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I'm not expert on Aristotle, but it seems this is not so much another Ph.D in the offing as a branch of Aristotelian exegesis. . Sorting out Aristotle...

Being a left-leaning do-gooder, I refuse to grade. But as mentioned above, I'd gently commend Quine to you, to help you along your path.

There's a doctoral thesis for you. Plato predates the notion of "religion". Despite that misgiving, I'd count it as natural theology.

Oh, OK. I don't think logical necessity is as simple as might be supposed. 's mention of linear logic and mine of logical pluralism hint as more depth...

I've made two thread on his topic, both active recently. The Concept of Religion had the nature of definition as it's explicit theme, using religion a...

Again, it is not clear that physical causes are physically necessary, so any relation to logical necessity is fraught. Did we agree on this?

Mww doing analytic philosophy! Always knew you had it in you.

It's a shame, Tired, that your thread has attracted so many flies. But the answer to your question is clear. Based on what one sees in the world, god ...

Again, whatever fairness there might be is put there by us.

Fairness is valued by us, and if it comes about, that is as a result of our efforts.

How clever are the Solomon Islands? They are going to be much further up the aid budget in the future.

Thanks, and yes, I agree. I recall, back in the early eighties, some close Nepalese friends puzzling as to where Australia's Meti where. I didn't unde...

Very cool. They look to me like stills from some animation, "2001" or "Dr Who"... But the maths is beyond my keen.

It's a topic I sometimes think of getting in to - I programmed a mac plus to draw the Mandelbrot set once; a run would take days. But what you are doi...

Impressive. This is yours?

You seem a bit obsessed with definitions at the moment. If you can get your hands on it, have a read of J.L. Austin's The Meaning of a Word. You can f...

Well, there was hope he was not saying something so muddled or banal. He knows words are not all names. But here he treats them as such. Perhaps he ha...

Phenomena are not words, nor noumenon referents; so I've no way to make sense of this.

IMF projections. Is there any evidence that their projections are accurate? There must be a PhD. somewhere that goes back to their historical projecti...

As shown above, Sri Lanka was no "in the worst state" before the present crisis.

You've really misunderstood Wittgenstein. And the OP.

Flowers and dinner, at least.

Yes! The unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics....

Gender and sex were always contrived. It’s just that now it is not enforced.

What's odd is that they seem to be so proud of this separation... They wear it on their sleeve, scribe it on banners, spray it on the walls of the wor...

A trite argument would be that you are just looking for something transcendent, and choose to see it in the supposed mysterious effectiveness of mathe...

I dunno. A read of this forum shows that plenty of minds are separated from reality.

You need to get out more? Walk down the streets of any metropolis. Feminism has broken the comfortable, historic, patriarchal usage.

You are not alone.

I think it telling that this conjectured meeting cannot be set out clearly. It's the promise of an explanation for the supposed mystery of the effecti...

Pointing to more recent developments in logic hasn't grabbed the attention of the crowd. It's apparent that the confusion in the OP can be displayed i...

Indeterminism, causality and information: Has physics ever been deterministic? A more direct account of the possibility of indeterminacy in classical ...

Because philosophy. We can understand the kettle not heating up while over the flame. Such an occurrence would be problematic for physics, but not for...

Let's fill the kettle and put it over the flame. Physical cause says that the water will heat. But there is nothing logically contradictory in the wat...

So much the better.

The issue is perhaps whether modus ponens - and hence necessity - is the correct way of understanding, say, physics.

Logic and maths set out the ways in which things can be said. Then we choose, from amongst these ways, those that suit us. SO it should not be a surpr...

I'm guessing the link between logic and causation is to do with modus ponens: p\\p \supset q\\\vdash q If p is taken as the circumstances preceding an...

But that uses induction - what would a deductive argument for cause look like?

What woudl such a thing be like? Can you show us one?

The usual masculinist folk have gathered around your thread, leading it away from the interesting point, the various attempts to articulate the place ...

So here's the earliest definition for you: Your argument concludes that you are content with that - and will defend it against attempts to change it. ...

Yes, you do make it all about you.

thanks, an interesting discussion. It's problematic.

Recall The Concept of Religion What you are doing is what is described in the history section of article in SEP. You are adopting the position attribu...

, : Already mentioned A tale of greed, of adversity, of toil, of satisfaction; of the fundamental fact that all things must pass; of overcoming onesel...

But that is exactly what you are doing; you are saying "Religion is A, B, C, and anything that is not A,B, C is not a religion". Sure, you look around...

In which case you are simply stipulating a definition, never to be countered. that's fine, so long as you do not adopt the false notion that you have ...

Sure, all that. But address the example directly. IF your method is to observer a motif/pattern/commonality, you had best give an account of what you ...

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