Elizabeth Rose Struhs. "Members of her small and tightly-knit religious group were present when the diabetic eight-year-old died, singing and praying ...
Sure. True but irrelevant. Choose whatever conservation principle you want. The issue is that there are parts of science that are logically unfalsifia...
Sure, but what I was objecting to was the suggestion that true metaphysical statements cannot be facts: I took this as implying that metaphysical stat...
Rather, that the ambiguity you point to is the very thing at issue, and provides a reason for not making use of "proposition". That is, whether the nu...
What you said here does not seem to be related to the point being made. It seems you have not understood the argument, perhaps becasue you lack the ba...
Ok. I'd go perhaps a step further and suggest that even the physical domain is not causally closed, in that some physical events do not have an explic...
That's not what is being suggested. For Popper, it's the logical structure of certain sentences that makes them variously falsifiable, provable or in ...
Well, no. I'm not too happy about going in to the logic of such statements here - it should be background knowledge. See https://www.academia.edu/3843...
Perhaps we should leave such issues of modality, intriguing as they are, to one side - of start a new thread. Better here to relate this conversation ...
The Watkins article Confirmable and influential Metaphysics sets out in Popperian terms the logic behind conservation laws not being falsifiable. Thei...
Propositions are next on Quine's hit list. The response I gave above what that once we take into account that (24) is not a necessary truth, that 9 is...
That's what I'm questioning here. Conservation of energy is neither falsifiable nor provable, and so not empirical, and yet still a part of physics. S...
If metaphysical principles amount to the background of our empirical enquiries, then that works, fitting Watkins' view. Your question - are symmetry l...
Trump-ets... as in diminutive trumps. I rather like that despite the vast sums he is expending he gets next to no votes. A demonstration of Australian...
Cheers. Again, perhaps it's about what we do, how we act as members of a community. Perhaps there was good reason for this - that sense might be shown...
Bit of a noisy mess in here, eh? Probably. Still not sure if for you conservation rules count as facts, or if they are empirical. Really? It's not a f...
Oh, I see, that bit where some folk restrict facts to observations. So it's not a fact that 2+2=4, or that the bishop stays on her own colour in chess...
, :grin: So metaphysics is not about facts... Good, 'cause he doesn't understand physics. For alternate views, see Physics without determinism: Altern...
Maybe even think of it this way: you know how to do plus or quus in the way you know how to ride a bike, not in the way you know that Sydney is in Aus...
if a fact is something we discover. Not if a fact can be something we do. You know how to do plus, as opposed to quus. If you want, you might say that...
And yet we enact rules. Where does "fact" fit here? What is a "fact"? And how does being or not being a "fact" fit in to enacting a rule? If a fact is...
I doubt it. Sure, if what you mean is that the rule cannot be stated. But that is irrelevant, since the rule can be enacted. Perhaps you need to take ...
Seems we pretty much agree, except that I don't think calling this an "intuition" is at all helpful, since it hints at private mental phenomena. It's ...
indeed, because a name is not a property... Property or predicate? How does the use of each differ? Extensionally, a name picks out an individual, and...
Funny that this came up here just after I had used it in another thread. Kripke misunderstood Wittgenstein's answer, found in PI §201 It's what we do ...
Well yes it is, becasue we make it so. That's what Kripke did in positing possible world semantics as a way to give meaning to modal utterances. When ...
Or maybe, given all the evidence presented here, there is no causal relation between dream and kick. We are enamoured of causality, a figment of our r...
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