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I never intended to say groups of symbols were necessary for something to count as language, I think it's essentially a sufficient condition to be abl...

All I meant was that there were recognisable units of meaning. The example you gave is a unit of meaning. I would have no idea wtf it means, there are...

Ok! And can you make the argument you intended to with the reference too?

You wouldn't bore me with it.

You don't need to to try. "?????, ?????æ ?æ?" What are the distinct symbol groups in that? Clearly, "?????", "?????æ" and "?æ". It has a question mark...

You can tell that over time. People who curse as the result of a tic do so in wildly variable circumstances and seemingly independently from them. For...

I wanted to avoid semiotic language since, taking Baggs at her word, her language is nonsignyfing. It doesn't have symbolic representation. You might ...

Because AFAIK it's known that stimming is tightly linked with autistic people's emotional regulation. If you must suppress stimming, the self regulati...

Yes I think so. At the very least, something needs to be standardisable even if it isn't yet standardised. I don't believe Baggs' stimming is standard...

I would say that an item of language needs to be standardised, or at the very least standardisable. Like words have wrong ways to pronounce them, sent...

I think language is a subset of action. Just there are some actions which aren't instances of language. By phenomenology I mean the qualitative charac...

I don't think it makes sense to think of it as communication. Since there is no message, only receptivity and exploration. It also doesn't make sense ...

It's only 8 minutes long.

Welcome to the forum! Spitballing here. Spite is an underrated motivator. But I don't think it's healthy to be the unique motivator in your life. If I...

It isn't much different no.

Mostly spitballing. The offending equivalence (this is logically valid). (¬G?¬(P?A))?((P?A)?G) The latter: "If a prayer is answered by god, then that ...

Yeah I just like seeing dongs in everything.

How debased.

Yes. I thought it went without saying. Some things people think of are more appropriate than others in some contexts, and strictly better by some metr...

I disagree that that is what is going on. When someone stipulates a definition, they are committed to that definition insofar as it relates to the int...

The book "Sophie's World" is a good starting place. I recently picked up "Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...", which is a bunch of introductory s...

Thanks. It looks a little bit like a Chuck Tingle cover.

Can you link me this paper please? If it hasn't been done already.

My intuition is that the rules which bind coming up with mathematical formalisms are the same as those which govern writing fiction. They're in genera...

No worries. I do think your insistence that the extensional understanding of truth is deflationary in this context is imprecise. If I understand corre...

Just for extra detail - how easy it is to come up with logics that disagree on theorems is a good argument for nihilism if you agree, with a stipulate...

The impression I got was that "complete generality" doesn't commit you to quantifying over logics. A principle holding in complete generality, being u...

Have you turned off the guard for TPF? Next to the URL, the Brave icon. Think that interferes with scripts running.

Yes. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is definitely better written than My Immortal.

I do enjoy the open sea, I just tend to think its openness is necessary. If you'll forgive me the excess of portraying metaphysical intuition through ...

I would be pretty happy to defend logical nihilism as set out in Russell's paper.

:lol:

Free diabetic witch sauce!

You go in, the door's unlocked, an obese witch lays on the floor. The inside smells of caramel and sweet piss.

Were you there!?

Breadmasters, italicised text is spoken word from the Breadmaster, ( ) text are speaker's nonverbals, { } is judge response. "You know what I've done ...

Surely it's an excellent idea. You'd get to see the spectacle of a Toastmaster miming eating bread while saying "breads" for extra points.

Ah. That's unfortunate. Euclid's definition makes the great circle not a circle. The closed curve one makes it a circle. It's the same basic idea, yea...

That reads disingenuously to me. Your use of "roundness" previously read as a completely discursive+pretheoretical notion. If you would've said "I thi...

Oh. Because the definition of a Euclidean space, in the modern sense, includes both. They're infinite expanses of points whose interpoint distances ar...

Interesting. But yes. You stipulated that we've got to understand them in the plane in Euclid's sense, which I'll assume is R^2, and that has every po...

Because every Aristotle Circle can be shown to be a Euclid Circle and vice versa.

Then we're using Euclidean space differently. To me a Euclidean space is a space like R^3, or R^2. If you push me, I might also say that their interpo...

I think it contains a circle. It's just that the contraption you use to show that it contains a circle also means you need to go beyond Euclid's defin...

There's lots of escaped celeriacs these days.

Can you give me a lot more words on the phrase "an incline plane is reducible to a Euclidean plane qua circles"? I'd really like to understand the pre...

There's not much point continuing this if you feel like it's the same thing over and over.

Thank you!

I'm saying that one can understand a language without being committed to whether it is a "correct language", and be able to say whether a given statem...

I don't know what to tell you other than you learn that stuff in final year highschool or first year university maths. If you're not willing to take t...