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I'm very sorry, but the rate at which you are posting broke the page in my browser. I edited the statement in my last post to answer you properly.

the thinking is, if you state that a is logically equivalent to b, then the statement is considered true. However, the 'truth' which one considers is ...

Well it seems then, what I refer to as 'tautological truth,' as different from other forms of truth, is something with which we are in a agreement, bu...

Well, there are other perspectives on truth by other people. But they would not agree that their definition, is 'redundant,' because, for example, it ...

I said there are three BASIC forms of truth evaluation across the thinkers Russell, Whitehead, Moore, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Strawson, Putnam, Searle, ...

Nothing is wrong with an ostensive definition. If you are not interested in modern philosophical theory, talk about whatever you like. But I did revis...

It is the formal definition of philosophical truth in modern metaphysics. There is no 'justification' involved. That is to say, if you ask a professor...

well across these thinkers, a better distinction is tautological, EMPRICAL, and causal. And yes, they all do not believe propositional logic by itself...

What I have done is extend my above definition very slightly, in response to comments received here and elsewhere, and shared it on the thread "true a...

HI tTm, I did recently compose an answer to this on another thread, here I copy it for you. In modern philosophy, truth is defined by formal logic on ...

Oh. Well what I am thinking is that there are now very exact formal definitions of logical truth, and that in modern philosophy, that is the preferred...

I am sorry It's going to take me a couple of days to get to the next part.

No. However, I do believe people who have devoted their lives to furthering this subject, and who have studied the prior thought for centuries, and wh...

That is a good observation to an extent. However it is not entirely circular, as to provide answers to material propositions, it also requires an epis...

Well, without any education in formal logic, you clearly have ability in the subject, I hope you find time in your life to further your studies, and I...

Absolutely I am sure. In modern philosophy, truth is very clearly defined in formal terms. As I stated, I attempted to define it in a way compatible w...

1. Yes, that's pretty standard stuff. 2. That's actually what I said. Kant was the first to make the triangle, and Marx was the first to point out tha...

It would be helpful to me if you could state what school teaches the views you state. Mine are from Oxford University, and thus follow the standard fo...

So. First baby step;. The correct way to approach the question is not "what rights do I have which the government may not take away?". The correct que...

I'm sorry I don't have more time today to answer you more fully, but I can quickly the idea is of 'positive law' creating 'rights,' rather than 'posit...

As I said, I gave you my final answer. Third time. I have no desire whatsoever to read someone who just wants to justify killing. You're not paying me...

Thank you. I really should read them again myself, it's been 35 years. Perhaps a week to answer the question is over optimistic.

No. Natural law does not allow for the death penalty. Life has to be a primary right, or it doesn't work. The result of denying the primary right to l...

Have I answered the questions properly now?

NO, that's impossible in a theory of natural law in this nation. If there may be a difference of opinion in interpretation, then there is no basis for...

Oh I'm sorry, I left out the last issue. That is, modern legal positivists, such as Hart, attempt to do away with promulgation from natural law to con...

This one is quite good. You should find a large portion is free to read online. https://books.google.com/books?id=b-g_yf7kVeIC

You are so right. Lord Mountbatten handed me my high school diplomas, and in the following month was almost killed by terrorists. The following year t...

Well, if you are interested in that, I did a quick search to find the most recent article on this topic here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.100...

In ancient philosophy 'seeking after the truth' was one of the first definitions, so it has attained rather more prominence than it should now. Philos...

But there is another sense, arising from association with experiences one has with red objects. These are often social. for example, red in the USA te...

Your style is fine. You do need to extend Different people reach that realization in different ways, and maybe it would be easier for your first examp...

I must apologize for the laxity of my above explanation, it is the first time I ever tried to write it down.

Again, I didn't say that light does exist. You said that light exists and color doesn't. I said that light doesn't exist just as much or as little as ...

Yes, it's certainly true that religions were at odds with each other, but not with theories of secular law, because it didn't exist until Cicero formu...

Well that I can answer, and I did answer that over a number of posts and repeated several times, but I will say it again briefly. First, natural law i...

The first person to argue divine law's supremacy over human law was Augustine, specifically in response to the first attempt to define secular law bas...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_question#Complex_question_fallacy don't expect rhetoric 101 to work on someone who has read Plato in Greek. Tran...

And if you really want to learn about post-enlightenment thought on the subjectivity of light, this is quite entertaining. http://study.com/academy/le...

Similarly there are psychological experiments to verify that. The most popular example is now this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illus...

That's true. But the experience of light has the same subjective aspect as color too. As any visual artist will tell you at far greater length.

I didn't say that light does exist. You said that light exists and color doesn't. I said that light doesn't exist just as much or as little as color. ...

As you directly misrepresented what I wrote twice, it doesn't seem possible that your belief is of merit in this case.

I didn't say that. I said that the justification for radical Islamic terrorism is based on a Christian doctrine. That's the second time you tried to p...

I don't see how it dodges anything. I explained it was possible, impossible to know, and not actually the point. The real point, which is that Christi...

If you are going to cast aspersion on others' thought, You should be aware that you are subject to your own criticism. Light does not exist any less o...

I did not claim that, I discussed whether he learned it, and I said the answer is impossible to know. That does not change the fact that Christians in...

Did Mohammed directly coopt Augustinian Doctrine into Islam? At the time of Mohammed's birth, Syria had become a prosperous province of the Byzantine ...

I thought I had answered that when I revised that post from the last set of questions. Please let me know how I was unclear.

All the time. I keep trying to find people who can prove my worries right, but it's been a frustrating search in the USA. Mostly people here either ju...