Banno

roughly: Truth is best understood through T-sentences: "P" is true iff P Belief is a relation between an actor and a statement, such that the actor ta...

In all honesty I think that an example of narrow thinking. Explaining behaviour in terms of evolution had a veneer of credibility within pop science, ...

I don't believe so. He does use it as part of an explanation - he is talking to economists. He then shows how he has played with feeding energy into t...

No.

To be clear, he doesn't say the economy breaks the second law, but that classical theories ought take it into account.

I took the first part as pointing to the sort of modelling in which he is engaged, before launching into the critique.

SO you liked it?

A shame. I was referring to: This is the sort of muddle that results. To be sure, there are some rather neat temporal logics

Good. Nor to mine. I suspect some fo our company might disagree. Oooo... I remember that from a few years ago. Warning bells. Then what is it that is ...

Then you will have no trouble identifying for us the temporal elements in propositional calculus. @"Agent Smith", you have some familiarity with langu...

I don't think not harming others is sufficient.

Why not "Do undo others before they do undo you"? Kant's old rationalisation itself relies on recognising the other. That's were we start.

We build red out of our usage. Why shouldn't we think of belief in much the same way?

Sure, all that. The salient point is that what separates Ethics (with an "E")from other studies is the focus on changing the way things are, not on de...

Or this: What is the referent of the belief in "the cat believes the bowl is empty"? What sort of thing is the belief? You say it's not a thing in the...

I did. You accuse me of not addressing your posts, then mis-address mine. The Diplodocus is hardly historical. And that you fail to see the relation b...

Hmm. Having met them, I'm not so confident. There's a neat example in the video - making it up from memory, an economist will say that an ice skater o...

That seems to be a real comment. Wow. Thanks - think that made my day.

Did you watch the video? Keen claims that his criticism of DICE are independent of his criticisms of classical economics, and indeed they are mostly m...

I'm not sure that is right. We often - even mostly - are obliged to act before having a clear account of what is the case. I recall an excellent analy...

Thanks.

That's rather the issue in question, isn't it? Is the market taking care of itself a conclusion, or an assumption?

Yep. But the bit about what to do is the part that makes it ethics, not physics. And again, I'g put it in terms of direction of fit rather than rhetor...

Cheers. I'll take up this for further consideration: The assumption of continuity is one the physics undermines - tipping points and phase changes, ra...

No, it isn't. That's not were Keen went. He shares systems that begin to have energy sources as input and that acknowledge overall disorder as output,...

I think that basic lesson in physics, the one on working with errors, should be compulsory. universeness, to the day will do.

Only some ethical theories involve a list of how to do things. Seems an add approach, I agree; as if this or that rule might be formulated that would ...

Is it? How odd.

Can you explain this? It's hard ot see what you might be suggesting.

At least this shows some acquaintance with the actual issue. The only curious issue here is how @"creativesoul" squares his thinking with the beetle.

No.

Nuh. Old stuff. Look it up for yourself.

What do you bloody well expect? The Skinner accusation against Witti is pathetic, a lost cause and a waste of time. As is this thread.

That's all you see because you choose not to think.

Sure. So much wind. But the distinction I pointed out to @"Mww" seems pivotal: ethics is not about what is the case but what to do. It is not to be fo...

As if there were an "essence" which all men had in common and which could be set out in a book... The problem of ethics is not "what is the case" but ...

Where headed towards arguing about whether Bayesian priors of neural networks are properly described as beliefs, again. Diprotodon did not have items ...

Isn't ethics about deciding rationally what you ought to do?

The first few minutes of the video show how standard economic theory fails to take thermodynamics into account. Much of the remainder is an exposé of ...

Be interesting and you might warrant a reply.

Again? So a belief is a something stored in the mind of a Diprotodon?

And yet here you are. The attitude that the proposition is true. That's been on the boards since day one. True, not certain. I think I've mentioned th...

And you think this somehow means that they must be timed? It just doesn't follow.

No - that is what I thought you might be doing! Yes, the moving of the block can be described; but: Moving the block!

Forms of life are not just acts, but acts combined with language. "Block!" goes beyond words in that the block is moved. There is a way of understandi...

That's not a criteria for being a hinge proposition. Many a novice has been flabbergasted by castling, and nonplussed by en passant. "Here's a hand" m...

Where is time in (~(Q & ~Q)?

SO (Agent Smith is a cat and not a cat) is a contradiction at some time and not another? No; only some contradictions are time dependent. I bet this i...

(Q & ~Q) is atemporal. Time can be introduced by just specify the time and place that a predicate occurs: Banno is writing this on Monday 17 Jan 2021....

, Yes, and so what.