Banno

Pretty much.

, the case I referred to and I've been using throughout the argument is that of Elizabeth Rose Struhs. You might think that a father trussing up his s...

What are these sentences? Not a syllogism. Yes, we might judge a faith that is sufficient for self sacrifice to be good. And that faith of itself is n...

Somewhat. The text is a bit too much of a list of disasters, somewhat ordinary.

The most substantive part was where you agreed with my general point. That'll do. An odd thing to say. A lesser evil, sometimes. Good and bad things f...

Well, thanks. My fourth post here, but not for a while. But since you showed interest, also reading Norman's The reluctant Beetle, Frankopan's The Ear...

Interesting development. The Nats have split from the liberals.

A waste of my time and yours.

I didn't think you were, and couldn't care less anyway. I've really got no idea what you are attempting to do here. It started with ...which I answere...

Well, then, best you stop posting about logic, don't you think?

Ok. I do not.

Truth and Predication. Donald Davidson 's last book.

He has presented a few bits and pieces as if he had presented an argument. , have you a conclusion for us? A page later?

I don't know. What's an OG? An ontological grounding...? And wouldn't it be incumbent on those positing an OG to demonstrate the need for one? I gathe...

No, that's not at all what I said. It really would help if you were to read about and try to understand logic rather than just dispensing your wisdom.

I have not said otherwise. I've just pointed out that the opposite is also true, that obscenities also can be acts of faith. Appreciated. Would that w...

Trouble is that modal logic includes propositional logic and predicate logic. Every valid proposition in propositional logic and in predicate logic is...

Ah, so you want to find out the implications of a mistaken idea. Cool.

@"Tom Storm", Leon is talking about you behind your back, again. Seems he wants everyone to agree with him. Except you. Not sure why he singled you ou...

Carlos is playing at Socratic Argument. It's tedious. And we all know the game plan. Just spit it out.

Presumably, on other evidence. Or we withhold judgement. Do you have a point? Otherwise, I'm out.

Added: the graph appears to show that Boomers have a disproportionate share of whatever the vertical axis is... "national wealth". What if there were ...

, , before you get carried away, give some consideration to your terminology In particular, 's graph needs some critical appraisal. Where is the data ...

The way I used it, it does just what I wanted it to do. Curiously, I just wrote: Same applies here. Both god, and the devil, will be in the detail.

Ok. Good. So, what is an essence, if not a property had by a thing in every possible world in which it exists? I think I've asked you that before. If ...

Ok. So what.

:wink: The obvious retort is to ask how you could know this. If you cannot know these truths unless you are wise, how can you know that someone else k...

More Socratic gameplay. Ok, so if there are stronger and weaker forms of evidence.... what?

Why?

At the risk of sounding condescending, you've a good understanding of the issues Lewis was a somewhat eccentric chap. From what I can work out he thou...

There's a renewed interest in odd versions of essentialism, which I've tried to discuss here - see Essence and Modality: Kit Fine The motivation seems...

, Ok, so you both will ignore the limits of Aristotelian modal logic becasue understanding the wider formal modal logic would require some effort. It ...

Very few folk agree with Lewis. But explaining why he is mistaken is what is so interesting. We do not need to say that possible worlds are also actua...

I won't know if you have understood until you tell me what it is you have concluded. So out with it.

Cool. It was a favourite of my father's, and I also love it, but it takes that step too far that I so often accuse you of also taking. There are simil...

It's the standard rendering from modal logic, after Kripke. To be compared to ...which for my money says very little.

How do you know that it "becomes less reliable" unless you have some other evidence with which to compare it, and that is more reliable?

:up: :up: :up: :up: Yep. Philosophy is not science without the maths. Yep. And there is the additional problem of their never quite explaining what an...

I don't agree, but saying why would be extending the topic... Do we want to do that, or start another PM conversation including @"Janus", or a new thr...

:wink: Thanks. Nice. Not so much rock 'n roll though. Check out this doco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKK_EQ4pj9A

Yeah. Sad, really, that you have bought in to Platonism. Oh well. Cheers. Edit: A Guide for the Perplexed by E. F. Schumacher, author of Small is beau...

Yep. Just noting that this is a bid area. We say things like "She picked the Pumpkin because she wanted to make soup"and talk of beliefs causing revol...

Then write more clearly. You said "But the evidence, in this case, is by its nature first-person", then that it might be "genuine insight", now it's l...

~~ If I may, there's good arguments that reasons just are causes, from both Davidson and Anscombe, of all people. This might give pause to reconsider ...

Come on Way. That first person might still be convinced, and become a True Believer, and spend the rest of their life chanting, but they can't bring o...

Then by that alone, it ain't evidence. It's opinion.

Nuh. Here's the start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE a queer black woman in the 1940s named Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

I'll go back to what I said here: Were I in your shoes, oh devout one, I'd be agreeing with Banno that faith might by itself be corrupted, and so it m...

I don't disagree. Except that what is to count as evidence ought to be available for public scrutiny. If anything - or indeed, as some suggest, everyt...

I'm not going for the technical explanations. Rock is the child of blues and jazz, and these in turn needed slavery and poverty. There were plenty of ...