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Note my bolding. It is correct that you have a headache, but incorrect to say you know you have a headache, because the justification for the claim, i...

Hmm. A small point, but I won't agree with you on this. I don't think there is such a strong difference in kind between sentences and words. One might...

If you don't get a stronger grasp of the discussion here, you will drown when you meet Kripkenstein. Better to keep your distance. Wrong way. It's jus...

I agreed with oyur post, but with some caution. The criteria is not necessarily stated; but it can be shown by continuing on in the appropriate way. H...

A trivial criticism. Reasons are not causes. After all, according to me, no reasoning is involved, but People complain of pain because they are in pai...

Consistency. The language game of "knowing that such-and-such" involves being able to justify the claim. No justification can be given in "I know I ha...

You don't need a justification in order to conclude that you have a headache. it is not the end product of a process of ratiocination. As if you could...

An observer is needed in order to make an observation. Reality doesn't care if you are looking or not.

There's the spin: it was Australia's integrity that was slandered, not Scotty's. Sickening.

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Yes, he would have; yet for him, nothing was more important than how one should live one's life. Can you imagine how these apparently conflicting noti...

And should we be focused on climate? Oh, yes, indeed; but the most important issue for Australia in regard to climate is lack of leadership. Which is ...

Yes, Macron astutely addressed the Australian people. He's not Probyn's muppet. If Probin set it up it was with Macron's full consent.

So you've had a play with Wittgenstein's thinking a bit. What would he make of this, do you think? Truth is about propositions; but perhaps there are ...

Ah - yes, two threads on much the same topic. Necver a mod around when you need one...

That's obvious - for attention.

While this might be the case in more mundane, less philosophical contexts, I think it a misreading of the progress of philosophy over the last, say, 1...

Here's Michelle Grattan. She's been in the press gallery since forever, working for the Canberra Timse, Fin review and The Age. She's now a Prof at th...

‘I don’t think, I know’ – what makes Macron’s comments about Morrison so extraordinary and so worrying

Have you noticed Bart does not use quotes? Nor any other citations?

The French subs were nuclear powered, but Australia was paying to have the design modified for nonnuclear. Then we changed to nuclear. Look, it just d...

You think? I doubt anyone here has high expectations. Second hand rent-a-sub https://theconversation.com/view-from-the-hill-for-morrison-aukus-is-all-...

Indeed: *

I've no way of making sense of that. Is that all? So what does that have to do with TIm's very odd view about truths: Sure, truths are indexical. So a...

You see, that just looks to be a perversely obtuse reply. There are truths that are neither necessary nor universal. Like that the cat is now siting o...

Even my Shorter OED lists five differing uses for "Fact". But I'm concerned for you, if you think "That which is true, in respect of being true, is al...

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Cheers. To be sure, there are folk who do think along those lines. But I think treating modality as mooted daydreams avoids most, if not all, of the v...

You want I should point to the multiple examples, in everything from the OED down, that support what I have set out? Look them up for yourself. You ar...

Sure. Rigid designation is just a new term for something we've done all along. It serves to set out what we are doing, and to allow is to differentiat...

That just looks like a misconstrual of the way rigid designation works. What if Janus had a haircut yesterday? What if Janus had never developed an in...

Yeah. It just seems to me you haven't grasped the purpose of rigid designators.

Nuh. The "proof" is just you specifying that X is the actual world or that it isn't. Nuh. The "proof" is just you specifying that X is not the actual ...

You seem to think of possible worlds as things we find and investigate, through a microscope or telescope. They are just stuff we make up. A way of ta...

Cheers.

Who you talking too? Either click on the back arrow at the bottom of a post to reply, or highlight a piece of text in a pst and click on "quote". Or i...

One I share with most modal logicians and others since Kripke. But I think we've had this conversation before? Have you forgotten, again?

What's the problem?

Don't... I shouldn't have... Stop while you are ahead.

It's what I do.

I suppose we might specify a possible world such that the folk therein believe their world is not the actual world. A world of mad fools?

It doesn't. Rather, the folk in each world think their worlds is the actual world. Third time I've said it. Might be either. You haven't yet specified...

What's odd is that possible worlds should cause such confusion. The capacity for folk to miscomprehend is astonishing. A new universe did not pop into...

Actually I explicitly said that the folk in each possible world think their world is the actual world. But yes, there is only one actual world, within...

Nuh. Jack - a rigid designator - might have been ginger. That sentence makes sense. It's exactly the sort of thing modal logic is intended to deal wit...

Nuh. "Actual" is an indexical. Like left and right. The folk in each possible world think they are in the actual world. Add that "Necessarily" is just...

There is a possible world in which my cat is ginger. In the actual world, he is black. Now the reason, if you need one, that the possible world in whi...

Actually, Tim, I re-wrote the first line of the Wiki article on Fact to correct the same error you make, only a few days ago. SO I'm asking for a bit ...

He got off the amp. The spuds went in, but took a while to sprout. One last frost knocked 'em back a bit, but they are nearly ready for a bit of bandi...