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So what. Fill out your argument. At issue is how predicates and universals and forms and so on are related and what they amount to. Calling predicates...

Being univocal is something we do, not something found in a name. That the p in <p^(p?q)?q> is univocal is no more than how we are treat the p. One co...

No - I intended that they notice. My little joke.

A babe uses "mum", understanding who mum is, and yet cannot provide a definition. Definitions are secondary and derivative, not foundational. Use is a...

I threw intuition and self-evidence in together simply out of laziness. They both fall to the criticism I set out, that if someone says that they do n...

Yes, just so. Again, Aristotelian logic takes on metaphysical presumptions not found in PWS - essentialism, that misunderstanding of "a thing is the s...

Both Jenny McAllister and Mark Butler taking on the NDIS. Too much for one?

It's not that all predication is equivocation, but that ordinary language is flexible and dependent on context. This is not a threat to logic, which c...

I don't think so. Possible Worlds Semantics (PWS) avoids fatalism by allowing multiple possible futures, each with fixed truths, whereas Aristotle avo...

Perhaps. I'm not so keen on such theological meanderings. Thanks.

Not so much. But whatever. Added: PI 43 doesn't say anything about the scope of the term "language game".

Again, all this shows is your lack of familiarity with modal logic.

Ok, then. It is an example of a language game about a language game, though. It's your criticism. I'll leave it to you to make clear.

Here's a simple language game involving an infinite regress. Here's a sqip: i If you take any squip, and put an "i" on it's left side, the result is a...

A juxtaposition. Doubtless, as the Orange Emperor said, there are good people on both sides. I gather that we, you and I, are agreed that faith is not...

The trouble here is that modal logic subsumes propositional logic. They are not inconsistent.

Analytic philosophy may be broader than you seem to suppose. I'll be happy to accept some "hierarchical ontology", if you can demonstrate the need. As...

, A more coherent plan than putting stock in some else's... :wink: Supose we wanted a logic that could take on a public, normative, and accountable ro...

It's not clear to me what I am to conclude from your reply. to be sure, there is a worthy area of study that seeks to understand the forms as they are...

Again, you attack me, and not what I have argued. And you do so behind my back, by not making use of the @ function to link a mention. It's not just s...

Thank you. It's good to know there are folk who are reading along. If you are interested, there is more on this approach to philosophy to be found in ...

Why would that be a problem?

Yes, that seems to be the case, at least for your posts. Sentences beginning with "faith is..." might be predications, not definitions. I've used a fe...

I hadn't noticed . Here's a potted history of some of the main arguments from the last century of analytic thought. “In virtue of what are all just ac...

yep. That’s a real egg- an Easter egg. But it’s not a real chook egg, unlike the one next to it. Those two are real, the third one is not a real egg, ...

I don’t agree. That doesn’t fit my understanding of “language game”. And why not have a language game about language games?

Not following you here at all. I've been at some pains not to present a definition. Rather famously, Galileo recanted. Sensible fellow.

And what is it for discourse to be meaningful? Of course we can turn from this to consider what we are doing... "we are playing a language game; what ...

Well no, I didn't. That's your wording. What I sugested is the possibility that Indeed, your post has several quotes that you are apparently attributi...

Angus Taylor or Sussan Ley. Bloody hell.

You seems to be suggesting that if one is not following an explicit rule, one is acting arbitrarily. Do you really want to make such a claim?

I hear the Vatican went with an American in order to avoid tariffs.

Perhaps in the place of transcendence, we might use constitutive rules. Rather than saying Modus ponens is somehow transcendentally true, we just supo...

Getting away from the topic here, but there are various objections to the view I;ve just expressed. Here are three of the better ones: Pluralism threa...

I'm wondering if he has the right tools for this.

"...as physics, rather than as metaphysics?" - well, as science, rather than meta-science. Perhaps the reason it doesn't appear that the disciplines t...

The problem here is with the "just". As you show, it's a big hole and then some. A neat metaphor about supposing that there is One True Description. I...

I think you were on the right track to start with. Rules such as non-contradiction are stipulated and constitutive rather than intuitions or being sel...

Interesting how a transcendental argument can prevent folk from seeing alternatives.

You've changed the topic. I haven't seen any argument that religious folk disproportionately evil, or more so than atheists.

Yep. The epitome is of course found in Kant.

You want to to turn all that's been said here into a bit of pop psychology. Fine. There's your straw man.

That's simply not what I read in the responses to my posts here.

:grin: nice, reason might be subject to a critique paralleling that of faith I gave elsewhere. it would be interesting to follow through on that - alt...

The 'why something rather than nothing' perhaps sits with the sort of metaphysics that seeks to justify or explain god rather than the world. Wouldn't...

Indeed; int might not so often be the reason, but as you point out it is often used as an excuse, for doing things we know we ought not. For many, it ...

My wording could have been better. There's a logical gap between “I can’t imagine it being otherwise” and “this must be how it is” that's found in tra...

...badly... :wink:

We just engage in certain activities and make distinctions that help us navigate the world. The need for an answer to “What is real?” arises only when...

That’s just taking a way of talking and mistaking it for a structure in things. We shouldn’t take the distinctions we make—like form and matter—as mar...