It's a book, so sadly not wholly available from what I can see. Google books sometimes has a decent number of pages. There is a review by Erik Stei th...
Yes, I would agree with this. Well, as you say: It is a knock down argument, but it seems to miss what monists are claiming (at least from what I've s...
This doesn't seem very hard. If the question is: "let one person die (to make it easy, assume they are 100 years old) or every woman in the early stag...
But you've switched the example. The example was ordering men to make a last stand where they are sure to die. That the men not retreat or surrender b...
:up: :up: :up: Thank you, I am glad someone else also seems to understand what the topics is about and why there is even debate. I felt like I was goi...
Well, presumably in virtually all cases of elective abortion the woman having the abortion isn't acting in order to have an abortion. I can't imagine ...
I think you're right. At least in the US, the estate of a deceased person has "rights" and the executor of the will is supposed to enact the intention...
Causal analysis is pragmatically indispensable, to be sure. But pragmatics is tightly entangled with human concerns. The more one tries to objectify t...
A pluralist will say that there is a certain type of logical consequence that is appropriate for a particular context. A nihilist will deny this. A mo...
Right, which is why their position is generally something like G&P's, which is that correct logics are those which capture the logical consequence rel...
Well, in virtue of what would a law be considered a "general law?" The monist says the general laws are those which hold in "correct logics," which is...
Doesn't that sound a bit tautological to you? If correct logics are just those logics that utilize the general laws then monism is true by definition....
No, I'm just trying to figure out your understanding of the topic. Which is why I ask, what exactly do you think the monist is claiming? That every lo...
Do some logics lack "a use?" Or do they all have one? What does it mean to hold in generality? On your understanding of this, why would monism remain ...
When Russell call nihilism "the view that there is no logic," do you think she is denying that any logics exist? Am I being trolled here? This isn't a...
I don't think so. The pluralist says there are multiple logical consequence relationships that preserve truth in different contexts. The nihilist woul...
When people writing on this topic discuss "correct logics," what exactly is it you think they are referring to? If all logics are correct logics then ...
Well Beall & Restall at least have a tighter definition. Shapiro's "eclectic pluralism" is based on "being interesting." But triviality is interesting...
I agree with underlined point completely. The scientific and metaphysical arguments for monism tend to be abductive arguments based on this idea. This...
As I've said repeatedly, STT need not be deflationary. It is often taking as a means of modeling correspondence truth and this leaves the door open fo...
It's not an absolute non-issue. Almost all European states have a limit at or below 15 weeks for elective abortion, most at 10-12, which is a good dea...
Wouldn't the more pertinent issue be wills or a person's expressed desires about what should happen to their body and property after their death? Seem...
Yes, that's the pluralist response. Like I said, I think they can accuse the nihilist of equivocating here to the extent that their argument relies on...
[ This seems like a useful clarification of terms. Where I have seen the term used, and how it is used in the papers we have been discussing, the idea...
Well, logical nihilism is not the position that true and false are always relative, it's the position that nothing follows from anything else. It is c...
:up: Yeah, as I mentioned, I recall reading somewhere where he says truth in natural language was "meaningless," but I wasn't sure if this was a later...
Well there I wholeheartedly agree. However, the thesis that there is no truth preserving logical consequence is necessarily going to be at odds with m...
You're telling me I don't have to keep consulting my truth tables for statements like "P"? :rofl: I don't think it's redundant in the context of tryin...
I started Taylor's "A Secular Age," but it's quite long so I'll see how long it takes me. I do find such historical treatments interesting though, and...
This is simply using unclear terms. It's "P is true in L iff P is true in L." Whereas "P is true it and only if P," would simply be meaningless or amb...
First , I didn't say formal logic ignores being I said the arguments in the paper use "exist" univocally in a way that makes them facile. Second, ther...
On deflationary accounts, “all that can be significantly said about truth is exhausted by an account of the role of the expression ‘true’... in our or...
I've seen that paper before. I give it credit for at least addressing the issue of metaphysical truth, but it is a prime example of implicit question ...
IMO, Rorty offers a much stronger critique of a particular modern view of "objectivity" than a positive case for considering all uses of "truth," "dep...
That's a tough question because it really varies. Tegmark thinks the multiverse is just an abstract object that exists necessarily. This is ontic stru...
Well, first I'd say that a great number of constructs seem "wrong" logically. For example, logics where one can prove anything and its negation dont s...
Interesting post there, I'll have to check it out. On a related topic, I've seen information processing and computational theories of causation. The R...
Do we need different accounts of logical consequence to have different geometries, etc.? Wouldn't pluralism be more something like: "we start with Euc...
I agree more with the second quote I provided (albeit the "mind and language independent" part is not unproblematic), but it's worth noting that G&P a...
I don't dislike formalism, I just think it is frequently called on to do things it is ill-suited for or retreated into to avoid difficulties that shou...
I don't think this would be the way to put it. Presumably some systems are not commensurable unless we have some criteria for what will count as a cor...
:up: This is what I was getting at with the reference to historical philosophy, although I think, in general, most thinkers I can think of would say t...
I am curious, have you revised your position that goodness or "this is good" is just a way of saying "I approve of this," and that morality is just pe...
Logical nihilism is not a claim about what is true in classical extensional logic. It is presumably a claim about all truth preserving arguments. Like...
No one. But logical nihilism is not a position about "what is true in propositional logic." It seems like you're still presupposing deflation here, tr...
IDK, that's how I've often seen nihilism defined. Per Russell it is "the claim that there are no laws of logic, i.e., no pairs of premise sets and con...
Not necessarily, as I noted before, many "weak" versions of logical pluralism start to look indistinguishable from weak forms of monism (something Rus...
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