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For me it depends on the nature of the 'de-platforming'. I'm all in favour of the owners of platforms, such as lecture theatres, town halls, TV and ra...

I loved it. Thought-provoking and funny, but with no laugh track.

...is not a sentence because it lacks a verb.

From what little I've seen of Jordan Peterson, I don't object to much of what he says. But I think the phrase 'the lie of white privilege' is silly. W...

This raises an interesting question about what we mean by 'detect', or 'perceive'. Specifically, do we want 'perceive' to mean the same thing as 'noti...

Yes, it was the same as in your latest post. What I meant was that it was different from the article you linked in introducing this sub-thread, which ...

That quote is from a different article (this one), and what it refers to as 'the one stated above' is not the Diagonal Lemma. The article goes on to s...

It is though, as I explained in this post (which was on page 2 of 9, so it's understandable that it has been forgotten). The resonance of your footste...

Are you sure it can do that validly? The linked page states the lemma with a premise that restricts it to first-order languages, which I expect would ...

I had assumed we were discussing within that context, along with the inconsistencies and explosions that inevitably flow from that. Why do you think t...

Hey, here's something really cool! I just noticed that the sentence 'This sentence is True' or more literally, per the post I just made: 'There exists...

The liar sentence, as usually given, is 'This sentence is false' But if we are being excruciatingly literal-minded, it is a simple, false sentence, be...

I agree. It is not the self-reference alone that is the problem. My interpretation is that the problem is that the sentence refers to its own meaning,...

It needn't be self-referential but it may be. Close at hand includes self. I can non-self-referentially point at a pot and say 'this pot needs a scrub...

Here is what the sentence actually means: ((((((((((...) is false) is false) is false) is false) is false) is false) is false) is false) is false) is ...

I agree that people who are lucky enough to have a right of free speech should not give it up, but posting opinions on an internet forum under a pseud...

I think I would distinguish the table from my perception of it, but I don't think I would necessarily distinguish it from all perceptions of it. Maybe...

I am not assuming anything. I'm asking whether you regard seeing something as perceiving it, but do not regard hearing something as perceiving it. Tha...

How is that any different from saying that when you see a table in front of you, you 'blatantly' assume that the table exists - that you assume that t...

That everything is connected to everything else, so all the examples given here of things that are unperceived, followed by the question 'do they then...

This really weird thought occurs to me often, and seems completely divorced from any philosophical discussion of materialism vs idealism. When I was f...

That is the common belief, but it is a misconception. It is actually the feeling of the absence of gravity. The diver's accelerated motion - in the re...

This is a subject dear to my heart, because of my perplexity over whether I will ever do a bungee jump (and whether I 'should'). (I suspect I won't, m...

You probably won't know, because of the crudity of human sensory organs, but in theory you could, in the same way as we know about a black hole: by it...

It could perhaps be referring to the proposition 'x=x' where x is a variable symbol. Some axiomatisations of first-order predicate logic contain an ax...

There is unquestionably a significant difference between average pay of the sexes. It is only whether there is a 'gap' that seems controversial, which...

I think we should both be grateful to Laurence Krauss because he provides a subject on which we can wholeheartedly agree, ie that he is an annoying, p...

Yes that's what I mean, which is why I carefully avoided using a capital P that would imply similarity to Peirce, James and Dewey. I happen to think t...

I know. I just didn't want to use technical terms like completeness and consistency in a discussion that has not been heavily technical thus far.

which, being a pragmatist, doesn't bother him. He just assumes the principle of induction as an axiom, and then any arguments he makes are conditional...

My recollection is that Hume was not imagining this himself, but rather writing in response to Rationalists who not only imagined it but believed it p...

Hume imagined no such thing. On the contrary he pointed out that there couldn't be a logical reason, or at least (being a fairly humble fellow) that h...

I haven't changed my position, and I certainly don't blame you if you feel confused. I feel confused most of the time, and I hope nobody blames me for...

We have observations about what worked in the past, and that includes observations that the principle of induction worked in the past. I can see no wa...

Because we know what consequences past actions have had, but we do not know what the consequences will be of future actions, or of actions we are curr...

Really? If you have to resort to sneering your beliefs must be poorly thought-out indeed.

Nothing. The mistake is to expect, or even demand, a warrant. The answer is to act without warrant. We act according to our nature, which is to assume...

We have a history of what worked, not of what works. The difference of tenses is critical.

This supposes we already have a standard for judging what is reasonable and what is not. What is that standard, and where did we get it from?

We have observations that inductive principles have served us well in the past. On that I expect we agree. I can see no way to turn that set of observ...

What is the role of the 'Inductively' at the beginning of this sentence? If it means, 'using the principle of induction' then it is assuming the concl...

That can't be a reason, because we can never know whether it works. All we can ever know is that it worked.

That sounds like an axiom. That leads us to ask what it is grounded on. There is no escape from the necessity of having to choose groundless axioms. T...

I agree with you that beauty is well worth discussing and pondering, and that it has at best a partial overlap with attractiveness (meaning an ability...

By the way, looking at some of the posts on here, I get the feeling that there is a misunderstanding of what 'white privilege' means, either by me or ...

I am very aware of my white privilege, but I have never felt guilty about it. Being brought up RC, I am very prone to guilt, but it's only about choic...

I don't think it is anything to be concerned about. In the West, both are fringe views, held by very small groups of people that, thankfully, have ver...

If you had not lived, the universe would have been different both before and after you were born.

I don't know what you mean by an 'inferential reason'. If an inference is not inductive or deductive, I don't know what it means. There's 'abductive' ...

That's because you, and all self-sufficient humans, have evolved to believe it in an unshakeable, instinctive way. There is no escaping the belief. To...