Good reply. Hmm. Does Davidson assume that? Or are you saying he accuse his antagonists of so doing? Frankly I agree there is a crisis of relevance in...
Tell me how it isn't a cat. You claim it is a phenomena; I claim it is stuff in the world. I can explain how it bends in a prism. Can you, using only ...
No it doesn't. Light is not phenomenal. It's a thing in the world, not a sensation. In so far as phenomenology treats things that are not phenomenal a...
Of course it can't be, because if it were your position might be untenable... We have a shared conversation which sets out how things are, allowing us...
Well, not quite. It's not inter-subjecitve - a useless phrase; if a statement is true from any point of view, then any particular perspective is irrel...
...and an infant learns that other folk see things differently, and learns to take this into account. They learn to place themselves in the position o...
This becomes irrelevant: By considering the world from any point of view, the perspective of any individual observer is incorporated, not dismissed. "...
Daleks are loud. A species that sought to destroy every other species would also seek to be more powerful than any other species so that it can win an...
Sure, no proof. But you act as if other people are alive and aware, in the way you are. Indeed I would hope that even when you try to convince yoursel...
Your approach is commendable. An alternative would be to consider the universe from any point of view. That is, to consider the world in a way such th...
This is what leads me away from reading your posts. A square circle would be a regular polygon with four sides, the perimeter of which is equidistant ...
Were Lakatos' research projects incommensurable? My recollection is that they were, but I'm not sure without looking it up. The classic example of inc...
Hmm. Think we might leave this here. Treating first order logic as extensional is so far as I know the only way to show that it is complete. But you t...
SO for any proposition P you have: P is true IFF it is consistent and identical with itself Consistent with what? "Lightwave wrote this post" is consi...
We agree that it is true in this possible world that you wrote the post; it is not true in some other possible world? So do you think mathematical sta...
...and yet to understand empty sets one needs all the paraphernalia of set theory. SO if they are to form the "simples" of a logical system, it is onl...
But then all you have done is claim that anything could be true. The point is surely to sort out the way things actually are from the way things might...
As @"Wayfarer" impied, what is concrete about an empty set? This is at odds with extensional logic, in which a property is a collection of objects; so...
That already goes too far; you would next be asked to explain the nature of that "match" of the "correspondence". That's the fatal flaw of corresponde...
Seriously? If this were so, then since in some possible world you didn't write that post; and since all possible universes exist and descriptions of a...
You appear to still be using "simples" - so you assume there is a "lowest level", and speak of "smallest parts". But what is to count as a simple, as ...
:wink: I don't think I was doing us a favour in linking to it. It shows how complex the issue is. The salient bit, in reply to your comment, is that i...
This is a very narrow understanding of Darwinism. Too narrow. But even were it correct, which it isn't, it is still the result of God's actions, so do...
That was from here, it seems, although no explanation is given. Lakatos perhaps disliked pokers. Prima facie Popper, and his defender Lakatos, might f...
Hello? The correspondence theory of truth is only part of the story. In common with all expansive theories of truth it's misleading. So there are folk...
Humanism is the view that morality is found in what humans choose, and so is not found in divine commendation nor in evolutionary necessity. Do you ag...
See my comments above regarding Feyerabend. The issue you raise has been of interest to me for the last forty years, and remains unresolved. Lakatos' ...
There would be few humanists who did not adhere to the notion that humans evolved. Seems you have this somewhat muddled. AH, I see - so god is not at ...
Suppose he does this. Does he also delegate his responsibility for what people do? If is actions - giving free will to humanity - result in evil, and ...
Seems you are going about this in the wrong way. You've already divided the world into subject and object, and assumed idealism before you begin. A mo...
Good to see you starting to address the issues. In your first paragraph and in your conclusion you agree with me that words such as "absolute" and "ob...
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