Banno

Lecture three. Kripke does a brief summation again, claiming to have made two hits on the descriptivist account. I had thought here were more - I shou...

Or maybe, just maybe... you misunderstood?

I badly misread @"Noah Te Stroete"'s post. Hope I've made it clear that I was wrong to assert that necessity and contingency have any overlap. I think...

How do you know?

I'm playing with words in order to show that there is nothing more going on here than wordplay.

I mean, what is information - a question directed at Devan, to help clean up his comment that there is twice as much of it in four as in two.

Yes, that's right.

So your mind is not in the real world? Infinity is not a thing like my cat or last Tuesday? What's going on here? Is infinity a thing like my mortgage...

No, it doesn't. 4 might be twice two, but what could it mean to say it has twice the information? What sort of thing is information?

SO an interval of 4 has twice as much information as an interval of 2? What does that mean?

This is pretty directly erroneous. a) Imagine 2 and 4 b) By the definition of continuous, both numbers are graduated identically (to infinite precisio...

SO if you assume a discrete world, you find that the world is discreet. (??)

And yet the car is moving at 50km/h. So, from "A calculation is just purely in our heads" it does not follow that "A velocity is purely in our heads.....

And yet we can calculate instantaneous velocity. I do not see how your argument can survive that.

Seems to me that this thread is based on a fundamental misapprehension about possible worlds. They are stipulated, not found. Such stipulations are in...

Of course, the judge also had no free will in sentencing you. Doubtless this was mentioned before.

Me too. My error; I misunderstood your post. Not enough sleep.

I do not think it would be worth looking at one example out of context. He is presenting a way of viewing philosophical topics, as implied by possible...

The whole book.

That's the point at issue. Kripke says there is. (ignore this... I misread the post.)

Why not? Do you think it not true? But then you would be believing things that are not true... Or do you think it lacks justification? What more justi...

Why would one do that? It seems a long stretch in order to save a pet theroy about certainty.

Does this really claim anything more than that you lack the courage of your convictions? Because in every other way, you behave as if such things as t...

I'\ll invite you to reconsider. Are you really willing to claim that a phantom pain is not a pain? Just so as not to lose a philosophical point?

http://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/hotdogSandwich2.png

http://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/hotdogSandwich1.png

A few notes on being certain. It would be wrong to argue from the observation that science does not produce certainty to the conclusion that we can ne...

It doesn't. It was possible that we might change the referent of the word "metre" before we actually did.

Cheers.

I'm left nonplussed by this sort of wording. As in, "so surprised and confused that one is unsure how to react", not the incongruous American nonpluss...

So two roles, one linguistic and one practical, that come together to form a language game. The game is where the language makes contact with the worl...

"One Metre" once referred, in every possible world, to the length of the stick. We now use "One Metre" to refer, in every possible world, to a differe...

Patience, Grasshopper.

The unexpected part for me has been the role that his criticism of Wittgenstein's comments about the standard metre play in his thinking. For Wittgens...

I'm working my way through Lecture Three. But my comments here so far only go to the end of Lecture Two.

Not yet. After Kripke.

I'm reading both N&N and this thread, and for the first time have noticed how important this metre rule is for Kripke. I don't have the answer, but fe...

This? http://www.uvm.edu/~lderosse/courses/lang/Kripke(1979).pdf Maybe after the last lecture?

The stick sets up the length, sure. Thereafter the term "one metre" refers to that length. Not to the stick. Not to the process of using the stick to ...

Again, is the referent of "One Metre" a length, or is it a stick, or is it a process? I say it is a length.

Given the shit going down in this thread, i wonder if this ought be in the Kripke thread... https://academiaanalitica.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/krip...

It is actually a metre long, but it might not have been. Yes.

Some here have read the whole book. Several times. And more than a few secondary and tertiary sources. But yeah, these days a few minutes on Google wi...

You are assuming it can only actually be a metre long if we verify that it is a metre long, it would seem. But that's not right. Even if its length we...

Well, I guess that's honest.

That's right - is a metre a particular length, or is it a process for measuring against a particular stick? I'm going for the length. Can you change m...

Well, you've worked out the point of the whole book...

I don't agree - with Wittgenstein, not with your exegesis. I'm going with Kripke, in saying that the stick in Paris was used to set a certain length a...

Ah, so you've finished the whole book, then?