Banno

So to the end of part three: I find myself agreeing with Barcan, that Quine is mistaken to think the choice is between an Aristotelian essentialism an...

If you like. Your example shows the unfalsifiabilty of objects of faith, which is the crux of my post. Any arguments or evidence to the contrary are r...

Where did that nonsense come from? No. Cheers.

Two beliefs: Pat believes that "god exists" is true Pat believes that "god does not exist" is true. In both cases, Pat holds a certain proposition to ...

This is what needs tracing out, to be sure. In considering this I have been struck by how accessibility in modal logic resembles a Markov process, wit...

Thank you. I very much appreciate this simple gesture towards agreement.

OK. In probability theory possible worlds are elements in a sample space, which consists in all possible outcomes of some experiment. These possible w...

I would be happy to continue the conversation were I able to make sense of your position, but your thoughts rattle around in a hurricane of different ...

Yet if faith, or any belief, is to enter into our ratiocinations, it must be put in to propositional form. In particular, if it is to explain our acti...

, , in probability theory the possible worlds are the outcome of a stochastic process, a coin flip or whatever. But in Modal Logic possible worlds are...

You place a lot of weight in intuition. What, then, if my intuition differs from yours? Which is to be preferred? What would one make of someone who s...

Oh, I can see the problem. Cheers.

Still very unclear. What is believed is expressed by a proposition, rather than a "thing", an object. The other two of your three bolded sentences are...

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In all the possible worlds in which green conscripts were effective in battle, Napoleon had first trained them into a disciplined army. It's just acce...

When you use "you" after addressing both Egg and I, it is unclear who "you" refers to. The interesting bit in your post was the hint that we might tre...

Does the question "Which is the real value of A?" make sense?

The bulk of part three places Quine's position in a few historical arguments involving Church, Carnap, Lewis and particularly, Barcan. (37) is curious...

Argumentum ad youtube...

, What?

@"DifferentiatingEgg", from where I sit the argument owes more to David Lewis, mentioned in one of my earlier threads. But you will see it through you...

So much the worse for Nietzsche, then.

Unfortunately, that wasn't hard.

You have to take something as granted, yes. That's a long way from what is involved in faith. One can review what one takes as granted, but to review ...

Or faith is the antithesis of rationality.

Only if you choose to view it as such. But if you have a choice, better not to spend your time here. I'm off to plant some flowers.

SO let's check out the consequences of this view. Belief is holding that something is true. One can believe that something is true for all sorts of re...

Philosophy is a pointless endeavour.

The sound changed in pitch. What changed? The sound. What was self-identical (a phrase that only a philosopher would use)? The sound, the tone, the no...

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Wouldn't it be wonderful to hear the sounds the workers made building the classical structures of Egypt?

The pitch moved from D to E.

There's your first mistake - thinking the USA is democratic...

Yep.

So sound is not a physical thing. I give up.

I don't see what to make of this. In your own words, and Measurements might well be discrete. The sound is not. Volume or pitch move. Well, if you do ...

"May be...'. We make maximum sense of the words of others when optimise agreement. It remains that sometimes what folk believe is different to how thi...

What is to count as a part and what as a whole here? Here's a bit of tab for a slide... https://assets.yousician.com/app/uploads/2019/09/20131021/guit...

Not Banno. Physics and mathematics. Meta is unable to understand basic calculus. He and Corvus should have fun together. Yes, Meta, I was pointing out...

Yep. Or almost. The tone moved up, or down. Which tone moved up? That one. Then it moved down. The tone of that tone changed... The first "tone" is an...

Maybe listen to more slide? Why shouldn't a tone move? Why restrict movement to physical objects alone, or to changes in place. The PIE root is *meu?-...

ok.

It seems you are far to clever to be understood.

, So... you have a personal preference for a complete answer that is wrong over an incomplete answer that is right? Why should I care.

Good to see the local Christians all getting on so well.

I've no idea what that post says.

OK.

The mechanism is the stipulation.

I'm not seeing this as a problem for Quine, or for Kripke. It could as well be settled by saying "Ok, We'll call this one "Fred", and that one "Harry"...

Well, "In some possible world, what if Sam were not X?" is a question about Sam... Keep in mind that the casual theory of reference was a quick explan...