2015-05-17 07:07
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A philosophy blog with a focus on logic and language.
2015-01-21 02:38
Much ink has been spilled on skeptical arguments like the following:If you're a brain in a vat then you don't have handsYou don't know that you're not a brain in a vatTherefore you don't… Read More
2015-01-21 02:18
After writing what appears below, I found a treatment-in-passing of the very same issue by von Wright in a rich paper called 'Modal Logic and the Tractatus'.Discuss: is PC-tautologousness a… Read More
2014-12-12 01:57
This is a long, wide-ranging, difficult to understand post. It will be easier to understand in connection with other posts, some of which already exist and are linked to, some of which have… Read More
2014-11-30 04:47
Topics this time include: false thoughts, psychological impossibility, metaphilosophy, losing the use of a concept as it gets problematized or worked on, interdefinability as a sign of non-b… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Singular negative existential propositions such as 'Santa Claus does not exist' can be made to look puzzling without any explicit theoretical view on board, with Socrates-style questions suc… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Meanings of expressions and belief-contents can be carved up at different granularities. That is, it can sometimes be the case that, when operating at one granularity it is correct to bundle… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
As I use the term 'proposition', propositions are propositional signs (e.g. declarative sentences) together with their internal uses or meanings, plus any external projective relations borne… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Alan Sidelle's conventionalism about modality is well-known, and only a bit less of a whipping-boy than the earlier positivistic views of Ayer (1936) and Carnap (1947). Published in his 1989… Read More
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