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So that it is made up makes it not truth-apt? But "1+1=2" is true; and so is "The bishop stays on the same colour squares" and "slavery is unjust". Bu...

Nice. You, TClark, create two sorts of threads. Lists and conceptual analysis. Only one of these is philosophy. The other is stamp collecting.

So are we agreed that Davidson is not offering support for either realism or antirealism?

That is too simple. What he rejects is the realism/antirealism distinction. It is exactly the point. Davidson maintained that "Given a correct epistem...

No.

That is a rather important bit. So you meant the causal theory of reference. That makes sense. SO your question is, who baptised Santa? Lost to histor...

What is it that you think that quote from Davidson supports? From a bit further down the very same paragraph:

What's that?

Experiments on monkeys kept in a monochrome environment showed that they were unable to see colour when later exposed to it. Their eyes and brain had ...

Why not? 'Slavery is unjust' is true IFF slavery is unjust. Slave: A person who is the legal property of anther and forced to obey them Justice: Being...

Conceptual clarification is what philosophy consists in, yes. And further, if you have an honest think about it, you will agree. And this even despite...

For Nussbaum the division is based on capabilities; so presumably the Homo Sacer, though set apart, remains capable and hence entitled to moral consid...

Doing so would be to restrict the flourishing of those who might be part of the political sphere; of those capable, yet prevented, from entering into ...

I wasn't able to follow the reductio - could you set it out?

So you can do this without conceptual clarification? How will you be able to tell? The same language has a different feel to it. These are not just is...

Your professor might have in mind Watkins Confirmable and influential Metaphysics. That is, if social darwinism has at it's core an uncircumscribed ex...

Indeed, I did, but I have not read Diamond, so I'm not in a position to be critical of her work. My own thinking on the topic owes much to the Directi...

If every thread on the principles of mathematics is allowed to degenerate into a thread about 0.999...<>1 it would become impossible to do any philoso...

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:0.999.../Arguments and the eleven archives attached. It's not an argument worth entering in to; a troll's haven...

End of the test. you get 0/10.

You misread it. As I said, it's an issue of pedagogy. You need learnin'. (the bit where I said I wan't going to do this...!)

That's poetry. Wrong forum.

Shh... not in front of the children... yes, in paraconsistent logic (SEP)

So drop the "truely"; it does nothing, anyway. Or if you prefer, drop "understand" and try realising that there is no one way to read any text. Then g...

I don't think you are disagreeing with me. Rather there is a disagreement as to the use of "inconsistency".

Well, your way leads exactly nowhere. You've got neither clarification nor obfuscation. What I am advocating is called argument. When someone says som...

What's that, exactly? Here's an instantiated infinite series for you: 1,2,3... A three-year-old. They have to count. They have not moved from the proc...

Cheers. Have a good day.

Then you are saying that philosophy should neither seek to clarify nor make more obscure. So you want philosophy that makes no difference.

Is your argument that one of the aims of philosophy should be to make arguments more obscure?

Nail a nutshell and it will crack.

Ok, I should have said not all paraconsistent systems allow contradiction. The point of the post was to point out that paraconsistent systems avoid in...

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Yeah, but those who do not are wrong.

No, partly because I don't wish to derail my own thread, and partly because there are plenty of places you can find these using Google. I'm not being ...

Exactly!

Fair enough. It needs expansion. But I don't have the inclination to write an essay now. I think that's not what happens. Rather, a certain way of tal...

The inability to see that " 9/10+9/100+9/1000... " is another way of writing "1" is a measure of someone's lack of capacity to do maths. So let's not ...

If philosophy is not about conceptual clarification, then it is nothing. Hence if supposed discussion muddies things further, requesting further expli...

Thanks for spotting my error. So folk become puzzled as to why it should turn out that 2 is so useful for Fijians as well as for Europeans. All langua...

doubtless you are aware of the following, but for ... Paraconsistent logic drops - the explosion or ex contradictione quodlibet by introducing a third...

:wink: Doubtless this is because you find it so often at odds with your own views. One wonders why.

Good, but not sure of the inter alia... What else is it? My inclination is to treat maths as a grammar; misusing "grammar" in a familiar way. That is,...

But that's not how things are. It wasn't "decided"; it's what we do. And we are able to do so because of how things are.

Odd, how folk use Husserl and Heidegger as if they made things clear. I need a translation.

It's that formulation that is at issue, that very division that presupposes things and minds, the notion that there is an inside and an outside. I'd l...

Are we talking about spoons here, or that there are five spoons? I don't see what work "real" is doing in your post.

What? If what you are saying is that there must be something to count before one counts, then... well, sure, but I don't see the relevance.

Yes, counting is something we do, not something we discover. Its a way of talking about stuff. The way of talking is made up. The stuff isn't. There's...

If you are keen on Davidson, see Truth, Predication, and Realism/Anti-Realism