Generalized label - Hellas reborn Form of government - Competing city-states with unifying culture and free immigration between and intercity events a...
I already did explain in detail above. It's not my fault if you don't read it -- what else am I supposed to do? Also, no it's not. That's not what tro...
Whether I'm an asshole is beside the point. I was just pointing something out (and it's not just you). And from what you just said in this post, yes, ...
I think it goes beyond just an expectation, though, to a sense of indignation (how dare you not vote the way I want you to, and after all the good thi...
Because people on the left expect black people to vote the way they want them to, and get upset when they show signs of having their own opinions and ...
I know, that's what I just said. Point being, the logical equivalence is not trivial, and is wrong. But I'm getting tired of this too. I still think y...
No, you misunderstand me. You do not want to claim the material equivalence; if you do, then the claims you made earlier in this thread do not follow....
I think you are confusing the purpose of the biconditional. Do you mean it as a material equivalence, or something like, 'for any situation, if the th...
But you just said it doesn't always have to mean the same thing in the future. Ex hypothesi we are dealing with a situation in the future in which the...
Okay, so how does my counterexample fail, then? If you have a situation where the very same sentence, "there are still dinosaurs," which now means the...
The way I get from that is that this: Makes no sense unless you assume the same sentence cannot mean two different things in two different situations....
Okay, first of all, I am not ignoring anything, or attacking straw men. I have been replying to you patiently and in good faith. Second of all, you ar...
No, we do not agree; you intend the equivalence schema to mean that: "X" is true and X mean the same thing. As I have been at pains to show you, they ...
So are you claiming that a sentence is defined not just by the symbols that make it up, but also its meaning? Is a sentence something more than a cert...
If by "the previous sentence," you mean the sentence "My name is Michael," (and what else could you mean?) then this would obviously not be a contradi...
No, I am not ignoring this; in fact I just explicitly addressed it above. I was using the same sentence in both cases, viz "there are no dinosaurs." S...
I don't understand. I just showed above that this isn't true, by showing a counterexample. You responded that I switched sentences. But I did not -- I...
For me, it's evidently just not a contradiction, and it's puzzling to me why you think it is. You have a claim about a sentence on the one hand, and a...
@"Michael", if I understand you correctly, your claim hinges on saying that the same sentence cannot exist in more than one language. Is that correct?...
This is false. The fact that the sentence mentioned is the same as the one used in no way shows that this must be true to avoid contradiction. Perhaps...
Again, no. This is the error. Whether a certain sentence or string of words is true or not in a hypothetical situation (not now) does not guarantee th...
They are not equivalent; one is about a sentence, the other about a name. The properties of the sentence might change, while the name stays the same, ...
Michael, The disquotational schema as you are using it is simply false, and your whole notion of how these things works seems to be predicated on it. ...
A use-mention error is whenever you confuse the use of words with the mention of words; the use of words typically refers to thing other than themselv...
No, they are not; horses can't be rabbits, that's nonsense. What that sentence's truth means is that in that situation, the sky is blue. It means noth...
Also, statements don't implicitly state their own truth; statements are about things, not about themselves, clearly. When I say, "the sky is blue," I ...
This is not a contradiction. Suppose for example that in a counterfactual situation, "horses are rabbits" means the sky is blue. Then in that situatio...
We've already been over this, though. Your argument doesn't work and depends on an equivocation because arguments should be good whatever language the...
If you say that an animal is a horse, you are saying that it has properties A, B, and C, regardless of what words you use to say that it is a horse. Y...
No, I haven't. I'm looking at the wiki page on it, it seems interesting. Reading is just so hard though. And yeah, Borges is kind of my standard, not ...
Bible, Iliad, Gilgamesh, Gnostic Gospels / Apocryphon, and I'm starting LotR and after the Worm Ouroboros. I also read A Song of Ice and Fire, but it ...
No, that sounds fun. I am taking a break from 20th century writing for a while, though, at least the 'real literature' stuff, and reading fantasy, epi...
Forgive the contradiction, but they absolutely did. It is apparent from their writings that they saw themselves as exalted -- Kant as a historic 'Grea...
I think that the power of UG lies in his straight up calling people like Jiddu what they were, hacks and frauds. I think the phrase 'jokers and bastar...
To be a horse is to have properties A, B, and C, regardless of the words used or regardless of whether there is any language at all. There were horses...
Absolutely not, and this is the core of the confusion. To be a horse is to have the property of being a certain animal. It so happens that to be that ...
Which property a word denotes is a linguistic matter. Your confusion is thinking that therefore the property somehow is. To be a horse is to have a ce...
Proper nouns and common nouns are different linguistic items. They have different morphology, syntax, and semantics. Common nouns are proprety-denotin...
Okay, think of it this way. An argument should be good no matter what language it's presented in. Therefore, no matter what the result of swapping in ...
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