Banno

Yes. Did you think there is something here with which i would disagree?

One of the tools you will have used in your counselling is some variation on the "reality rub", where one gently points to beliefs that are incompatib...

No They are what we in trade call "wrong". Some of their beliefs are what we call "false". One of the interesting things about truth is that it allows...

playing to my audience.

The question is, is there sufficient resilience in your democratic institutions, that they might be restored? Given the failure of the supremes, and o...

...and yet it plays a role.... Truth is where the world and language meet. Some of our beliefs are true, some not. Not just anything will do. And this...

Not the best thread, this one. Has someone claimed it's all quantum yet? It'll happen.

Again you present the banal as if it were extraordinary. Davidson quite happily sets truth-conditional semantics as a part of meaning as use, then ask...

And so again, @"Baden" sets the prices of participation at being nice to fools. So be it.

"Grok": From Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a strange land; a Martian term with no English equivalent, but roughly "to grasp or understand as if it were...

:roll: I take it this was not a unilateral decision on your part?

I don't think this is so. Davidson's description is of an ongoing and growing conversation. So do you have an argument for this?

Not so much. Davidson seems to me to have the upper hand in the infamous debates on truth, as I take it Rorty agreed. It's not just a conversation tha...

God exists, Whatever thinks exists, Fiction: Free Logic might help.

I'm saying it's not allowed in the rules of classical logic.

But you have "if John is bald then John exists". That's invalid ill-formed. ?(a) is not a formula in first order logic, unless you move to free logic....

But. ?"p" is ill-formed. "p" is an individual. So it's lie writing ?(a). It's "If John is bald then there is something that is bald".

From the other thread:

Keep in mind that the models Isaac and I are referring to are weightings in neural networks. Thy are not symbolic; they are not referential. They are ...

Laugh or cry?

Again, this looks problematic. "p" is an individual variable, so ?"p" is like ?(a). You would have to move to a free logic and use ?!"p"; but that som...

So where do you wish to go with that? It's all over the shop.

I'm tired, so I might not be seeing it right, but (2) looks troubling. Don't you need T("p") independent of the conditional in order to introduce the ...

Why?

That might be enough. No need to read further. :wink:

And yet you asked for literature rejecting "the KP side". ...and yet we do not know everything, and hence must reject KP. The purpose here is to show ...

Yep. And Luke is not the only one. Folks, in outline, the SEP proof works as follows: Part 1 Assuming KP and NonO, we derive line (3) Part 2 Assuming ...

Then the question becomes, is the intuition right? Or is it misleading, as Wittgenstein suggested? "Philosophy simply puts everything before us," as r...

I had a laugh. @"Isaac" made the same point with

A third possibility. Yes, it might not refer to anything. I'd just ask what do you want it to refer to? Reference appears alarmingly flexible - inscru...

Yeah, I know. That's where it went wrong. It was professional misconduct - the complaint was that a child felt excluded. That's where it should have s...

No, it isn't. The actions of the coach were unprofessional. It should have stopped there. But, that's America.

, Shame the focus is on "indoctrination" - it should be on exclusion.

I don't see how displaying a poster excluded anyone - except perhaps homophobes. It's not a similar case.

Yes, I agree. Here is an example: We agree that the cup is on the table The only way we could agree that the cup is on the table is if there is a cup,...

:wink: My comment hit a nerve, then.

I don't agree. The conduct is unprofessional, since is introduces the potential for excluding some students on religious grounds. The coach should hav...

I suppose it says "in god we trust" because they can't trust each other?

That would be acceptable.

, The complex history of ‘In God We Trust’ Down here, if someone wanted to pray in the middle of the field after a game, we'd let 'em, but laugh and t...

There's something absurd, even neurotic, about thanking god for winning a football game.

I don't see why we couldn't fix that using indexicals. So i don't see this as a solution.

A mind left too open soon fills with garbage.

:up: Thanks.

You did not present an argument, you made up a story. There is nothing to reply to.

That's it? Cheers. Keep warm.

Well, go on then; if it is such a good argument, present it.

Nuh. I live in the Nation's Glorious Capital. Roundabouts and bubbles. There was a bloody open window out the back of the house. Fixed now, and the he...

They are relevant to whether I bother to reply. But you haven't presented a cogent argument in favour of "Big Mind" that is worth addressing, and I've...