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Kornelius

['Member']Joined: August 11, 2020 at 19:56Last active: June 30, 2021 at 22:032 discussions13 comments

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Sentences are precisely the things that can be true or false. The truth predicate applies to sentences (or propositions). It does not apply to any oth...
August 21, 2020 at 20:31
Haha, that makes two of us! This discussion has been great; it made me think about it in greater detail than I had. But honestly, I think the proof is...
August 20, 2020 at 22:59
I think it may help the discussion to distinguish between private property and personal property. @"ChatteringMonkey" even if we accept the view of hu...
August 20, 2020 at 19:27
That assumption is discharged at step 5. in the proof. The reasoning from step 5 to 8 is what we get when we have (Li) is false as a theorem. We prove...
August 20, 2020 at 18:01
Hmm, the issue is that both (Li) and not-(Li) entail a contradiction. So the simple reductio argument to conclude not-(Li) won't suffice. Since not-(L...
August 20, 2020 at 14:10
Ok, I see (I hope!). This is just the denial of dialetheia: there are no true contradictions. This seems right, but it doesn't follow from this that (...
August 18, 2020 at 20:27
Hmm, I am not sure about this principle either. Perhaps you meant Russell's justification of the principle of simplicity, i.e. do not multiply entitie...
August 18, 2020 at 20:17
You have at least two inferences here. You should make them explicit and state the justification for each step. In particular, your last step is Truth...
August 17, 2020 at 22:49
Hmm, I think I understand your sentiment here, but (Li) is actually not the same as not-(Li). So it isn't a contradiction in this sense. Any sentence ...
August 17, 2020 at 21:32
I will respond to the second post you made. I believe you are reading too much into the inference. The inference from 1 to 2 is a simple syntactic sub...
August 17, 2020 at 18:17
What is the mistake in this inference? Yes, this is another response to the liar paradox! As you say, maybe the Liar Sentence is meaningless and if th...
August 16, 2020 at 23:09
This works. Thanks so much!
August 12, 2020 at 13:06
Hey fdrake, I am actually using the same email address. I suspected the same thing so I checked, but the original activation email from over a year ag...
August 12, 2020 at 11:54