The thing is though, that the reasoning behind the assumptions that form the premises in the deductive re-framing is not itself deductive, but inducti...
Yes, that's another example of an inductive argument being framed validly in deductive terms. Of course the argument is unsound because the second pre...
Inductive reasoning, per se, is neither valid nor invalid; your mistake consists in applying a principle to it that is relevant to deductive reasoning...
Questions: Is "a theory of induction" equivalent to the practice of inductive reasoning? Are predicted consequences deductive? If they were they would...
Many thanks, that's a fascinating story, very sensitively and evocatively recounted, fdrake! I'm not sure what led me to think you were opposed to the...
My point was that, regardless of whether the question is "very big" or not, science is not "plagued by" it. Some philosophers might be. In regard to m...
I think it is an exaggeration to say that "current science is plagued by an enormous metaphysical dispute, specifically, whether string theory actuall...
Non-Euclidean geometries are just as intuitive (synthetic a priori) within their contexts as Euclidean geometry is within the context of everyday expe...
OK, cool, I incorrectly had you pegged as an antitheist. Edit: Actually I'm dying to ask how you came to be living with a nun for a year, at what stag...
That's true, although it is likely that you will be most interested in conversing with those who waste their time in similar ways to yourself, meaning...
Yes, the methods we use to gain knowledge of the world, whether for its own sake or for practical purposes, are not arbitrarily chosen but are develop...
Thanks fdrake, I understand that it's an arcane game that one can learn to play. I spent some time over a few years deciphering Derrida, and concluded...
If you admit that you cannot make any sense of that, then your stakes in the name-dropping game will go wwwaaayyy down. Man, that's some tinsel-strewn...
Universal consensus can come, through further observations, to be believed to have been mistaken. This happens mostly in science, though; not in regar...
Yes, I remember reading Russell's statement of admiration for Peirce. To me the similarities between Popper's approach and Peirce's pragmatism seem cl...
It's enough for phenomena to be accepted as being objectively invariant until proven otherwise, though. What other possible criteria for judgements of...
That's true, but all are founded on perception. I think the problem you are having in seeing this is that you are thinking of perception in its singul...
I had thought the argument is valid. You say it is invalid; can you tell me why you think so? As to Peirce's influence on Popper; I seem to remember r...
The objectivity of invariance consists in its being reliably observed and in such observations being intersubjectively corroborated. So contra Hume we...
I haven't read Popper in years, but I do seem to remember that he was greatly influenced by Peirce. What he saw as the conjectural moment of scientifi...
Hume merely showed that induction is not deduction as far as I can tell. Popper championed the role of abduction in science; conjectures just are abdu...
The negative aspects of all six of your categories would seem to come down to a tendency to be attracted to instrumentalist thinking and its concomita...
If the existence of God is the conclusion then God's existence must be, explicitly or implicitly, contained in the premises; otherwise the argument ca...
Here is the original exchange: So, the point was that valid logical arguments are such that conclusions are inherent in premises. If the premises are ...
We experience them and understand them as being established invariances. This means that within our cumulative and collective experience they are inva...
I have all along being taking about premises which may, but need not be, taken as axiomatic such as for example that there must be a first cause. I ha...
Too subtle? >:O You wrote "logical axioms"; the point is that axioms are not logical, in the sense that they can be logically demonstrated, but are th...
Why not? Just because Schopenhauer reified the passions as Will; whereas Hume did not? Schopenhauer also drew upon Spinoza's idea of conatus, I believ...
The principles of logic are mostly concerned with the validity of arguments; that conclusions do follow from premises. Put another way, a valid argume...
Hume said the intellect is slave to the passions; so the idea is hardly original. Schopenhaurer's aesthetics draws heavily on Kant. About the most int...
In what way do you think " the ontological relationship between intellect and will he proposes is unique in the history of philosophy", and what are "...
The problem with this is that there are no "rational demonstrations" which are capable of demonstrating the axiomatic assumptions upon which they are ...
It's more that some thinkers have greater originality, which means being less derivative, than others. But it's always going to come down to affinitie...
I think Schopenhauer was a second-rate thinker because his philosophy is basically a rehash of Kant, coupled with a poor set of arguments that we know...
So, you're appealing to authority now? (Not that I think Schopenhauer is much of an authority!) In any case, what does "more or less" mean in this con...
All that shows is that you are mistaken about what you possess being subtlety. Subtlety cannot be heavy; its character is the very opposite of heavine...
I agree that it would be more parsimonious simply to assume the independent existence of objects...unless you had other reasons to believe in God's ex...
Is there a distinction between something existing in God and existing in God's mind? Is God a mind or does he have a mind. In any case the salient poi...
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