Michael Ossipoff

I’d said: . . You replied: . . Incorrect. As the person who posted my post, I’m the one to say what my point was, in posting it. . Re-quoting you: . ....

You can't be sure that there's no prospect of a next life. I'm not trying to make an issue about that, but it can't be proved that there isn't a next ...

This is an edit of a post from a few minutes ago: I don't call that metaphysics. As I mean metaphysics, it's the discussion of what discussably, descr...

Yes. We'll be there until complete shutdown of consciousness, awareness and perception, but, before that, we'll be in sleep, maybe deep-sleep (because...

I’d said: . Sime says: . . Nonsense. . There’s no “empirical” evidence for “maximally unconscious sleep”. The fact that you don’t remember it doesn’t ...

You wrote: . . It does. It never ends. None of us will ever experience a time without experience. Consciousness never ends. . Typical Materialists and...

That time never arrives. It will never arrive for you. You never experience a time when there's no experience. There's no you distinct from your exper...

I'd said: You replied: But I was just referring to doubt about the controversial claim that all of Reality is discussable and describable. I wouldn't ...

I was up all night with the matter of the choice of a map-projection. When I was younger, I used to stay up all night whenever I was reading something...

Well, let me quote you: But now you say: You mean the one about whose complete and accurate describability with words you're contradicting yourself? :...

As it's almost dinner-time, this will be a brief preliminary reply, in which I try to say something about a few of the most easily-answered or importa...

It goes without saying that the events of Gone With the Wind really happened in that story, and that the characters really had certain experiences in ...

"Real" and "Existent" have various different dictionary meanings, and they're widely used in non-metaphysical usages. "Is that dollar-bill real?" "My ...

Then you believe in demons. I don't share that belief of yours. Aside from that, are you referring to the doubt, or the asserted certainty? Asserted c...

. How broad a range of things do you think that words accurately and completely describe? To me, it seems that the burden of proof is on the person wh...

I had errands today, and it's a long post, but I'll have my reply finished and posted tomorrow morning. (Tuesday 2/20/18). Michael Ossipoff

Yes. What, jibberish from professional academic philosophers? The emperor is unclothed? Well, maybe it results from the "Publish or Perish" imperative...

Sure, all language is a bit vague. No finite dictionary can non-circularly define any of is words. it really always must come down to "You know what i...

Of course, in the physical story, all animals, including humans, are physical. The self-consistent-ness of your life-experience possibility-story requ...

I’d said: . . You replied: . . That’s part of the problem, but even when they’re distinguished from eachother, it can sometimes still be problematic t...

Must quit for the evening. Replying tomorrow. Michael Ossipoff

I must quit for the evening. Will reply tomorrow. Michael Ossipoff

I should add that, of course, Materialists believe that this physical universe is all of reality. So, of course, for them, science does describe, cove...

I'd said: I don't. Metaphysics can describe, cover and apply to the matter of what is that is discussable and describable. That isn't all of Reality. ...

Having volume doesn't mean being dividable Something could occupy volume, but be impossible to divide. ...though there might be insufficient informati...

...so Atheists are right when they say that many Atheists need to be closeted, such as politicians trying to appeal to a demographic.

...for the physical relations among physical things. But many people, known as Science-Worshippers, want to apply science outside that valid area of a...

For example, it's meaningless and silly to quibble about whether NDEs are real. NDEs undeniably are, and what more does anyone expect to say about the...

Yes, the assumption that "real" and "existent" (and even "is") mean something is the cause of much philosophical confusion. "Real", "existent" and "is...

A familiar difference between definitions in logic and human language, is the meaning of "or". As you may know, in logic, "A OR B" means "A", "B" or "...

The clerk's interpretation that an implication-proposition is true if its premise is false is unanimously agreed on by the academic sources i found, f...

I’d said: . . You replied: . . I just keep missing that darn point! . . That was what my objection was about. . . There are different truth-tables for...

The clerk's interpretation is correct, by the 2-valued truth-functional truth table and definition of implication that several academic sources were u...

I said, in the title of the thread, that the store is owned by a logician. I said in my post that the clerk is the owner and logician. Michael Ossipof...

Also, it occurs to me that the clerk/logician, who never tells a lie, would have to lie to the police about whether the payment was made. So much for ...

A jewelry shop would need a security camera, especially if the 20 million dollar diamond is real. Authorities could ask to look at the security-camera...

The clerk could have an accomplice, who'd take the money off the premises, to somewhere else, before the police arrive. Michael Ossipoff

Ok, you're right. It looks as if the clerk's scam would be very difficult, if not.impossible, to succeed with. I should have demanded a register-count...

But the clerk has plenty of opportunity to transfer the $5000 to the cash-register when the customer starts to call the police. When the police arrive...

The customer was too trusting. Yes, the clerk made a mistake when he just put the money in his pocket, instead of in the cash-register. By that mistak...

If he said that, then he's certainly right about it. But he has represented some times mentioned in the implication-proposition as universally-quantif...

Exactly. If the customer flips a coin to decide when to pay, the time of his payment is still a constant with respect to the implication-proposition. ...

So far, so good. . ...but that could depend on the company that's using the computer. The truth value of the implication-proposition is function of th...

...and when he has done so, by paying, his time of payment becomes a constant. For the purpose of the implication-proposition, the customer's payment-...

Of course. That's why clerk's scam worked. Yes the customer was intentionally deceived. By the definitions that I found in those academic articles, th...

Yes, as i mentioned earlier, of course the implication-proposition becomes false a minute after the money has been paid, because the clerk hasn't give...

Oops! I mis-worded the sign. And my inequality doesn't help. First the sign. Here's what it should say, and what i'm changing it to: if you've given $...

Of course the implication-proposition becomes false at 10:02:30. The inquiry, and its answer, were made before the payment, which was made at 10:01:30...

Instead of T2>T1, I'd say: T1+1 > T2 > T1 Michael Ossipoff

Obviously, instead of just saying, "If you've given $5000 to the sales-clerk...", I should say: "If you've given $5000 to the sales clerk within the m...