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Interesting. But the metaphysical self is then transcendental?

Shh.

Same. But it's a healthy addiction. I like when I get a post to respond to...

Ok, that much I understand. But, the standard length of a meter isn't stipulated, is it?

So, how do you address the issue of trans-world identification?

Ah, I see. But, then if the metaphysical self doesn't reside in the world, then where does it reside then?

My point seems to be that there is no difference between the two. If we are to assume a possible world where the nomological necessity of the length o...

Well, yes. Here's is what I'm referencing again: Had the speed of light been any different in another possible world, then the above would simply not ...

Let's at least try and not be obtuse here. The length of the meter stick is rigid in all possible worlds where the accessibility relation of one world...

As much as I would want to call 'philosophy' mental masturbation, I have learned a lot and have been stimulated by this thread. It has helped me under...

These are concepts that Wittgenstein doesn't explicitly talk about in the Tractatus... Are you inferring them from what has been said contrasted to wh...

No, he seems to know what he is talking about. "A priori metaphysics" is somewhat superfluous and I'm still not sure what purpose was it suppose to se...

No, but it is an interesting thought experiment, and the sentence is perfectly well structured. Akin to the liar paradox.

Then it is instantiated or obtains through something that cannot be disputed, such as the laws of physics or nature.

I think you missed the entirety of the OP. It is the properties of the meter stick that maintain its rigidity in all possible worlds where the same ac...

Lucky man. Ain't ever had to visit complaint clinics.

Please distill your thoughts. I can't gather them all in one coherent fashion,

Is that so? What do you think, @"Banno"?

I don't know, You tell me. It's interesting.

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See, this is like trying to have it both ways. We stipulate according to some criteria the rigidity of Nixon being a rigid designator according to som...

Or let me try another way. What properties are we looking at or what criteria are we assuming in picking out designators in other possible worlds? To ...

So, let me provide the rationale behind what I'm trying to say. Now, with the above in mind, isn't Kripke setting up the properties of what constitute...

What are you having difficulty understanding?

Setting up a possible world to conform (altering the accessibility relations) to a certain set of circumstances instead of having it (rightly so) , th...

I typically think of "accessibility" as features of the world that endow or enable us to speak about counterfactuals. My point here is that if we have...

Well, yeah. It's somewhat a trite truism to state that an accessibility relation holds if we can change the axioms of the possible world's properties ...

Yes, possible worlds are stipulated; yet, I'm highlighting the fact that their accessibility relations must be the same as those of the actual world t...

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Personally, I see a false dichotomy being drawn here. There's also a subsidiary no true Scotsman fallacy being drawn here. Let me explain: 1. Meaning ...

Forgive me if I assume too much; but, I get the feeling in the sense that you're trying to express the inescapability of your condition, hence you fee...

Nice post. Just sad that you had to start it with a statement equal in merit to one that begs the question. What do you think?

Hear hear. Great post. I just wonder about whether anything can be said about ethics objectively if that is the case. What about the golden rule?

But, what if you take the concept and apply it to existential questions regarding having meaning in one's life?

I was under the impression that de dicto is all that can be said. De re there is nothing that can be said. Is that correct? Through essentialism? Oh, ...

Please provide a source for this claim.

Isn't that a paradox? Meaning that if one can objectively state that life has no meaning, then that objective statement in itself provides grounds to ...

Thanks, everyone for the responses. I have nothing to disagree with in particular with any of the posts except, one issue. Namely, as mentioned in the...

So, we have the president of the United States coming on national television saying that he never worked for the Russians. Is this some strange parall...

Yeah, you have to also remember his joke on his supporters about shooting someone in broad daylight and them still glorifying and praising him even af...

It's not that there is no meaning. Even an antinatalist or nihilist proclaims meaning found where there is none. The problem is that (at least in the ...

Silly puns aside, like there is none or that that's only for you to decide... despite their repetition, are pretty sound advice for anyone starting ou...

All the vile shit is surfacing and now needs to be flushed down the drain. I'm actually glad we have Trump as president so this cult of fear and paran...

@"Banno" and @"unenlightened" what are your thoughts?

Also epigenetics...

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Perhaps an interesting excursion from this line of thought is the thought experiment called "Swampman". Anyone know something about it?

An oncoming train.

Sounds good to me. I won't comment much henceforth and there really isn't much to comment on either way for the better. I wish we could group work on ...

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