Being: what perception and consciousness are aware of, what thinking is about. Awareness: perception, thinking, and consciousness Consciousness: aware...
I think part of the problem is your analogy. It's not analogous to the claims of physicalism, and it's making claims that physicalists would not accep...
I get what you're saying. The problem is that this implies that not everything can be explained in physical terms. So, this cuts against many common f...
Lies, calumny, rank knavery! How dare you assert such. I oppose all that you say and shall not dignify it with a response except to declare that it is...
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him." I have considered before that Hegelian conceptions of an evolving ...
I was dipping back into the Routledge handbook of metaphysics and it made me think of something. For folks who don't like thinking of logic in terms o...
I don't think anything I said gives the impression that the above is not the case. I was just thinking in terms of the ways that philosophers have att...
Yes, this is the view I was getting at with approach #1, which is the most common in the study of logic itself. But I think there are obvious isomorph...
The social role of logic does bring up an interesting issue re the concept of group minds. If we take as a given that organizations can exhibit their ...
In most cases I think it would be preferable to randomly select a small pool of people who then serve as a committee who hire (and fire) professional ...
Per my original post here, which I apparently can't reply to, Terrance Deacon's "Incomplete Nature," makes a pretty good argument that entropy, constr...
Ha, well I'm trying to figure out if this standpoint is actually justifiable while starting from no presuppositions with Big Heg. The problem is that ...
To the original question, while I'm not super familiar with paraconsistent logic, I do think this changes things. Paraconsistent logics can retrieve n...
Exactly. These sorts of judgements are certain. On the downside, they are also the sorts of judgements where the conclusion is contained in the premis...
Sure, this is certainly true from the perspective of being able to totally predict behavior or the subjective elements of experience. But we're just l...
Resorting to downing airliners over your own country isn't a good look in any case. More importantly than Prig's death though, Tokmak, a main Russian ...
This :up: . It's a statement about provability for statements in a certain class of consistent systems (those than can encompass arithmetic), using "e...
It seems useful to distinguish between certainty, the % confidence we have in a judgement, and precision, with how much detail our assessment has vis-...
I'm sort of the same. I have key scenes I want to write and so I do those and then fill them in. Mostly I've done short fiction but I have two larger ...
It's like formalism in mathematics; there are rules for manipulating symbols and nothing else. The most austere definitions of logic I've seen tend to...
Sorry, I didn't mean anything technical by absolute. Just in the sense that we can be relatively certain of things. Like I know 100% that the Royals w...
By real I just mean, "out in nature." There are no observable one-dimensional lines with no thickness that can contain an infinite number of points, a...
The entire idea behind the the radical skeptic's demon though is that they have manipulated you such that you are certain the bishop doesn't change it...
Good point. But on this view, other minds would have the effect of collapsing wave functions around us and inside of us, and this might help explain c...
The concern is generally that, if an object is nothing but its properties, and its properties change, then the object has become a different object. T...
Interesting. I think a lot of theories of truth tend to deny this to some degree. A proposition is true or it is false. A proposition cannot be neithe...
True, but this is true for almost every interpretation of quantum mechanics. The only ones I know of that have actually been tested are some forms of ...
Well sure, if we take the Copenhagen Interpretation as a given then other interpretations are wrong, but what's the grounds for doing that? The wave f...
Another way to look at it: containment gets you a surprising number of logical relations. Socrates is a man All men are mortal Socrates is mortal Can ...
I find it interesting that this comes out of an electrical engineering background because I had always thought there were some neat similarities betwe...
Oh, and vis-á-vis the "what is logic?" thread, this also explains why the world is intelligible. Life could only arise in an ordered world and conscio...
If I've done proofs via induction using addition, doesn't this show that I've taken addition all the way to the infinite in the past? That or I smugly...
What do you think of computational theory of mind? I'm not totally sold on it, but it remains the most popular theory of how consciousness emerges (In...
While I absolutely agree with your example being a sort of special case, I think it is special for different reasons. It is a case where we can say "g...
Sure, but I'm not sure what that has to do with the homuncular elements of indirect realism, i.e., the conception that we experience the world by "wat...
Makes sense to me. Context is tricky in that way. Well this is the other tricky part. The direct realist is not necessarily the naive realist. My bigg...
Sure, it's tautological. That was the position of Russell and the Vienna Circle. Moreover, by this view, all of mathematics is itself tautological. Th...
I don't think Wittgenstein would have thought this was a good reason to accept what he said. In any event plenty of other philosophers with at least a...
Of course, the argument that taxation is theft isn't really that different from the anarchist argument that property is theft. If we are idealists and...
I mean, the CIA probably has given at least some sort of minor support to most of these movements but that hardly means it's decisive or even moved th...
I don't think it necessities omnipotence for knowledge. For example, the Dude in the Big Lebowski knows "he's had a hard day and he fucking hates the ...
Entropy is about the number of possible states given some set of macrostate observations. Jeynes argued that in key ways entropy was necessarily subje...
I think the realist response to this would be that our perceptions map to the world, that there are morphisms between them and the world. If the world...
Does rule following entail intentionality? That's an interesting idea; it would seem to indicate a tie in between the external world and conceptions o...
Light a fire. Stare intensely into the flames it while thinking really, really hard. Full mind sprint. Continue until you collapse or achieve the Gnos...
It seems to me that if there is a coherent view from nowhere/God's eye view, and the universe is deterministic, then entropy doesn't really exist. The...
Excellent point. Causation and logic are different areas of philosophy, for sure. That logic and causation are completely different things I think is ...
IDK, I feel like getting assaulted or killed by a party of raiding tribesmen and being shot by some state security service is an equally bad outcome, ...
That's probably fair. But it seems like there is a sort of general principle, perhaps one of necessity or one of "sufficient reason," that undergirds ...
Most infrastructure projects are examples of natural monopolies. You're not going to build two parallel power grids, two sets of roads, two sets of se...
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