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(9) is a tautaology.

https://www.umsu.de/trees/#(x=y)~5~8(x=y)

That's what it is - a tool for working through those apparent contradictions. Just so, as here. Hardly. There are issues here, but if we cannot agree ...

Of course the lectern might be in the other room, in which case it would not be in this room. Supposing that the lectern might have been in the other ...

If you keep working at it, you might begin to understand how possible world semantics deals with your misgivings. The actual world is one of many poss...

A nonsense, again. Actually, it is in this room; Possibly, it might have been in the other. That's it. What you want to claim might be that there are ...

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@"jgill", just over 1300 posts, apparently.

SO it's a distinction that you cannot express. :brow: Then it's a distinction that makes no difference.

A nonsense expression. Perhaps you mean it is logically possible but not actual. Sure. It remains that "The lectern may have been in the other room" i...

"The lectern might have been in the other room" Make up your mind - is it false or is it logically possible? I say it is a true proposition about this...

I don't agree. He happened to use a spatial example - the lectern might have been in another room. But he might equally have used a material example s...

Then you are now claiming that there are no properties that are not essential, and hence that differentiating essential form nonessential properties i...

That's risible. And you continue to mix the law of identity with the identity of Indiscernibles. But it's on par with many of you other arguments. I'l...

I don't see what relevance this has to the topic, unless you are claiming that the motion of molecules causes heat. But that's not right, although it ...

Here it's little more than a simple curtesy, elsewhere it's of far greater import. It's advocacy leaking into the forum. I've a different perspective ...

, You might use a free logic.

So Hypatia of Alexandria, then.

As if "The lectern might have been in the other room" were false.

Again, this odd interpretation has the result that when one says the lectern might have been in the other room, one is talking about a different lecte...

The Logical Status of Fictional Discourse It's fiction by intent. "A Unicorn is Running" pretends to make an assertion. So long as we keep the domains...

If the lectern before us were made of plastic instead of wood, it would be a different lectern to the wooden one that is actually before us.

Your formulation has at least one unicorn. You need some additional structurer to rule put multiple unicorns. Why not R(a), where "a" is the unicorn's...

Trouble is, we talked of heat well before we described it as the motion of molecules. And not just the sensation, but what was needed to kindle a fire...

It wasn't meant to. it was showing that the structure is not circular.

Just a rhetorical ploy. Now 's thrown Mary into the cauldron as well. I think I'll try to bow out of this thread. It might be worth starting a thread ...

Chalmers is not Adorno. That's an example of baggage from outside the discussion.

Works for me. As we've talked about previously, we agree that there is some sort of duality here, that you have characterised as first/third person (s...

Meh. Being reflexive is not in itself a problem. The point I was making is that folk are bringing their views on god, society, spirituality, ontology,...

Red/blue, rough/smooth, loud/soft - these are public distinctions, not private ones. The inversion thought experiment seeks to show that they are priv...

It's oddly specific to sight. Imagine applying it to other sense. As if your smooth could be my rough, your sour, my sweet, your loud, my quiet. The s...

If consciousness is the capacity to analyse, this thread is somnolent. Analysis requires detailed, close work. It's not going to happen on a free-for-...

Yeah, noticed it - good work. No, I was thinking of "nothing about me without me", where folk mention a member without linking their name. Once or twi...

Now that there is a help section (good idea), will their be an insistence on niceties such as that when someone is mentioned they are linked, and that...

Why is the Hard Problem of Consciousness so hard? Because folk bring their baggage with them.

These? Then: Presumably sentience, knowledge and feeling are synonymous for rocks. What utter rubbish: I'm also aware that I am aware of your posts......

I don't see a circularity in that. If P then Q, if ~P then ~Q. Sure. But not sure what your point is here. I don't see how this is a problem specific ...

It reeks of the No True Scotsman fallacy. Only true Scotsmen will understand Bert. has yet to provide us with anything like a definition of consciousn...

That's not a claim of mine.

Does he? What a twit. :roll:

yea, didn't think you knew.

Well, knowing and feeling and sentience are not each equivalent to the others. That last one... what is it?

But I am aware of your post; so that's not right. What is it that you think I am missing? Are you saying @"180 proof" and I lack awareness, or lack th...

Soo... this "..phenomenal consciousness..." - what is it?

So what exactly am I missing?

Are we doing qualia? I quite agree. I don't understand qualia. If qualia are private and ineffable, then how can they have a place in the discussion?

Cheers. I don't see specific reference to it in the links from . There's the odd phrasing that there is "a direct isomorphism between certain physical...

I haven't understood the double-aspect theory of information, despite it's apparent similarity to Midgley's account. The article might need its own th...

Two posts. that's cheating.

To be fair, I criticised him for both his personality and for his inept arguments. Can we go back to arguing for locking this thread again? Second las...