No, but they aren't unrelated. The inscrutability of reference implies that extension is equally inscrutable. There is no "fact of the matter." But on...
I am familiar with the argument. I wasn't sure if you were given that remark, since the idea seems to be that the word "rabbit" corresponds to a uniqu...
Artifacts are an interesting case because they are organized around a purpose, it's just that their purpose is extrinsic to them. The goals and purpos...
Fannie and Freddie. Together they hold $7.5 trillion in assets (student loans being another $1.7 trillion, putting these close to all of Wall St. comb...
This reminds me of a book of D.C. Schindler's I really liked. It seems to me that a major problem of modernity is not only that consciousness is assum...
Ah, so see, countries should accept Gazan refugees! And they should be able to rely upon all the other services that Syrian, Afghan, etc. refugees can...
BTW, here is a story on people giving their life savings to get smuggled out of Gaza. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/jan/08/pales...
You're claiming people have a moral obligation to pen women and children in with people attempting to genocide them. I don't see how that stops ethnic...
Right, it works something like: P1: If things exist, they must be properly defined/delineated in exactly this sort of way (insert rigid, unworkable de...
Even if it was openly declared ethnic cleansing, your position would still be abhorrent. "Oh hey, watch out, that invading army wants to engage in mas...
Well, they certainly were far from the only issue. There were however issues with them, hence the long running conservatorship and major reforms. Stud...
No I'm not. I am talking about them being able to leave if they want. They are currently not allowed to leave if they want. Hamas demands that they no...
In order to even offer the possibility of refugee status you have to prove people want it? I can point to millennia of human history. When a city is u...
Hamas isn't close to a representative body. They didn't even win a majority of the vote in the one election they participated in held two decades ago....
It's Trump's, so I wouldn't put a goal of forcibly deporting people past him, but why exactly is it bad, unthinkable genocide to allow Gazans to leave...
So, if anything we might quantify over is possibly necessary then everything is necessary? Floridi has a demonstration to the effect that any (mathema...
I mean, the other options were to allow for a catastrophic domino effect of bank failures along the lines of the Great Depression or to nationalize th...
Well, this is written for the New Yorker's audience, but I am pretty sure conservatives would take this in the opposite direction. Here you have a bun...
If that's all you got from that long post then you're either debating in bad faith or it simply is beyond your ability to grasp or my ability to expla...
Indeed, but there also likely won't be any reference to the date the Declaration of Independence was signed, who the victors of the World Wars were, o...
Is "being" the key term then? I'm not finding anything and AI is presenting gobbledygook. Lots of people thing mathematical objects are necessary enti...
This is to make language into first philosophy. Here is why I would disagree with such a move. It is easier to see with the example something like an ...
Hmm, well I think P1 would be the potential issue. Is "Jesus" referring to the Son/Logos or the Incarnation? It does not seem that the Incarnation sho...
Yet morphology can be a useful way to classify species. Biological species are very complex, and they are always changing at the individual, community...
Who is a Christian who makes such an argument? The Trinity is usually said to be a revealed truth, and I don't think I've ever seen anyone claim that ...
This is factually incorrect. The US has government provided healthcare for senior citizens and the poor. These are extremely large programs, particuar...
Is the problem not enough democracy, or too much? No cabinet member wins an election for their post, nor are they generally named until after the elec...
If you have to affirm nonsense like "fish don't exist," it's a knock against your philosophy. Fish would have existed in Melville's day as both a comm...
One is about what makes a certain type of being what it is. The other is about word use. They only collapse if one supposes a sort of metaphysical sup...
This seems like an argument from ignorance. I know of no reputable biologist who claims that there have actually been very many hominid-like families ...
This was taken as referring to the fact that God (and God alone) is subsistent being (everything else being contingent and relying on God as its groun...
So insects existed prior to humans and what makes them insects is whatever answers the question "how should we use the word insect?" Yet, there is als...
So you do think insects existed prior to anyone deciding what counts as an insect? You seemed to be just objecting to that. If insects existed prior t...
If your philosophy of language forces you to ho and hum and deflect away from questions like "did cockroaches not exist until humans decided to 'count...
Must we pretend? Do dogs do not exist outside human linguistic frameworks? We can appeal to use, but this won't get us very far from the initial quest...
I don't think the substitution will do. We can have ideas about ens reale. For instance, we have the ideas "man," "fox," etc. Yet presumably these als...
Ok, so why do you think: ...implies anything to the contrary? Where? Yeah, probably not important, but unless I've missed it and you meant to quote a ...
That's a very interesting question. Are the two different? Clearly, on a common sense view, our vision of a tree is not identical with it, but in some...
Chesterton is a gifted rhetorician, but he is a far better critic than positive theorist. I think his point is this: If the sorties paradox, problem o...
Well, the underlined part is pretty important there. It depends on what you mean by "discrete boundaries." If this amounts to a demand for "metaphysic...
I don't know enough about Berkley to know his influences (I read him pretty much blind), but this actually makes a lot of sense if one looks at his ph...
Indeed, my cat surely could have been eaten by dog, and maybe by now it would compose parts of a dog, dog feces, my lawn, etc. But if it did, it would...
Well, "cultural" would tend to imply a diffuse, collective project, right? But surely a man stranded on a desert island can come to recognize new spec...
Here is Klima's "offending" passage. Here is the very article you are citing: The semantic referent of a designator is the referent determined in virt...
Language is not the only case of signification in the world. Nor is it entirely sui generis. For example, most mammals come fairly well equipped to ma...
Well, according to materialism, everything is made of matter. Thus, to see rabbits, trees, ants, flowers, etc. is to see matter. "What else could you ...
It's the basic framework from which the same issues could be considered. One key thing to note here is that the interpretant is not always an "interpr...
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