Banno

I'm not.

There's more than that, that's problematic with positive psychology. An exception that folk should be happy makes any misery a personnel failing, some...

All I have been able to find so far is the Löwenheim-Skolem Theorem: What I am after is, what happens when the model is uncountable?

I don't understand this bit - what do you mean?

So it seems. And my question is, what are the consequences? Since ZFC relies on hereditary sets and hence contains no individuals, it doesn't count he...

Here's one way: http://www.positivepsychologyinstitute.com.au/what_is_positive_psychology.html

Sure, why not teach happiness. Amongst other things.

Say we use the alphabet (0,1). Say we allow "words" of infinite length. Then we know we have an non denumerable number of "words"...

I can see that. Thanks for articulating it. What if one used an uncountable alphabet?

That's what I am questioning. Is there an argument in suport of this contention?

Why only one aim?

Or alternately, what happens if we take the number of individuals in an interpretation of first order Predication to be uncountable?

so is there an implicit assumption in first order logic that there are no more than a countable number of constants?

But never completely...

Think I wil start a new thread.

Yep.

A good point; but consider a family resemblance of rules, a set of rules that can never be set out explicitly and entirely. And a conjecture: given an...

So we note that there is a way of digesting that is not given in an explanation of how one digests, but is shown in the act of turning food into shit....

Rubbish.

I'm not familiar with Evans. It's simply that children are able to use proper names without the advantage of being able to articulate a satisfactory e...

Why should all reference have only one explanation?

So there must be some explanation that will account for every correct reference and also elucidate every incorrect reference? And if I can find a coun...

Ableism. Us, not them; the disabled don't get a say in this, because... they are disabled. They are not us. We are not disabled, despite wearing glass...

Banno’s Observation: it is much easier to criticise a theory if one starts by not understanding it. This thread is a case in point.

Their writings were unfortunately not preserved, but their method has been handed down from generation to generation, each passing on the scoff of the...

Ah, the Skophist School, founded in the Ionian island of Skophios.

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I gather, from conversation, that telling a trans person that they are wrong would be on a par with telling someone with a phantom limb that they are ...

An interesting analogy. Perhaps in this case the currency can only be exchanged for more currency.

Have I suggested either? There is nothing sensible to be said here. Silence. Perhaps @"Bitter Crank" would prefer this of his sister.

One hopes.

Is that the only option? God or Positivism?

It's a failing of mine, sure enough. I've read more of Anselm and Kenny than is healthy.

But one cannot perform a vasectomy on a trans man. Still, there is some sense in what you say.

Interesting. So if I understand, we start with the assumption that there are males and females, and...? Force everyone into one category or the other?...

But that's not so. There are two groups, male and female. And distinct from that, there are the social roles of man and woman. Having certain specifia...

"We"? As in, just by posting here you demonstrate yourself to be in at least the third quartile? I don;t think the evidence supports such a contention...

This OP is not in touch with reality. So what is worrying here is that it attracts attention.

Who was David Stove? Stove's Discovery of the Worst Argument in the World A good read.

Firstly, this is a reiteration of Vagabond's observations. Secondly, I am using sex, male, female; as distinct from gender, man, woman. One cannot per...

Just to reiterate... A sharp knife is a good knife. We use physical characteristics to evaluate. A person with specifiable physical characteristics is...

I find myself dismissive of your posts. Their discursive nature does not sit well with my preference for analysis. Which is to say I don't find them v...

He actively encouraged his students to go and do something else - something useful. But philosophy is a hard addiction to kick. The plethora of angst-...

Not just context; we do things with words, and they do things to us; and it's a "we" not an "I". It might better be captured by saying we are embedded...

ThIs is spot on. One of the tantalising characteristics of PI is the use of multiple voices; Wittgenstein writing down the dialogue he is having with ...

But what would Stove have said?

Stove. What a bastard. Love his writing.

SUre. But asking to meet at sunrise is not about the sun moving; it's about when we meet. Talk of when to meet and talk of planetary dynamics are diff...

Cheers. Methodologically, cleaning up language remains a good thing to do.

That's helpful. Thanks. Especially the last two paragraphs. Thinking...