That is to say, realists take the context of claims for granted, and pretend there isn't one, while everyone else admits that truth is relative to exa...
This is as a good a thing as any to quote because it's the opposite of something you seem to suggest now and then that bothers me a little, roughly th...
Didn't really respond to this. It's an interesting idea, but I'm not quite sure what "limits the kinds of evidence at his disposal" means. It sounds k...
I think your characterization is pretty good. It's obviously just false that people are locked into the culture, religion, morality, language, they ar...
Or at least dependent on how much of the science of organism-and-environment has become common knowledge. (Phenomenalism as a philosophical approach b...
This is a known problem for the individual, that when exercising a bias, say, you are not, and perhaps in some cases cannot be, aware of it. But other...
Sorry if it came across that way. I just don't understand, that's all. Yikes. My views are in flux, even more than usual at the moment. As far as I ca...
Hey that part I understand and, for what it's worth, agree. Wait, really? I thought the relativism at stake was to the ordering of nature, but you mea...
Just a placeholder for "not reducible to matter", since that's the other thing. I think I've got it now with the distinction between numbers and angel...
If I'm following this, one point is that logic (at least in these sorts of discussions) is often conceived primarily as a constraint, contradiction is...
Heh. My poster disagrees with you: At any rate, you don't really mean it's inconceivable that you are not thinking; you mean it's impossible for you t...
I thought that might be what you're saying. That makes such a law a fact about the universe (if I understand "ontic occurrence" as you intended). Ther...
Remember Crocodile Dundee and the kangaroo shooting back at the hunters? Love that. I'm not sure we can reach quite that far. There may be a halfway p...
That implies intent to deceive or mislead, which I assure you was not present. Look, I'm between the devil and the deep blue sea here. I've been on al...
It's a very good question, and I thank you for it. As I read your response more closely (which I shouldn't be doing since I'm at work!), it seems the ...
Short answer is that I wouldn't write these with a slash between them. Logic is a system of relations among propositions; reasoning is something peopl...
That's along the lines I was thinking. In particular: How is the statement "This thinking belongs to me" like or unlike the statement "This breathing ...
Hmmm. Chess is closer to mathematics, and the beauty in it is similar. One of Capablanca's little combinations is like a neat proof -- here is both th...
Did you know that humpback whales -- I think I'm remembering this right -- fuck with orcas? It's a curious thing. When orcas are trying to kill seals ...
That we do things other creatures don't? Of course we do. And other creatures do things we don't. Where does the transcending biology come in? Is bein...
Yeah I get that. I think he was a great influence on Fischer, although I'd say Fischer's real progenitor is Alexander Alekhine. Lasker is important to...
Yes. I've read one or two of your posts. Is there a radical break when creatures started living on land? When they took to the skies? When they starte...
I don't have a wonderful alternative, but I'm not comfortable with this sort of "reality is whatever we agree it is." I get the impulse, and I think t...
It's a class and category thing. The first premise claims that rational and biological are classes, and a given phenomenon can be in one or the other ...
Here's another stab at it. Ramsey has that ingenious example when he's originally arguing for the very idea of subjective probability and both the pos...
For my post too which expressed curiosity about what "1/2" means in this context. I understand this is a sideline to the Sleeping Beauty discussion, b...
'Finally' clearly suggests 'last', the last item in my sequence, since we have not seen further speciation since modern humans emerged. This little in...
Good lord, yes, of course it is. Okay, maybe, sure, someone might've said that, but the use of the image for various purposes is long established, it ...
We do know by example what it is for a group to agree upon a convention, either explicitly through negotiation, or implicitly through action. Do we kn...
You know, if you had seen little Will Shakespeare as an infant, as a toddler, you wouldn't have thought him capable of writing Lear, if only because u...
Sure, sure. I just don't have to commit to anything about the origin of language, I don't think. It was an ape that wrote Lear. Obviously it was an ap...
I know what you think you're saying. But you want to express your degree of belief as a percentage. Fine. But percentages are just a funny way of writ...
Probably not a great number for me to have chosen, since that's the emergence of homo sapiens. Something in the millions for hominids or for simians w...
Yeah I think that's not dissimilar to the chess examples I was giving. What remains unexpressed in the moment is still expressible, in this case as cl...
I may be misremembering, but I think he claimed that evolution by natural selection is blatantly circular, which is clearly horseshit, and not a criti...
I'm gonna come back to this, but I just want to point out that you're now describing a pickpocketing team, a stick and a cannon. I foresee fun new var...
But it would likely affect the pool of qualified candidates in the future. The point of affirmative action in education was to intervene early-ish in ...
I was thinking of Twilight of the Idols and Ecce Homo. It's not important. Only reason I posted was because there isn't really one thing in what @"Dar...
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