Stephen Law and Nigel Warburton's "Five Questions About Clarity"
This essay on clarity is great and short. Read it.
Quote: "jeeprs"
Discussing logic at PhilosophyForum.com (my new forum of choice soon to be): "My only other observation at this point is the degree of difficulty associated with the notion of 'objectivity'.…
Semantic Analysis and meaning
Again I'm quoting Paul Ziff's Semantic Analysis: 41. [...] Consequently, if my contention about meaning is correct, then the first 'do' in 'Please do not do it!', unlike the second…
Paul Ziff's Semantic Analysis and Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia You may wonder what the word “Onomatopoeia” means, and so did I when I first saw it. It's one of those unnecessarily long foreign words which meaning is unguessable…
Logical interpretation of subjects, the utterer and the utterance situation
Interpretation I earlier wrote of the logical interpretation of subjects.1 There I suggested, following Russell, that the subject of a descriptive, active, meaningful (DAM) sentence should be interpreted as an…
Quote: Paul Ziff
[Discussing the type/token distinction or ambiguity] "I shall not in general try to eliminate these ambiguities by explicitly stating which sense is intended. Sometimes both senses are intended, sometimes not.…
Negating sentences in english
Abstract I invent and explore a terminology about degrees of sentences, I explore how to negate sentences and sentence parts in english, I distinguish between verbs that can be used…
Frege and anti-semitism
I was recently made aware of an odd fact. Modern logic's inventor, Frege, was not as adorable as many people perhaps think he was. Quoting IEP: Although he was a…
Quote: Albert Einstein
"Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it." Jotted (in German) on the margins of…
New page: Constructing truth tables – Filling in the wff's
I wrote a small guide about how to use truth tables to evaluate wff's. I explained two methods to do this. Page: Constructing truth tables - Filling in the wff's…