:up: Yes. And I'd add that from the standpoint of apologetics a a pro-choice argument that has to rely on the claim that "fetuses are not human," seem...
Alright, forget New York because we're just talking past each other. There is no disagreement there and clearly the example is not making what I inten...
Yes, I suppose you could look at the average change in safety, education, health, etc. across the relevant populations. However, the issue is that mig...
I guess I wasn't sure what this meant. You don't think it is appropriate to judge logics based on whether or not they are truth preserving? If not, wh...
Fair enough, I was just responding to the claim that no one can have valid concerns about legal immigration. One can even have valid concerns about na...
Thanks for the attempted clarification, but this seems to entirely miss the context of the quoted part of my post, which is not about Russell's thesis...
You don't need to look at the counter example to see how she answers the question, in the opening paragraph she lays it out in that paper: "Logic is t...
And in virtue of what is a logic appropriate? I'm not sure how the proposed interpretation of logical consequence is supposed to answer this question....
I have come across the paper before and Russell's other stuff. I'm not sure exactly how what you've quoted is supposed to address the question. So rep...
Well, on that consequence it seems possible that logical pluralism, nihilism, monism, whatever have you, could be both true and false. So everyone win...
Causal analysis maps neatly enough for us to cure many diseases, fly around the world, travel to space, etc. Medicine is a prime example where a large...
BTW, it seems possible to affirm this and that abortion should be legal without having to claim that it is morally unproblematic. People have a right ...
I don't think having some level of clarity implies essentialism. Considering this is one of the more fraught moral dilemmas of our time, I am not sure...
What exactly is the argument? Adult humans are also a "group of cells." An unborn child can be a sister or daughter, unless we want to say that passag...
lol, yes that's the issue, my inability to comprehend "categorical" not your addition to it in a statement that clearly does not imply it. When people...
Of course, the deflationary approach to the above problems might be just to say: "well, 'Albany, New York is in Mongolia,' is simply true in some syst...
But this isn't how logic is studied. For instance, take Curry's paradox as an example. The problem is that the common idea that "valid arguments with ...
This was Mandelbrot's key insight in coming up with fractional geometry. What is "smooth" at one scale is not at others, etc. Likewise, a miter saw cu...
Just to add an example, you routinely see claims that it is "meaningless" to inquire as to the causes of the Big Bang. It's a brute fact, unopen to in...
Great OP. I tend to agree on most fronts so I will note the two places where I disagree. First, "methodological naturalism," seems equally open to Hem...
And why do we perceive it as regular? That's the key problem I see here. If the answer is "for no reason at all," that's a problem. If "it just is," i...
Just a helpful point of clarification, "classical logic," is confusingly the logic developed by Frege and co. relatively recently. There is no good ca...
BTW, the argument that an explanation of causes will lead to an infinite (or practically infinite) number of other explanations applies equally to all...
I take it you are saying something very different from Tim Wood here. It's one thing to say that "everything is causally connected," thus causes are n...
I agree that you can study logic in total abstraction from content. I am not sure if you can have an "epistemic endeavour," that is unrelated to being...
Then it seems we're more or less in agreement. :up: I would also tend to suppose that there may indeed be many ways to "skin a cat," different systems...
For the same reason a hand is part of a person and not a person. One of these is not like the others; a placenta is an organ not an organism. A liver ...
I guess another example would be that acorns are not oaks in an unqualified sense, but they are certainly oaks in some sense. But a featus seems more ...
Having a substantial unity need not imply any moral valence. It just means that something is a proper whole with proper parts. Life is probably the be...
"Human" can be predicated of things in different ways. We speak of "human hairs" and "human hands," and surely we can consider both to be properly "hu...
You have once again refused to elaborate on why some stories are useful and some are not. Is this impossible to explain? Or are all stories equally us...
I was just thinking of this the other day. It seems to me that there are many strong arguments and stories in support of the pro-choice position. Howe...
I see, so it was wrong for jurors to award damages against tobacco companies, pesticide manufacturers, etc. on account of their products causing disea...
I have issues with it. Problems can be caused by legal immigration just as problems can be caused by internal migrations within a state. There is an i...
Why are some stories useful and other ones not useful? Seems to me that "stop drinking, it's the cause of your liver disease," is true in a way that "...
And why is this? Is it not because of what those things actually are? If not, why did this become the everyday concept? Sure. So with the "raindrop" a...
What about the summary here is unclear? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/939603 There is indeed debate over what the proper object of...
Fair enough. But is our preference for systems arbitrary? It seems very easy to have a system where "circle" can be "square." You can even make it axi...
Well, that's partly what material logic is concerned with. Semiotics, through Aquinas, John Poinsot, C.S. Perice, and John Deeley is one particularly ...
Actually, I will correct what I said above, is this just about competent language use? Does the fact that it doesn't make sense to speak about somethi...
Sure, that was just an example on the relevance of content to meaningful predication. But Russell's paradox is about stipulated sign systems, "languag...
Anyhow, Kant's distinction is an interesting one, but it's guided by his metaphysics and epistemology. If we want to speak of why the mind is the way ...
We don't tend to talk about form and matter the same way today, so I would just thinking of it as the study of "content" in the "form versus content" ...
Sure, if by "pure" we mean "ignoring the content and purpose of logic." But even nihilists and deflationists don't totally ignore content and the use ...
The historical fact that "formal logic" is not called such because it is being set over and against "informal logic," but rather because the term refe...
Well, in terms of priority, it would seem that perception is prior to speech, both in evolutionary terms and in the development of the individual. But...
Perhaps, with the caveat that how one approaches paradoxes depends on how one views logic in the first place. If we follow the peripatetic axiom that ...
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