I suppose your garden is in neat rows, trimmed and stately. Mine is a jungle, planted with everything that comes to hand. Some survive, some don't. I ...
I'm not in favour of mandating a standard set of rules, but instead, keeping track of issues that might arise and providing precedent rather than legi...
Perhaps. But see . I'd be looking for a better analysis than personhood; and I think that is found in, say, Nussbaum and the notion of flourishing. I ...
Oh, I think it pertinent. At issue in this thread is whether one can deduce the existence of a being from logic alone. I think that it should be in pr...
That's a different question. A possible world comes about as the result of a "what if..."; then we can see if that "what if..." leads to a consistent ...
...and that's the point. Possible worlds are constructed by fiat, not discovered. Hence arguments which presume to demonstrate a being that exists in ...
Oh, indeed. What was salient is an account of how geometry could be kept consistent when the rules are changed. It is still wrong to assert that two p...
Meh. There should be no prejudice as to writing style. Poor writing will simply be unconvincing, and quickly recognised by the audience. And there is ...
Take a look at the latest thread on abortion. The second post - by @"Bartricks", as it turns out - invokes theistic notions of soul. Here's the rub; t...
That's neat. OK, I follow that answer. The next question is, must there be an individual which exists in every possible world? It seems not, since we ...
Quite explicitly, I am arguing that the arguments for and against the existence of god are inconclusive. More generally, it seems to me that statement...
Possible worlds are just fiat. We make 'em up. This isn't anything magical, it;s just a way of talking about them that allows us to make sense of moda...
In the end your refusal to address my argument inspires pathos. No, i've pointed out that your insistence on a contradiction leads to explosion. Your ...
Oh, bugger. Half the total length, of course. Simple when you see it. Solution to 1.5 Bisect the diagonal from bottom left to top right. intersection ...
Logicians using secret symbols to hide their dark deeds. You do understand that "possibly P" is the same as "not necessarily not P" I hope - so if I a...
So you are arguing that there is no contradiction involved in holding the view that non-contradiction is false. You are arguing that there is no contr...
Well, here's the odd thing; those symbols are pretty standard, and anyone who has taken the trouble to study logic will be familiar with them. But als...
Well, no, since they are part and parcel of the logic you claim to understand, and they permit us to see the structure of the arguments more clearly. ...
Yes, I understand that you are claiming that the laws of logic hold in the actual world but not in other possible worlds. I've shown how that leads to...
Bartricks claims that there are contradictions in the word. Hence he claims that for some proposition A, both A and ~A are true. If A and ~A are true,...
Oh, what an opportunity that would be. Yes, I'd love to discuss dialethism with him. But as I understand it, you are asserting that the law of noncont...
I don't see how. Again, it's in the nature of reductio arguments to assume what is in contention and then derive a contradiction from that assumption....
Really? But you claim to be familiar - even expert - at logic. "A" is any proposition. "~" is "not" Brackets are...well, indications of scope... So Th...
Hmm. Perhaps this will help: Bartricks has contradicted himself if he makes an assertion that implies a contradiction. Bartricks asserts that the law ...
No, you claimed it's circular. You did not point out a circularity. Now you engage in the rhetorical strategy of claiming to have presented an argumen...
Exhausted by their efforts, our pairing of pugnacious pugilists have only enough energy for a single summation. Each will now present one final post. ...
A statement is possible if it is true in some possible world; but all this means is that we could posit a world in which the statement is true. So "Do...
I'm having trouble with that. I can specify world in which Donovan doesn't exist, and speculate about the consequences. Someone in that world might sa...
Yep; that's the question, which have passed on to those with a bit more understanding of formal logic than I. See A question concerning formal modal l...
I did mean to come back to this, even though it will probably, on experience, meet with a mouthful of abuse rather than anything useful. No, it's a mo...
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