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Looks like you are not going to get the science toothpaste back in the tube. Could have been worse; it might have read :wink: added: or "what if we ac...

And again, your argument does not meet your conclusion. Have fun. Added: Just to be clear the Kimhi quote is against writing ?(?p ? ?q), not ??(p?q).

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Google, for those from foreign parts: A noble activity.

Perhaps. I'm not seeing a problem here. Seems @"bongo fury" is stirring the possum, which is fair enough. Something might come of it.

has the same post in two places, so some of the context was lost. My reply:

There's a difference between understanding what it would take for "the cat is on the mat" to be true, and asserting that the cat is on the mat. Betwee...

It seems that for Ramsey the degree that one is willing to bet constitutes the partial belief. A belief is not "private" or "subjective", but measurab...

Kant, Critique of Pure reason, A825 / B852. Kant is not measuring degrees of belief but critiquing overconfidence and metaphysical presumption. It's n...

If you like. But cake.

That, too. But cake. As well.

Cake.

Although we arrived at Ramsey from critique of Kant and induction, it has another place in the discussion, since it provides us with a model for compa...

My "enthusiasm" stems from my reading Davidson's Truth and Predication, where Ramsey is mentioned. I'm not advocating Ramsey so much as exploring some...

Ask Dummett to join a betting circle?

Jamal joined PF on October 20, 2015. Our tenth anniversary is coming up.

Yes, it's just a game, in much the same way as predicate calculus is just a game. Can it be used to model some of the things we do? Can it show us how...

Ok.

Quite literal.

Does it have to be one thing? Does it even have to be specified? what is it we are judging when judging a flavour on aesthetic grounds?

It bypasses induction - it doesn't make use of induction. Induction tries to show that, given some beliefs f(a), f(b), and so on, we can induce Ux(fx)...

Ramsey's assumptions are pretty specific. We could finesse the betting process in all sorts of ways. But the point is not the bet so much as the abili...

Sure. Very much so. Ramsey can be seen as providing a way to compare partial beliefs. If we treat beliefs as things that come in degrees, then betting...

Yes. There doesn't seem to be much point in going over this again.

That made me laugh. Again, I don't You are a long way from the topic of this thread.

There needs to be some general discussion of aesthetics, and how it fits with ethics and other explanations. Here's a case for your consideration - my...

Might push this. Both Davidson and the Mohists offer a vision of explanation and rationality that is causal but not mechanical, normative but not law-...

Worms. Cans thereof. Briefly and dogmatically, we can be pretty sure about our deductions; induction is deductively invalid; calling induction "abduct...

Poor mans' induction. Bleh.

I'm unconvinced.

May you not have dreams of Descartes' evil daemon... 'cause you are still not sure... not until you act.

Point is, of course, that we can't check to see if we do all use the same categories... Perhaps Kant's categories might be seen as a precursor to char...

So you say... but as Wittgenstein points out, what if it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly dece...

Prima facie, yep. But consider: what is it to have made up your mind? Your choice remains open to reconsideration until you act. You might change your...

Is “best” conceptually required for comparison? You can have purely relational comparisons without a fixed ideal. Saying “X is better than Y” only req...

:rofl: I already said what I did say... And yes, I am evading you. There are better things to do, even here in this thread.

Syncategorematic means it has no meaning in isolation, only in context (like logical connectives), but that doesn't automatically rule out meta-level ...

I suspect Kripke was again doing much the same as the tortoise. Not final, so much as enough...? Fashion's main anthropological purpose might be to di...

Don't you find that quite distasteful? Davidson undermines this again, by denying one leg of the transcendental argument that leads to it. In this cas...

Should we go along with him here? First, seperate out what is being done here. There's the trite logical point that "my making up my mind" is about me...

Do you see that this restates your position, but does not answer the question? I hope so. This outlines an argument. Better. This would be so provided...

Glad to meet someone else who appreciates What the tortoise said to Achilles. This relates to Wittgenstein's answer to the problem he raises of what i...

Oh, that's very good. So we have a transcendental argument in Kant, something like: The only way we could make judgements is if we have a unified obje...

Why not?

Yeah, I agree with that, there should be an answer here. But if we take "I think..." as a formal unity of judgement, it's just taking the place of Fre...

Again, and generally, we don't need an absolute standard in order to be able to say that one thing is better or worse than some other.

There's a difference between a standard and an end. My objection is to setting up what metaphysics is in terms of where metaphysics ends. That framing...

Around about there-ish? Notice the circularity - of course my representations must be accompanied by "I think..." What if we were to ask what we think...

I was using the turnstile as a shorthand for Frege's judgement stroke, so read "??the cat is on the mat" as "I think that I think..." or "I think that...

That there is no one aim that is the goal of all metaphysics does not imply that no meta physical activity has an aim. This seems to be the very same ...