Banno

That's the analytic approach at work. Thanks for indulging me. It might well be a language issue, since my reservation rests on that word "revealed". ...

Thank you. That's what I'd hoped. To my eye this shows the incoherence of such talk. So mucht he worse for phenomenology.

I don't know how to make sense of that. Is your suggestion that hammerness is a potential or opportunity or modus inherent in a microscope? Much simpl...

Obviously. So, did the clock on your wall keep moving while you slept, or was there a leap from when you closed your eyes to when you opened them agai...

Back to this. Was he right? Did the world cease to exist last night while you slept? What would happen if you were to pretend that it had? If you insi...

Sure. The graph isn't embarrassing, as indeed is pointed out repeatedly in the comments. The results from this small survey are not too far form the r...

That doesn't validate a leap into proclaiming what is mere speculation.

If you stopped there, we would have little disagreement. But in a few posts you will be leaping beyond the obvious truth that we only know stuff with ...

Calling it magic is not explaining it. But calling it magic might lead one not to look for a better answer. Why make the leap to calling it magic? Why...

Sure. Someone will be along soon to remind us of the other three Aristotelian causes, and claim to be agreeing that efficient cause is but one and so ...

Yep. Is it common? I hope not.

Sure. Nor is it answered by Indian mysticism.

I'm given to understand BC prefers nuts.

, - to be sure, the account is not settled. There is room for discussion and compromise, and the answer may only be decided by experimentation. Howeve...

Cheers. The mechanistic model is a great example of a case taken far beyond it's context. We seem to understand how causation functions in a game of b...

Ok, so you are saying that the hammerness is already there in the thing, logically prior to the use as a hammer; and that the use brings out the hamme...

Sure. Does hammerness inhere in the hammer, or is it something we attribute to the hammer? Is hammerness a permanent, even essential, part of the hamm...

Examples of measurements without consciousness: A photon hitting a photographic plate and causing a chemical reaction Cosmic rays interacting with par...

I did. You speak of "Hammerness". I don't think that helpful. You have the "hammerness" being "revealed" by its use. Better to drop "hammerness" all t...

Some folk would have you believe that consciousness is what collapses the wave function. It isn't. The function is collapsed when measured.

I'm confused. I'd understood from your previous account that, as it were, being a hammer is something we do with that - an attribute, as put it. But n...

Stand back to back in hivis while ignoring a blood "scoots bend" a few feet away? She's my kinda girl.

Oh, yes. But when one looks closely, it turns out to be difficult to say what sort of thing a cause is, and to describe actual science in causal terms...

I'd favour the more humble point, that cause is overrated if it is considered to be the only, or even the most important, explanation. When causation ...

Well, trivially, yes, since pure set theory is about nothing but sets of sets and the empty set.

No, but {a} and {b} are. We'd have to look into Wittgenstien's analysis of simples here, and ask if the chair or the leg or the table set is the indiv...

Cool. Too many words, too many crossed discussions. The aim might be to be clear about what the individuals we are talking about are. So we can talk a...

Yep.

Sure. Just not in the way you interact with chairs. Different domains.

Do you want me to go on? What is a real metaphysical entity as contrasted with a real entity? What does the word "metaphysical" do here? What is a rea...

Odd. You think she should throw it out on the basis of of her imaginings?

But I hope you see that your intuition - that having the property of being red and being a member of the set of red things say much the same thing - r...

And I hope has the sense not to ditch it yet?

:lol: Which is why these threads are neverending.

Thanks for the clarity. To my eye, this reifies the property, making it a thing alongside the elements of the set. That is, you now have the set and t...

One of the problems here was a classic for Tones - the move from formal exposition to philosophical exposition. The OP makes that move, by equating th...

Sorry.

There’s no formal problem in set theory with counting sets as different from their elements. The “problem” arises only if one has an intuition that co...

https://st.openlogicproject.org/settheory-screen.pdf

Yeah, I deleted that response becasue it doesn't make the teaching point I would like. It does depend on what we mean by individual, just as it depend...

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Redacted. I can't help you here.

Yep. As explained earlier, "identical" has a very specific definition here. The set is not extensionally identical to it's elements. Try "Is a set com...

Cool. Tone's last few posts expressed frustration with a particularly recalcitrant contributor. :worry:

AH! I missed it. Yep. Tones can tell me, rightly, how all the stuff I've said here is a gross oversimplification. @"TonesInDeepFreeze"? Hasn't been se...

Types?

:smile:

I still dibs some pie.

I wasn't so much thinking of statistical laws as the basic equations of physics. Some folk tend to think of F=ma as setting out how the force causes t...

I'd hoped that it was pretty clear there were two things - a and b. Kinda what I stipulated. You can say "the domain consists of a and b" to avoid box...