True; but, the rationale isn't limited to laser weaponry, which in economical terms is and always will be cheaper to utilize than conventional munitio...
Pretty fucking insane. I mean, to have a full proof measure of nullifying any attempts at nuclear war via Reagan's Star Wars and yet not pursuing it. ...
Yes; but, the whole appeal in my mind of Star Wars is to render the entire nuclear armament industry as irrelevant. Something unimaginable in the USA,...
Yeah, but who wants to live in fear in perpetually? Actually, it was due to a sane and sober submarine officer that averted catastrophe. You don't hea...
Hmm, it seems to be that existential crises are not the same as contemplating or looking at the lure of suicide. At least, in severity I've never come...
Very interesting... The point I'm trying to say is that the de re/de dicto distinction is epistemically in a loop. De dicto, Ralph is a paranoid schiz...
So, it seems that the issue here is not modalities of counterfactual beliefs; but, conditions that allow the de re subject to assert his or her episte...
Yeah, hence essentialism? Think about it this way. If I stipulate a de re counterfactual, then I am bound to quantify wrt. to a subject de re. If this...
That's kind of the point here. De dicto, the scope of the epistemic quantifier is non-bound by a singular individual's beliefs. So, Ralph might be rig...
Well, there you have it. The counterfactual still obtains due to the attribute of Ralph being a paranoid guy? Call this a definite description or vivi...
Well, how do you make an abstract descriptor as "paranoia" into a, in a sense, a vivid designator for all Ralphs that posses the attribute of being "p...
That's perhaps what I'm trying to address here as this was the most prominent feature of the N&N thread that stuck in my mind. Let me elaborate once m...
Yes, but, doesn't that make it a de facto a de re attitude? No, that would be a de dicto assertion, based on epistemic validity under my understanding...
Perhaps, the term "vivid descriptor" is more apt here than "rigid designator", since we are talking about abstract "objects" such as Ralph having para...
So, here's the question again: And here is the reasoning: If Ralphs believes his neighbor is a spy, then this can only obtain for stipulated worlds wh...
Well, realism is on point. Spoiler: I'm on episode 4/5 and think that HBO did a great job at showing the heroism present in the Soviet Union at the ti...
The Barcan formula deserves a mention here due to the de re/de dicto difference meshing together without implying actualism: https://i.imgur.com/8C2hO...
Or to put this into a standard form: De re (rigid counterfactual): Ralph believes someone is a spy. (True in possible worlds where Ralph is not treati...
OK, so let me elaborate at risk of spewing babble. De re counterfactuals seem to imply that quantification is limited to the scope of the singular ind...
So, it's my understanding that the Barcan formula imposes epistemic closure in a modally quasi-infinite universe. Meaning, that the domain of discours...
I'll try and provide you with everything that seems pertinent to the issue; but, am apprehensive of trying to rationalize this due to my own lack of k...
Well, a heavyweight has entered the field. Google threw in 10 million to a team of fresh new blood into the field of LENR. Although they didn't valida...
I don't want to resurrect the N&N thread again, and the following perhaps is better addressed in the logical progression stemming from N&N onto Refere...
There were casualties though, in regards to the incomplete reading group on Kripke's Naming and Necessity between @"Janus" and @"Banno". I still think...
Anyway, I'm going to toot my own horn here and say that my work on fostering a more interactive and academically incentive on trying to assert a futil...
It might be interesting to note, that meaning can only be appreciated after overcoming nihilistic tendencies. Nietzsche wrote about this, and logother...
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