Banno

It's a subtle point, I supose. Consider "It is raining". It is possible that it is raining, but it is not necessary that it is raining - there are pos...

If that is how you read it, well, no. The past is kinda fixed. If the universe is of determinant forces and constraints, then it is determinant. So no...

, and yet god is supposedly unchanging. So much the worse for god.

As for Leon's insults - that I troll, I lack any real skills of reading comprehension, my posts are full of weird shit; oddly, I "bury (my) head in th...

Sure. If your genes were different, you might have acted differently. If your environment were different, you might not have had access to this web si...

No, you didn't do otherwise. But you can give consideration to how things woudl be had you done otherwise. Was that inevitable? Well, what does 'inevi...

I just did an x & v from another web site to get the "iota" character, changed the cap letters and didn't bother removing the already present parenthe...

Well, no. There is a difference between Venus and the concept of Venus. Venus is a planet. The concept of Venus, whatever it is, is not a planet. So "...

I guess they are not.

Cool. Then this: is a tautology, because you are now identifying yourself as your history, not as frank. All you are saying is that the person who did...

Well, no. The referent is Venus.

Yep. And the answer (at least in part) is to consider in a bit more detail what you are asking. You can consider how things would have been had you no...

I'll go over the physics again, becasue I think it a point worth making. The universe is not deterministic in the way Newtonian physics suggested. It'...

Know it? It's about making sense form your question, working out wha tit is you asked. We can consider how things would have been different if you had...

Counterfactuals are recondite. You can’t say “if this didn’t happen then that would have happened” because you don’t know everything that might have h...

Pretty much. So presumes the universe is determinate, then concludes that we cannot make choices:

Well, yes. Same with modality. We can think about how things might have been different. That's what "could" does in "Could anyone have made a differen...

There's a possible world in which you did not make that OP. Simple application of modality. Time perceptions and quantum multiple universes are irrele...

Damn, they're on to us....

Nuh. Been watching Juice Media for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBqVVBUdW84&t=3s

Emergent properties exist. If time were an emergent property, then it would follow that time exists.

For my own purposes, I'll summarise my response to the article. The first section advocates an account of meaning in terms of the intent of the speake...

I'm inclined to agree with this. many a thread gets lost in arguments about animal beliefs and prelinguistic actions, which it seems to me to somehow ...

That's bang on.

Yes, there is something of the deflationary account in 's reply. Although ""truth is the adequacy of thought to being" is pretty obtuse, and might loo...

If an agent acts in some way then there is a belief and a desire that together are sufficient to explain the agent's action. Banno wants water; he bel...

Yep. One of the advantages of Davidson's approach is that it takes truth as fundamental. That's a pretty cool move, since any theorising or ratiocinat...

The appropriate path would be for you to mark the offending posts for consideration by the mods. But I doubt that they will much care.

It's pretty much the approach adopted by Quine and the later Wittgenstein, although somewhat bowdlerised by your pejorative take. You don't have to ta...

The deflationary account is based on the observation that "P is true" is truth- functionally equivalent to "P". That's pretty much it. To assert that ...

When one quotes, it is a common courtesy not to remove the automatic link that is created. That enables readers to check on context. Removing it makes...

You think? It reads as "The x that is E is the y that is M". I would have said that was quite neat.

Nice extension. I agree that 's "John is a bachelor" is not a tautology in the sense Wittgenstein is using. That step would be to invoke Quine's first...

Yep Since your are talking about individuals, the iota operator could also be used. it is stipulated as ?xEx: The unique x such that x is E. Then we c...

:rofl: Yes! There is something profoundly absurd about a thread arguing that time doesn't exist.

The Cult of the Bully

Wittgenstein's point (in the Tractatus) was that tautologies don't say anything about how things are. They do not tell us about the world. Like "The c...

Notice that this allows that there might be more than one evening star and more than one morning star? ?x(Ex?Mx??z(Ez?z=x)??w(Mw?w=x)) might work.

And yet you posted that 19 hrs ago.

:yawn:

Yawn.

By way of returning to the topic, Davidson took language perhaps too seriously, holding that a dog for example could not believe that there was food i...

To the new paper, then, which I gave a quick read. Now here he is agreeing with . One is not rationally obligated by the argument to the conclusion. F...

Well, no. I've no need to, since you do it for me. You are the one who is posting about me. Didn't you put me on your "ignore" list? Enough.

Well I can quote myself, too.

So let's make this thread about me, too. What fun. Well no, becasue the Rainbow Serpent is guardian of waterholes and community, a far more earthy dei...

Thank Christ!

Well, yes. That was the joke, for @"Moliere"'s appreciation, but also to see who bites... It worked better than was expected. The forums periodically ...

Oh, goodie, we are back to talking abut me! If you don't think my posts appropriate, mark 'em for the mods.