Nice. , trouble is, you must act. You don't get not to choose. And even if you are motivated by 's instinct, or avoiding 's anxiety, that's entirely y...
"...only If we take all perception out of the equation". A better question is why you insist on including perception. You are making the unfounded ass...
What I've suggested is that the modal logic might provide a way of answering the specific issues you raised, such as why Gandalf allowed a fictional c...
Yep. What did Hegelians learn from analytic philosophy? The comments here indicate that the ubiquitous sweeping generalisations remain fashionable in ...
What way of thinking? Making use of logic? No, I mean an explicit form of reasoning. Discussions around Hegel, as this one, are for me both obtuse and...
But I've made no such claim. I said Dialectic is not logic. That is quite different. After Frege, logic came into it's own, developing rapidly in many...
This line of conversation came about after you made a claim that implied that logic did not apply to fictional characters. I think it now clear that i...
I didn't notice this until now. I don't see how it addresses the point of mine that you quote: Here is a link to an account of logic: The Open Logic T...
While that is true, it's not the point I made. If, as you suppose, Frodo cannot be a member of a class, then we can't say that Frodo is a members of t...
That's pretty much what I have been arguing, except I added Austin's strategy for explicating what was being claimed when something is called "real". ...
Of course, on your account, to be 'real' is exactly to be a 'member of a non-empty class'. Since Frodo is not real, he could not be a member of the no...
But Mordor is also fictional. Hence, only a fictional character could carry the One Ring into Mordor. Boromir may have take this into consideration. C...
No illusions, hallucinations or delusions, then. But these are usually taken to be exactly cases in which what is perceived is not real. Think I'll le...
Not I. I've given my account: Frodo is a hobbit, therefore the class of hobbits is not empty - they are fictional creatures. It's you who are in need ...
Having difficulty seeing how that works. So if Sheldon is a unicorn, then Sheldon exists. But you say that being member of a class is the same as bein...
Confusing. Is Sheldon a horse or a unicorn? If Sheldon is a unicorn, the by p(a)??(x)p(x) Sheldon exists. Are you happy to say that? It seems that if ...
Yep. The label on the pack says "What does "real" mean?" Existential quantification is not about what is real and what isn't. It's more about what can...
So we remain as follows: We can use "real" to differentiate in particular explicit cases - a real painting, a real foot, by understanding what the con...
Cool. But it remains that there is nothing about which we can talk that is not real, by So it amounts to the claim that everything is real. And hence,...
You seem to be saying that we can "formulate questions" about "Something that does not affect us in any possible way", but that's not right. Gravity i...
So what is not the object of human enquiry? Or do we conclude that everything is real? Again, applying Austin's strategy of looking for the compliment...
@"boagie" drew me back to this page. I've read that through a couple of times and can't make sense of any argument it might contain. I tried going bac...
Well, see this. So that's not quite right, and certainly does not follow from what I said. It's what I do. You asked where you went wrong. The answer ...
I don't have an opinion; that's rather my point. If you think there is such a use, then it is over to you to provide a coherent account of how and why...
It has a bunch of uses, which we might set out one by one, but which change and evolve over time - like all such words. Trying to capture it with some...
Should we go into it in more detail? ...so it's anything that is bound, presumably meaning anything with a boundary, an edge. So ask what is excluded ...
So fuck all that Pictish nonsense. The re-release of Revolver gives us the opportunity to rehash the eternal question of which is the most important B...
I've referred you to the physical science, which shows that your question is silly. How General Relativity Complicates What We Know About Earth's Orbi...
Here, seeing as how you are incapable of doing your own research... How General Relativity Complicates What We Know About Earth's Orbit Sometimes this...
But isn't that what I have been addressing? It seems odd to accuse me of avoiding a topic on which I created a whole thread... https://thephilosophyfo...
Sarcastic bastard... :wink: The philosophical arguments go around in circles, but somehow you and I and one or two others manage to make things a bit ...
A favourite. Fun for beating falsificationists with. not just in one's head. Yep. That we think something to be true does not always make it so. Depen...
But I may well be wrong...? I'm happy with that. Fallibilism is popular, especially amongst scientists, and has some value, but is also problematic. C...
Yeah, standing on the Earth we are not in an inertial frame of reference. The answer is too complicated for this context. So meh. Work it out for your...
I said I wasn't going to enter into this discussion, but there is not much else going on this morning... Better to think of it as the view from anywhe...
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