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Odd. It's your story.

Appear. They are described using the appropriate equations. The language was adjusted to the world, not the world to the language. I don't seriously t...

So when we come across something illogical, we have said it wrong, and look for a way to say it right. Logic is not telling us how the world is, but h...

And...?

This is what I said has grammatical issues. If Bert1 is a rigid designator that refers to you, then you cannot be other than Bert1. Depends what you m...

I find that oddly reassuring...

Propositional and predicate logic are certainly about propositions... Language is about the world; logic is about language; so yes, logic has somethin...

Perhaps.

This is the view I am rejecting, Frank. Suppose I argued that your view on, say, abortion is wrong because your mother wears army boots. @"aletheist" ...

Just as in performing an illegal move, on ceases to play chess, one fails to make a move - so @"Limitless Science" failed to say anything. Trivially, ...

An example of what can't be said.

But on the other hand, if you have 1 raindrop and you add 1 more raindrop, you still have only 1 raindrop. There's a bit of selection in what you talk...

Yep. It's what is sayable, not what ought be said.

This is a real problem for reincarnation. The unanswered question is, what is it that was reincarnated as barney, and not as a snail? There is no reas...

Is there any reason for us to think that you seek these similarities for anything more than rhetorical purposes? Real people are already impacted by c...

Indeed, the paper stands or falls on whether the world M is a fair interpretation of mathematical realism. The process then becomes our selection fo t...

This is an obvious attempt to make headway on the dead issue of abortion using the live issue of climate change. Poor stuff.

IS the sentence about the marks on either side of the "="?

Puts me in mind of strange loops.

Excellent phrasing.

Sure; but belief and truth are not private. What makes this case interesting is exactly the extraordinary split between belief and the world: that in ...

That misses the point. Do you know how to ride despite not being able to ride? That is, while suffering the inner ear infection. I humbly suggest that...

Well, the observer is not an object in the way of a chair or a tree. But consider what it might mean to claim that the observer is not in the world......

Can we seperate the consciousness of Bert1 from Bert1? I don't understand how. The suggestion is that the Bert1's consciousness is seperate from Bert1...

Thank you for such a considered post. I will maintain that the issue is grammatical. Consider what would happen if you were not Bert1, but were Bert2....

Nice article. Thanks for sharing it.

Now I need to go back to Moore, and have a re-read. Does he mention certainty in his text? I don't recall his doing so. The introduction of certainty ...

I watched a pharmacist sort through shelves as she spoke on the phone, looking at this and that, walking around the room, asking questions and listeni...

Why think that? Causality in not the only relation.

Yes.

And here you wander off on your own. Have fun.

They (usually) persist over time for an individual.

Others have already done that and found pretty much no correlation.

Hmph. If they agreed as to the colour of seven.

No. It seems you have (again) entirely missed the crux of QM here. It is not that the sequence of events is just unknown; it is that the sequence of e...

What colour is seven? I suspect you might agree that this question is not helpful. I suspect that "Seven is real" is not unlike "Seven is pink". Sayin...

That's just not so. What the OP describes is exactly a lack of a causal sequence. That's right. If there is no temporal order, it would be wrong to ex...

Here we agree. And this is were we might differ. When we say there are connectives and numbers and universals, we are saying no more than that this so...

No; I mean as in the example in the OP.

This is the sort of reply that has me wondering why I bother to reply to you. I guess my answer is that physics ought not try to determine the tempora...

Hence the remission rate.

All we can do is take off the lid. The fly has to find its own way.

Sure; but they are not everything. Sooner or later we have to do things - often with words. The doing was not present in TLP. Do you see how this rela...

Two is a part of the activity of counting, and thence maths. But is it correct to say it exists? Perhaps it would be better to think of numbers as a g...

What happened to the TLP reading thread? A useful way to think of the difference between TLP and PI is to observe that TLP restricts itself to stateme...

It doesn't work like that. Have another look at PI, but instead of looking at what is said, look at how it is said. It's not just a set of ideas, but ...

Broad sweeps make for an interesting narrative, but at the expense of accuracy.

Here.

You want a list? That's one thing it can't do.

A can of worms, alright. The notion of an ontology of abstracts is oxymoronic. Wanting to avoid absurdity is worthy.