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in that we have senators instead of lords. Profound stuff.

somewhat off the track here. I’ll try again. If an alien says something that is utterly incomprehensible, what grounds could you have to think it had ...

That there are perhaps more engineers than students of philosophy on this philosophy forum is perhaps a symptom of the inadequacies of engineering. Ju...

we might have such warrant. I think we need to introduce Davidson here. If it can’t be said by a human, then what reason could you have to think that ...

…so in summary I do philosophy while you just make shit up. This is fun!

yes.

Perhaps. Theirs is an eccentric offshoot of the mother tongue. That cartoon did a great disservice to biology.

How rude. :wink: The set of true sentences is never complete, if that helps. I suspect that is what and are trying to capture - that there is always m...

Not that we know of. :wink:

I'm sorry you are having so much trouble with this. The best flour for a sponge is a finely milled and sieved maize flour, with no detectable gluten a...

They tend to doctrine rather than critique. I'm sure you would. However it's plain that you haven't understood much concerning the problems that you a...

Nice. Flowers might work.

How do we know there isn’t anything beyond our reality? Because reality is what there is. To posit something "beyond reality" is to posit more of what...

Not at all. But experience... yes.

And sadly parochial. I had a laugh at the idea that the USA doesn't have a king. Those countries with titular kings managed to build limitations in to...

You are, I am given to understand, a trained engineer. My degrees are mostly in philosophy. Go ahead and provide your misplaced criticism.

A shame. But It seems that cooking together will not bring the camaraderie you sought. ....and so never make a decent sponge. No need, but it's good t...

"Girls, you head out first - it'll go down so well with the doctor's wives..." https://images.theconversation.com/files/702145/original/file-20251113-...

I've a rough idea. The paper doesn't mention Descartes, nor dreams. I'm not at all sure why you want to introduce these seemingly oblique notions. Ind...

Isn't it pretty intuitive that if mathematics is not compete, then reality is not a computation? Algorithms are small. They are not even sufficient to...

Corn flour (maze) will make a lighter cake.

The present state is then the initial state. The bit you start from. And you do not - cannot- know it with sufficient accuracy to make perfect predict...

So to theorem 18. A given set of particular sentences cannot imply a sentence that is not particular relative to that given set. In this version, a co...

Not at all sure why possible world semantics is needed here. Given the initial conditions, the evolution of the attractor is determined. It is calcula...

The Liberal Party doesn't do science. No surprises there.

It shows that not everything that is determinate is predictable.

If the man with ten coins in his pocket is Jones, they are extensionally identical. And it's different to a man with ten coins in his pocket. So again...

The changes are I think pretty transparent. Definitions 13, 14 and 15 just change the account from individual sentences to sets of sentences. The grea...

And somehow that deleted my re-write of the Response to Vranas’ Objection, again. :grimace:

Again, the detail is going to make or break any case here. But "I have ten coins in my pocket and I will get the job" and "The man with ten coins in h...

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Good to hear form you, . Sorry, I missed your post yesterday. Yours is a quite interesting question. There might be some potential to use Russell's wo...

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Damn. That reply to Un deleted my next bit of exposition.

Nice. This plays well into my dislike of "objective" and "subjective", a dichotomy I think causes far more problems than it solves. Part of the proble...

I'm not at all sure what that was about, but I enjoyed it anyway. Natural languages will always have more to them than can bee shown in a formal langu...

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I entirely agree. We will do much better if we look to the use of "belief" rather than stipulate definitions. Or nuts.

It might be wise for you to back off a bit, . @"Jamal" has access to the private conversation.

For a brief shining time, in the seventies, there was a Commonwealth Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme Downunder that provided means-tested living ...

At least, their dinner was. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a69a3de45c33124f79d4311578153483f80b4fcb/0_0_2362_1157/master/2362.jpg?width=1300&dpr=2&s=n...

No vultures in Australia. Used to be, but the crocodiles ate 'em.

Edit: Didn't meant to post that. Happened while I was copying into a PM chat. But I'll leave it here, to show that Bob has misread who said what. I'm ...

Not bad. You probably believe that there are bacteria in the grunge under your left little toe nail, but hadn't considered it until now. Is that "prec...

Hanover should get back to cleaning the pool. That's what he's paid for.

Nor should you be. There is certainly more going on here. But what we can do is set out some minimal requirement, and at the very least we do say for ...

A bigot is obstinate. They have not entered into the conversation in order to engage in earnest dialogue. They are not going to change their mind as a...

Russells response is to move from individual sentences to sets of sentences. Is that justified? I think so. To start with, an argument is a set of sen...

No, just wordplay, with a slight hangover from another conversation about Harry. Too obtuse, it seems. Not to worry. The point was that you and I will...

You have got to be behind her if you are going to stab her in the back.