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Mixed domains. "Universe" is a metaphysical notion, while "world" is a logical notion. They do not have the same use. "Universe" is a term used by phy...

Formal logic clearly differentiates semantics and syntax. At the core it's the difference between strings of letters in an accepted order and what tho...

Uses for modal logic In philosophy In engineering

It's not my interpretation. It's the consequence of possible world semantics and the associated modal logic. That's just you asserting, again, that ~(...

From a week ago... What happened here is that you attempted a critique of modal logic without first getting an idea of how it works. When I attempt to...

No. It really would help if you read some logic.

, , I suspect I don't disagree, which is most disagreeable. But I'm not confident that I understood what you said, so I may be wrong.

"The universe is not composed of true statements" contains no indexical expressions. It contains no indexical terms (no “I”, “here”, “now”, “actual”, ...

Can I sugest Boxes and diamonds: An open introduction to Modal Logic as a companion to this thread. HTML at https://bd.openlogicproject.org/bd-screen....

We are stipulating that that one world is the actual world, not deducing it. Any world can counted as w?. It's built in, not contradictory. There is n...

Not down here. It's not a live chat. It's just a conversation like a regular ChatGPT page, but with the AI interjecting.

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:roll: It doesn't.

"Intersectionality", as it's called. Central to both the social and critical models of disability, but external to the medical model.

Fine. Bear in mind that what I said here is in response to a request. In my opinion, the social security system in the US is appalling.

I can go in to the deficiencies of the US social security system in more detail, if that's where you want to go. That's usually seen negatively, as ba...

Yeah, not so much. Leaves me pretty cold, really. :grimace:

These are people she has met personally. And yes, we have also been involved in exposing scams.

Come on, you know me better. Not I, Wife. I'm not posturing, I'm pointing to a problem. And you did ask.

We've sent aid packages to folk we know in the US who have not been able to get the support they need. Yeah, I know. Shocking. Not what we see, on var...

Risible. One of the possible worlds is the actual world. Either that, or the actual world is not possible.

Analytic philosophy is a broad church. But that last paragaph is somewhat ambiguous. You see qualia as a way of undermining Chalmers? But for him the ...

I keep seeing "right winger" as "right whinger". There's something very deep in that. Yep. Tolerance is often insufficient. It will not do to simply t...

Yep. This is formalised by accessibility relations. metaphysically, before the race is run, both the worlds in which you win and those in which you do...

I don't think so. Rather what you see as epistemic - an inability to know if someone is conscious - is the result of thinking about a family of relate...

Thanks for doing your homework... :wink: For what it's wort, the NDIS here differentiates disability/impairment on the one hand form medical issues on...

Again, again, again, That's not what is being proposed. Any of the possible worlds could be the actual world - hence, "there is no modal difference be...

So we accept a poor definition over contemplating that consciousness is an ambivalent notion? In first aid we are taught to test to see if someone is ...

Thank you.

As if we could not talk about the actual world. Because, as explained many times, it's not the semantic model that shows which possible world is actua...

The family apocryphal is that my nephew's first words, at age three, were "Hey, Look! There's a Christmas Tree!" He grew up OK.

A bit of a stretch, maybe. But there is a respect for persons in, say Nussbaum and Witt, both classists, that is not found in what passes for Aristote...

Fair. We don't have your background.

There's a huge body of critical theory relating to disability. "Crip theory" in particular. Given the response to the pretty modest proposals in the O...

Seems simple enough. For the staff, one grumpy patient. For the man, yet another trip to an unfamiliar space full of people who will not listen. The c...

Two things. Why should it be you making that judgement rather than him? For you to decide that him getting in a mess is OK? And what hospital is this,...

The presumption that a disability is a deficit does exactly that, no? Perhaps not moral - although there are those who say disability is caused by the...

In order to save them having to come back when the poor bugger couldn't eat. Call me picky, but being able to eat seems important to patient wellbeing...

SO a statistical average? And that provides an ought here? Are you sure that's a good argument? How do we go from "you don't have a hand" to "You ough...

Was his request unreasonable? He saved staff time by improving communication at the shift change.

Why should a semantic model commit us to the existence of the things quantified over? Your whole edifice still depends on an equivocation between what...

I've answered already. Several times. Here's the best I am willing to do. The song remains the same.

Yep.

If I recall correctly, @"Philosophim" had strong reservations concerning regret after gender-affirmation surgery. Studies I found show that regret is ...

The presumption, in , seems to be that transitioning does not treat gender dysphoria. That is, from what I have seen, factually incorrect. Meta-studie...

Only in that I'm here when I could be setting more seed trays. But I like doing both, and think I've a reasonable balance. Wife might disagree.

, yep. DO you find it interesting how ubiquitous and indelible the idea of deficit is?

The critique of social contract dogma is particularly salient:

Why not just that some folk dance on their legs, others in their chair? Note that this removes the impairment? Hence, re-focus on capabilities. That v...

....yesss.... ....joking.... :fear: