If platonism is correct then I suppose a "correct" logic is one that includes these mind-independent logical facts and doesn't include any logical "fi...
I suppose that depends on whether or not numbers are mind-independent, which I discuss in a different topic. But if we're discussing physical objects ...
Classical logic uses the law of excluded middle but intuitionistic logic doesn't, allowing for sentences that are neither true nor false. You seem to ...
Which I addressed above. If "is is prime" and "it is true that it is prime" are being used interchangeably then the phrase "it is true that" is vacuou...
What is the word "it" referring to here? Either it's referring to a proposition, as I have been arguing, or it's not referring to anything, in which c...
I went over this with the existence of gold, but I'll do it again with a number being prime: 1. "11 is prime" is true 2. It is true that 11 is prime 3...
You seem to be saying that the proposition "X is a prime number" is true or false before it is uttered but denying that this is a case of a propositio...
You appear to be assuming mathematical platonism? The proposition "X is a prime number" is assessed as accurate/true when uttered. But "a truth" means...
Although I'm not a mathematical platonist, I do have some questions about the epistemological argument, specifically with premise (3): 3. If there exi...
It's certainly unclear, and is precisely what gives rise to the epistemological argument against platonism: 1. Human beings exist entirely within spac...
I don't have a problem with propositions. I have a problem with mind-independent propositions, à la platonism. Even a mathematical platonist like Quin...
Yes, and "true" and "false" are adjectives that we use to describe a sentence. I think Wittgenstein's account of language is more reasonable than any ...
Why? If I paint a red ball accurately then is the accuracy of that painting "pre-determined", and so evidence that painting-accuracy is not exclusivel...
I know, and that is why you are equivocating. In the real world, the film The Santa Claus is a fiction. You then conclude that within the film The San...
The entire argument equivocates, as I explained earlier. That we are using language to talk about a world without language does not entail that langua...
No. Again, there are fictional worlds in which Santa is an idea (e.g. Breaking Bad) and there are fictional worlds in which Santa is a living, breathi...
Yes, and completely unrelated to anything I am saying. Here are two more fictions: 1. A world in which vibranium, people, and languages exist 2. A wor...
Do you understand the difference between these two fictions? 1. A world in which magic exists and Santa is a fiction 2. A world in which magic exists ...
A world with planets and stars but no people is not an empty world; it's a world with planets and stars. A world with planets and stars but no languag...
Again, you're equivocating. When we talk about a fictional world in which there is gold but no people we are not talking about a fictional world in wh...
It's a fictional world in which planets and stars exist but people and propositions don't, just as the Lord of the Rings universe is a fictional world...
That depends on whether or not there is an (infinite) multiverse. If there is then there is likely some universe in which there is gold but no people ...
No, a world can be a set of physical objects situated in spacetime. As I said many pages and weeks ago, the existence of gold does not depend on the e...
There might be something else that is used other than wood but so far you haven't offered any replacement for language that allows for propositions in...
And now you're back to contradicting what you said earlier when you said that propositions are constructed by us using words. If propositions are cons...
No I don't. I'm only saying what I am literally saying, which is that there is no language in that hypothetical world and so no propositions in that h...
And I have never disagreed with this. I have only ever claimed that because there is no language in that hypothetical world there are no propositions ...
We're asking about a hypothetical world in which there are no people doing things with words. This is where the distinction between "truth at" and "tr...
And this is where you're not making sense. You say that propositions are constructed by us doing things using words but then say that there are true p...
That doesn't make it true. As I said earlier, it's us being uncritically bewitched by grammar into thinking that a sentence such are "there are number...
I mentioned elsewhere that terms like "utterance" are being used as a catch-all for speech, writing, signing, believing, thinking, etc. Some linguisti...
You're referring to this argument? (P1) We ought to have ontological commitment to all and only the entities that are indispensable to our best scient...
You don't need to believe in mind-independent abstract objects to believe in mind-independent physical objects, and you don't need to believe in mind-...
So with paintings there is the landscape being painted and the painting. We say that the painting is accurate if it resembles the landscape being pain...
No, I'm saying he's wrong, just as every other conceptualist and immanent realist and nominalists says. Yes. I think that Wittgenstein provides a much...
I think I’m looking into it only as deeply as it needs to be. Platonism is a result of being bewitched by language, misinterpreting the grammar as ent...
I’ve been over this so many times. The word “it” in the phrase “is it true?” refers to either an utterance or an utterance-dependent proposition, and ...
I’d be giving up on mind-independent abstract objects, which is of no concern. And perhaps you could look at the epistemological argument against plat...
Because the immanent realist believes that "properties like redness exist only in the physical world, in particular, in actual red things." An immanen...
Firstly, I don’t think that n+(n+1)=2n+1 proves mathematical platonism. Secondly, what is true? The equation? What is an equation? Is it a meaningful ...
In general there are four different positions on the topic, paraphrased from here: 1. Platonism - there are mind-independent and particular-independen...
Given that the crux of the recent debate is over whether or not there are truths (true propositions) without minds, it's an appropriate juxtaposition....
Are you arguing for mathematical platonism, or are you arguing for a non-platonic interpretation of "there are an infinite number of true additions an...
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