Zophie

I maintain the distinction between rhetorical and rational is taste. Not truth.

This is really not true at all even though psychology seems cogent on a superficial level. Reality dictates the subjective consensus that aggregates o...

An aside. There is currently little reason to think psychological classification is reliable. Replication crisis. Edit: Excepting cognitive psychology...

I ask since your subjective-objective struggle can be solved in reference to a third element if you are looking for an explanation that is relevant to...

Are you talking about reality?

Energistic-materal-informatic. Plato can't be eliminated.

Oh..

Thanks, Gregory.

A question of pragmatic force, then.

It's not a usual classification. One wonders how the concept of an insult might be defined for purposes of logic. Bonevac 1990 may be of assistance, t...

Oh, don't worry. It's defined in my list of acceptable arguments.

Utility.

It's a hint that you're taking a 'so what' position.

The subjective is given.

It's a wonder how we survived this long.

Video games.

The abusive type of ad hominem argument can be defined in terms of the concept of insult. Personal integrity, moral character, psychological health, o...

Relax. I'm pretty sure anyone who has graduated preschool knows that insults are pointless.

If they're effective, they're legitimate. Usually they are irrelevant but ultimately it's a matter of taste.

Assuming these terms denote real things that actually exist and that we should care about?

If Kant's idea of the formless sublime is a "viscous contingency of empirical phenomena" (which I interpret as a transcendental real that lacks ultima...

There is in principle an infinite number of equivalent hypothesis that can justify the same phenomenon.

You're expecting binary answers from a relativist about a noun named 'consciousness'. I see nothing new. What do you have against thermostats, anyway?...

That materialism should explain consciousness.

Hypothetically, if it's unfair to say a thermostat in an activated and autonomous state is really analogous to an organism in a vital and conscious st...

How do you know I'm not an AI?

If that's required then I have no particular problem with jettisoning consciousness.

" worlds contain matter causing mind". To my mind a thesis based on a negation can prove anything. So let's say you are right. What has changed?

I'm not sure how a negative premise obtains to a positive conclusion.

Some is . a=x. All is . b=x. Some is is and some is is . c=y=~x+c=a=~x. Is it a=~x or a=x, then?

Logic supplement 3: Credit to J Wagemans of the grandly-named "Periodic Table of Arguments". A modified version follows: 1. Unit: subject(a,b,c..) and...

Logic supplement 2: In my last supplement I concluded a primitive, polysemic logic may be identified. However, locating and fixing meaning comes with ...

I don't know. But people have been predicting the end of the world since it began.

For what it's worth, 'proposition' is my preferred neutral unit. Information is too well-defined. Given systematic conflict is part of my thesis, I'd ...

Feyerabend. Who disagrees with the proposition that all information is lossy, or with Feyerabend's anti-realism? If the first, 'information' has an em...

I think I can safely say 'true' ultimately reduces to a single value (pick any adjective you please) that is open to interpretation but is also suffic...

Sorry if that seemed cryptic. I accept domain-specific ontologies and it's usually easier if they contain the objects listed there -- properties, even...

Logic supplement: Many find it natural to assume that of all the philosophical disciplines, logic has the greatest claim to objective truth. Unfortuna...

Are you sure this is a good idea?

https://philpapers.org/browse/ontology Not sure what to say aside from "counting is no miracle."

Why? It's symbol system with a grammar and axioms. That's language. Ask a mathematician. Yes, I merely need a list of every object you think does, can...

Aside from the way an explanation that 'mathematics isn't metaphoric' only further demonstrates the utility of analogy, in this case metaphor, in tran...

I don't know who says that. And mathematics is just a language. It's certain to itself by definition. The absolutely is sarcastic for everyone except ...

Sorry for bumping an older thread but this thought experiment presumes the thinker is not a zombie.

Not a lot. I honestly often find mathematics to be irrelevant because it doesn't model things realistically.

I'm actually a proponent of 'post-truth' in that I don't accept authority for authority's sake and I also can't really think of a reason in particular...

A supposedly rational inference from many parameters to a single parameter isn't strictly permitted by the rules of any system. I think this has also ...

I have a Wittgensteinian interpretation of mysticism that is irreligious, if you'd like to hear my 0.02$. If everything we can speak of is such that i...

It's unrealistic. Propositions may be true/false but any actual proposition is defeasible. I don't know, why should they? Because they do? Because the...

I don't see a problem with the definition.