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Yes, Frank.

Really? Where, exactly? We have and admittedly, And the connection to free energy Show me where it says it is used in the "common sense' sense.

Far too risky, for obvious reasons. But take care, since this is just the place for a Snark... We don't want you softly and suddenly vanishing away—

Please be aware that "surprise" is being used as a technical term. Further, I am no advocating the argument in the linked paper, but raising it as an ...

Of course not, and so far as I can see this is outside of the considerations of free logic. Whatever your point is concerning epistemic logic, it rema...

Roughly, the linguistic community are those participating in the language game under consideration. So breakfast need not include Paris.

See my reply to @"Kenosha Kid". and @"fdrake"'s, too.

Yes, that seems to be about it. But again, why should minimising surprise be the very same as living longest? It seems that in the account given in th...

Yep.

:grin: When you put it like that... But our thinking doesn't make it so. Things don't appear because we so choose. All that is happening here is the c...

That doesn't appear to be the case. Children would expect novelty, and be surprised at its absence. Hence, they are curious.

Indeed, free-energy looks like a piece of creative accounting, in the same way as potential energy needed to be introduced in order for the laws of th...

Not that I noticed...? "Surprise" here has a special meaning... "the difference between an organism’s predictions about its sensory inputs (embodied i...

I suspect that basically you are right. Consciousness must be taken as granted rather than explained - especially if the only explanation one is willi...

Again, you make unjustified leaps. Explain why.

Evolution? The folk expression might be that we avoid the dark room in order to avoid boredom; that is, we expect a certain level of sensory input, an...

The trick to dealing with the little man who wasn't there in Antigonish is to understand that he makes no difference to your ability to walk up the st...

So lockdown is a boon for all! No, I think the discussion in the article explains why the formula you suggest is not quite right. So you are right tha...

Yes, I think that's roughly correct. That falls in line with the injunction to look at use rather than meaning. Do you see a problem with that?

Sure. SO show us how to go about it. The point here is that free logic provides a suitable framework, and to explore how that framework might be used....

Nice. Paris doesn't exist in {eggs, Bacon}. Hence we might introduce the predicate "...is meat", the member of which is bacon; and conclude that Paris...

An odd response, since free logic is exactly "how to do that formally". It also allows talk of both existent and nonexistent individuals within the sa...

This thread is appalling. It consists in a rambling OP and attempts by a few chumps, myself included, to have @"Philosophim" set out the topic.

Ah, so the point is not that someone somewhere states that electrons have no mass, but that the mass can be ignored for the purposes of some calculati...

I suppose you are right. Hanover appears to be fixated on the picture that he is a homunculus looking out at a seperate, external world, and hence thi...

So to you direct realists think that the flower is the perception of the flower. No wonder you are puzzled. perplexed.

yet Odd.

:rofl:

Well, Kripke's semantics are usually a free logic. I doubt you have Lewis' counterfactuals in mind - he would have us think that Holmes actually exist...

Also as mentioned previously, that something exists cannot be the conclusion of an argument in free logic. Free Logic does not permit the expression o...

@"Srap Tasmaner" I'm interested in your answer to a question asked previously. You claimed In the SEP article the following example of a logical deduc...

Who did that, where?

Meanwhile Defence Minister Peter Dutton screams "look over there! Look at China! Don't look at the Government!"

You just like philosophers with the surname "Austin".

Not without a magnifying glass. The title of this thread: "The Strange Belief in an Unknowable "External World" (A Mere Lawyer's Take)" The question I...

Cheers. In working through the stuff on negative semantics I lost track and wondered if I had this wrong.

@"Snakes Alive" If you would, Is this correct? Or have I misunderstood?

But then what of spoilers - story facts kept till last? Are they neither true nor false until presented in the narrative?

And yet, moderate Liberals may be our last, best hope. The "broad church" is inherently conflicted, containing as it does the rational small "l"'s unc...

Perhaps; or is it that we can make such inferences as we see fit, and suit our purposes? Do we move to a paraconsistent logic, in which only statement...

Ah, and excellent point; and one that I think returns us to the incompleteness of fictional characters mentioned above and noted in the SEP article. G...

To which we might add:

Bridget Archer is my hero this week.

I was more in mind of Lewis Carrol. Doesn't The Hunting of the Snark count as fiction? What I say three times is true, hence a new logic is born. Coul...

Hmmm. Scotty is sending police and troops to the Solomons... apparently to prevent a takeover by the Chinese, or something like that. I smell an elect...

Sure. What is stipulated is the Domain of discourse - the various individuals and predicates used in the fictional world. It occurs to me that there a...

It seems iteration is any form of loop, but recursion involves a loop that calls itself. If that is correct, self-reference occurs in recursion.

"It is written, that's why" - Brian's mum, Life of Brian. Well, the stipulation is that we are talking about LOTR or whatever; and the question is as ...

Very droll. 1. That a post shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere. But your post accomplishes nothing and arrives in air. :wink: