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SO by p.28 we have two competing theories of the relation between a name and a corresponding definite description. The first is that the name has both...

History. Both Frege and Russell, and as a consequence many others, took names to simply be shorthand for definite descriptions. But Kripke's interpret...

p. 25

(p.26) After setting up the terms involved, Kripke continues to push a wedge between names and descriptions. The notion is that name work, even when t...

A definite description picks out one and only one individual. Agreed? And it can be successful even when it doesn't work - as the man with the champai...

My time here is too erratic... trying to spend it learning bass and reading actual books. But I might start. Skip the Preface - we can come back to it...

Poor physics is poor philosophy.

Interesting. When this came out Kripke was the New Messiah. Will you start at the beginning, or before that, at the preface?

That is it not behaviourism.

Oh, I don't know - I think we can make pretty good inferences from observed behaviour. I'm not going to conclude that there is nothing intentional goi...

He'll be back. Might be a while.

And? Sometimes the cat pokes things off the table just to be a pain.

But I did not say that money is necessary to gain food. Quite the opposite, in fact

No more than that one might claim to need a steak when one only wants it.

A first approximation... Think in terms of conditionals. If your goal is to feed your family, then you need food. There are no instances of one withou...

@"Posty McPostface" relaxing at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kowerqe0rOA

Hm. "We"? So the meaning of "It's two copies of the same CD" is shared, but not shared. Perhaps it would be better to think of meaning as not being in...

What exactly is the word 'literally' doing here? Are you opposing it to 'metaphorical'? If so, what could it mean to say we cannot both literally mean...

So you and I cannot possibly mean the same thing when we each say "Paris is the capital of France"?

Firstly, unless we have possessive desires, there are too many apostrophes in the title. Secondly, if @"Terrapin Station" is right, how do we understa...

An archetype of an objective statement: and an archetype of a subjective statement: again, making propositional attitudes central.

OK, skip that line of thought for now.

Contrast "I live on the planet Earth" and "Sam lives on planet Earth". The former is tied to a speaker by its grammatical structure; the latter is not...

Neither - just building on your foundation. In previous discussions I have argued that the best way to proceed is often to just drop the distinction b...

Another approach worth considering is that first person statements are subjective, while statements in the third person are objective.

I take this to mean that an objective fact will stay the same regardless of the attitude adopted towards it - adopting the word attitude from the noti...

I'm going over there - you stay here. "Here" and "there" are useful terms despite there inherent ambiguity. Why shouldn't it be the same for "objectiv...

"Direction of fit" is about word-to-world or world-to-word; but you would apply it to sentence-to-logic and logic-to-sentence. Do we change our spelli...

Some illogical language use... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ujEowxxZJwk/UVuD0Y-bHqI/AAAAAAAADX8/qEtjLGJT1FU/s320/duck+rabbit+template.png If it's a duck,...

The notion of a loving god that permits eternal damnation is absurd. Accepting your wager involves accepting an absurdity.

And hence what was asked.

Manifest was your term.

, But of course, if you change the question, you change the grammar...

They are part of a description of what language is.

A non-logical language - a language without a grammar? How could you recognise a non-logical language, as a language? The world doesn't manifest logic...

Is that all.

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Compare "The world is the totality of fact not things" with Facts are odd things; they are both of language, and of the world. There is a way of under...

Does that, for you, imply that the world is in some way restricted in how it can and cannot be, by logic? Because that's not my claim. If the world we...

I've no idea what your point is, Frank. Is this heading somewhere?

Making sense presumably means being the subject of some sort of discussion... So saying that the world makes sense is just saying that we produce sent...

You can see that there is a bit missing from your argument.

...anymore than they can be false.

SO you are suggesting we adopt a theory that is inconsistent? You sure about that?

I don't see your point. Think I need sleep.

Sure. The salient point here is that when language - including maths and logic - was inadequate tot he task of describing some physical phenomena, the...

I see. Well, in this case, I suppose it is you - if you claim that the double slit shows a contradiction. But you included "appears" to avoid that.

What did he mean by that? Do you suppose he thought that he could observe his underpants in his bottom draw only when he was looking for them? That wh...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.00001.pdf The article was cited by @"StreetlightX" in a recent thread. Have a look at the section on Linear Algebra. Note: ...