I interpret it to mean that you can't jail him or put him on probation on your own authority, or order and require him to register as a sex-offender, ...
Of course the friends, with a 14-year-old daughter, have a right to a warning about your brother. Even if it wouldn't be legally culpable to withhold ...
For one thing, you said that t2 equals or is greater than t1. But I'd said "...if, at that time, you have given $5000 to the sales-clerk..." The sign ...
It can take a long time to wade through a crackpot argument, to explain each of its errors. First of all, my justification of my story had nothing to ...
Thank you for further exemplifying what I said in this paragraph: "If, by writing a long argument, with letters representing quantities and statements...
The sign refers to a payment made at any particular time, and then refers to THAT PARTICULAR time in the implication's premise and conclusion. The imp...
IF((I've justified my story by FOPL) AND (Andrew's application of FOPL is otherwise correct)) THEN (Andrew's evaluation of my story via FOPL is on top...
The proposition's premise becomes true right after the payment is made. The inquiry is made before the payment. Therefore, the implication-proposition...
An objection would have to be a lot more specific than that. You'd have to specify what's inconsistent. Something being true at one time and false at ...
I didn't say "At time it will be yours", or "It will be yours only at that time." I said, "At that time it will BECOME yours. "...At that time it will...
No, it isn't at all clear what you're talking about, or where you're getting your ideas. The sign said "...the clerk will give the diamond to you, and...
I'll name two: 1. If all dogs are mammals, and all mammals are animals, then all dogs are animals. 2, A posting attributed to Mad Fool asked me, " Can...
The sign's implication didn't say anything about the diamond being given without the money being given. Of course. As I said, the sign's implication s...
No contradiction. It's a universally-agreed part of the truth-table for 2-valued truth-functional implication. No. The customer didn't receive the dia...
Of course. Say it how you want. I said "at any particular time". Save yourself all that elaborate muddle. At any particular time (be it past, present ...
Correct. It became false when its premise was true and is conclusion was false. The definitions that I found didn't make any mention of time. To stipu...
I portrayed a situation in which a definition of implication that I'd read (articles at various university websites were unanimous about that definiti...
It's always easy to make a vague, unsupported statement like that.. I didn't say "At that time it will be yours." I said, "At that time it will become...
Let me clarify this more: The sign asserts the implication-proposition. It doesn't assert that proposition's premise, which is only in an "if" clause ...
Of course the proposition's premise is mentioned, but only as part of the implication proposition. You can't say A => B without mentioning A. So no, t...
I'd checked various articles on the subject, put up by various universities. Their definitions didn't include a stipulation about truth values never c...
And that's what your problem is: Your delusional belief in your understanding of a topic on which you're quite clueless. Is this about fuzzy relativis...
As I'm sure others have mentioned, there can't be agreement on what's perfect. Let's be more modest and speak of adequacy instead of perfection There ...
Or course regrettably most people live like that. I guess they want and choose to, and that's their business. But they needn't. No one needs to. Not e...
You need to do more (or at least some) listening, and less expounding. . I’d said: . . You replied: . . I didn’t say you couldn’t disagree. I merely s...
I replied: Rich answered: I didn't mean you couldn't disagree. Obviously you can disagree with anything that you want to. I merely meant that you can'...
I'm not saying anything about a simplicity-comparison between humans and other animals. I recognize that humans are different from the other animals i...
And I agreed. If metaphysics is what can be said about what is, then it's reasonable to say that there are limits to what can be said about metaphysic...
It's more than a proposition. It's a true proposition. That makes it a fact. The proposition says nothing about a case in which its premise isn't true...
Of course. How could it not? Metaphysics is the limit of what can be discussed, described, argued. I think we all agree that metaphysics, discussion, ...
Of course there are truths. Facts are true, or they wouldn't be facts. What is a truth, if not something that's true? There are lots of facts. Here's ...
Any device that could mimic consciousness would be as conscious as the conscious beings that it mimics. It would be a duplicate of them. Sure we can. ...
Probably so. Contrary to popular belief, it's probably a better default presumption is its negative. I mean, we're here, and whatever the reason for t...
At first in my post, I said that rewarding accomplishment would prepare kids for the rewarding of accomplishment in the adult world. But, really, just...
It's compelled by events in its surroundings, and by it's own preferences (It prefers to snap when its trigger is pressed) ...as is a human. Admittedl...
I’d said: . . You replied: . . My objection to Simulated-Universe didn’t have anything to do with proving Simulated-Universe false by observational ev...
That's chauvinistic. If an android were built to perfectly model human behavior then, by the meaning of consciousness it has human consciousness. Unle...
I'd said: Janus replied: Actually, a check of various university sources shows that, as implication is conventionally defined, it's unanimous that A =...
Arguably, because accomplishment is strongly rewarded in adult society, then kids in school should get used to that, by similar accomplishment-rewardi...
Bitter Crank is being at least semi-serious here, and obviously means his details allegorically, and so I'll comment: I've been saying that, at the en...
Sure, if you assume that there's that brute-fact objectively-existent, fundamentally-existent physical world, that we're modeling. But the complex log...
You said: . . No, because those instances of refraction are completely consistent with known physics. . . Less well-understood, but not unexplainable ...
Yes, I didn't miss that similarity to what I've been saying. One thing I like about the Simulated-Universe theory is that it isn't so far from what I'...
In other words, "If A then B" is the if-then proposition. So, if "If A then B" is true, then the if-then proposition is true. (...even if A, or B, or ...
I'll look up the definitions. I've read something about "sound" being different from "true". But "true" has an obvious meaning that I thought everyone...
Its truth doesn't require that. Neither the "if" premise nor the "then" conclusion need be true. An if-then proposition is true, and therefore is a fa...
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