Let's write this a bit less perfunctory. Options are: 1. "The sentence "this statement is false" is true" 2. "The sentence "this statement is false" i...
Normally, only 1 and 2 are considered truth values. 3 is impossible under classical logic as it violates the law of non-contradiction. 4 is the absenc...
Aside from Michael's point, (which can be summed up as the conclusion isn't its proposition), your conclusion that the second sentence has a truth val...
@"Hanover" @"Bitter Crank" I suspect you're old enough; I'm reading up on the Smothers Brothers in the NYT. Sounds like fun. Did you watch it and what...
No, she asked the question "Is the fetus alive at 20 weeks?" and then pointed out that a fetus is dependent on the mother to survive and stated it's n...
The definition of "alive". I'm assuming we're still talking English... Something being alive doesn't clarify much of anything either, which was kind o...
I didn't say personhood is arbitrary, I said attributing it will be arbitrary and this is inherent due to the fact the term is vague. Just as we devel...
The shoutbox is becoming such a swell place. People, please mind your manners. If you're not capable of that disengage from the discussion you're havi...
Sure. I would conclude we really don't know and accept that I act as if the world is determined in good faith (so far, it hasn't let me down). I wonde...
I've always found this a rather odd things to claim for two reasons. First of all, there's a distinction to be made between ontological and epistomolo...
In the short term only. Note that it's easier to establish/move a company abroad than it is to emigrate. All workers have become temps. So we will wel...
One interesting thing to see is whether there will be any measurable effect on economic growth in the USA, due to his retreat from ttp, possibly nafta...
So I did an IQ test and scored much higher than I expected considering I'm quite a bit older last time I took one and the lack of sleep due to having ...
Ok. So things aren't looking up but I don't think the majority of the rich elite are so detached from the world that they don't care about anybody els...
I'm sorry Agustino but your inability to read anything most people say charitably means I'm going to put you on ignore. Enjoy the forums without inter...
You dismiss ideas that don't confirm your world view rather quickly. Business is morality when you trust the other will perform their obligation (fair...
Robotics can also be an opportunity provided that they produce what people need, thereby relieving those people of the necessity to provide labour to ...
Because it can be part of sex and often is and you've stated that sex as part of a lasting relationship was the way to go. Just wanted to get that str...
I could be misunderstanding it but none of your explanations got me to think otherwise. Sometimes communication just breaks down and we won't understa...
no, not what I think I'm saying but curious why you take that away from it. The short version is that a) there is no logical difference between the fo...
I'm not straw manning. You're just cherrypicking from my reply to m-theory now. You reduced this: "p1. Everything it says in the bible is true. c1. If...
Fair enough. My point was that when unenlightened said: "p1. Everything it says in the bible is true. c1. If it says in the bible that Moses was a bas...
This contains a conditional premise "if x implies A" irrespective of your use of the word "therefore". It's bad grammar and logic. It's not only a con...
It seems you're confusing a propositional logical tautology and a rhetorical tautology. You keep trying to reconstruct syllogisms (whether one or two ...
That's putting the horse behind the carriage. The number 2 does not become a subset of it. Because it is a subset of numbers divisible by 2 (premise) ...
Except that that is precisely what it was, which is why I gave a mathematical example, which I'll repeat: p1. all numbers divisible by 2 are even p2. ...
Ok, so you don't understand how basic logic works. Nice. That 2 is "included" in 1, does not mean that 1 = 2, which is what you're saying when you say...
Good to see darwinism is dead as we'll be sure to kill ourselves off in the long run with all the religious and militant conservatists right, left and...
Your examples don't change the fact that it is logically incorrect. In the case of Manson, it shouldn't follow logically from the fact that he's untru...
Memento mori. Salvation is through the belief Jesus died for your sins not through works or grace in this life. Also, for someone who insists on seein...
Not if you're protestant. Damn you and your materialist body, save your soul and pray to God and thank Jesus for dying for your carnal sins. (Also, hi...
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