Banno

I don't want to put convention at the centre - that'd be more Davidson than Wittgenstein. And even Davidson is explicit about how language use breache...

I'm not keen on assigning "...ism"s. Better to just look at the method adopted here to deal with the issue. So you ask "Does meaning persist over time...

Looks pretty right to me.

You winding me up? :wink: SO, flame on. I can't make sense of the quote. By way of example, I don't recognise "Wittgenstein tried to show how we end u...

Yep. Dolphins. Are pods cultural?

Seems to me that Frege sorted out the various uses of ...is... that were ambiguous in Aristotelian - or better - pre-modern - logic, but that this was...

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Sure, but there is no point at which contact entirely breaks... No culture is incommensurable with our world... I think we can adopt Davidson's argume...

Good question. In modal logic it is important to be clear about different ways in which individuals, kinds and descriptions are treated. So a lectern ...

, : Modal reasoning is fraught with misunderstanding. Every thread on the topic here has been hindered by the sort of misunderstandings expressed by a...

I gather this is from the oddly phrased comment @"Joshs" made. I still have not understood his point. There appear to be folk who think of something l...

Language consists of units - words and phrases and phonemes and letters- that are re-usable and can be put into novel structures that are nevertheless...

Nice. Thank you.

Ok. Grit your teeth, Banno.

Oh, yes. But the lectern is identified via it's description - being wood - so in effect he is saying "the wooden lectern is necessarily made of wood"....

Fair enough. It's your time... I've long since given up.

Could we move the short stories off the main page? Its getting cluttered. Folk who are interested could go to the relevant subforum.

I doubt Meta is talking about counterpart theory. He'll be flying on a cloud of his own making.

Ok, good answer. So no going to counterpart theory or stuff like that. Yep, as usual, Meta is muddled. So we might be able to work out where exactly w...

@"frank", what's you reply to 's ?

Saw what you did there.

From your insistence that I "read the article", it seems you didn't until reminded. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/4545/naming-and-necessit...

I have. What’s odd is that you do not appear to recall the several threads in which we read the text together. :chin:

Oh, dear.

, What does this say?

Sure. That's a plain English rendering of accessibility. Worlds in which Nixon lost are only accessible from worlds in which he ran. But so what? Nixo...

An odd tangent. We know that a rigid designator picks out the very same individual every possible world. We agree that "Mww" is a rigid designator. We...

Hu?

This bit: A rigid designator does not pick out an individual in virtue of some set of properties of that individual. Are you, @"frank", saying that th...

Then correct me. Set out my error. "Mww" is a rigid designator. It picks out the same individual in every possible world. It picks out Mww in those po...

But then Mww would cease to be an individual, rigidly designated by "Mww". "That wooden lectern" is a description, not a name. So yes, obviously, in e...

But what about the argument I presented? Who is it who lost their memory? If it was Mww, then he remains Mww even without his memories, and so they ar...

Yep. One can suppose that Mww might have had different memories - or have lost them all together. Now if you ask "Who is it that lost their memory?" t...

The place is more a publishing house for fiction than a place for rational discussion. And I'm not talking about the short story competition...

Individuals, not kinds.

Because most of what happens here is posturing rather than philosophy? Despite the pretence of doing philosophy, folk absolutely hate having their ide...

That'll be that we treat names as rigid designators. Your properties change, yet you remain Mww. That's as distinct from there being some group of pro...

Well, your enamoured with that picture, despite the misgivings expressed. A theory that implies a conclusion as misguided as that just quoted doesn't ...

The IFF is exactly right. What could be more appropriate here than a truth-functional operator? The question was with conditions that they wanted an a...

It works for any sentence, empirical or otherwise. "2+2=4" is true IFF 2+2=4 "2+7=4" is true IFF 2+7=4

Well, no. The T-sentence has a few uses. Here it was a somewhat facetious response to an oddly ambiguous question (not yours, another...). One thing t...

Well, it's true, if anything is...

:grin: The definitive criticism of Austin: putting the anal back into analytic. All true. And yet analytic method is ubiquitous. As do I. A vague dist...

You left out the most extreme... 0. Analysis: doggedly tearing all the others into pieces.

Young folk don't read. They watch videos. There are repercussions.

Mine is walk to the shop to get some mustard for the ham. Yes! Ok, it wan't a tree - I fell off the bed and bumped my forehead. Point is, regardless o...

How does it go? Before enlightenment, carry water, chop firewood... :razz:

I agree. So how you see stuff isn't significant - the internal world doesn't matter. It's what you do that counts.

Not being able to answer this question is why the sequels to The Martix were so philosophically inept. Having pointed out that our world could all be ...

You completely missed the point... Of course it is. That's obvious to the point of being trite. But you still only get the bloody nose. Try this: You ...