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And how's it going so far? Folk generally agreeing with you, are they? Again, you are not doing ethics, you are doing game theory.

I'm not arguing against your conclusion, but against how you got there.

Good questions. Now you are starting to think ethically.

You can want whatever you like, that does not make it right. So morality is expediency. That's exactly wrong. Morality begins when one starts to take ...

No, we don't. There is a logical gulf in your argument.

This does not imply that we are the way we ought be.

The difference between a name and a predication?

One is an animal, the other a fact?

So for the purposes of my suggested grammar, a fact is not a statement, and we ought reject the idea that a fact has a truth-value.

The cat is on the mat. That's a fact. "The cat is on the mat" is not a fact, it is a statement - contra

Just to be clear, what I set out here is one grammar among many. But I think it works. I don't see any difference between 2 & 3. Interesting that neit...

"...is true" gets complex. For starters, for any statement p, (p) and ('p' is true) have the same truth value. So at least in that sense truth is redu...

Like truth, beliefs range over statements, but also over people - they set out a relationship between someone and a statement: John believes the cat i...

Sentences are well-formed strings of words. Some sentences have a simple subject/verb structure, and are called declaratives or statements. Other sent...

Here's how I think one ought approach answering "What is a fact?" It is important to treat this as an epistemological question, not an ontological one...

so we are just going to play sillybuggers? Here’s how the conversation should have gone: you say “the cat was on the mat yesterday”. I say that is exa...

Oh, yes. Give me an example of an A-series, true statements about the future, that becomes false.

Do you? How odd.

Give me an example, so we can be clear about the argument.

How can you ask such questions? Again, it seems you do not understand physics.

I'm sorry, I don't see the difference.

It's not ignored - it's translated into the third person without changing its truth. So, if you or @"Metaphysician Undercover" think there is somethin...

SO facts are statements?

can you use a claw hammer to hammer and pull at the same time?

Error can be measured. John and Mary arrived simultaneously to an accuracy of five minutes, but to an accuracy of a few seconds, John arrived first.

He uses satisfaction.

If you are using "fact" to mean the sentence "the cup is on the table", then, one is a state of affairs, the other a sentence. If you are using "fact"...

Can you give and example or explain what alternative criteria might be used?

I don't think so. We have statements on one hand, states of affairs on the other, and we do different things with each. But - there is a way of unders...

Hm. Not all nouns name something. It would be misleading, knowing that "fact" is a noun, that there must be something that it is the name of.

Yes, it seems we must be more subtle. I wonder if you have seen Kripke's idea:

It's a nice example of how simple words that are seconded into philosophy become enormous problems. In its natural home it has various uses, but when ...

We can test for this - as the software improves, the tellers will revert to being grumpy.

SO where will you go with this - do you agree with McTaggert's argument that time is not real? If so - well, I will answer that later.

But it isn't; they are truth functional equivalent; this is just your failure to understand relativistics

I remember fondly the stroppy British style of shopkeeping that treated the customer as a necessary interruption to reading the paper. It was replaced...

I associate these bullshit conversations with American salesmanship. Shallow lubricant.

Natural has become a term used by bullshit artists to sell things. As such, it has lost most of it's meaning - along with fresh, live, and many other ...

Here's a point that needs consideration. Suppose that we have evolved to behave in a certain way. It remains an open question as to whether we ought b...

Neither.

I don't get the fuss over McTaggert's A and B series. They simply are not incommensurable. Any A-series event can be made a B-series event simply by i...

Simultaneity is dependent on one's frame of reference. Two events separated by space, but occurring a the same time. Is that different to two events s...

You will have to be more specific. What is the circularity you see in Tarski?

Taking the term "change" from one language game to another. Nothing wrong with that, provided we take care. If mind is what brain does, changing you m...

As in change of time without change of place?

Perfect breakfast song. Poaching a few eggs and making coffee. I just can't get the rhythm right, despite it being quite simple.

But avoiding it was exactly the point of Tarski's definition.

I've lost track of this conversation. Think I might go work on "Breakfast at sweetheart's" instead.

Lindemnann's is a bit pallid; much rather a Coonawarra red. The ultimate circularity of definitions should not be much of a surprise. I was thinking m...

What could that mean?