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Rude.

Again, I think it better to approach this sort of stuff as about choosing a grammar rather than a metaphysics. Yep, it won't change the way stuff is. ...

The modus ponens on p. 180 shows how a necessary truth can follow from an a posteriori truth. Is that a problem?

Well, thanks for all your help. So on to the top of p. 180, where we come across something that might be of further interest to @"Mww". That this tabl...

Do you have a substantive point to make? Here's the bit I take to count in our previous coinversation: Do you wish to pursue this topic?

Cheers. That seems unusually pedantic of you, Frank. But I wrote that Kripke asks "could this lectern have been made of ice?" I was wrong. Please forg...

Yep. We might have had before us a different lectern. I don't see an issue, @"frank".

Why the misquote? You left out "but that if this were so it would be a different lectern".

Yep. At the bottom of p. 178, the lectern is picked out using a demonstrative: "Here is a lectern". Kripke asks if this lectern could have been made o...

Well, yeah, they do. The cat is on the mat, regardless of the unique context of the actual use of "the cat is on the mat"... Of course, that we use "c...

This reply misses the point, while reinforcing it. If we need to go to such lengths to explain just one sentence from your post, is it any wonder that...

Doesn't this just assert that an empirical judgement is contingent? WHere's the argument? Well, we know 4=2+2, but that doesn't change over time... an...

This is a seperate point to that dealt with in my previous post. Yes, on this we agree.

We're dealing with transitivity: If (a=b) and (b=c) then (a=c). Hence we can agree that Necessarily . I gather something like this is your "analytical...

But on to other considerations. Kripke has I think too much sympathy with antirealism. See Kripke's theory of truth. Here's were Kripke expresses just...

Pleased that you noticed. Notice that what you have said here is contrary to the stuff around p.167. So according to Kripke, that Hesperus is Phosphor...

You've lost me, again. Take: This paragraph starts out fine, but quickly becomes... problematic. For example, I don't understand "To think the word ‘s...

Why, thank you. The thread has gone far beyond even my expectations. I suspect it has more to do with obdurance.

Those folk are mistaken.

There's this additional complication, the use of "synthetic" and "analytic" in the place of "necessary" and "contingent". This seems to be equating a ...

It probably seems extraordinary now, but there had been a time where terms such as "analytic", "necessary", " a priori" and "certain" were treated as ...

All that seems overly complicated. Putting it more directly, seem to me that "snow is white" is about two things, snow and white; but you insist that ...

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No, but it is what sophists do. Thanks for the chat.

Hmm. A veritable definition of sophistry: what counts is what serves my purpose.

Which, on your account, have no truth value...?

There wasn't actually an argument in that post.

So said the Vienna Circle, and some of their followers. I'm not so sure the distinction can be maintained. One might even claim that their pushing suc...

I don't know what "objective absolute truth" is. Presumably something intentionally sophistical. The account in the Theaetetus is about truth. How doe...

What justification could you have for believing that you are tired? That you are thirsty? That your foot hurts? That you are jealous? Yeah, sure, we d...

Notice that it doesn't follow that everything you completely and utterly believe today may turn out to be wrong. Can you be wrong about your commitmen...

Perhaps pragmatism works for deciding if the sun will come up tomorrow. Does it work for deciding if you should kill Mum for her inheritance? The answ...

P. 177 consist in a few simple observations about terminology. (Edit: Apologies - a distraction prevented me finishing this post. I was thinking of ju...

Yep. It's redundant in that "the earth is flat" will be true exactly if the Earth is flat; no extra meaning is added to the sentence by saying it is t...

All of them? I think the standard view being espoused here, the scientific/pragmatic stuff, takes purchase when one considers too few examples and mak...

Is that true? How do you know? How certain are you? How do you know they could be wrong? You both appear to be sitting over a regress. I suspect you h...

Sure, you have false beliefs. But if you believe that the Earth is not flat, then you are committed to the truth of the sentence "the Earth is not fla...

(1) says you believe the earth is not flat. If that is the case, then you also believe that the sentence "the Earth is not flat" is true. But (3) is "...

I don;t have any strong opinion here. I suppose that if alienation is not compatible with the broader notion of institutions, we could re-think aliena...

So to about p.174-5. The juxtaposition here is between two ways of talking about possible worlds. On the one hand, we have the view that when we talk ...

Quite the opposite; the uses of "is" are many and diverse. But it does nothing in "a is f"; here's the proof: fa. If this does not address your argume...

The notion of rigid designators is a parsing into English of what Kripke did in developing his Possible World Semantics, the semantics - the interpret...

And so to the distinction between rigid and nonrigid designators. A rigid designator picks out the very same individual in every possible world in whi...

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Yep.

As I explained, it's to stop "Snow White" from being confused with "snow is white". You might have caught my subtle hint that you seem to be running u...

On p.171 Kripke tells us what his conclusion is. That's right - the text up until now is only setting up the issue to be addressed, here's the answer,...

...further examples follow. Heat, consciousness, the chemical structure of water, all interesting in their own right, all related by their connection ...

Ah, giving them enough rope. Good answer.

I know what I want to say but I can't find the right words... Happy with this thread so far? The folk who really need to read the article have just vo...