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Let's say this: the philosopher believes questions of justification are always legitimate and appropriate; the psychologist believes questions of "mot...

Here's my problem. I'm pretty interested in what I intuit as the substantive issue in this thread. I would like to get to discussing that, and I don't...

That's even better than my old favorite:

@"J" One more quick note, but then I'm occupied for the next few hours. There is one quite well-known form of resisting being pulled into philosophy. ...

Makes sense. Reduction here would be an example of a strategy that one discourse might use to assert dominance over another. Two quick points about re...

Actually the Holocaust may not be the best example for your case. The Holocaust is actually a pretty complicated event.

That's what I thought you might be doing.

Does this have to be an argument, if I can put it this way, that philosophical maximalism is equivalent to philosophical minimalism? Does it also func...

This isn't remotely convincing. He hasn't been trumped. He'll stroke his inevitable beard and say, "Interesting. Do you often demand that people provi...

Right. I didn't think I was introducing the idea, but endorsing your uncertainty. But this seems like a whole different thing. Were you ever suggestin...

I cannot adequately express my appreciation for this response.

Hmmm. Is this how Catholic mathematicians say "See you later"?

Oh you're right! Well, never mind then. I'll go with Gauss.

P.S. Forgot to ask, why we should spend blood and treasure liberating members of the out-group. How is that putting in-group needs first?

I don't claim to understand your "moral realism," so maybe you can help me out here. You have suggested we have duty to liberate the citizens of North...

Dope. I'm with you ? I believe ? in thinking this doesn't sound all that impressive. (1) Who bothers to challenge philosophy? (2) Are you sure that no...

Because philosophical discourse is more presumptuous? Scientific journals are peer-reviewed. That's not a guarantee that they publish only truth, of c...

While I think it's defensible to say that "knowledge does not exist outside mathematics," I don't think I have to, to show the difficulty. Mathematica...

Deduction should allow you to pass, by valid inference, from what you know to what you did not know. Yes? In mathematics, these elements are well-defi...

I hope you're enjoying your visit to Earth, but you should really check with your parents before interacting with the natives.

What do you dream of, Bob? Do you dream of peace and plenty? Or do you dream of making people listen to you?

I've always loved this one: The Send-Off By Wilfred Owen Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way To the siding-shed, And lined the train w...

Bob, Bob, Bob. Your position is such a jumble. Maybe you thought to yourself, why don't we do more to oppose tyranny throughout the world? Why do we a...

Two questions. 1. How do you impose democracy upon a people by force? 2. Should all nations think this way? Should all of them declare war upon all th...

Yeah that's an interesting idea! I guess we could assume that nothing in N(P) would follow from anything in C(P), because follow-from would already ha...

Sorry. Obviously I haven't managed to make clear what I'm trying to do here, probably because I've been writing a bunch of stuff I ended up scrapping,...

Roughly that the LNC could enforce a narrow, specialized sense of consistency ? that P and ~P are inconsistent, for any P ? and this would be enough t...

It's related, yes. Suppose I hold beliefs A and B. And suppose also that A ? C, and B ? ~C. That's grounds for claiming that A and B are inconsistent,...

If you wade through everything I've vomited here in the last day or so, I think you'll find me half backtracking on that ? although I still tend to th...

Fair. I was trying to convey the sense that there is this slightly annoying informal thing we have to do before we get on to doing math, properly, for...

Yeah I think we're thinking about the same things.

Just that there's at least here a dependence of mathematics on natural language, which gives the appearance of being purely pedagogical, or unimportan...

It's curious when you notice that mathematics textbooks have no alternative to saying things like "Let x = the number of oranges in the bag", and if y...

I'm okay with that. The chicken and egg still bothers me, though, so one more point and one more question. Another issue I have with treating logic as...

That's a solid point. It felt natural and intuitive when talking about "areas", subspaces of a partitioned probability space, and so on. But it's an a...

I've granted that mathematics is dependent upon logic ? but, for the sake of argument, are you sure this is right? That is, we need logic in place to ...

I should also have mentioned that it matters because ? has no members but ? ? ? is still true, in keeping with how the material conditional works.

One other tiny point of unity: I always thought it was interesting that for "and" and "or" probability just directly borrows ? and ? from set theory. ...

Indeed. I'd have to check, but I think Ramsey used to suggest that probability should be considered an extension of logic, "rather" (if that matters) ...

This is a correction ? not a member, but a subset. A nitpick, for sure, but making exactly that distinction took a long time, and there were questions...

Yeah that's a funny thing. Mathematics cannot be reduced to logic, it turns out, but it appears to have an irremediable dependency on logic. Sometimes...

Oh, not what I was saying at all. The impetus for talking about this at all was the material conditional, and my suggestion was that you take P ? Q as...

? A and its complement ~A are disjoint. If A is contained in ~A, it must be ?.

Only if you agree to write the preface. And it should be trenchant.

It's not that complicated. https://i.postimg.cc/63sD1YwK/kings.png The whole space is people, say. Some are rulers, some monarchs, some kings, some no...

Awww. Do you feel bad now @"Michael"?

Well, the thing is, deducibility is for math and not much else. That's the point of my story about George, and my general view that logic is ? kinda a...

Good lad. Even better.

I sympathize. I think a lot of our judgments rely on what I believe @"Count Timothy von Icarus" mentioned earlier under the (now somewhat unfortunate)...