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I'm taking this out of context, for the sake of a comment. I'm a little rusty on natural deduction but I think reductio is usually like this: A (assum...
November 04, 2024 at 19:08
Actually I expected the footnote just to be a reference to Gentzen, but it was glossed!
November 04, 2024 at 19:02
Yes that's probably necessary, but something I overlooked. Here's the sort of thing I was trying to remember. It's Gentzen's stuff. And similarly What...
November 04, 2024 at 18:56
Is this what you mean: 'Validity' is being defined as a concept that applies to arguments which have the form P_0 \land P_1 \land ... \land P_n \to C ...
November 04, 2024 at 18:32
You might want to double-check that. Actually, he isn't. The OP's question was not about ordinary English at all: I mainly use formal logic for analys...
November 04, 2024 at 17:43
"George is opening tomorrow, and we all know what that means." "George isn't opening tomorrow." The conditional here is actually true, because George ...
November 03, 2024 at 23:52
None, or . Just trying to think of real world examples of a formula like "A ? ~A", likely dressed up enough to be hard to spot. Excluding reductio, wh...
November 03, 2024 at 20:33
I agree with all that. The toy examples we're dealing with here are too transparent for anyone to get away with much.
November 03, 2024 at 20:20
Feynman had a party trick he used to do, I think in grad school. He could tell whether any mathematical conjecture was true. What he would do is imagi...
November 03, 2024 at 19:51
@"Count Timothy von Icarus" Still hunting for a solid example, but in the meantime there's (1) You only won because you cheated. The sequence from her...
November 03, 2024 at 19:45
Yes, that was my meaning, as with the boat example. I think, though, we can allow a somewhat negative connotation because reliance in argumentation on...
November 03, 2024 at 19:17
Agreed, a natural reading, but my target was really someone who might present an argument in the OP's schema, as a perfectly respectable modus ponens....
November 03, 2024 at 16:52
I'll just say that no opprobrium was intended. I too have gained, I believe, from my study of logic and mathematics, and I have found formal methods i...
November 03, 2024 at 03:34
FTFY
November 03, 2024 at 02:28
Quite. I worked through some of the usual metatheorems years ago when I was studying formal logic. If you're interested in the properties of these for...
November 03, 2024 at 02:05
1. Meaning what exactly? 2. Is the answer to (1) something I should care about? I don't really care. It's abusive. I'll come up with one. I think you ...
November 02, 2024 at 23:35
But (A->~A) & A is a contradiction. If you assert A->~A, and then go on to assert A, then you have contradicted yourself. The set {A->~A, A} is not a ...
November 02, 2024 at 22:45
I still think there's a divide here. If you look at formal approaches to language -- Frege, Tarski, Montague, that sort of thing -- language is a syst...
October 29, 2024 at 22:54
Yeah I think Sausaure's phrase is a little misleading. On the one hand, as I said, it refers to the conventional nature of the linkage between signifi...
October 29, 2024 at 22:35
Also, for what it's worth, Baggs used to speak, went through something like normal language acquisition, got all the way to college before they starte...
October 29, 2024 at 16:24
The obvious example was right in front of me: cartographic symbols. While there is obviously structure in the way these are placed on the map, that st...
October 28, 2024 at 22:10
Maybe my next reply covered that. Generally, although I think children need to learn to see pictures as pictures of things. It doesn't seem to be quit...
October 28, 2024 at 21:16
Further reply with example. Sometimes maps for children will have little pictures. At Paris, a little Eiffel Tower; at South Dakota, a little Mount Ru...
October 28, 2024 at 20:48
Whether the picture is being used as a picture or a sign. Writing, for example, seems to begin pictorially, but then become simplified, stylized, and ...
October 28, 2024 at 20:37
I mean, it depends, right? But I think Wittgenstein is right, that it doesn't just depend on the thinker's intention. There's some obvious wiggle room...
October 28, 2024 at 20:04
Or stipulated, scientific definitions. I agree, but I'm curious about some people's strong intuition to call this behavior linguistic. On the one hand...
October 28, 2024 at 17:16
I don't think that's it really. I think the disagreement is between (1) those of us who think language is primarily and originally for mediating the c...
October 28, 2024 at 16:48
What puzzles me is that you seem to be offering the second sentence as a reason supporting the first. My inclination is just to say that thought need ...
October 28, 2024 at 16:26
I lean toward "not" and honestly I'm not sure why the word "language" gets used here. Some of the places where there's a sort of extended use of the w...
October 28, 2024 at 03:17
At first I didn't like the way you were using the word "productive", but here's another way you might stick with that. Every moment you're making the ...
October 25, 2024 at 14:59
If x is a prayer answered by y, then x is a prayer, and y is a prayer answerer. Axy -> (Px & Gy) That's a real argument. Other versions are abusive.
October 24, 2024 at 22:47
Common solutions: we introduce other toys so that everyone gets something (not an option in our example); no one gets it (not allowed in our example);...
October 22, 2024 at 14:48
In an artificially bounded task like this, with artificial bounds on the means by which we may complete it, there are no options. Life is not like tha...
October 22, 2024 at 04:34
I think what's strange about this problem is that the setup makes human beings helpless before the implacable necessity of mathematics, and that's the...
October 22, 2024 at 02:52
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October 21, 2024 at 20:54
Doesn't this remind you of "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"? Quine's target was the atomic proposition, and he intended to show that there's no hope of teas...
October 20, 2024 at 17:53
I understand the point you're making, but I want to push back on this a little. The most interesting thing going on here is the creative leap of enlar...
October 19, 2024 at 21:31
Do we really expect explanations of anything to be relative to nothing , not even the whole universe? Ho ho, comes the answer, mathematics is eternal ...
October 18, 2024 at 16:58
Something's not right here, which is just sloppiness and rustiness on my part. In general, three non-colinear points in 3-space determine a unique pla...
October 17, 2024 at 21:10
Way back when we started, what interested me was decoupling the point with reference to which the circle is constructed from the plane within which it...
October 17, 2024 at 18:05
Sphere, not ball. The surface. The 2-manifold.
October 17, 2024 at 17:53
I think this is the simplest version of what I was thinking. Given a sphere centered about A, pick any three points in the sphere, those three points ...
October 17, 2024 at 17:40
As you like. It seems to me you think this is a question that can only ever be asked in one way and in one context, and therefore it only ever has one...
October 16, 2024 at 15:37
If I'm doing something dumb, it's okay to just say that. Yes exactly. Here again is how I got here. In school, we learn to think of circles this way: ...
October 16, 2024 at 14:38
There's nothing much to the geometry, but here's a picture to start with. https://i.postimg.cc/RF0rCQPD/diagram1.png (There's other ways to look at th...
October 16, 2024 at 02:21
I'm glad you came back to this, and I'm going to draw some pictures. I had decided last night there was nothing here and I don't know why I was going ...
October 15, 2024 at 17:06
I guess once you have the "axel" in mind, you could say that choosing the point where that line intersects the plane of the circle as the point that "...
October 15, 2024 at 03:07
I'll draw if I have to, but I think I can clarify it verbally. 1. Pick a point and a length. These together determine a bunch of circles in 3-space. 2...
October 15, 2024 at 02:54
Yeah I was only thinking about the point being away from the plane, no other fiddling. If I've ever considered that, it was so long ago I've forgotten...
October 15, 2024 at 02:22
Does that point need also to be coplanar? Is there a counterexample I'm missing? You realize that on the sphere it's just a straight line, I hope. ?? ...
October 15, 2024 at 01:56