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Keep the Aspidistra Flying is another, earlier novel, more biographical, concerning selling out to middle class values for the sake of comfort. The as...

Meaning is not governed by conventions. And yet we do make sense of what folk say. Hence our error was to suppose that we make sense by using conventi...

Perhaps; yet Now to say that the rock exists is not to say something about the rock. Existence is not a predicate in the way being granite is. and to ...

It's true that you can read and write sentences in English.

Quine's account, rather than mine.

What twaddle. As if facts were not, every one, true. Not seeing any progress here. Seems as you decide to talk about things the wrong way, then reach ...

thanks, but it's more an I'd buy-it-if-I saw-it kind of thing. I don't trust Gumtree, and my usual more reliable suppliers - Diggers, local folk and s...

That's a pretty central issue in my own considerations, too. The advantage of virtue ethics seems to be in the recognition that ethics is too complex ...

Hmm. A surprisingly accurate post. Well done.

It does? That's not what the dictionary says. At the least, some explanation is required. Wouldn't it be better to say that what is real is what is tr...

Keeping the aspidistra flying...! I've been looking for an aspidistra for years. We had one for the first few years of our marriage, but left it behin...

Is it an ad hom when the man is I? What have you to offer?

Well, I don't drink gin... so this will have to do.

Soporific online forums...? Where one can convince oneself that there is no truth. Is that the fate of our dear friends, and ?

:smirk:

Cheers. And does it matter if those claims are true, or not? I say "Yes"... You?

You're not helping... The salient point is that post truth is not novel. One way or another, the truth will out; because it is the stuff that doesn't ...

It's just Wittgenstein's On Certainty, yet again. Doubting something is a language game, and so presupposes language and stuff to talk about, in a com...

You are in danger of reinventing quietism.

....millennials... :roll: :wink:

If you take reality to be mind independent then you commit to there being statements that are neither true nor false - like that the rock existed yest...

You are right, of course. But there are takeaways that make the discussion not entirely useless. I came across a novel approach to the logic of truth ...

You are going to make do without truth? Go on, then; you first. I'll watch from here. Should be worth a laugh.

You are choosing to think in antirealist terms. The consequence is rejecting bivalence and moving to non-classical logic. Hence your question, in the ...

There's the hook, little fishy.

That's just the point; one cannot define a simple. Consider, first, are you asking if it is your, or my, definition of "truth" that is true? As if we ...

Yes; and it is simple; and there isn't any need for philosophy, in so far as working out what is true and what isn't. Disagreement in politics and rel...

Arrkh, forget about "absolute" truth. It's a nonsense expression. You responded to my post, so you understood it, you now it was in English, you know ...

Keep in mind that uncertainty only exists against a background of truth. We only know there are novel viruses because we know there are viruses. Medic...

, : The Pandemos

More fucking relativist rubbish. It's true you wrote that, it's true you are reading this. Truth isn't private. But when folk mistake truth for mere b...

There's your problem. No one determines whether or not it is raining. :roll:

But we gain a less than adequate understanding of the use of "...is true" if we limit our examples to the things around us. It's also true that some p...

An important consideration here is the one agreed to by @"Pie" (Remember Pie? This is Pie's thread...) and I in the first few pages, that what is happ...

The alternative is the simple view that there are a specific number of coins in the jar, that "there are 64 coins in the jar" is true or it is false, ...

Be clear about what you are doing if you claim that there is no truth as to the number of coins in a jar until they are counted. On the one hand we ha...

Sure. And the answer is "yes".

As if putting a piece on the board were a move in chess.

Indeed. My error was to supose that folk here wanted clarification. They prefer obfuscation.

Oh, yeah. Four monoliths. I recall in one of the later books a description of each as an emanation of one monolith, like multiple Tardises, or electro...

Hey, that was my joke...

:brow: Should @"Janus" rename this site The Theology Forum?

Yep. Both may be the. subject of a predicate. The way that first-order logic deals with individuals gives us a clear way of dealing with existential i...

The monoliths - there are three in the original movie - Are gateways through which the aliens communicate and act. The first, on the plains of Africa,...

Of all the philosophical ubiquities, the most tedious is "does such-and-such really exist?" Yes, it does, since you are talking about it. You are aski...

Kubric decided to work with Clark after reading The Sentinel.

Well, yes.

One supposes that this counting as is the result of neural processes yet need not be located in any particular process. There need be nothing in commo...

So what you were saying is that it is patterns all the way down, but miscalling them descriptions. Sure, neural networks make use of patterns. They do...

yes. Dreadful nonsense.