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Pretty much. The thread was about demarcation, arguing that if the authoritative source is, for example, the bible, the presumption is that one accept...

Well, I'm intrigued by the acceptance of messiness. Just not sure why it has to be obtuse. If he stuck to "antagonism" instead of "contradiction" thin...

I don't recognise what I understand of the discussion of rules that came from PI and Kripke's Wittgenstein in this paragraph. It's as if you are talki...

But it is so impenetrable... taking forever to say the obvious. I do kinda get it.

Well, I suppose that's a worthwhile point. Language takes it as granted that there is stuff to talk about, and true and false things to say, so maybe ...

This is difficult. And hence interesting. I'm stuck on a bit of pedantry, which I will have to set out before I move on. There are limits on what we c...

Perhaps. But it is what I had in mind. The dots dropped out when I used the quote function. See the original, linked. Sure. Some stuff is both good th...

Well, there's a lot to unpack here. Yes, practice changes, but there is the Davidsonian limitation that if it were to change to much it would cease to...

I've argued elsewhere that I'll stand by that.

Did you notice the discussion of intuition in the "what is real" thread? Intuition might not be a firm basis for agreement.

Something like that is perhaps correct. The babe understands the essence of mum, but not yet the details. Is that the same use of "essence" as that of...

It's a tempting thought, but what exactly does having the concept "mum" amount to, apart from being able to tell mum from Aunty Jean and getting her t...

Dogs don't know things? A bit harsh on the pup? He doesn't use the words, perhaps; but his reactions show something.... So why are 'sugar' and 'intrud...

And yet here you are. Again, if you want me to respond, link my name. A common courtesy. I'll not be going over your posts looking to see if you ask m...

Well, philosophy tries to get at the underpinnings of empirical thoughts and thoughts in general. That makes it different to the empirical sciences, a...

:blush: Almost. I've writ about it at some length. What's philosophically illegitimate is dependence on divine writ. And yes, the fora do much resembl...

Well, perhaps there is some hope for our finding agreement. The question surely remains as to what the posited "intellectual consideration" in an intu...

Yep.

If you are interested in my responses, please, as a common courtesy, link my name in your posts. Otherwise, enjoy Leon's company.

:smile: Whereas I don't much mind. Better to not reach a conclusion than to jump to the wrong one. Oh, and the obvious reason that LNC is taken as a m...

Thanks for a considered and sympathetic response. Here are a few points I've taken form what you said: 1. that p v ~p is a logical law. There's of cou...

Interesting, and methodologically sound, to have a think about such counter instances. It's uncomfortable to do what is counterintuitive, of course, s...

Them as I said in previous posts, I cannot make much sense of what you are saying. I don't understand what you mean by "attaching some sort of causal ...

Usefulness isn't determined by some rule. That's kinda the point. If we do not accept that the frog can be both alive and dead, then a logic that allo...

I answered the question quite directly. appears to see this. You insist on misrepresenting that answer. "We decide if a frog can be both living and no...

Perhaps Davidson's Nice derangement of epitaphs goes here. Linguistic competence, and hence our explanations of how things are, cannot rely on fixed c...

Now you are misrepresenting what I have said. And again showing that you have not understood possible world semantics. Meh.

It's not so much an answer as an attempt to show how the question misfires. You seem to be in the position of someone who asks how it is that their ke...

First, we do not need to have at hand the essence of some thing in order to talk about it. See the "mum" example given previously. We use words with g...

's response is spot on. What is a "physical relationship"? We sometimes say the force caused the body to accelerate, but that force just is the change...

Sure. But there is an (un)natural match between Rinehart and Price.

So worst case would be Rynhart funding her? It might make for dramatic viewing. Supose they were to take the Liberals further into conservative-using-...

Well, not quite. A force just is the product of mass and change in velocity - in mechanics, at least. So it's more that F=ma defines the physical rela...

Jacinta? Many contradictions. But her maiden speech is worth a read.. and it's not as if what we are doing on indigenous issues is working.

Both the principle of sufficient reason and determinism are misunderstandings. As pointed out, neither actually does anything.

I'll differ here - it's what I do. And lead the thread off on an aside. F=ma is a definition, not a description. There were no forces sitting around, ...

This might be the key here. Those who "feel an need for Universal Concepts" will make an unjustified jump to them. It'll be a transcendental argument:...

Thanks for that post. A different take, but perhaps not too dissimilar to what I have been suggesting. Interesting that you mention strange loops. You...

Did he? I'm not so sure. Where did he say this? I've a lot of sympathy for the stickiness of philosophical problems. Seems I keep allowing myself to b...

If, as I suspect, we hold to modus ponens not becasue it is self-evident or intuitive - although it may be both - but instead becasue it is what we do...

I'm now not sure where you stand. You seem to be defending intuition in other areas - your dream being a case in point. And that's fine. Do you still ...

I've not said there are no definitions, just that there are few good ones. We've seen numerous stipulated definitions in this thread. I've argued that...

What we have here is an incompatibility between a group of Aristotelian syllogisms that assume individuality requires an essence, and a modal logic th...

You keep repeating this absurdity. PWS logic is consistent with a=a. End of story. The rest is in your imaginings . Further discourse is only encourag...

Sussan Ley. Rynhart won't be happy with a "moderate".

:rofl: That's just a misunderstanding of what it is to be an individual. Rigid designation and counterpart theory both deal with this. PWS at least sh...

There's one now.

And yet there are folk here who stand behind that straw man. So if I am, more fool them.

Not at all. Forms are only one of a variety of ideas about the nature of universals, which are in turn just one of many approaches to predication. Oth...

Not so much. Forms might be a type of universal, or a theory about universals. But universals need not be perfect or idealised, nor exist in a world d...