Michael

I started it but couldn't bring myself to finish it. I find it very different to the PI.

It might seem a truth-apt sentence but the claim is that it isn't. Its syntax is misleading.

No Philosophical Investigations?

It has two premises; "all men are mortal" and "Socrates is a man". It's just a one-line syllogism.

Do we have to abandon classical logic when we claim that the sentence "go away" is neither true nor false?

Too many Star Trek images.

I know this is a joke, but the conclusion doesn't follow. ;)

With his "here is a hand" argument?

No Putnam? I voted for Dummett. I like the way he turns traditional metaphysical disputes into disputes about truth.

Actually, it should be Nietzsche. Are we just taking into account philosophy, here? Because if we're considering scientific stuff then Newton and Gali...

That diagram of yours doesn't work. No part of the mind isn't also part of the world. The mind circle must be fully inside the world circle. Do that a...

No it isn't. Shapes include circles, but it's not a contradiction to say "this is a triangle and a shape".

It isn't a contradiction. If it's for women then ipso facto it's for people. It would however, be redundant to say that it's both. Or for another exam...

I'm not saying that it's equivalent. I'm saying that it isn't a contradiction to say "this product is for women (only) and people (only)".

If I were to say that this product is exclusively for women then it wouldn't be a contradiction to then say that it's for people. The latter would jus...

He believed the appropriate Latin sentence to be true.

They're words to us. So, dice.

It's a piece of paper with markings on it that in the actual world are treated as words.

What I'm saying is that your very understanding of what it means to move/travel/change locations/etc. is in phenomenal (presumably for the most part v...

This doesn't follow. If our understanding of motion is of a particular kind of phenomena then even if this phenomena is caused by something "beyond" t...

Isn't a change in our phenomenal world exactly how we understand motion anyway? Science is an empirical thing, after all.

Whether or not to be a realist or an instrumentalist with respect to scientific discoveries is a philosophical matter that quantum mechanics isn't goi...

But it's the case that the wavelength of two instances of light are the same. So one might say that this frequency of light is a universal.

I think the issue is that we say that the manner in which the snow was formed here is the same manner in which the snow was formed there. So there's s...

We could reduce "making a choice" to "behaving a certain way", and so do away with any notion of consciousness/intention, in which case we can say tha...

Done.

Don't forget also that this forum runs on completely different software to the old one. If the PlushForums team haven't created any functionality to p...

'Fraid not here. Or at least, nowhere public. I believe the admins (but not us moderators) can see deleted (and maybe pre-edited) posts, although I do...

I thought you didn't care? Also, you said I could if I wanted to (not that I have; someone else is having all the fun).

Is there a difference between equivocation and conflation?

The theorem does seem to be a misnomer. It calls itself the free will theorem, but it's actually a freedom theorem. The theorem isn't "if we make free...

In their own words: "To say that A’s choice of x, y, z is free means more precisely that it is not determined by (i.e., is not a function of) what has...

Rather it says that subatomic particles have as much free will freedom as us. But the notion of freedom that this theorem uses is simply "present beha...

Well, if to have free will is just to have been able to do otherwise then having one's decisions determined by a quantum number generator (and assumin...

According to this, it's from Metaphysics, with the translation being "the totality is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the whole is something besides...

It was voted for.

From what I remember from the New Testament, salvation is possible only by accepting Christ as having died for our sins. That's how the murderer (?) w...

I was referring to the claim that in some hypothetical situation my mother could have given birth to the White House. It's nonsense. So you agree that...

If you were offered either free money or a punch in the face, which should you choose? We're able to make claims about the rationality of a decision e...

I used to train in martial arts. I think this notion of it having some grand philosophical aspect is nonsense. You're just taught how to fight, being ...

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He's done a complete turnaround and is now spouting religious dogma on YouTube.

A1 is "not believing in God, leading to eternal bliss" and A2 is "believing in God, leading to eternal torment". The worse (only) outcome of A1 is at ...

Let's consider some variations of the grandfather's axe paradox. 1. You have an axe. After some time you replace the head. After some more time you re...

You can say it, but you're speaking nonsense. So are you saying that in some respect it's the same building but in some other respect it's a different...

@"Hanover", read this.

The worst outcome with A1 is being rewarded for all eternity. The best outcome with A2 is being punished for all eternity. The worst outcome with A1 i...

What if A1 is "not believing in God, leading to eternal bliss" and A2 is "believing in God, leading to eternal torment". Therefore it's rational to no...

It's not insane. It's a tautology. If a thing isn't physically the same then it isn't physically the same. Then let's use "the White House" as an exam...

I think you misread. I said "It's not insane to insist that any object can only remain physically the same so long as it remains physically the same i...