He doesn't need to. The sphere is a 2-manifold, and his great circle is a set of points on that manifold. There are no planes here, nothing else, only...
Not for nothing, but a square is an approximation of a circle. A better approximation than an equilateral triangle, but not as good as a regular penta...
Thought it might have been him. On the one hand, it's a ridiculous point because you can't *say* one word on top of another -- gotta say them in order...
1. They could. I forget who this was -- LW? Sellars? I don't know -- but someone pointed out that you could write cat mat for "The cat is on the mat"....
He seems to think there's a sort of isomorphism here, that atomic propositions are structured as atomic facts are structured. It's why you can use a s...
Found the reference to Homer's muse, a little later, but alas it's the "pleasure-giving Muse" (607a-c), not the "true Muse -- that of discussion and p...
But this is just denying that divine inspiration is a thing. It was already clear what your view on the matter is. And maybe it's Plato's too. But it'...
And if the poet is inspired? Are these two claims the same: (1) The poet expresses his ideas about the divine. (2) The divine expresses itself through...
You know it's funny, but in what you might consider the early days of cognitive psychology, before there was much neuroscience, there was an enormous ...
Sure, sure. I, ahem, recollect the Meno and I know it weirds modern readers out. We'll do better than that. Unless I have nothing to say, then it's on...
This is good. I'll go look at the Meno (I think there's at least one thread on it here somewhere), and if I have anything to say, we can make a fresh ...
Well then that word is not neutral enough. We have on the one side, (A) "Dogs are nice" and on the other (B) "For all x, if x is a dog, then it is nic...
I do, absolutely. As I said, I'm largely a partisan against (3) so I'll keep making that case along the way. I'm not sure (2) can be presented neutral...
But they haven't paid their dues! We've earned this, by banging our heads against Kimchi. Oh sure, they'll join in *now*, for the fun part, but where ...
I think I basically agree. I would make two additional points: there's also no reason to think there's only one way to make our thoughts or our expres...
How very peculiar. So we have (1) the primary phenomena, everyday language use and reasoning. Then there's (2) the way logic schematizes these. And th...
Sorry. That was ambiguous. The assignment of the truth-value is done by judgment, not by stipulation, but that "Fa" is truth-apt, that it expresses a ...
(I've started the Martin paper, so I expect we can talk more about that soon.) I don't want to just rush to deny that this is so, but all we have so f...
Oh -- there are dots I didn't connect there. Part of my concern is, what are these statements, the Ps and Qs, we deal with when doing logical analysis...
I just watched a bird land on a broken tree limb. It glided in to a spot less than foot from the tip, immediately trotted up to that furthest point, a...
Maybe part of my good impression of Cephalus is that we know what the wealthy and powerful will do to Socrates, but here's Cephalus who says, "Socrate...
I wasn't talking about TPF, exactly. Still, as I recall, Socrates says he's interested in talking to him precisely because of his advanced age, and se...
Maybe it's just the phrasing, but that seems a little harsh. I had rather a good impression of the old man, and I thought Socrates did too. His age an...
I've been thinking of beginning all my replies with "That's a very interesting point! I would enjoy the opportunity to explore these ideas further wit...
Forgot to point out that I agree, and "can" there is the point I've been making, that it's a choice, a strategy. Trump has this indirect sort of Mafia...
One point I think I left out: everything to do with language use has to be learnable, and it has to be usable even with only partial mastery. One of t...
Some of the issues you raise I'm partial to because I have tried to raise them as well! I'm going to attempt a similar overview with a different empha...
Well, obviously I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't still be trying to figure it out. Think about the peculiarity of being taught the word "cat". When...
But at first -- and what I was pointing out -- there's a lot of someone else using it, and using it in, so far as I can tell, in one particular way. I...
Let's consider your cat, and the mat he is sometimes on. How did you learn he was a cat? Or that what lounges upon is a mat? Perhaps someone pointed a...
I think what he's going for there with the "whatever is true/false, is/isn't" is every kind of theory out there about truth. Philosophers have tried a...
Fair. The thing about existence surprised me, so I took it seriously. I have been doing some dot-connecting and reading between the lines in these rec...
I see the edits now. Then it does turn on what is understood by "use". Is there a real sense in which a word is just there in a sentence -- and thus "...
Huh. Well, I'm not about to claim his writing is crystal clear on this point. What do you make of his use of the word "existence" in the first quote? ...
Thought I had quoted it somewhere, but no. I'm away from the book, but it's early, coming off the discussion of the veridical sense of 'to be' and int...
Kimhi says that the proposition "The orange is good to eat" has existence conferred upon it by someone affirming or denying that the orange is good to...
Nowhere that I've noticed in Frege or Kimhi is there any recognition that ordinary people, who do most the thinking and asserting (and working and pay...
Yes and no. You've played with this stuff, right? You write down "P" and that means P is a premise; it's *treated as* true. In essence, all symbolic l...
Btw, Timothy Williamson tells a story about explaining the Gettier cases to an economist, who was mystified by the importance philosophers attach to t...
Ahem. I absolutely think he is, even though he didn't think so. Newtonian mechanics? Pretty damn good model used appropriately, within certain limits,...
Comments