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Don't worry, it's pretty dense for me too. Or worry more!

Yeah fair enough then.

I imagine this 'necessarily consequent upon the circumstances of its occurence together with the truth of the credible conjecture, as premises" might ...

I've put 5 in a plot before at work. 3 spatial dimensions illustrating a trend, an animation conveying the transformation of that trend over time, and...

The rules are just the set of pairs. They model different types of modality. EG if you wanted to model sequential counterfactuals and non-time symmetr...

The accessibility relation. It tells you what pairs of worlds are connected to each other, and in what directions. So if we had two worlds A,B and a r...

When the accessibility relation is reflexive, it means that a world is always accessible from itself. This means what is actual in it is possible in i...

Fair.

The only avenues I've found that grant me some semblance of understanding, though it's probably very different to a true psychoanalytic exegesis, are ...

Do you think you could indulge a selfish request? How is a unity male and a multiplicity female? I can never get past my WTF barrier with Lacan.

Nah. I think it's a result of bad framing. It's an interesting failure though, I think fundamentally it doesn't work very well because the operation w...

I don't know what you mean, really.

Sometimes you just gotta go ham.

Yep. There's no special emphasis on becoming in this picture, transformation is done 'in advance' as the sending of an object to another. There's no b...

Except this lingering conception that stuff has to be 'made of' stuff. I'm using it in a mathy way. The concept is quite straightforward in maths. A s...

Relevant discussion you might like.

I'll start going through the Riemann paper on the 13th.

My taste differs a lot. I see intractable problems, most of the time, as resulting from confused questions. With appropriate framing, what's intractab...

I'm trying to undermine the distinction. All is matter? Then what are thoughts, social structures, history made of? All is mind - then what are tables...

Thanks for the reference. Please notice that I attributed to Popper the idea that falsification obtains of singular propositions rather than scientifi...

Being the subject of a different set of investigation techniques doesn't say anything about the constitution of what's considered. Calculus doesn't ha...

I'll wait on you providing the reference later, then.

Ok!

I can give a rough picture of his account, though it will be lacking on detail. Scientific progress is often characterised as an interlinking between ...

I would answer the question with a question; does it make sense to consider two things as being entirely distinct and non-related when they interact? ...

How they interact is a different question from whether they interact. Noticing such an interaction evinces that they indeed do. Approaching this with ...

I don't think it makes sense to consider how mind and matter are different without looking at how mind and body project themselves into the world, or ...

I think of substance through a perversion of Spinoza. Replace the reliance on conception with one of interaction. So substance in III becomes the logi...

None, Lakatos. :razz:

My interests in engaging with your exegesis were in clearing up my thoughts on rigid designators and the causal theory of reference, rather than actua...

I misread you then. Sorry.

That's exactly the opposite conclusion than the one he wants to draw. He presents a couple of arguments against the idea that the semantic value of na...

If I understood what you meant, perhaps by asking your question more precisely and portraying its motivating context, I'd be more likely to be able to...

I did. I just don't care to speculate as I don't see the relevance.

The distinction as (I think) the author sees it is, as I stated in this first post, that Kripke's account is that the name-object relation imbued in a...

I gave examples of perceptions and competences as things which can facilitate successful reference, they provide information about the referent which ...

@"Banno"@"frank", though if you want this thread to remain focussed on exegesis rather than derailed through argument and bickering, I'll leave until ...

I don't think he's actually argued that ostension is a type of description, but he considers that it might be (eg. in footnote 42 in lecture 2). In fo...

How does this work? 'The X such that Y pointed to it at t'? how does that make pointing a definite description? Edit: moreover, why would pointing be ...

That's not a definite description. 'The X such that F'.... F = pointing...

O rly? Can you give me an example of a definite description which is not linguistic?

I don't know what it would mean for the theory I discussed to be substance based. I haven't even seen the word in the bits of the book I've read.

Yes. The distinction which the author is operating with is that the relevant information which ensures successful reference is not necessarily descrip...

I don't know the broader account as I've not read the whole book. What I can say though is that the author agrees with Kripke that definite descriptio...

For the purposes of a logic exercise all knowledge that you bring to an argument you're analysing has to take the form of stated propositions. You're ...

Though I would suggest that we leave the discussion for later, though. @"Banno". Going through the book matters more.

It wasn't even Evans, it was Luntley being inspired by Evans now that I'm looking at the book again - it wasn't even the book I thought it was, 'Truth...

I'm going to try and summon @"Pierre-Normand" to comment on this, because they have a much better understanding of the distinctions between 'shared us...

Just for reassurance. Nevertheless, it is true that 'if the square of a number is even, then that number is even', and here is a different valid argum...

'If the square of a number is even, then that number must be even' - this is true. But does it follow from the premises alone that: (1) If a number is...