Michael

I believe in the Netherlands they have something like that. The disabled get grant money that they can spend on prostitutes.

Isn't racial discrimination a reason for some being stuck in poverty?

Clinton. Trump seems crazy.

That's morbid. Edit: I read Tiff's question as "where is that person right now".

Have you not heard of sexual surrogates?

Reg: Why don't you shut up about women, Stan, you're putting us off. Stan: Women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement, Reg. Francis: Wh...

The difference is that these facilitators aren't obligated to do what they do. It's the obligation to provide sex (or other intimacy) that I reject.

We're allowed sex but others aren't obligated to provide sex.

What else is there to do in the evening after work? It's no worse (and perhaps better) than watching TV, and more entertaining (for some) than reading...

Borderlands 2. I've been playing it on the PS3 but there's a PS4 version. The Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep DLC (don't do until you complete the ...

Best book ever.

Ah, I was using google.com. It's 6th on google.co.uk.

We're 7th, now. 4th if "philosophy forum" is quoted.

It's starting to look like we should change our name to The Politics Forum. ;)

So a thing is made moral by democratic fiat? Which means that in a racist, sexist, homophobic society racism, sexism, and homophobia are morally accep...

Yes. I think. Perhaps I meant to say an actual actual infinity (i.e. an infinity found in nature, something Hilbert does reject), as opposed to a math...

Ah, yes. Missed the second part of the paradox. I assume this paradox only arises in the case of actual infinities? I wonder if that would count as a ...

If Hilbert's hotel was full then wouldn't everyone already be in a room?

Liam Neeson.

I agree. We should be more like the Spartans and allow it after birth, too.

Wait, so by "pro-abortion" you actually meant forced abortion? I thought you meant to write "pro-life" but got mixed up.

So sometimes you're left and sometimes you're not right? ;)

Abortion (Y) Gay marriage (Y) Death penalty (N) Health care Publicly funded Education Publicly funded Environmental policy Don't shit where you eat Gu...

It follows from the premises: 1) if X then "X" is true and 2) if not X then "X" is not true If the "X" mentioned and the "X" used mean the same thing ...

I know it's trivially true. I've been trying very hard to show how trivially true it is. And yet there's been so much disagreement. And I was never ma...

I'm not saying that it can't happen. I'm saying that the T-schema formulation that I'm using applies if the sentence mentioned means the same thing as...

It fails as soon as you say "instead means that there are no more dinosaurs". How many times do I have to repeat myself? The sentence mentioned means ...

If I say that you and I have the same job, I'm not saying that you and I must always have the same job. So, when I say that the sentence mentioned mea...

No, I don't, and I have no idea how you've come to that conclusion. It's a non sequitur. How do you get from: 1) "X" is true iff X 2) The "X" mentione...

How many times do I have to qualify this? Given that the sentence mentioned on the one side is the sentence used on the other side, where 'being the s...

Then we agree. What's left to discuss? Your criticisms are directed against straw men.

That the same string of symbols are being used is not that the same sentence is being used. As you said, '"there are no more dinosaurs" means the same...

My name is Michael. The previous sentence is false. They can't both be true. That would be a contradiction. If one is true then the other must be fals...

Your example switches languages. You consider the mentioned statement to be in New English but the used statement to be in English proper. As I said b...

Why is the Facebook picture of a train station? Are we on the track to enlightenment? Ba-dum-ch!

Why? The "this" is meant to be self-referential.

I meant it in the sense that if we think of the cat being on the mat as the truth-condition that makes "the cat is on the mat" true, and if "the cat i...

They reference the same truth condition. So in that sense they mean the same thing, even if the cognitive content has a different focus. Consider the ...

I'm stating the T-schema where the sentence mentioned on the one side is the sentence used on the other side. So whatever language it's in, with this ...

It's implicit in the schema that the sentence mentioned on the one side is the same sentence used on the other side. So: "X" is true iff X The bits in...

Large enough for you, I'd wager.

1) It is the case that my name is Michael and My name is Michael are equivalent. 2) My name is Michael and "My name is Michael" is true are equivalent...

If dinosaurs were roaming the Earth then "dinosaurs were roaming the Earth" is true.

It follows from this that in all cases where "Smokey the cat is on the mat" (in English) is (or would be) true, Smokey the cat is (or would be) on the...

Again, they mean the same, which is why the following is contradictory: "My name is Michael" is true and it is not the case that my name is Michael.

What? The following two are equivalent: It is the case that my name is Michael "My name is Michael" is true

No, that's a contradiction.

Where does my logic fail? You say that "the cat is on the mat" would be false if the cat were not on the mat, and so we have ¬C > ¬P (using the subjun...

Of course it is. Which is why "it is the case that P and 'P' is not true" is contradictory.

The problem is that I've never said that there were true sentences, and nor have I implied it. I've simply taken two necessarily true propositions and...