Banno

Sure. But given the wording of the US Constitution, how could the Court have decided otherwise?

Given the wording of the constitution, how could they have deemed otherwise? At least without considerable resort to yoga...

Article three, section two: "The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution..."

Sure. But meaning is no more than a placeholder here. People mean something when they speak, and what they mean is what is spoken. You've said nothing...

Truth is defined extensionally in Davidson; you define it intensional. If you have the conditions under which a sentence is true, what more could you ...

As you prefer.

If you really are interested, have a look at Davidson, Truth and Meaning Or take a look at the Stanford article. The point here is, there are alternat...

Yes, it is. That's its logical structure. Suppose you have two sentences, P and P', such that "P" is true IFF P'. Then P is a translation of P' There,...

But, but but... they are the starting point, from which we derive the consequence of Chess... Philosophy moved on a bit after Aristotle. And after the...

What counts as a thing is a 'mental construct'... See PI §48. One of the differences between PI and the Tractatus is the rejection of the notion of si...

But not Banno. Oh, well.

You seem to have rediscovered Normal Form. Any proposition can be parsed in this form. It's not specific to definitions.

A transcendental argument... A A only if B Hence, B. If one does not agree that (A only if B), one is not obligated to the conclusion. They are of use...

I'm nonplussed here. It's precisely because it is conditional that it is fundamental. If you would play chess, then this is how you must move the bish...

Yes; folk do lots of things that they probably shouldn't. Wittgenstein’s rather unsympathetic response is exactly right, while entirely missing the po...

I used it to dismiss Meta's Coherentism; but I don't see as I can help here. I've no clear understanding of what you are up to.

Oh, it doesn't. It just says that they are not something we should talk about.

I'd ask you to reconsider both uses of "of course". If your experience is private, can it be expressed? If it can be expressed, then perhaps it isn't ...

I'm not too keen on the way "abstraction" is used here. It's not an uncommon use, but I think there may be some problems with it. What is clear is tha...

See above. Dropping back into philosophical language, I've argued for there being no private language, and hence that knowledge cannot be built on pri...

...in that case, the rule isn't wrong; rather the action goes against the rule. When one breaks a rule, one either stops playing the game, or one has ...

Sure, what is said should be consistent.

Interesting. In the article, to be fallible is to be capable of being false, wrong; hence it speaks of fallible foundations. I followed the usage. Tak...

Going back to my first post, I'm wondering if, by thinking about what is foundational to chess, we might be able to develop a view about what is found...

Yes. Stove's gem. IS that closer to what you have in mind?

Small steps. You asked about foundationalism.

Indeed. Given the title of this thread, that would seem to be the issue: in what way could the foundational rule, that the bishop moves only diagonall...

Yes. No. It is foundational to chess.

Indeed, here it is: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260342309_AS_Eddington_Opening Now isn't there something a bit mad about the assertion th...

There is nothing more erotic, nor beautiful, than my partner's face as she orgasms. Somehow, this seems a long way from the OP.

that’s a win.

A shame you didn’t get a considered response. You cut through the fog very clearly here.

I hope so.

For the longest time I worked on the notion that if someone replied to me, I should as a curtesy reply to them. Assuming then that occasionally folk w...

The change of meaning issue, from the cited article; interesting. The contention is that the distributive rule is dysfunctional in quantum mechanical ...

That one. But also, I like putting my thoughts in order, and writing them down helps. And, very occasionally, I learn something.

Not every thread need be about god.

My coffee cup sits on the table. I just put it there. My coffee cup does not sink into the table, the way it would if made of something that is not so...

They are back.

But that's how it works in the real world...

Hm. I get an equation named after me!?

:grin:

-Voltaire

They are perhaps a pair of fundamentalist christian theologians. 'nough said.

... (just pushing your ratio up a notch...)

Added poll for a quick assessment.

Sweet.

Perhaps; it's an empirical question. Would having a mentions/comments ratio of less than, say, 0.1, be grounds in itself for a ban?

I'll look forward to your considered response... As for I was thinking more of dropping correct/incorrect in favour of successful/unsuccessful or even...

I'm not arguing that they do not have rules; nor that they cannot be stated; I'm arguing that the rules need never be explicitly stated for the game t...