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Sure. We both need to keep track of what is being said here. We are talking at cross purposes. "Identical" is defined extensionally by substitution. I...

Yep. What's your answer? That red things are exactly those that have the property "red"? And you think this helpful? If I ask you what it is to have t...

Sourness is a culinary delight, sharpening and refreshing the pallet. Where children prefer sweetness, perhaps sourness is for mature tastes, or those...

I'm inclined to agree that defining "properties" in such broad terms is fraught with difficulties. An answer might be to drop "property" rather than e...

I guess something has to be said. Mashing Hume, Wittgenstein, Kripke, Duhem, Quine, Kuhn, Mill, Feyerabend, and Goodman together and calling them "sce...

Yep.

Yep. The answer might be to drop the notion of "property", which is somewhat anachronistic anyway. It reifies a semantic difference.

, I supose that answers your question? THere is a difference between why we count an animal as having a heart, and that we cont an animal as having a ...

That's all very rough, of course. More detail can be found at The IterativeConception

"Classes" is a more specialised term. If we stick to sets, we can start with individuals - a,b,c; and form sets of these - {a,b}, {b,c} - and then set...

A bit of care is needed here. A set is identical to its elements, and nothing more. No box. I hope we agree on that. So we can write that the set S = ...

In a very rough form its how Z works, so yes. What was the question?

Best acknowledge early that sets are best formed in stages, so as to avoid Russel's paradox. Start with individuals, then sets of individuals, then se...

Yes, you are basically correct. Lets take a closer look at what might happen were we to come across an organism with what appeared to be kidneys and y...

Yep, although "objects" is ontologically loaded - I'd use "individuals". And an individual is just what we give proper names to - "a", "b", "c" or "Mo...

"Property" is a problematic notion for our Thomist friends, who puzzle over "what properties really are". Less so for more recent logic, which recogni...

Russel's "box" metaphor doesn't work becasue a set just is it's elements. Asking if redness is red is a category error.

Identity can be defined extensionally using substitution, and without circularity. That's how it is done in modern logic.

A fine piece of work. Nice anticipation of objections, especially the modal objection. Are you studying logic? There are problems, though. Perhaps not...

Note the reduction of wisdom to mere cleverness. Something has gone astray.

I was unable to follow that - you seem to think an idea emerges from a sentence, rather then a sentence expressing an idea. And no, I wasn't talking a...

My Will To Power forbids me doing so.

Ok. Aristotle again. :roll:

Yep. Hence The properties of the coin include it's monetary value. But this is not a properties of it's parts. Reductionism defeated.

No one's utterly useless - at the worst they can serve as an example of what not to do.

Fair suck of the sauce bottle. That was twenty five years ago. It was about having to make a decision despite not having sufficient information, yes, ...

To a Louse or group theory? Both work. Which did you have in mind? Added: I'm not sure the presumption of hierarchy is needed - you might understand m...

Cheers. The apparent contradiction - deciding what is undecidable - cuts to the heart of what it is to be rational. My Masters thesis was on organisat...

Yep. The difficulty is that it is all but impossible to recognise one's own rigidities - one needs others to point them out.

That a coin is worth ten cents has nothing to do with it's composition. It does not emerge from some combination of the material properties of the coi...

Yes, I think so. I've been attempting to get AI to find instances of reference to "degrees of wisdom", without much success - using terms such as "gre...

It's just that it seems odd to say someone is a little bit wise. You got it or you don't. Do you agree?

To my eye that's more an excuse for rejecting more recent ethical values. I spent yesterday at a Voluntary Assisted Dying conference, and came away wi...

Cheers. Austin's idea is to lay out the use of the word, get the lay of the land, so to speak. As opposed to just picking a definition and defending i...

Austin advocated looking up the definition of a word in a dictionary, then looking up each word in the definition, and then each word in the subsequen...

Cheers. Here's the ngram. We might continue to do the sort of analysis Austin suggested, looking to subtleties and distinctions in our ordinary use of...

A good Anglo-saxon word, none of your Mediterranean rubbish! Old English wis, Proto-Germanic *wissaz, *wittos of PIE root *weid- "to see", although ea...

Yeah, we can always just make shit up.

What if there is more than one description? More than one coherent set of properties? This is a disk with a diameter of 23.60 mm and a thickness of 2....

Its own ideology and mythology hold that capitalism is dominated by competition, the self-made, independent Man defeating his rivals. However a busine...

A rock is coherent and there is a difference between a rock and a hard place.

Indubitably.

Making America Alone Again But what would an elderly Canadian know.

It's not my imagination.

Can’t say as I do.

Wide caught or farmed?

@"Moliere" op cit.

Certainly,

, , All good points. My reply is just that the rule is unenforceable, given that it is already all but impossible to tell how much of a piece is const...

Fun - as in a good time Da - as in "Doh" (Mr Simpson) Mental - relating to a disorders mind.