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Well, I guess the black cat might be there...

You deserve a better explanation. So the all-and-some logic above applies to "every event has an explanation". Intellectual honesty requires that we a...

Yep. The further, less flippant point is that talk of nothing is fraught with misunderstanding. "Nothing" gains its meaning in negating "something"; i...

You are right, my discussion slides between uncaused causes and something for nothing. I will take as my defence, that what I am arguing against is of...

I have nothing in my pocket. It causes me to wonder where my handkerchief went.

...and it's not just virtual particles. It's double slit experiments - nothing causes the photon to go left instead of right. It's atomic decay - noth...

It's worth a look at the logical structure of It's what Watkins called an all-and-some proposition - an existential statement within the scope if a un...

Two Christians arguing about atheism, :rofl: Would that this were so. Do they do that to True Scotsmen too?

You really gotta learn how to do quotes.

Here's one way to modify the Administration... Worth considering.

It's been pointed out that this is an absurd question. So in answer I'll refer you back to an article I cited a while back: The End of the Roman Empir...

(Banno reaches for his poker...)

Hence, it is impossible to explain the world. And silence follows.

:grin: ...and it was the realisation of this incompleteness that led to PI? That sounds not unreasonable. Perhaps that is what is nascent in .

Yes please. We need to get back on track.

...and not on your own reading of, say, the Tractatus or the PI; or on a reputable secondary or tertiary text. Just on Sam's few introductory notes. S...

How far back do we have to go to find a president who was not a war criminal? And why is that?

Sure. Cosmology is a very interesting branch of physics. But that's not what you are doing.

Whence this syllogism? Did you make it up? Because it seems to me to be quite wrong.

Perhaps, although I doubt that Wittgenstein had more than a passing acquaintance with Hume. @"Sam26" would know. There may be a profound difference be...

Then why am I condemned to keep returning to this godridden forum? The fucking flies will not learn the way out of the bottle.

And yet if you talk of potential, you have to talk of potential for some thing... in reifying potential, it feels like you have an explanation, when a...

So... you are making this up as you go?

Well, now China can step in to the funding void Trump created. So cowing to them was quite forward thinking.

Is this an explanation, or a nonsense, or a play on words?

1. Have you stoped beating your wife? 2. Pink Floyd - they're unreal. 3. Mortgages. 4... https://www.diamondway-buddhism.org/images/Ghandara_Buddha_St...

Rather infamously, Wittgenstein had little background in the history of philosophy. So I'm wondering if you just made this up. Show me that I'm wrong.

SO there are uncaused events. Cool. I agree.

Perhaps this is just wishful thinking on your part? Virtual particles do give us something from nothing. And accepting that has not brought physics cr...

Really? Why? How do you know this?

:grin: Have I misunderstood? Hume's fork is the distinction between facts on the one hand and relations of ideas on the other. I had taken you to be s...

Nor am I. So your point is that Wittgenstein feasts with Hume's fork? That's pretty accurate. But if that is a critique, then some alternative should ...

Yes, Mum. So, a Kantian fact...?

Ah, so Humean facts are the sort that are true or false, while Kantian facts are more ill-defined.

Well, yes, the middle class luxuriant in me did reach a catharsis when this piece reappeared in my feed. The description of Trump is so delicious. And...

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Yep. Moreover, it's not me here, reality over there. One is embedded.

I'm curious as to how a humean fact differs from , say a Kantian fact...?

Old, but apt:

I gather someone has made it part of their jargon...

Sure. Frank. I don't see anything substantial in your comments so far. What do you want?

And... that would be different from our actually agreeing? It says let's start by assuming we agree on most things.

Charity. Make a list of all your beliefs, from your presidential preferences down to the size of your shoe. How many of those would we agree on?

But, Harry, we do agree on almost everything.

Toddlers do this all the time. While it common for folk to think they need such criteria, it turns out that they usually don't. Can you tell a prairie...

So you deny your own agency in order to follow what you take to be the natural law. In doing so you are dishonest to yourself, denying that you have a...

The red cup broke long ago. Funny thing is, I threw it into the fish pond, but when i had cause to move the pond across the yard last November there w...

Cool. That's about what we do do, not what we ought do. What ought we do?

Indeed. Perplexing. Your answer?

It would be "Covid-19 kills" is true IFF Covid-19 kills. One already knows what being true is; the problem is that one does not know which particular ...