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Count Timothy von Icarus

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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...
February 06, 2025 at 02:11
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...
February 05, 2025 at 21:25
You think Quine thought only foreign languages were inscrutable?
February 05, 2025 at 21:10
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...
February 05, 2025 at 20:54
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...
February 05, 2025 at 18:57
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...
February 05, 2025 at 16:12
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...
February 05, 2025 at 15:46
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...
February 05, 2025 at 15:33
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...
February 05, 2025 at 15:31
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...
February 05, 2025 at 15:24
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...
February 05, 2025 at 15:00
Well, they certainly were far from the only issue. There were however issues with them, hence the long running conservatorship and major reforms. Stud...
February 05, 2025 at 14:58
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...
February 05, 2025 at 14:49
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...
February 05, 2025 at 14:32
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....
February 05, 2025 at 14:22
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...
February 05, 2025 at 13:20
So, if anything we might quantify over is possibly necessary then everything is necessary? Floridi has a demonstration to the effect that any (mathema...
February 05, 2025 at 12:21
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...
February 05, 2025 at 12:11
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...
February 05, 2025 at 12:01
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...
February 05, 2025 at 11:25
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...
February 05, 2025 at 03:16
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...
February 05, 2025 at 02:48
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 ...
February 05, 2025 at 02:40
If anything is necessary, then everything is necessary?
February 05, 2025 at 01:49
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...
February 04, 2025 at 18:23
Yet morphology can be a useful way to classify species. Biological species are very complex, and they are always changing at the individual, community...
February 04, 2025 at 18:07
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 ...
February 04, 2025 at 17:30
This is factually incorrect. The US has government provided healthcare for senior citizens and the poor. These are extremely large programs, particuar...
February 04, 2025 at 17:18
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...
February 04, 2025 at 17:08
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...
February 04, 2025 at 14:00
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...
February 04, 2025 at 13:51
It's seen as supporting the thesis that God is always everywhere, all at once, and so not a thing within space and time.
February 04, 2025 at 13:12
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 ...
February 04, 2025 at 09:33
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...
February 04, 2025 at 03:46
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...
February 04, 2025 at 03:31
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...
February 04, 2025 at 02:45
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...
February 04, 2025 at 02:38
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...
February 04, 2025 at 00:53
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...
February 04, 2025 at 00:40
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 ...
February 03, 2025 at 23:35
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...
February 03, 2025 at 23:19
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...
February 03, 2025 at 20:26
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...
February 03, 2025 at 20:00
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...
February 03, 2025 at 18:42
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...
February 03, 2025 at 18:21
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...
February 03, 2025 at 17:46
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...
February 03, 2025 at 15:17
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...
February 02, 2025 at 23:36
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 ...
February 02, 2025 at 14:35
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...
February 02, 2025 at 13:31