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Lol. I was confused.

Sorry, I'm really not getting what you're saying here.

I know what I am, and I'm glad I'm a man, and so's Lola.

At this point, I'm not even sure there's a coherent question here. I'll try to get back to you on that. I am convinced that the approach taken by the ...

What are those?

Sure.

That's a good point, and I agree. There's the sentence you actually utter, and it can be true or false independent of how you're using it. Suppose the...

Against psychologism, same as Frege. Husserl wages the same war on a different front.

I don't get it.

To you? Or you mean to someone else? Because I've already explained it to someone else.

If my doctor tells me I have Schnarrglop's syndrome, but I don't know what that means, and then I tell someone I have Schnarrglop's syndrome, I think ...

Use vs. mention

Saying what someone else says just to say what they said rather than to mean what they meant is not use, it's mention. A congenitally blind person can...

No, = is what you use between objects, ? is what you use between statements. Another symbol sometimes used for equivalence of statements is ?.

I feel stupid. As I was working on a response to your last post, there were some things I was puzzled about and obviously you've been puzzled by some ...

That test is really odd. I got it to spit out "Empiricism" which I'm vaguely okay with, but I knew that's what I was making it say because I like the ...

On topic too.

There's a neighboring idea, roughly that as you widen the extension you decrease the content. If your predicate applies to the entire domain of discou...

Those who accept the argument from design not only disagree, but think their view is obviously correct. I tried maybe four or five variations on this ...

I'm just allowing, for the sake of argument, that the concept could be innate and usable. (Someone might have cleverly bestowed this concept upon us, ...

Looking back, I think there's a spot where I skipped a step. This is unclear. A concept more or less neatly divides the universe into things that fall...

Good one.

No, you don't have to devote yourself to math. I'd like to say it's logic you want to learn, but it's not that either. Logic is the formal way of doin...

Beat you to it.

It's easy enough to form expressions that seem to refer to something, like "the millions in my bank account." If you substitute that expression for on...

I just don't have it in me, man. If you ask me a more specific question, I'll try to answer.

That deflationary impulse is powerful too, I'll grant you. I'm keeping an open mind for now.

We do want to preserve the intuition that a proposition is true if things are the way it says they are, don't we?

You might have to introduce the two conditionals first, just depends on what rules you have, but yes.

I read a bit about truth-makers after I posted this, and what you say here makes sense. I'm going to think about this stuff some more.

If there's something specific you don't get, ask me.

I'll play devil's advocate. The object that makes it true that Bernie Sanders is not the President is Donald Trump. is a property only one object can ...

One other point, just on Quine, is that he not only believed he could happily get along without modal logic, he also believed classical logic had no u...

The conversation between Barcan, Quine, and Kripke (and who else?) is interesting reading on this point.

Play nice boys. Philosophy is fun!

Once again, you have inconsistent premises. P1 says LH is true; P2 says RH is true; P3 says LH and RH don't have the same truth-value. But you just sa...

I don't know what this means. Are you talking about Quine specifically or about the usual semantics for classical logic?

Thanks. I was hoping you'd stop by.

Maybe you should stop thinking "use" is a synonym for "emit" and then a lot of this would seem less idiotic to you.

If you're just starting to do philosophy, trying to define existence is not the place to start.

It is also possible to construe quantifiers substitutionally. This means you take "?n F(n)" to mean "There is an expression we can put in place of 'n'...

You needn't let that rigor disappear. The American philosopher W. V. Quine famously said, "To be is to be the value of a bound variable." He took "the...

If the question is whether you are committed to interpreting ? metaphysically, maybe platonically, then the answer is no. "?n F(n)" says only that F i...

So we've agreed that the principles that somehow relate to the house or to my building the house are not similar to the principles that somehow relate...

Is the relation between my house and its principles the same as the relation between the universe and its principles?

Are you saying the similarity is that there are principles at all, or that the principles themselves are similar?

Of course, in ordinary usage, people sometimes treat "believe" and "know" as, well, not quite opposites, but they don't treat believing as an ingredie...

And then tell me how the things on your two lists are similar.

Shouldn't you be claiming that "It's raining but I believe that it is not raining" is equivalent to ""I believe it's raining and I believe I believe t...

Perhaps you could be more specific.