You're a bit of a dill, really. I'll try again. J and I are talking on a PM, not a forum page, about issues hereabouts, in order to avoid irrelevant s...
Posts like this are a part of the reason that @"J" and I moved our conversation to the PMs. J. would have understood that. Butt out. nothing to do wit...
But I'm addicted, so I will. And you will just say... what was it? That I treat every comment as a linguistic trap? Goes with the territory. So you wa...
Of course that's possible. But on thinking about it, early on I didn't give much attention to your views simply becasue what you were attempting to sa...
Oh goodness. Perhaps logical space is broader than just consistency? It seems we might be able to wander away from the safe shore of possible worlds o...
You are repeating the very same errors already addressed. It's not worth my time to respond yet again. Diminishing returns. If any one else sees a pro...
Yep! That seems to be the key. It occures to me that, were one to suppose that there is exactly one truth, then those who disagree are indeed wrong, e...
:smile: There's the argument that such talk provides broad maps of where we are in the intellectual and cultural landscape. As such it's not true or f...
There's also the point, made a few times by a few folk, that the motivation for some position is (usually) not relevant to the validity of the positio...
"Are you not entertained?" Entertainment is also a large part of the discussion here in the forum. It's cold outside and I can write this post between...
I asked ChatGPT to summarise my argument in this thread. Here's the result. Not too bad a rendering. I then asked it to list replies to this argument....
In Watkins' terms evolution is both confirmable and influential. Also, it risks being show to not match the data, unlike creationism in it's various f...
You'd be wrong. And not just in laying the blame on David Lewis. Modal metaphysics revives and deepens problems that are as real as any in classical t...
Well, have a look at the "philosophy" section in your bookshop. If there is one, it will almost certainly be between "self-help" and “religion"... Nor...
, ... isn't it a bit rich for theists to seek out a place where there will be a lot of atheists, then complain that there are too many atheists? Just ...
So you prefer simple over correct? :wink: Possible worlds are not so hard to understand. They are just stipulated models of how things might have been...
I'll put my reply here instead of to your PM. I understand that it was Cavendish, not Lavoisier, who first identified water as a compound (through exp...
:wink: Nice. Is Pyornkrachzark a rock? Well, we have a choice here. We might say that while Pyornkrachzark is made of stone, he is not a rock, but per...
@"J", just noticed this. I don't recognise you in the somewhat patronising description given by . I was going to PM that, but perhaps it is better sai...
Too obtuse? Sorry. Tim commenting on a post of mine that indulged in the sort of psychological discrediting we see here between Leon and Fire. It's a ...
Ours produces a peach each year - five years on. I presumed that's why it's called 'A peach tree' - one peach each season. It's a very good peach. The...
Phhhh. Big issues. Let's leave it aside for now. Perhaps it is worth noting that while before Cavendish announced the composition to the Royal Society...
In Kripke - that is, in the standard accepted modern model of modal logic - the essential properties of some thing are those had by it in every possib...
An unusual phrasing, but I supose modal logic apples to impossible worlds and is what shows them to contain the contradictions that render them imposs...
Of course. And it is also, after Kripke, clearly qualified with "in the same possible world". To ask what might have happened if Caesar had not crosse...
Then, by p(x)??p(x), I would be you in the actual world, which is false. So I don't see that Meta can get even to this. Well for Meta, it must be, sin...
Going back to the Klima article, to my eye Kripke’s modal account of essence, grounded in rigid designation and necessity de re, renders traditional A...
I'm happy to join in. Is ice still water? Good question. I don't find Stroll convincing. Ordinary people do say things such as "Take care, the water f...
You're facing the same stonewall I've faced many times previously. Odd, that it's apparently OK to index a proposition in time: "Joe was asleep at 4 a...
Cheers. Is that "other" advised? As in, would you consider yourself an 'essentialist'? If so, may I ask what would that involve - that things have a s...
Deuterium is, of course, an isotope of hydrogen. It follows then that D?O is a isotopologue of H?O. Hence, heavy water is water. It seems odd to say t...
Which, of course, was Wittgenstein's response. So I remain puzzled as to what it is you are actually proposing. However, it's a big topic and as you s...
Good, good. So we might have some agreement that there is no paradox in talking about the "pre-linguistic" world. So back to So, not so sure about the...
Yeah - Graylingstein: Wittgenstein on Scepticism and Certainty Perhaps your point parallels my "what counts as a hinge proposition is not dependent on...
Again, yes. We ought not proceed from "The bible says it's so" to "It is so". Hence, see ; I like my post better because it is not dependent on an the...
:gasp: Then there might be some benefit accruing to those who pay attention to more recent thought? There might be something new in Kripke or Wittgens...
Yes, here I am! I'm not at all averse to such conversations! It shouldn't be this hard. That objection is not to talk about god, but to talk that take...
Are they? Or is this about having a hammer and seeing only nails? It's easier to only see the arguments they have encountered previously. As previousl...
Yep. Happy for folk to do theology if that's their thing, but theology is not philosophy. The other thread made the additional point that this is a ph...
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