriver in order to...

The contention I criticises was that logic consists in the preservation of truth. I pointed out that parts of logic do not involve truth. For example ...

Well, I gave the example of scissors before, and you met it with some irrelevancies. I made the point that what counts as "better" depends on what one...

The next sentence is "Different logics disagree about which argument forms are valid". There is some considerable subtlety here. Russell is playing wi...

This is very interesting. I find myself wondering why "The right thing to do is apologise" should not have a truth-value. And so I find myself here so...

I've explained, a few times, I think, how it seems to me that you misinterpret this. I must be misunderstanding you. You seem to be implying that the ...

This has degenerated into rhetoric rather than anything interesting. Take a look at Gillian Russell's work. Let me know what you think.

Well, that would mean that, say, an uninterpreted explication of propositional calculus does not count as part of logic. The point here is just that l...

Trouble is, truth does not enter into formal systems until they are given an interpretation. That is, there are logical systems that do not involve tr...

Now this is sounding like an esoteric cult.