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Anyway, what do you make out of this exchange so far? Does it seem like Fooloso4 is doing a good job no?

Not yet. @"Fooloso4" care to expand on "a priori metaphysics"?

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Semantics...

How do you prevent the capitalists from being too close to the government?

Mayth this thread rest in peace.

Do not fret. Alan Greenspan was a devout believer in objectivism. I suspect Trump may have read her Atlas Shrugged too. Rand is very popular among mos...

Yes, I see that Ayn Rand is beaming right through you. It's a pity philosophers don't take her more seriously.

Rhethoric aside, why is laissez faire economics better than some regulation in place?

Indeed. Compared to Purple Pond I have something like 315 topics in total. I practically live here.

Hear hear. This is good. Why do you think the answer of impermanence and the foolishness of craving produce paradoxically contentment and satisfaction...

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Hmm, am I to blame or what's the issue here?

If people really cared about unborn fetuses, then they would have made the world a better place for them instead of denying their existence.

@"Fooloso4", What do you think about Proposition's 6.5 and 6.53? 6.5 For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The...

You missed the revolution.

Well, @"Banno" point is still on point. Namely, if we don't call Nixon by the same name, we're still talking about Nixon. However, I take another step...

Yes, nowadays it's all shiet.

Impressive analysis. Thanks.

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Wow, you and @"Snakes Alive" need to chill out against the name calling. Please stop.

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Cheers. :up:

What? You've never heard of counterfactuals?

Can you opensource anything to enable sharing of the database?

Is the quality of the population ('a good or a great student') adequately captured by tests like the SAT or GMAT that limit admittance to schools with...

Logic. p v ~p

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I propose that "the length of this stick" attains its meaning from the fact that a meter is defined as the length of the path traveled by light in vac...

The Barcan Formula is what Occam's Razer is to quantified modal logic.

If you want to take a hard reading of the Barcan Formula, then the stuff that is beyond the scope of the Barcan Formula, are known unknowns or metaphy...

I think that the value of depression is the ability (once out of it), to appreciate what we have and be thankful for the things we don't have. This so...

Going back to the example of the meter-stick, the length of the meter stick is the definite description, not the meter stick itself. Anyway, what I've...

There really isn't a conceived criteria that would justify living, unless one were to think in terms of an exclusively binary situation. I feel as tho...

What is a counterfactual existentially dependent for successful reference?

But, it's the same individual due to his (its) descriptive content. Therefore we can assume that we're talking about the same individual.

but, thinking makes it so? I suspect that if we are going to address issues pertaining to the propositional attitude we have towards life, then we oug...

Through adhering to the only thing that the proper name "Santa Claus" refers to, his descriptive content of being a fat plump man living at the North ...

So, Santa Claus isn't a magical being? Because we might as well refer to empty names when we "discover" through creating (or is it stipulating?) these...

Can you expand on it? I think his post was interesting for a number of reasons; but, ultimately self-refuting.

You are aware of the actualist and possibilist interpretations of modal logic? Under the Barcan Formula, individuals across the domain of possible wor...

But, doesn't the Barcan Formula eliminate the appeal of "discovering" instead of "stipulating" possible worlds. That whole distinction sort of gets di...

Why not?

I would simplify the concept and ask the pertinent question as to whether empty names are representative of an empty set in natural language. If so, t...

What defines a "good student"? You would think that it would be obvious by now, due to the amount of time we've had education present in the affairs o...

Then what can be said about the subject at all if it forms cannot be depicted? A subject cannot represent itself; but, to another person or even "God"...

@"Baden", can you chime in about these colons?

So, let me break it down. The meter stick is not the rigid designator, but the length of the meter stick is? How can this be?

I'm starting to suspect that we will never finish Naming and Necessity without someone or something guiding us over or through it like a companion. Ch...