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Grist to the mill. Check out why you should be talking with gpt about philosophy From that article, another prompting strategy:
October 17, 2025 at 04:40
Cheers. Hope my rumination are not too mundane.
October 17, 2025 at 04:27
A crap film. It's a performative contradiction. Ah! There's the proof! He denies it again! Even if - and I want to make this perfectly clear - even if...
October 17, 2025 at 04:24
Fried eggs, therefore, are a leap of faith. Cool. So the true reality is that true reality is unknown... No. I'm pointing out your part in the conspir...
October 17, 2025 at 04:16
That's quite incoherent. I can judge that the chooks have laid an egg by their chortles. Therefor the villainous deed in which you are complicit start...
October 17, 2025 at 04:14
What's the relevance of that? More secret messages.
October 17, 2025 at 03:56
You seem to think that post said something. I wonder what.
October 17, 2025 at 03:51
Straight out of Anscombe. But yes, the common problem in @"Copernicus"'s threads is the failure to acknowledge the other.
October 17, 2025 at 03:46
SO you didn't follow the argument? Your OP is a signal to nefarious actors to institute their plans. We know this, despite your denials and protests. ...
October 17, 2025 at 03:33
The charitable explanation for your reply is that you did not understand my post.
October 17, 2025 at 03:18
What do you think you are doing here? You want our responses, but don't reciprocate. Why? Should we respond to you respectfully, or ignore you?
October 17, 2025 at 03:17
No, it isn't. Wittgenstein said nothing of the sort.
October 17, 2025 at 03:09
Something has gone astray here, in. that if this were so, it's not just that we have never said anything, but that the very notion of saying something...
October 17, 2025 at 03:08
A man is working a hand pump. A simple physical description. What is his intent? Is it to replenish the water supply? Is he exercising? Is it to mix t...
October 17, 2025 at 01:46
Yep, that's what I was getting at before. We might use Austin's terminology. The AI at least presents us with a locution - a sequence of words in some...
October 17, 2025 at 01:33
No. They are, as you say, operators. If you think "^" a symmetrical expansion of identity, "=", show how. You can't, because they are very different t...
October 17, 2025 at 01:24
, , cheers to you both - I would that it were so, too, but it ain't, and so here we are. Perhaps we might best keep that part of the discussion in 's ...
October 17, 2025 at 01:17
I was struck by this: So the AI is saying that it is not an interlocutor... Is that a performative contradiction? If it's not an interlocutor, then no...
October 17, 2025 at 00:16
Then I succeeded. I hope you don't mind my starting a new thread rather than adding to your already existing one. I think the topic sufficiently disti...
October 16, 2025 at 23:36
For those of you who are having trouble articulating a good counter-argument, here's what ChatGPT said when I prompted it with the OP, prefixed with "...
October 16, 2025 at 23:22
You seem to want to capture something poetic in formal logic. Trouble is that formal logic has very fixed rules. There is poetry in formal logic, for ...
October 16, 2025 at 22:07
Two very different biconditionals.
October 16, 2025 at 20:16
I just think needs a better butcher.
October 16, 2025 at 10:24
You missed so much.
October 16, 2025 at 08:39
Nice. I'll say no more.
October 16, 2025 at 08:37
Probably wasn't lamb? a forequarter chop’s got enough fat in it to stay tender even when overdone.
October 16, 2025 at 08:12
There are a few logic courses around. The Stanford one is pretty good, but clunky in its presentation. Language, proof and Logic at EdX also looked go...
October 16, 2025 at 06:56
Ok, but again, the relationship is true - but does it define truth? I asked ChatGPT to pull out the argument in your post, and it offered: Condensed A...
October 15, 2025 at 22:55
Sure. it might help us identify some good on line stuff if you list your interests. I highly commend the EdX philosophy and critical thinking course. ...
October 15, 2025 at 21:31
Perhaps you would benefit from a reading of some of the literature on intentionality. Anscombe, maybe. "Jack turned on the light" is neither selfish n...
October 15, 2025 at 20:31
Does this say more than that a=a is true? That doesn't tell us what truth is. Clever words can trick one into thinking that what one is saying is prof...
October 15, 2025 at 20:24
Welcome. Sounds like you want to move from reading philosophy to doing philosophy. It might seem that a forum such as this would be ideal, but while i...
October 15, 2025 at 20:17
Thanks. It's neat. I like comparisons.
October 13, 2025 at 22:59
Yep.
October 13, 2025 at 22:58
Here's a paper that directly links a particular project to the damage it will cause: Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual ...
October 13, 2025 at 21:43
Not so uninteresting as some. So sure, take Maxwell's equations and apply gauge symmetry, and "the answer just jumps out"; but don't then claim that t...
October 13, 2025 at 20:59
Well, yes, but in so far as we are concerned with what we believe - what we hold to be the case - we are in an anthropocentric position. And do you th...
October 13, 2025 at 11:21
I do miss stuff - shit, 30,000 mentions... I need to get out more. And there are folk I just don't read, but that does not include you. Thanks.
October 13, 2025 at 10:47
Nice. We have to take care here with what we do, though. Hume was looking for a justification for the move from specific instances to general rules. I...
October 13, 2025 at 08:06
Cheers.
October 13, 2025 at 04:19
Yes, I suppose so. So how to proceed. I suspect that, as with most of these sorts of problems, it's as much about the choice of wording as the way thi...
October 13, 2025 at 00:39
Cheers. If there is something in particular that I ought follow up on, let me know.
October 12, 2025 at 20:58
indeed.
October 12, 2025 at 10:29
You are not seeing the contradiction in which you choose to live. Oh well.
October 12, 2025 at 10:19
That explains quite a bit.
October 12, 2025 at 10:10
So you constructed me? You poor thing.
October 12, 2025 at 10:09
Deduce? Nothing - that's the point! Soon after you start listening. Good night.
October 12, 2025 at 10:02
So you have a brain. The mess gets bigger. Then, a universe, to blur your vision. So are we happy now that there is more than is "inside your head"? C...
October 12, 2025 at 09:53
Sure. But not made by your head. Then there is error. If everything is in your mind, how can you make sense of being mistaken? You are mistaken when w...
October 12, 2025 at 09:41
Only what I'm saying isn't yours. It comes from outside your head. Surprise, novelty.
October 12, 2025 at 09:34